I've vaped for a while, about 9 years now. For the majority of the time it's been 3mg. I would occasionally do some high nic like the salts, but would always come back down. I find myself chain vaping a lot out of habit and boredom now. I use to enjoy it, now I feel like it's almost a chore, well a proper addiction.
I quit in the past for 6 months and the new tech sucked me back in out of curiosity. In the past year I've quit for 30 days twice just to do it, not out of actually wanting to quit, it was more of a challenge and just something I wanted to experience. Now I'm ready to give it up, I don't enjoy it anymore. It gets in the way of life basically. We all know the feeling of making sure you have plenty of juice so you don't run out or making sure you have it everywhere you go. Now that I actually don't want to do it anymore it seems harder to quit lol. For me, personally, I feel like it sucks the drive out of me to do anything productive. The internal conflict is mentally draining. I will say from prior experience that for me personally these are my withdrawal symptoms.
First two or three days I fall into a mild depression. I have no energy or desire to do anything and sleep as much as possible. After about day 4 or 5 the cravings aren't too bad anymore but everything is boring and I can sleep much earlier than usual because I'm just tired a lot. I will eat more to get some kind of dopamine hit and/or boredom. I've learned to get healthy food to eat though, big lesson. After about a week I start to feel more motivated to do things again, feel a little out of my mind, a little silly, but maybe that's just who I am underneath the nicotine lol. I start to have more energy and focus on more physical activities, nothing crazy just walks and running around with my dog or push-ups. It's only in the 2-3 week range where the cravings begin to stop at strong habit markers. For example after I eat or in the car, whatever big trigger points I have. Now I start to feel more free, liberated! At a month I'm over it and don't really crave or have the desire to vape anymore.
I started back in the past because ehh why not, my goal wasn't to really quit. Now this chapter is done and it's time to be over. I'm sure it's much healthier than cigarettes, but the main point for me is that I don't like to feel the weight of the chains I'm dragging around. Anyone can quit, you just really have to reach a point where you are done. Something that works well for me is I switch to 0 nic initially and it will feel different and very unsatisfying at first, but then you kinda get use to it. After about 3 days I hardly reach for it anymore and think nah what's the point, don't need it. It may also take a few attempts, don't beat yourself up, just start the journey over and I promise those chains will become so loose they fall off. Take care friends! If you love vaping then more power to you, vape on! I haven't been here in a while, but I use to always come here and just wanted to say goodbye
I quit in the past for 6 months and the new tech sucked me back in out of curiosity. In the past year I've quit for 30 days twice just to do it, not out of actually wanting to quit, it was more of a challenge and just something I wanted to experience. Now I'm ready to give it up, I don't enjoy it anymore. It gets in the way of life basically. We all know the feeling of making sure you have plenty of juice so you don't run out or making sure you have it everywhere you go. Now that I actually don't want to do it anymore it seems harder to quit lol. For me, personally, I feel like it sucks the drive out of me to do anything productive. The internal conflict is mentally draining. I will say from prior experience that for me personally these are my withdrawal symptoms.
First two or three days I fall into a mild depression. I have no energy or desire to do anything and sleep as much as possible. After about day 4 or 5 the cravings aren't too bad anymore but everything is boring and I can sleep much earlier than usual because I'm just tired a lot. I will eat more to get some kind of dopamine hit and/or boredom. I've learned to get healthy food to eat though, big lesson. After about a week I start to feel more motivated to do things again, feel a little out of my mind, a little silly, but maybe that's just who I am underneath the nicotine lol. I start to have more energy and focus on more physical activities, nothing crazy just walks and running around with my dog or push-ups. It's only in the 2-3 week range where the cravings begin to stop at strong habit markers. For example after I eat or in the car, whatever big trigger points I have. Now I start to feel more free, liberated! At a month I'm over it and don't really crave or have the desire to vape anymore.
I started back in the past because ehh why not, my goal wasn't to really quit. Now this chapter is done and it's time to be over. I'm sure it's much healthier than cigarettes, but the main point for me is that I don't like to feel the weight of the chains I'm dragging around. Anyone can quit, you just really have to reach a point where you are done. Something that works well for me is I switch to 0 nic initially and it will feel different and very unsatisfying at first, but then you kinda get use to it. After about 3 days I hardly reach for it anymore and think nah what's the point, don't need it. It may also take a few attempts, don't beat yourself up, just start the journey over and I promise those chains will become so loose they fall off. Take care friends! If you love vaping then more power to you, vape on! I haven't been here in a while, but I use to always come here and just wanted to say goodbye
