Nicotine juice users, how quickly do you reduce to be successful

[geeve]

I started at 24MG, and did fine for a week or so, then stepped down to 18mg. Stayed there for a bit till I was vaping so much that I would get a headache and the Nic tingles, so I am now at 12MG. I think some of it will be how much you vape kinda points you toward the right level.... In a couple weeks I will step down again and see what happens. I have found that I don't chain vape as much as I did starting out so the lower number helps when I have those moments of never putting it down.

To answer the question in the thread title, when I feel it's time to. Just listen to your body and you'll know. Just remember it's not a race to get to 0mg, everyone is different and only you will know when it's time....

Geeve

 

[chief999]

Another thing you might notice as you smoke less and less is cigs tasting so bad you don't even want to smoke them. I will admit I still grab one every now and then and can't even finish one because they taste so effing bad. Like smoking a dirty diaper.

Adding to this point, I knew exactly when I had my last cig,....took 3 puffs,...put it out and felt really ill for 20 minutes. It's as if I could feel its toxins and not just the nasty tasting smoke.

 

[schoonovert]

don't rush it and turn back to cigs,

 

[schoonovert]

The same thing happens to me, My friends that smoke think I'm faking it when I tell them I feel really bad. I was a smoker for 20 years. And know i can't take one puff. Vamping made that possible.

 

[mkbilbo]

If you have the goal to taper off cigs, how incrementally do you typically lower your dose?

I started with a 12mg level. Should I use the 12mg for a week before I lower myself to an 8 or 6mg? Should I wait a month?

Just wondering what you guys have experienced for the best speed to REALLY make a successful attempt at quiting. I dont want to rush it too quickly, only to jump back to cigs or needing a higher mg level.

The levels of nic needed to stay off cigs are highly personal. There are no charts nor schedules nor anything of the kind.

I only lowered mine when I noticed it was keeping me up at night. Nic is a stimulant and I vape a lot. I like to vape a lot. And since I don't intend to stop vaping a lot, I needed to cut the nic so I didn't lie awake until three in the ayam.

(Wasn't headaches nor jitters nor anything else that would scream "too much nicotine!"... I was just... awake. For way freaking too long.)

Also, I say don't look at vaping as a "cessation" thing. All those products they shove at us? The gums, the patches, the pills, the this, the that... you know that the failure rate with all of them is in the 90% territory? Ever seen one of the ads (I forget which, think it's the patch) where they say, "double your chances of quitting"? What they don't say is "from 6% to 12%" nor "in one study we did ourselves" nor "can you say, 'conflict of interest' letting us study our for profit product's effectiveness?".

(Some independent studies suggest that "cessation" products actually reduce your chance of quitting and staying quit.)

Anyway.

I think the bigger point here is "stay away from cigarettes". And what works, works. And what works varies from person to person.

So ask yourself why you would want or need to lower your nic level. Like I had to lower mine because I enjoy my vape and I was getting too much nic and it was keeping me from getting to sleep. So I lowered it. No "schedule" or anything. I just tried some lower nic levels until I found where I could vape all I wanted and fall asleep at night.

Further, some interesting studies out there suggest that a not insignificant number of us are genetically predisposed to very powerful nicotine addictions that we may be unable to quit (barring some super science medical advance that cures addiction or something very Star Trek and all). Given my history, given what happened in my quit attempts, I'm probably one of those. So I'm not even remotely thinking in terms of "quitting" nicotine. I probably can't. I'm just ecstatic I found a way to get off the smoking. If I have to vape nic the rest of my life, well, I've at least increased the chances I'll have more "rest of my life" to do the vaping in.