Quitting or Reducing Vaping?

[QU1T]

Hopefully we have a few more members here on this massive forum that wish to quit or cut down and feel like sharing!?

So a little bit more about my journey,
I quit smoking cigs about a year ago, after 15 years or so, but I was never a heavy smoker.

I went straight to 0mg nic, due mainly to misinformation and having no friends who wanted to quit smoking, I work in an industry where drugs, smokers, drinkers and anything and everything in between are the norm...

So, basically, I got no support when I quit smoking (except from my woman) hence my joining this forum, now after a year, I want to minimize my vape to weekends only.

I would say I average about 1-3ml a day at present – and some days I can simply forget to vape, especially if I am very busy or I upped my weights in the gym and my son caned me @ footy!

YouR thoughts, experiences and techniques? – please share!

 

[Visus]

You shall be our leader and amongst them they shall call you quitter..

I plan on quitting as soon as I finish this supply of e joos I have..

Did you know that in movies where their searching for water in towns laid desolate by undead or zombies that hot water tanks store up to 75 gallons of fresh water..

Good Luck,

yeah it's eventually planned but for now doing fine..

 

[vassilbg]

I'm with you. I actually started to cut my nic down so currently at 3mg. I was actually starting to leave the vape at home and would only vape with my morning coffee and then when I got off work. I stopped taking it with me to friends outings, bars etc. BUT... then I decided to quit smoking {Other stuff}, so I used the ecig as a crutch to help me with that, and that it did. So now its a matter of time before I lower the vapeing again and then the plan is to go down to 0 nic once all my current 3mg nic juices are out. Its def a journey, but an achievable one. Good luck!

 

[Canadian_Vaper]

I really have no intentions of quitting, I liked smoking when I did it and I like vaping instead now, if I need to cut back for whatever reason I just up my nic and I don't use it as often. My levels range between 3mg and 8mg for those purposes.

3mg if I feel like chain vaping (usually when reading these forums).
4-6mg for my normal vaping depending on flavor.
8mg if I'm in a position where I can't vape as much.

I tried cutting back to 2 and 1 but just started chain vaping way too much.

 

[Racehorse]

I lowered my nic VERY slowly over 3 years. Now using I am using 0%-1.5% nic only. Also leave my vape gear on counter, I have to go over there to pick up and use it. I don't take on errands anymore.

It's all about just "changing behavioral habits" after a while, esp. once you are not dependent on the nicotine.

I think based on brain studies, it takes 21 days to change a habit. I've noticed that appears to be true, I've done it with eating, and also with getting into other habits like walking, etc. After about 21 days the "good stuff" you want to switch over to seems to become more "habit-like" after 21 days i.e. *effortless*.

While I really enjoy vaping I just feel like I don't want to fiddle and carry this stuff around forever and have a monkey on my back so to speak. I started feeling that way when packing for trips away from home, just seemed like one more thing to think/worry about. Charging stuff, etc.

then there have been the few times that I left home thinking I had enough battery to get me thru errands and then something happens where I don't. Or I lose/misplace something I need.

A lot of people don't mind and everything about vaping is pleaureable to them, including the "fiddle factor".

Good luck in meeting whatever goals you have.

 

[QU1T]

Vape free day yesterday!

I find that toothpicks really help!

 

[Robino1]

For newer and all members, just a reminder: https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/threads/why-we-dont-allow-drug-talk.255864/

Just a refresher and something that not all members realize or are aware of.

 

[crxess]

Best of luck in your journey!

If you jumped straight to -0- Nic and have been Nic free all this time it would seem you simply have a mind set to overcome.
A fiddly hand to mouth thing and maybe enjoying Vaping flavors.

I kept a bag of hard candies at work when possible. A Good distraction between breaks. maybe that would help.

 

[AndriaD]

The first 6 months I vaped, I just went up on my nic levels, till I got to 10mg, where I stayed, and also added WTA, which I was mixing into my vape as 10% of it. (24mg WTA) Since January, I've been gradually weaning from the WTA, and now it's only 1.8% of my vape. When I got an Achilles RDA, I went down to 9mg, because of the intense TH. About 6 wks ago, I started reducing that further, to try and get it down to about 5mg for the cold months, to see if that will help my painfully cold hands and feet in the winter; I'm now at 7mg. Haven't noticed the slightest difference in my vape at all.

I've been sick for a while, flu or something, so I'm been trying to slack off on vaping, only vaping when I really want a vape, rather than just whenever the thought occurred to me... and that really hasn't been difficult at all; I was using about 6ml daily, and I would estimate that I'm probably now using about 4ml daily, so about a 33% reduction.

So I've been reducing the WTA over a very long period (almost 10 months now), and now slowly reducing the nicotine as well, over a shorter period, though still pretty slowly. It really hasn't been difficult, any of it, which rather surprises me. So once I can get the nicotine down to 5mg, for the winter, I may just leave it at that level even when it warms up again in the spring.

This is all very encouraging to me, because I had initially assumed that vaping had merely replaced smoking as the thing I would most likely do until I died; now, it appears that it may be possible, at some point, to also quit vaping, which would be a very good thing for my asthma. I'm not going to rush it; I smoked for 39 yrs, and I want to give my addicted brain and mind every opportunity to be completely over those nearly-4-decades of smoking, and to KNOW that they both are completely over it. But maybe within 5 yrs-ish?

