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I was ”stuck" 15 for 2-1/2 years. I do not wish to vape more liquid just to be able to say that I'm using a lower nic level. But during the time I was stuck at 15, I switched entirely to DIY, and eventually started cutting by 0.5 at a time.
I'm now at all the way to 13.
Then again, I don't have personally have any drastic nic-level reduction goals either...
Wow - so you do not vape at all. I do not know if that is my goal but I am curious as to how long it took you after you abruptly stopped and then worked on a plan to stop. It sounds like you did big drops. Did you from a 6 or 3 to 0? I was at 6 for a long while and I felt it when I went to 3 so I dropped by 2 (more or less - I was hand mixing) and then down to the 3. I still mix down at times but right now 3 seems to be working out.
A lot of my quitting was just learning about what works best for me entirely through errors made quitting.. lol.
The first time I tried quitting vaping I went from 18mg to no more vaping. I had wrongly assumed many things about myself in trying to just throw out all my gear and quit like I did.. and that time I ended up smoking again under a time of stress.
I got back off the cigarettes and back on 18mg ejuice again, and stayed there. After the first colossal failure I was afraid to even try to quit vaping again for the longest time, but then I decided that vaping out of fear of failure was dumb.
That time I vaped zero nicotine for a month (just dropped from 18 to 0 all at once again, no tapering) prior to quitting vaping. That time because I was more prepared to deal with the hand to mouth habit as part of the problem, if you will, I was far more successful. I made it 5 months without vaping that time.
I went back to it one day, just had a desire to vape so got out my stashed vape gear with the intention to just take one drag. Well, that one drag lasted a year before I quit again. This last drop was very small, I had only been vaping 3mg from the time I picked vaping back up.
This time it feels different. Since I put vaping down this time the first week or two might have been kind of difficult not to pick the vape back up, but since then I've not wanted to vape but one time when I was under serious stress (and that was when I was walking out of the emergency room this last weekend after hearing my husband would need surgery) and oddly, even under that level of stress the moment of wanting to vape passed very quickly so i never acted on it.
So... while there is some dependency to nicotine, for me the nicotine has been less the issue than the hand to mouth habit we got from decades of smoking, and the mental process of how we deal with stress all our lives - ie: running to the cigarette pack for decades at the first sign of stress....
We are all going to be different on this I think, but from the time I had been away from cigarettes a year, most of my dependency on nicotine itself was likely fairly well gone, and it took some physical adjustment time to get used to not having it was all..
I would calculate the nicotine withdrawals by itself to be around two weeks each time..
Very interesting. I definitely have hand-to-mouth syndrome! As the years have gone by, I know I am definitely less dependent on vaping that I was on analogs. I leave my vape home, at times - accidentally and purposeful, because I no longer freak out if I do not have a cigarette for an hour or two. I usually order my juices in 3 and 0 and mix down a bit. If I try the 0 - I find it not satisfying with a not-so-great taste. Congrats on the year and thanks for sharing your experience and answering my questions. I think if I eventually stop I will not jump from 3 to 0 and just step down so I can adjust.
I started at 24 and didn't start weening until last year. I'm currently down to 6 and love it. I also like that I can now use all the 3mg samples I'd been hording away without worrying about nic withdrawal.
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