Could you vape non-nicotine e-liquid and be ok?

[Baldr]

I started vaping at a high nic level, and gradually cut it down. For six months or so, I vaped 0nic juice. When I got to 0, I thought I would sort of quit vaping on my own, but that didn't happen at all. I vaped just as much as ever, and I still enjoyed vaping. But I didn't enjoy it as much as when I was using nic, mostly due to the lack of throat hit. After roughly six months without nic, I decided that if I was going to continue vaping anyway, I'd go back to using nic, and I've been vaping 6mg since then.

When I was smoking, I *really* wanted to quit smoking. I tried multiple times, and never had success until I started vaping. I didn't think I could quit, and I didn't expect vaping to work either, I was just trying again. Now, I've been vaping (and cig free) for several years, and I feel like I could quit vaping if I really tried. I *know* I could vape with no nic if I needed to, since I did it.

But I've never really tried to quit vaping. The things that made me want to quit smoking don't apply. Vaping is much healthier than smoking. It's much cheaper. It doesn't stink so bad. And it's much easier for me to go several hours without vaping than it was to go several hours without smoking. (I suspect that's because I'm using a lot less nic now than I was when I was smoking heavy.) So while I think I could quit vaping, I don't have nearly as much incentive as I had to quit smoking.

 

[AndriaD]

I started vaping at a high nic level, and gradually cut it down. For six months or so, I vaped 0nic juice. When I got to 0, I thought I would sort of quit vaping on my own, but that didn't happen at all. I vaped just as much as ever, and I still enjoyed vaping. But I didn't enjoy it as much as when I was using nic, mostly due to the lack of throat hit. After roughly six months without nic, I decided that if I was going to continue vaping anyway, I'd go back to using nic, and I've been vaping 6mg since then.

When I was smoking, I *really* wanted to quit smoking. I tried multiple times, and never had success until I started vaping. I didn't think I could quit, and I didn't expect vaping to work either, I was just trying again. Now, I've been vaping (and cig free) for several years, and I feel like I could quit vaping if I really tried. I *know* I could vape with no nic if I needed to, since I did it.

But I've never really tried to quit vaping. The things that made me want to quit smoking don't apply. Vaping is much healthier than smoking. It's much cheaper. It doesn't stink so bad. And it's much easier for me to go several hours without vaping than it was to go several hours without smoking. (I suspect that's because I'm using a lot less nic now than I was when I was smoking heavy.) So while I think I could quit vaping, I don't have nearly as much incentive as I had to quit smoking.

Terrific post. I didn't think I could quit smoking either; I think the main reason it worked for me, at first, was because I didn't get all hung up on the idea of quitting; it was more or less "let's try this, and see what happens." What happened was that vaping made my cigarettes taste horrible. Why pay that kind of money for something you hate, when you have something to take its place that you actually like, which costs less?

I actually started out at quite a low level, 6mg; had to go up to 8mg once I quit the cigarettes, then I went to 9mg to try and stop chain-vaping so much, then 10mg for the same reason... and that was ok for a while, but I still seemed to go around with my mod attached to my hand pretty much constantly. Recently I went up to 11-11.5mg, with WTA, and I don't seem to chain vape so much -- I can if I really want to, but I don't HAVE TO just to be satisfied, or if I'm busy with something.

Frankly I can't really see any good reason to eliminate nicotine, or even decrease it, unless it starts keeping me from sleeping or something. ATM, it's not doing that, but I've seen some people say that after a while, they seem to become more sensitive to the nicotine. If that happens, then sure I'll decrease it; no point in making myself uncomfortable. But I seriously doubt I'll ever quit it completely, because of my double-sided family history of dementia; since quitting smoking means I may live a bit longer, I'd really prefer to hang on to as many of my marbles as possible.

Andria

 

[freeatlast!]

I smoked for 47 yrs. and felt hopeless about quitting until I purchased my first eGo device and a bottle of 24 mg. nic ejuice. I was able to quit smoking completely within a week, and it could have been faster but I still had some cigarettes so I smoked them. I've been smoke free for a year and 3 months now, and use mostly 0 nic. There are a few flavors that I like that only come with nic so I get the lowest available, but it's mostly 0 nic for me, no problem. I enjoy everything about the act of vaping, but do not experience the compelling desire for a vape that I did with cigarettes. I am still stunned that I was able to quit smoking so easily with vaping. Perhaps vaping retains enough of the satisfying factors of smoking that we are finally able to make the break from tobacco, then also drop other aspects of smoking if we choose to - i.e. the nicotine and other things that were specific to our habits of smoking tobacco.

I don't know.....it's a mystery to me in a way....but I'm so grateful to have found a way to quit tobacco smoking!!!!

 

[Wolfenstark]

Individual results will vary but I guess its possible to ween down and get to 0 or a low %.

People will think well I've already gotten rid of so many of the poisons a smoke has so I'm ok with the nic.

 

[KGB7]

Did you know, people who have never smoked or chewed tobacco, can read peoples minds from 50 yards away?

 

[Maiar]

Smoking is half habit and half chemical addiction. This is why those nic free piece of crap ones at the gas stations can still help you quit by keeping your hands busy and simulating the experience. But that only works so well. There's still, and there's irrefutable scientific evidence supporting it, the addiction to nicotine. Nicotine is highly addictive. And while withdrawal can manifest differently in everyone from symptoms to severity of the symptoms, most people who we're even light smokers are going to feel it if they cut the nic out suddenly. Some people might just be a little cranky. Some people will be throwing up and ....ting brown water for days. So in essence, quitting smoking is a twofold process. Treating the habit of doing it and also the chemical addiction to nicotine.
In my opinion this is why vaping works so well. The nic free vape sticks mimick the habit but don't treat the addiction. The gum, patch, spray and prescription drugs treat the addiction but not the habit. Vaping treats both.