anyone tried quitting vaping?

[damachine]

Today is my 3rd day since I last vaped and while the cravings are not as strong as trying to quit cigs, I definitely feel something is missing from my life. You know what I'm talking about.

I'm sure I can last weeks with will power but it's not so much the withdrawal symptoms or any adverse effect, but more of "gee a vape would be nice about now" that really makes this psychologically challenging.

I'm kind of debating whether I should continue. Does it get easier as time goes on? At least with cigs you know it's bad for you but with vape being "safer" the motivation to quit drops dramatically. If it's not going to get any easier than I'm not sure if it's worth the tradeoff...

 

[pwheeler]

My next step is going to mix up some 0 nic juice. Try going without nicotine to eliminate that part of it. I'm sure the psychological aspect of vaping will be harder to do, but I'm going to try. I like vaping, but the hobby part of it is long gone. I haven't bought anything vape related for nearly 2 years except a couple of flavors I use, and some more VG and PG. I've been off cigarettes for nearly 7 years and know I'll never go back to them, so I think it's time to give it all up.

 

[CMD-Ky]

These two have done it successfully:

@Papa_Lazarou
@muzichead

 

[Superuser187]

The nicotine cravings from my experience had last like 2weeks in past I tried quit smoking....
but the psychological is the harder part and also I feel like from my experience many addictive things it's not that my body cant stand the symptoms of quiting them...but it's that i really want to consume them I like it.....
like with drugs when I decided to quit the symptoms used to be very bad... I won't denied it but it was a choice I made to quit and i wasn't going to go back no matter what....
It's all in your head man...if u really want to quit u can do it...
Just my opinion ofc doesn't mean is correct or apply to anyone
Good luck whatever u do man

 

[bask]

I think @Spydro completely quit as well.

 

[damachine]

it's not that my body cant stand the symptoms of quiting them...but it's that i really want to consume them I like it.....

That's it. I'm worried even 2 years from now I'd still think about the pleasure of vaping all the time and that's torture. It's not because my body can't stand it. (I feel fine even now). It's that I enjoy vaping. It's like someone telling you you can no longer eat chocolate or eat meat from now on...

 

[Skeebo]

I commend your efforts and agree with the premise that quitting vaping is far easier than quitting cigarettes. Personally speaking, the only reason I won't quit is because I know it will lead me back to cigarettes. I quit smoking by pure accident by walking into a vape shop.

I think you can do it. I'd suggest picking up a hobby that you thoroughly enjoy, something that takes up your vape budget.

 

[Spydro]

I think @Spydro completely quit as well.

I did, last fall. But I was not a typical case in the sense that I was not addicted to nicotine. So I could stop and start anytime I had a mind to (MOM) with no ill effects (withdrawals, aches or pains, sick feelings, etc). Not addicted to the nic I guess because I was never a heavy smoker, rarely smoked more than a pack a day during the 52 years that I smoked off and on. From when I first started smoking cigs in 1961 and also pipes a few years later, I had quit cold turkey for a short break for a couple of years a couple of times, about 3.5 years once, and the last time (before I started smoking again for another dozen years the last time) I had not smoked for 13 years. I finally realized that my "addiction" was the mechanics of smoking. It was a short break from my life in the fast lane, and it was relaxing after a hectic day, especially with a pipe when I had the time to smoke one. It was something to do with my hands in a social setting along with a host of other excuses why I would eventually start smoking again. So my addiction to the mechanics is why I took up vaping when I first heard about it after the last time I had quit smoking. At one time I was a heavy vaper that used way more juice a day/night than almost all other folks did. Too much time on my hands is my only excuse for that (I seldom slept more than a nap so vaped round the clock). But in time I started to lose interest in vaping, especially when I came back to the forum in the fall of 2017 after about an 18 month hiatus elsewhere and it had became a mere shadow of its former glory in the sense that the MFG forums/people I had the most contact with before were mostly gone then. I still have nothing but endless hours to pass, why I still stop in here some even though I no longer vape. "It's something to do" when I have nothing else to do. Quitting or even just cutting back on the nic is surly much harder for someone who is addicted to the nic and vape nic juice.
YMMV

*MOM... mind over matter.

