Just curious if this is normal..

[Mikayla]

Hey guys

This has been really confusing to me, so I'm wondering if I can get some insight.

Wall of text incoming-

So I'm 21, I have smoked cigarettes since I was 16. I Just recently(about a month ago) switched to vaping. Haven't smoked a cigarette since the day my juice arrived in the mail.

On Sept. 11, I got my wisdom tooth removed. It was really tough because it was impacted and hurt REALLY bad for like a week. I was told I wasn't supposed to smoke/vape or anything with suction for 3 days. But I went in for a check up and they said to not smoke for at least a week-2 weeks so I didn't get dry socket.

Well, since I thought I couldn't go that long without smoking, I put gauze over where my wisdom tooth was and vaped as lightly as I could. I realized that the pain was just awful when I put the gauze over it so I tried to not smoke as much during the day to avoid the pain. On Sept. 15, for some insane reason, I just completely "forgot" that I smoked. I didn't 'crave' nicotine, which is really weird for me because I've always felt like I needed it. So I didn't vape the whole day/night.

The next day, I kept thinking like "how the hell is this happening?" And I kept thinking and thinking about it. I ended up filling my tank with a juice that had 0mg nicotine that I got for my boyfriend to try. I figured I'd vape that so I'd stop thinking so hard about it.. and I've just been smoking on that and I haven't even thought about nicotine. But like..how? Does it have something to do with the pain when I tried to vape for the first few days after the extraction?

I feel the 'crave' but not for nicotine. I'm fine with just vaping the flavor. I don't quite understand how this is possible considering I've smoked for 5 years and it's clearly not that easy to just quit smoking.

So if I don't need nicotine, why is it that I feel lost(for lack of a better word) when I don't vape the flavor?

Sorry again that this is so long xD (and I hope I made sense..lol)

Thanks :3

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

Hi @Mikayla and welcome to the forum. Congrats on your journey. Reaching zero nic in vape this fast is quite the accomplishment and very rare. It took me 6 months. For me the "habit" of having something in hand was probably the worst "addiction". I feel like I had mentally trained myself to relax with a cig in hand, but I enjoy vape so much more I find it more relaxing. I also have a fear of not having a vape close so I won't have any temptation to try a cig again. Everyone is different so we just have to do what works for each of us.

Enjoy the journey.

 

[daleron]

Welcome to ECF Mikayla, make yourself right at home
Hey that's awesome, just take it and run with it

 

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

I think some have an addiction to nicotine while others have an addiction to the actual act (hand to mouth action). It's a mind thing. It's the actual physical aspect they crave, not the nicotine.

 

[Ou2mame]

There's withdrawal from nicotine, but after that's over its all mental. I want from a pack and a half to vaping and dwindled down to 3 and 1.5mg of nic. I can go the whole day without it, without caring, and sometimes when I leave the house I don't even bring a vape. It wasn't like that with smoking, not at all. I was always looking for a way to smoke to get that fix, so I think that vaping is definitely easier to kick than cigarettes. But it depends on the person. If you're off nic, thats great. Make sure to keep it that way. When I started vaping I forced myself to completely give up smoking even if vaping didn't work out. It's just not an option for me anymore. I've got a carton of cigarettes I had left over from when I smoked and just knowing they're there forces me to believe that I can give it up for good. So, yeah.. If you got off nic, no matter how or why, I would keep it that way and let your body readjust to a life without it.

 

[kaahn]

Could be this @Mikayla

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