Andria

 

[Jdurand]

OP: At 0mg nic, I would think that your addiction to vaping is purely psychological at this point. I have read that anything really under 3mg/ml will not support a physical addiction. I'm not sure if that is true or not but seems logical. I, myself have gotten down to 6mg/ml after starting at 24mg/ml, this has taken me about a year. do plan to quit, as like you, I find this vaping thing to kind of be a pain in the rear. I enjoy the flavors, the fiddle factor and obviously my nic fix, but I can see a day when I will stop or just do it occasionally with 0 nic.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Today I tried to be on 2 mg nic (two weeks ago I was on 8 mg). Seems I can do it. I just need a pacifier. However, I am not completely ready to go so low permanently, I already picked tank with 4 mg... My idea of "casual vaping": 2 mg of nic, 12 W, with the morning coffee and at nights. Hope in a year I'll reach it. OK, in 1.5 years.

 

[WillyZee]

you are at 0 nic ... what's holding you back from quitting?

 

[AndriaD]

you are at 0 nic ... what's holding you back from quitting?

The fact that there's a HELL of a lot more involved in "addiction" than substances...?

Andria

 

[Frenchfry1942]

I started high; I needed to know that I would still get my nic that my urge wanted. I dropped about quarterly. I am at 3mg, but have about 2-3 months of juice. I will probably go to zero nic, but work on forgetting it.

The habit of after dinner may end up being a zero nic on the porch later in the evening. I do enjoy a good, flavorable vape. Maybe another set-up with Coffee Cake flavor at the breakfast table. I always start with a cup of coffee before eating.

Anyway, I will be at zero nic.

 

[englishmick]

I enjoy vaping now. Sometimes don't want to be bothered messing around with coils and juice and all that stuff, but most of the time it's fun. And I don't want to drop the nic either. I'm on 8ml now, not planning to go lower. I have a lot of Alzheimer's in my family tree and they do say nicotine is good for that. And even without that I would still do it because I like it.

 

[QU1T]

you are at 0 nic ... what's holding you back from quitting?

Not sure if you are being serious or trolling?

Anyway, all I know is even after a year of being nic free, I still have cravings, my mother quit 20 years ago and still has cravings if she smells a cig!
I am no expert on "addiction", are you? ... I do know clinics exist for certain types of addiction, patches, gum, and many more for nic, etc etc etc.

I would have to agree with AndriaD, a lot more to any "addiction" than just the actual substance abuse!

I am on ECF for some "support", it helps me to talk about it all,
Perhaps re-read my 1st post also, I don't want to quit totally, I would like to have a nice vape on weekends, special occasions etc.

Also, I still luv my art collection aka mechs & squonkers, I luv watching reviews, mainly from Todd,
I still really enjoy looking at other people's amazing gear and coils, claptons, staggered, stapled, aliens, etc. even though I never build anything close to that.

I Just luv everything about this scene, and I luv most of the community that is ECF!
That's a lot of luv to just give up, I see no reason to either!, hence "Reducing" in the title of this thread.

 

[Ou2mame]

I cut down to 3 and 1.5mg, I pretty much don't need the nic anymore, and plan to kick it completely by the end of the year. I don't bring my vape when I leave the house much, so I'm not relying on it like I was previously, and definitely I'm not addicted like with cigarettes.

 

[Frenchfry1942]

Yeah, I will keep stuff around. But, thinking just now, I hope to put set-ups in spots where I should be relaxing anyway. Breakfast coffee, evening front porch, evading visiting MIL, etc.

 

[MattyTny]

I was smoking 1-3 packs of cigarettes a week before I got into vaping and only late last year was able to quit smoking. I moved from 18mg to 12mg last year, and from 12mg to 6mg to 3mg this year.

Now I have some 0mg and I'm finding that is enjoyable to keep a device with 3mg and with 0mg ready. Sometimes I dilute my 3mg too. At one point I was vaping very heavily this year, but I'm starting to cut back and now vape less than I smoked.

I want to eventually make vaping a evening only thing, ultimately I want to vape occasionally. It's hard when you have mid to high range gear with your own work going into the coils and wicks though. I actually like the hobby aspect of building/wicking and looking at gear more than I thought.

 

[AndriaD]

Not sure if you are being serious or trolling?

Anyway, all I know is even after a year of being nic free, I still have cravings, my mother quit 20 years ago and still has cravings if she smells a cig!
I am no expert on "addiction", are you? ... I do know clinics exist for certain types of addiction, patches, gum, and many more for nic, etc etc etc.

I would have to agree with AndriaD, a lot more to any "addiction" than just the actual substance abuse!

I am on ECF for some "support", it helps me to talk about it all,
Perhaps re-read my 1st post also, I don't want to quit totally, I would like to have a nice vape on weekends, special occasions etc.

Also, I still luv my art collection aka mechs & squonkers, I luv watching reviews, mainly from Todd,
I still really enjoy looking at other people's amazing gear and coils, claptons, staggered, stapled, aliens, etc. even though I never build anything close to that.

I Just luv everything about this scene, and I luv most of the community that is ECF!
That's a lot of luv to just give up, I see no reason to either!, hence "Reducing" in the title of this thread.

That's kinda how I feel too; even if I do eventually get to the point that I don't need to vape every day, all the time, I might still want to vape now and then.

No real interest in ridding myself of nicotine, as someone else pointed out, there is a lot of "dementia" in my gene pool, both alzheimers and the "regular" geriatric variety. And as I'm seeing, the nicotine isn't really all that relevant to the "addiction" anyway, since it doesn't seem to matter to my body one iota that I've dropped 3mg (30% from my previous 10mg) in the past 6 months. I suspect it might be a different story with the WTA, which is why I'm removing it so very slowly. For me, just being able to bring vaping from a "regular pastime" to an occasional treat would be a great boon to my asthma, but that doesn't mean I necessarily want it to completely disappear.

Andria