If you have a link to a study on this that would be great!
IMHO, I think that the switch over to vaping completely is hard for some because they are addicted to other things in their cigarettes. They *think* it is the nicotine because that's what they have been *told* they are addicted to.
Just like if you have ever switched your brand of cigarettes before in hopes to "cut down". The first few weeks you are missing something, it doesn't taste right and you end up smoking more and then, the next thing you know, they taste good and you smoke more on your new brand then you did on your old brand.
Also... IMHO this "all or nothing" philosophy that I see around the forum is kind of upsetting. We have to remember that those who do not switch completely should be encouraged to look at what they are NOT using in tobacco and leave it at that. The ecig is not a quit smoking device... if it were, I would have thought it would have worked for me. 15 years with 20 smokes a day, 6 months with 5 smokes... 4 months with 0 smokes and now... back to 5 smokes. Am I a failure? No. Because I understand that my ecig is simply an alternative to tobacco. Just as soda is an alternative to water. All in moderation right?
PS. I by no means meant this rant directed at you Ride. I would like a study link

but the rest is all just observation I have noticed lately with the "quit or die" philosophy that has sprung up around the ecig community.