Advice needed to help someone else to quit smoking

[DeloresRose]

My two cents: A good portion of this thread is focused on e-liquids. I would agree that matching your nicotine levels at first is important. However let's face the facts, we're trying to break one habit with another. So, the second habit better be enjoyable. And, trying to turn vaping into a clone of smoking is a mistake. They're not the same. Smoking has as much air flow as sucking mud through a straw and the "hit" of smoking is as much about hot gases searing your lungs as anything else. Vape like that and your juices will taste like garbage and you'll continue to damage your lungs. Alternately, getting used to open flow and lower temperatures will reward you with tasty juices. And if you have a good mod, wonderfully reinforcing clouds.

You have a point. But for me, and many others, I was too intimidated by- even back then- all the choices and how much you needed to know to get them to function properly. At first, even most modest kits are a pretty big investment and it turned me off.

If not for trying a cig-alike, I would not be here.

My advice is if unsure, start with something cheap enough not to be off-putting, simple enough to inspire confidence, just to see if the nic in it will make it easier to resist that next smoke.

And treat it as a starting point, something you’ll use until you find what it lacks for you, and you have an idea of what to graduate to. It should be like training wheels.

I don’t see many people here - and I’m surely not one either - who found their dream vape in the first try. It’s a journey.

Most of us, our vape style is constantly evolving. And my advice to those looking to start vaping is always to remember how I felt the first time I stepped into a vape shop, and direct them to what worked at first for me.

 

[hittman]

WTA can be a good tool for helping to quit. Aromaejuice is the best out of the six or seven I’ve tried. You can drip it straight or mix it into other liquid depending on how much the person needs to feel satisfied. As far as I know, NETS are just tobacco extraction that contain little or no WTA. It’s a complicated and expensive process to do it correctly. I was one of the original testers when Dvap developed the process for the first time.

There are other alternatives also. I also use Swedish snus. It’s becoming a little more available in the US and some convenience stores have small refrigerators with it inside.