Before vaping, were you a smoker?
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I think vaping can be as much addictive as the analogs, specially if you vape with nicotine, but not exclusively, since the act itself is very nice so i don't recommend to anyone that doesn't use it specifically to stop smoking.
However for those like your friend, i think vaping works like the hookah, is just a hobby, so a matter of pros and cons that he must know and understand.
The important is to KNOW what you are doing and what vaping can do (or can't) to you, as long as your choice is an educated one i can't see anything wrong with that.
Safety above all else.
However for those like your friend, i think vaping works like the hookah, is just a hobby, so a matter of pros and cons that he must know and understand.
The important is to KNOW what you are doing and what vaping can do (or can't) to you, as long as your choice is an educated one i can't see anything wrong with that.
Safety above all else.
For me it started out as an alternative to smoking and maybe save money. 5 months later it is more of a hobby that I spend as much or more on than I did at 2 packs a day of analogs.
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I don't understand why a NON-smoker would even want to vape... See the vape is a smoke cessation device, too me. Always was and always will be. Bonus for me it is costing me less than 1/4 as much money as smoking did. Not bad for a 40 year Pack plus a day smoker.
Yup I was a heavy smoker 2 1/2 packs a day of 100mm red killers. They were killing me. I wanted off them real bad. My first vape, though it was a thoroughly wretched device, showed me there was a way. I've not had a single smoke in 3 years.
Switched to vaping strictly to stop smoking cancer sticks
and the wasting of thousands of $$$ a year on them.
and the wasting of thousands of $$$ a year on them.
I corresponded with a guy who had a serious weight problem and hoped flavors might be a distraction from food. He said he was forgetting to vape so he added nicotine hoping to get addicted so he would keep vaping. He said he couldn't develop an addiction to nic. I think most people who try vaping who never smoke will lose interest, with our without nic. There is a professor who has posted here, may be a neuro scientist, who is vaping nic to see if it improves his memory. He says there is no sign of a habit forming. He regularly takes weeks long layoffs from vaping.
I used to smoke one pack and a half daily. I guess that's the story of most of us.
I've been smoking for almost 2 years now, and thought of quitting by using vape instead. Been smoking for 1 pack a day. -_-
Interesting idea, even if it didn't work out for your friend. Have wondered if sweet liquids would help people who find it hard to avoid eating sugary foods, but I guess they're as addicted to the sugar as we are to the nicotine. Still, maybe a bit like moving from smoking to nicotine lozenges and thence to mints?
Curious about the link between nicotine and memory. If it does improve memory I dread to think what mine would be like without the vaping!
On a side note, nicotine can potentiate certain medications, most notably anti-psychotics, though not generally to a dangerous degree.
Curious about the link between nicotine and memory. If it does improve memory I dread to think what mine would be like without the vaping!
On a side note, nicotine can potentiate certain medications, most notably anti-psychotics, though not generally to a dangerous degree.
I put in 50 years service in the Smoking Legions - plain cigarettes and RYO til 1974 when I switched to a pipe. I started vaping on 17/10/2015 never thinking I'd had my final smoke the day before... but no lapses since.
Now happily dripping squonking, building my own coils and DIYing my own liquid - never thought I'd be doing any of this.
Now happily dripping squonking, building my own coils and DIYing my own liquid - never thought I'd be doing any of this.
That's why I vApe Zero nic (the anti psychotic thing and other meds lol
) my doc very thoroughly helped me understand about nic and meds and the nic/ caffeine connection that effects it adversely, so am off of both now but it did take 2 years.That's why I vApe Zero nic (the anti psychotic thing and other meds lol
Interesting. Have been on stacks of APs whilst as a smoker and a vaper and never had an issue, but I guess it depends on one's underlying condition, actual med, dose, etc.. Psych knows I love my nicotine. That said, he often remarks that I seem to need half the expected dose of things for my symptoms and size. Caffeine used to mess me over, with or without meds, but lately seem to be able to drink a lot of it and nary a palpitation let alone trouble sleeping - indeed, the opposite. I definitely finds it batters down the efficacy of any benzodiazapines, however. In hospital we were discouraged from attempting to quit smoking until more stable, and likewise friends who are struggling by with crippled state MH services. Crazy stuff.
Oh and, not sure who first designed the calcuator, but vapemate have a free app on the Apple store, and Android, as well as on their website, which allows one to calculate days smoke free, days vaping, what one spent a week on smoking in the past and currently, what one has avoided spending on smoking, what one has spent on vaping, any savings made as a result of switching to vaping, plus an "analogues unsmoked" counter. I used to roll my own so put in the grams per day in lieu of the cigarettes smoked per day.
In nearly four years I've avoided smoking OVER 18,000 grams of tobacco, or eighteen KILOS! That is nearly 40lbs. Insane!
In nearly four years I've avoided smoking OVER 18,000 grams of tobacco, or eighteen KILOS! That is nearly 40lbs. Insane!
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Before vaping I was smoke 4 cigarattes a day,that not much for a day but I dont want to inhale tar and carbon to my lung anymore, So I start vaping for better option of inhale exhale
I primarily smoked hooka before vaping with some "stress smokes" thrown in. The only time I use nicotine is when I'd be using those stress smokes in the past. So I'm a bit of an odd case it seems. I feel 20x better now vaping than when I was smoking hooka regularly though.
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