 

[damachine]

I feel I'm not so much addicted to the nicotine as the mechanics of it as well, especially the throat hit. BTW, I vape menthol so the throat cooling sensation is something that I really enjoy.

I wonder if there are non-vape options to get a similar cooling sensation at the throat. Are there like menthol inhalers or something? Just like vaping is a stepping stone to quitting cigs, I wonder if there are stepping stones for quitting vape - one that would keep the hands/throat occupied but you are not getting PG/VG or any heated vapors into your lungs....

thanks

 

[Pamawoman]

After smoking for 36 years and vaping for 5 I see no reason to quit vaping and taking the chance of smoking again. JMO

 

[Superuser187]

I will ask my ex...she knows ways to keep hands/throat occupied....

Seriously tho as someone already said maybe find a hobbie...cause I feel like there is nothing that can be like vaping in throat hit...the coolness of menthol tho ok ...there are chewing gums and such

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

I feel I'm not so much addicted to the nicotine as the mechanics of it

Keep your mind, hands and body occupied. Get a fidget spinner for those times you have nothing to do, but try to keep occupied both mentally and physically.

I have no intension of quitting, but I have noticed in the past 2 years (been vaping for at least 8 or 9 years? - I don't keep track of such things) that as long as I'm doing something with my body and hands, I rarely have the overwhelming urge to stop to take a vape as I used to. Used to be that when I was doing something, like say mowing the lawn where my vape is yards away from me, I would stop many times just to take a vape. maybe every 20 minutes (i have a lot of ground to cover - all with a walk-behind mower). Now, I usually only stop to take a rest, not so much to take a vape, though I do, of course, vape when I take that rest . But I don't feel the strong urge to take a break just to vape as I used to.

Take that for what it's worth.

 

[Electrodave]

If I can ever get the nicotine demons to stop bothering me for long enough to quit nicotine, I'll continue vaping no nic. Which I did before, trying to stay quit from smoking. When I quit vaping no nic, I started smoking again within a week or so. So, I like vaping very much, and I don't want to go back to smoking. I'll probably die with a setup in my hand.

 

[englishmick]

I don't plan to quit. I'm pretty sure I could get through tomorrow if I decided not to vape. The problem is I don't know what would happen if I had a bad day. Even after 6 years occasionally if some stress happens the thought of a cig comes into my mind. Now I can vape until it goes away. Without that to fall back on I just don't know.

I think having some vape gear and juice ready to go would be a good idea for those bad days. Unfortunately cigs are always available 2 minutes down the road.

 

[stols001]

This one is 100% completely up to you. Really. You'll have to figure out replacement strategies, whatever they are, it seems to work for a few folks

I will never quit vaping although I may reduce my nic levels.

This is despite my relative youth, I came sooooooooooooooooooooooo close to COPD that taking the risk is not worth it (To me.) You just never know which cig is gonna be that one that kills you. In my case, probably the first one that leads me into full blown relapse.

I now PREFER vaping to smoking and I plan on keeping it that way.

I AM committed to buying less vape gear, however. LOL.

Anna

 

[Ed Brown]

I'm far, far away from even thinking about quitting vaping. My wife still smokes a pack and a half a day of Newports which smell really good second hand. She has gradually become disabled and now I have to light them for her and hold them for her. Her quitting is just not going to happen. With all that going on, I have not quit the analogs 100%, but have reduced it by a large percentage.

 

[Aerodan]

I hit zero nicotine a year ago this week, and now just enjoy the flavors and "oral fixation", relaxation and tank/mod collecting that vaping CBD and some great flavors affords.

Also, I don't like being told what my rights are - so I vape and shoot guns and will do whatever else the powers that be say I can't be trusted to do. Save the children ... for later unthawing and food service?

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