Addiction Sucks

[moonlessnight]

*sigh*So here I am days from my 2nd anniversary on this forum, a year and a half clean from analogs and I'm stuck. This last week I decided it was time to quit vaping and be done with this habit. I have been nic free for a few weeks after having cut back my nic to almost nothing. Anyway I made it five days. The first few were easy enough being my days off. Then each day at work the stress has been mounting to where I on multiple occasions considered bumming a smoke. Since I don't want to go back there I went back to vaping.

 

[NGAHaze]

Hey, at least you didn't start smoking again! I too hope to one day be free from nicotine but even when that day comes, I'll probably continue to vape if for no other reason then the fact that it's enjoyable. I expect I will do so a lot less frequently than I do today but I don't envision ever giving it up completely ... well, that is unless the government makes it a mortal sin to do so like they did with cigarettes which appears to be their objective.

Anyway, congrats on staying off the smokes!

Vape On!

 

[Cil]

Great, that's my plan. Every time I've stopped smoking (and I've stopped about a million times once for 3 years) I've always gone back to cigarettes.
Now when I stop Vaping I'll go back to Vaping if I fail that's got to better than the stinkys so don't worry about it, just give it another crack soon

 

[wandawag]

better to vape than light a stinkie i always say! ok, the first time actually, but it seemed appropriate. lol......you can vape a while longer...it will be fine.

 

[Demiurgous]

What about continuing to vape, but using 0mg nic? That way you can get the psychological effect, at least.

 

[moonlessnight]

What about continuing to vape, but using 0mg nic? That way you can get the psychological effect, at least.

That's the plan....I may go back to 3mg just for a little something.

 

[moonlessnight]

Double post....sorry

 

[StevesCVO]

At least you didn't go back to smelling like an ashtray. Keep trying and one day you will be nic free.

 

[Borednl]

My plan is to find a throat hit replacement for nicotine for when I want to get to miniscule levels and then no nicotine. I'm thinking.. Cayenne Liquid Extract. And here's a review if interested.

 

[volume control]

My plan is to find a throat hit replacement for nicotine for when I want to get to miniscule levels and then no nicotine. I'm thinking.. Cayenne Liquid Extract. And here's a review if interested.

That would be cool. TH alone would kick nic for me.

 

[volume control]

My plan is to find a throat hit replacement for nicotine for when I want to get to miniscule levels and then no nicotine. I'm thinking.. Cayenne Liquid Extract. And here's a review if interested.

That would be cool. TH alone would kick nic for me.

 

[Ryedan]

Yup moonlessnight, you can always come back to vaping, so there is basically no risk. And good choice to do that instead of buying a pack!

Having said that, a few weeks at zero nic would not be enough for me to try to quit vaping. I've been at zero nic for a couple of months now. I'm currently lowering the amount I vape from about 4 ml a day which was my max. I'm at about 2 ml now. I suggest you try reducing slowly and see how that goes. My attitude is 'one step at a time' and so far it's worked well for me.

 

[cocacola31173]

I usually order about 6 or 7 30 ml bottles at a time. Next month I gonna step down to 12 mg from 18 on 2 bottles of them. I have tried to step down before and it wasn't the craving that got to me it was the lack of throat hit. But I need to get myself used to it somehow.

 

[Borednl]

That would be cool. TH alone would kick nic for me.

I'll post my findings when I get around to trying the Cayenne liquid extract.

 

[astounded]

My plan is to find a throat hit replacement for nicotine for when I want to get to miniscule levels and then no nicotine. I'm thinking.. Cayenne Liquid Extract. And here's a review if interested.

I was looking at a Flavor West DIY flavoring additive called Capiscum Heat (from ecigexpress) thinking about it providing throat hit - please post your opinion once you try yours!

 

[astounded]

*sigh*So here I am days from my 2nd anniversary on this forum, a year and a half clean from analogs and I'm stuck. This last week I decided it was time to quit vaping and be done with this habit. I have been nic free for a few weeks after having cut back my nic to almost nothing. Anyway I made it five days. The first few were easy enough being my days off. Then each day at work the stress has been mounting to where I on multiple occasions considered bumming a smoke. Since I don't want to go back there I went back to vaping.

Choosing vaping over smoking was a victory itself! Just a small hiccup in the process - you'll get there, just like you got off the smokes ...