Are you planning on lowering nic? how?

[csardaz]

Nicotine is weird. Its an upper at low doses but sedative and anti-anxiety at higher doses.
A cigarette can shoot high dose spikes fast to the brain with the blood levels rising kinda slow between drags.
Watch a smoker and you'll see them change their style depending in the situation short hard puffs or longer
slower, not to mention the times when its just being carried or sitting ready on an ashtray.

So some/times people want that low blood-level upper effect, sometimes the quick bursts of anti-anxiety, or even high
blood-levels for more constant anti-anxiety effect.

I think many heavy smokers are self-medicating with the sedative and anti-anxiety properties to treat a mood disorder.
Of course vaping can reduce some of the anxieties like the "these cigs will be the death of me" anxiety.
Of course you won't find any anxiety meds over-the-counter , you'd have to look in the herbal supplements section
to find anything that might let you self-treat.

At low levels it improves concentration, memory, focus. I think its still doing that at high levels too.

I don't think everyone should expect to see their nic intake decrease over time.

 

[SleeZy]

I started with 24mg and quite quickly went down to 18mg, after a couple of months i'm now trying to go down 12mg. I'm still using 18mg at times though.
What helps me to reduce is by dripping and using kayfun which making 18mg to high for me.
I'm quite okay at 12mg, and i'll prolly try to go down to 6 later aswell.

 

[Yotdawglife]

Once I moved from an MVP and a pro tank to a dripper and a VW device, I tried to drip 12mg and nearly hacked a lung up, now I drip 0 to 3mg.

 

[AndriaD]

Nicotine is weird. Its an upper at low doses but sedative and anti-anxiety at higher doses.
A cigarette can shoot high dose spikes fast to the brain with the blood levels rising kinda slow between drags.
Watch a smoker and you'll see them change their style depending in the situation short hard puffs or longer
slower, not to mention the times when its just being carried or sitting ready on an ashtray.

So some/times people want that low blood-level upper effect, sometimes the quick bursts of anti-anxiety, or even high
blood-levels for more constant anti-anxiety effect.

I think many heavy smokers are self-medicating with the sedative and anti-anxiety properties to treat a mood disorder.
Of course vaping can reduce some of the anxieties like the "these cigs will be the death of me" anxiety.
Of course you won't find any anxiety meds over-the-counter , you'd have to look in the herbal supplements section
to find anything that might let you self-treat.

At low levels it improves concentration, memory, focus. I think its still doing that at high levels too.

I don't think everyone should expect to see their nic intake decrease over time.

I've found that tea also has this double effect, stimulant obviously with the caffeine, but also something in it that's relaxing; in times of stress, "have a nice cup of tea," really can do the trick for me. One of my cold-turkey attempts, it even worked somewhat to help soothe the cigarette cravings.

I've struggled with the anxiety/depression constellation my entire life; now that I've had many years to analyze it, I think it was the anxiety that came first, and the depression just came in when there was nothing I could do to ease the anxiety; it's like a cotton-wool blanket over your feelings, so you don't feel them so intensely. Makes sense that I've struggled with cigarette addiction for so many years.

Andria