Ecigs and sleep.... or lack thereof!

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sebt

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You could try some over the counter astragalus root and melatonin if lower nic. levels don't help. That stuff works miracles for me when I get crazy Insomnia. Way safer them taking Tylenol PM to crash out.

+1 to melatonin. It's the business for giving your body-clock a reset. Mine gets out of whack too easily. (Could be something to do with working as a musician/going out til 5 am? :facepalm:). Try 1mg tablets, I take one, or two if it's really bad.

Easy to get hold of it in the US as well; here in the UK for some reason you can't buy it legally over the counter, but can get it on-line.
 

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I've been vaping almost 2 years. I've been an insomniac for about 35 years give or take. - I've slept better the last year and a half than I have since I was a little kid. - Sometimes I would go 12 or 14 days without any substantial sleep (insomniacs tend to become masters of the micro nap - 2 to 6 minutes of rest while still being aware of what's going on around us). This last 18 months, I've slept no less than 4 and up to 10 hour blocks and almost never micro-nap.

I looked at other parts of my lifestyle as possible causes. My diet is pretty much the same (I'm a meat and potatos sort of guy with regular artery cloggers like bacon and pork fat fried veggies and shrimp). Not much has changed there. I have eliminated (nearly eliminated) soda and energy drinks from my diet over the last couple of years. But I replaced those with high quality espresso and super fat whole milk lattes (otherwise known as the triple grande caramel machiato).

None of my physical activities have changed much and my diet hasn't changed much other than reducing my intake of soda pop. I do take in more vitamin C because I like orange juice and i also like orange juice with vodka.

Anyway, unless my wife has other plans, the last thing I do as I lay down to sleep is chainvape about 6 or 8 big drags and then I set my REO on my dresser.

So, I'm attributing my better sleep habits to vaping.

Noteworthy on this topic: The FDA's next attack is against a company that makes inhalable form of caffeine called Aero Shot. Aeroshot is an inhaler that shoots a 100 mg dose of caffeine to the user. I switch from coffee to tea at a certain time of night to reduce the amount of caffeine before bed.
 

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Haven't had a problem yet with vaping causing insomnia but like others have said, nicotine patches were a different matter.
I had strange dreams and sleepness nights using patches. I put it down to not being able to self regulate the nicotine levels I was getting from patches, always seemed to be nowhere near enough in the morning and far too much by the end of the day.
 

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Great responses! Thanks everyone,, dreams, yeah. When I do sleep, I have the weird dreams.. the last one was I got shot multiple times in the head by an Amish farmer with a machine gun. No more 24mg juice for me!! Gonna keep it at 18 and probly drop down to 12. Hell, between the hot flashes and the dreams,, it's a wonder I get any sleep at all!! I'd still rather do this than puff an analog.
 

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Great responses! Thanks everyone,, dreams, yeah. When I do sleep, I have the weird dreams.. the last one was I got shot multiple times in the head by an Amish farmer with a machine gun. No more 24mg juice for me!!

lol funny but not funny. I realised 24mg was too strong for me when I found myself wide eyed staring at a PC screen at 3am tap tapping on my desk with my fingers.
 

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+1,000 to horrific dreams on the patch... It was like Re-living the movie "The Cell" Scared the hell out of me!!

I try to take it easy on the higher nic levels a few hrs before bed as well. I'm night breed as it is and try to stop drinking soda because of the caff. in Coca-Cola for the same reason. I'm still working on that though... Ughhh.

That was the best part of the patch for me. But I'm strange like that.
 
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