No more nic

[tidegirl]

I never thought I would be able to break my nic addiction, but I have been nic free for almost a year now. Given the current state of vaping, I thought this would be a good time to share how I did it. So if you can't buy a lifetime supply of nic right now it is something to consider. Or if you find yourself down to your last freezer full of nic in 30 years and feel like you need to start cutting down, maybe you will remember this post.

The key for me was slow baby steps. I am certain that I never would have been able to take a 6 mg drop in juice( beyond this first drop that was to put me where I needed to start >>> LOL). My first bottle of juice was 18 mg, which was making me nic sick since the pomeled black and blue juice was so yummy I couldn't put it down. So I started buying 12 mg. A few weeks later I found ECF and started DIY.

Fast forward a few years I am no longer smoking the occasional cig so I decide it is time to start weaning. But the thought terrified me, so I just went down 2 mg to 10 mg. I figured I could handle that. I could, so I stayed there a while. I would stay at each level for months until I felt that I could take another step, then go another 2 mg. Once even that 2 mg drop was too much and I had to go back up. After a while longer I tried again and did just fine.

Once I made it to 6 mg I decided it was time for a huge leap... all the way to 3 mg. From 3 I figured the next step should be 0 but I couldn't make myself do it, so I went to 1 mg. After a while at 1 mg I finally went to 0 figuring there would be some tough times but I needed to do it. I was shocked to find I had no withdrawals at all. The addiction was already gone.

Another very important point- I never dropped a level without keeping a bit of the higher level on hand, in my vape bag, everywhere I went. And of course enough supplies to mix up a new supply of the higher level if I had to go back.

So if you stuck with me through this whole story, thanks for listening. I hope it helps some of you.

 

[Vandal]

I had thoughts of doing similar. I was doing 30mg in the beginning, cutting down over time to 24, but this was on a cig-a-like basically and then onto an eGo battery. When I graduated to mods like the MVP and Coolfire, I had to half that. I have since cut down to around 10mg. I figure I can keep going, giving myself plenty of time between drop-downs. I think I'd be ecstatic to get to 6 and hold there. At this point, I have no desire to get to 0, but I would never say never.

Now that the crunch is upon us, dropping levels seems wise, to stretch nic supplies further. But that's not the reason I'm doing it. I tend to want to do the opposite of what someone tries to tell me to do...

When I smoked, I tried once to cut back. I timed myself, only a cigarette every x minutes interval. It was a living hell. It got to where even when I had a cigarette, it did not nothing to soothe the cravings. I think I tortured myself like this for a couple of weeks, then found out my mother was dying, and I said "screw it" and went right back to the amount I smoked before. I have since read that smokers maintain a certain level of nic, and they smoke at the intervals they do to maintain that. The only way to cut back is to smoke fewer cigarettes. Not only are you losing some that hand-to-mouth action, the level gets broken and the cravings don't stop.

With vaping, you have complete control over the nic levels and can fine tune how much you cut back, while retaining the hand-to-mouth thing. It's really a whole different ballgame and has proven to be painless for me.

It's clear this can work for all of us, if the FDA and other nannies would just let it. That's marvelous to me that you could hit 0 and have that revelation. That would blow my mind, lol.

 

[ENAUD]

I never thought I would be able to break my nic addiction, but I have been nic free for almost a year now. Given the current state of vaping, I thought this would be a good time to share how I did it. So if you can't buy a lifetime supply of nic right now it is something to consider. Or if you find yourself down to your last freezer full of nic in 30 years and feel like you need to start cutting down, maybe you will remember this post.

The key for me was slow baby steps. I am certain that I never would have been able to take a 6 mg drop in juice( beyond this first drop that was to put me where I needed to start >>> LOL). My first bottle of juice was 18 mg, which was making me nic sick since the pomeled black and blue juice was so yummy I couldn't put it down. So I started buying 12 mg. A few weeks later I found ECF and started DIY.

Fast forward a few years I am no longer smoking the occasional cig so I decide it is time to start weaning. But the thought terrified me, so I just went down 2 mg to 10 mg. I figured I could handle that. I could, so I stayed there a while. I would stay at each level for months until I felt that I could take another step, then go another 2 mg. Once even that 2 mg drop was too much and I had to go back up. After a while longer I tried again and did just fine.

Once I made it to 6 mg I decided it was time for a huge leap... all the way to 3 mg. From 3 I figured the next step should be 0 but I couldn't make myself do it, so I went to 1 mg. After a while at 1 mg I finally went to 0 figuring there would be some tough times but I needed to do it. I was shocked to find I had no withdrawals at all. The addiction was already gone.

Another very important point- I never dropped a level without keeping a bit of the higher level on hand, in my vape bag, everywhere I went. And of course enough supplies to mix up a new supply of the higher level if I had to go back.

So if you stuck with me through this whole story, thanks for listening. I hope it helps some of you.

Nice post, and a timely one. I have considered the possibility of weaning off if the need arises. I started at 18 and quickly went to 12. From their I tried to drop to six but that was too big of a step, so wound up mixing equal parts of 6 and 12 to get 9mg/ml. Then I started DIY and mixed at 8 for quite a while. One day I decided to mix a batch of base liquid to 6mg/ml and didn't notice any effect at all from the lower dose. I've been at 6 for about a year and a half now.

My plan when the time feels right is to reduce by 1mg/ml every month or so, till I feel any anxiety, at which point I'll try to stick it out at that level, or bump it up a bit.

Another part of me is a bit resentful that my thinking has been altered to come to this type of thought process. I was born into a world where smoking was accepted and so common place that nicotine consumption was a normal every day part of life. It actually frightens me that a few people got together and decided to change the world, and their tactics were so very effective that a sort of worldwide social stigmatization and ostracizing of nicotine users has become accepted without question.