Freaky: sorry for what you've been through :-( I think just about any ex smoker in that situation would start again.
Qitting Vaping.
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Shoot, heavy rocker, I can't even quit smoking properly. I have no idea if I'll ever be able to quit vaping. I'll be sure to gain another 50 pounds and bite the heads off of everyone who crosses my path!
Good experiment, I call it a win. There is no way I can go 24 hours without a cigarette or a vape. Just not happening.
Good experiment, I call it a win. There is no way I can go 24 hours without a cigarette or a vape. Just not happening.
While we're on the topic, has anyone (any active members... I'm sure *someone* has) intentionally tried quitting vaping cold turkey?
I'm asking because I see lots of posts of people stopping for days, hours, weeks, even months. What I don't see is anyone who just stopped and that was that. Granted, I imagine most of those people wouldn't bother to pop back into the board and tell us.
Cold turkey is supposed to be the most "effective" method of quitting. It could just be that the people truly intent on quitting (those most likely to do so) tend to do it straight away rather than tapering down. But either way, that's what I read from sources other than NRT-affiliated entities.
The only time I ever quit smoking for an appreciable amount of time was by stopping suddenly. If I had it in my head to stop vaping, I'd probably do it that way, too. I'm wondering if people who have successfully quit vaping and nicotine altogether found that to be true as well. The way I think of it (i.e. I don't have sources, this is how I feel), there's the chemical addiction to nicotine, and the habitual addiction to the activity: the oral fixation. Cutting the nicotine down while still vaping just as much seems like "teaching" myself to focus on the physical act of it, which only makes the attachment that much stronger when it comes time to actually cut down the physcial act itself.
I'll put it this way: the day I'd stop cold turkey and the day I'd stop for good after cutting my nicotine down gradually sound just as bad to me. Just like band-aids...
I'm asking because I see lots of posts of people stopping for days, hours, weeks, even months. What I don't see is anyone who just stopped and that was that. Granted, I imagine most of those people wouldn't bother to pop back into the board and tell us.
Cold turkey is supposed to be the most "effective" method of quitting. It could just be that the people truly intent on quitting (those most likely to do so) tend to do it straight away rather than tapering down. But either way, that's what I read from sources other than NRT-affiliated entities.
The only time I ever quit smoking for an appreciable amount of time was by stopping suddenly. If I had it in my head to stop vaping, I'd probably do it that way, too. I'm wondering if people who have successfully quit vaping and nicotine altogether found that to be true as well. The way I think of it (i.e. I don't have sources, this is how I feel), there's the chemical addiction to nicotine, and the habitual addiction to the activity: the oral fixation. Cutting the nicotine down while still vaping just as much seems like "teaching" myself to focus on the physical act of it, which only makes the attachment that much stronger when it comes time to actually cut down the physcial act itself.
I'll put it this way: the day I'd stop cold turkey and the day I'd stop for good after cutting my nicotine down gradually sound just as bad to me. Just like band-aids...
last time I tried it was a while back I mixed up a 0 nic batch of one of my favorite recipes I went for about a day an ½ I couldn't figure out why I was so distracted and I had a mild headache then it dawned on me I was vaping 0mg so I did experience some withdrawal but it was very mild nothing like jonesing for a cigarette
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I'm spending to much money on vape gear to quit. Lol. I do plan to drop down to 6 Mg. I'm doing 12 without a problem. It even seems like to much sometimes.
I guess I'm in the exception group - I find myself nearly (~90%) as addicted to vaping as I was to cigarettes. At work, I pretty much need to vape every 2 hours or I experience the same symptoms as with cigs .. ie, hard to concentrate, fidgety, etc. I can go longer if I'm at home or doing something fun, though.
I started at 18mg, cut it down to 12 but then found I was vaping constantly. I eventually settled on 24mg . .I could do 18 but I prefer to take fewer, shorter "vape breaks".
I am not sure when I plan to quit vaping but I do plan to quit sometime . .I will probably give it a shot cold turkey and bail-out to lozenges if that doesn't work. What I like about lozenges is, once you transfer your addiction to them and use them for a while, you just have a miserable 3 days after you stop using them (or at least that was my experience). I don't see stepping down my nic as something that will work for me because I'll just start vaping constantly to make up the difference.
I started at 18mg, cut it down to 12 but then found I was vaping constantly. I eventually settled on 24mg . .I could do 18 but I prefer to take fewer, shorter "vape breaks".
I am not sure when I plan to quit vaping but I do plan to quit sometime . .I will probably give it a shot cold turkey and bail-out to lozenges if that doesn't work. What I like about lozenges is, once you transfer your addiction to them and use them for a while, you just have a miserable 3 days after you stop using them (or at least that was my experience). I don't see stepping down my nic as something that will work for me because I'll just start vaping constantly to make up the difference.
I have noticed I am not as irritable after not vaping for awhile (like in a restaurant) as I was when I was smoking. I never actually intended to quit smoking, and I am not making any plans about whether I quit vaping someday, or not.
In my short time vaping I have moved from 12 mg to 4 mg with no problems whatsoever. I plan to be at 0 by fall.
The reality is I am addicted to the ACT of inhaling/exhaling the vapor and no so much what is in it. Which is why I think walking away from cigs was so easy for me with vaping.
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