Quitting vaping section?
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I think this thread is a great idea! We should have input into all phases of vapeing from start to finish(for some of us). No different that someone telling us they quit for any other reason. Vapeing is not for everyone and not everyone wants to vape forever. JMHO Been vapeing for 11 months now and quit nicotine about 5 months ago and I must say both changes were pretty effortless for me. So here I am sitting and thinking that I have already quit 2 things I thought I would never be able to do so why not vapeing altogether? When I accidently went to 0mg I realized quickly that my addiction to vapeing was more psycological, gotta have that hand to mouth and seeing the plume of vapor more than anything else. I tend to get a bit stressed just thinking about quiting vapeing. Maybe it's just too early for me and in the next year or so I'll just lose interest? Any advise from the ex-vapers. Did you taper off or just stop all at once? Where were you prior to quiting ie 0mg?
I do want to quit vaping. I started 6 weeks ago with 18 mg., and I am at 12 mg. now. Maybe in another month I will go to 6 mg.
The way I quit was to drastically drop my nic level as quickly as possible, i.e. I went from 24 down to roughly 2 in a week 
A little more than 2 weeks in now and I'm beginning to wonder if it was the best approach. The first 2 weeks went by just fine, no major cravings or urges, just mostly missed the hobby, researching new mods, rushing home after work to see if I had any vape mail Now however I'm actually beginning to miss the vape, maybe it's because it's the holidays and I'm on vacation, spending time with family and friends, eating and drinking a lot more than usual but I'm definitely starting to get some cravings.
I'm going to do my best to power through this holiday season without vaping, but it's gonna be hard. In retrospect I wish I would have stayed at 2-4mg for a few weeks followed by a bit more time at 0mg.
Time will tell
A little more than 2 weeks in now and I'm beginning to wonder if it was the best approach. The first 2 weeks went by just fine, no major cravings or urges, just mostly missed the hobby, researching new mods, rushing home after work to see if I had any vape mail
Now however I'm actually beginning to miss the vape, maybe it's because it's the holidays and I'm on vacation, spending time with family and friends, eating and drinking a lot more than usual but I'm definitely starting to get some cravings. I'm going to do my best to power through this holiday season without vaping, but it's gonna be hard. In retrospect I wish I would have stayed at 2-4mg for a few weeks followed by a bit more time at 0mg.
Time will tell
while quitting vaping is probably a "milestone" Switching > Milestones , it is possible that we would consider this idea. No promises or timelines if we were to decide to do it, but we can take it into consideration.
DevilFish...hang in there. If the need is too much, try vaping unflavored pg or vg just so you have the hand to mouth action going. Kudos to you for quitting all of it. I want too, one of these days. I finally lowered my mg down and it was easier than I though it would be to do. I haven't noticed a difference and hopefully won't. I can't drop like you did, my hubby would probably divorce me due to too much craving and crabbiness but I'm working on it. I don't know if I'll ever stop all together because I find the hand to mouth relaxing within itself. That will be the tough one for me to break if I can do it.
This is a thread that needs to be a part of ECF. Some folks find ecigs a means to an end and others just want a healthier lifestyle. Either way, it's a win/win situation.
This is a thread that needs to be a part of ECF. Some folks find ecigs a means to an end and others just want a healthier lifestyle. Either way, it's a win/win situation.
I don't see vaping as picking up a new addiction. I see it as continuing an old addiction but in a much less harmful way. Not only less harmful as in stopping inhaling of tobacco smoke, but way less harmful as a nicotine addiction itself.
Unless the act of vaping just bugs you and you don't want to use any form of tobacco even recreationaly, once you switch to vaping over cigarettes there is not a good reason to HAVE to quit. The nicotine in e-juice is not a strong form of nicotine as found in cigarettes and in the e-juice form it's only mildly addictive - so mildly addictive it's very easily put down. It holds no strong powers over you physically. It's only the act of vaping people have to get over mentally to quit vaping after they make the switch because nicotine is not holding them to the habit anymore.
People can quit if they want to and that's fine but it must never be told to them that they have to quit the nicotine from e-cigs because that nicotine addiction is just as bad and as strong as the nicotine addiction from cigarette smoking. That is simply not true and has been proven.
We don't need ex-vapers running around here telling others they have to quit because the continued addiction to nicotine will harm them and is bad for them. This is unscientific and not true.
I think a lot of smokers who listen to these anti nicotine zealots get scared that they have to quit the nicotine so even an e-cig is bad for them. It's only the form of nicotine in burning tobacco smoke that causes harm and this largely because the nicotine is concentrated with other chemicals to produce a free-base or crack type of nicotine. This type of nicotine is not found in e-cigs. The nicotine found in e-cigs itself has no more health risks than users of caffeine so choosing to continue to vape will not harm them. We have to be careful to educate all ex smokers and ex vapers correctly so they don't fly off the handle like the anti nicotine zealots the cigarette smoking industry produced.
Rest assured DevilFishPhi any cravings you feel are purely psychological at this point. Smoking and therefore vaping by extension had become a part of who you are. It's hard to shake that. It's like losing a part of one's self. For myself, I choose not to quit because although I no longer crave nicotine when I'm away from my e-cig (and I use 24 mg, I can go for many hours without even thinking about the e-cig - no cravings), I do enjoy the stimulant effect I get from the nicotine as much as I enjoy drinking coffee. The act of vaping in public is a big part of my personality to help show people there is a better way than smoking. Knowing using the e-cig is relatively harmless nothing about it bothers me at all to prompt me to quit. And yes, I think I look cool vaping in my nice leather biker jacket.
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The forum should indeed be all about vaping, but that's just the problem - it's not: quitting is a huge part of it IMO. Also do you really think that the Atheist Vapers section is more related to vaping than "Quitting vaping"?
I think I've mentioned it a few times, but for a lot of people vaping is meant to be a means to an end, not to pick up a new addiction. I'm convinced that there are a lot of people who would love to quit vaping but might not have thought about it until they heard other people's success stories, similar to how a lot of people started vaping in the first place from hearing people's success stories.
Can't you just start a group like they did?
Did you try just vaping zero nic to quit vaping? I vape zero nic everyday now to cut down my nic intake and I like zero nic. It is refreshing and I don't worry about OD-ing on nic anymore. I do notice my vaping has leveled off, I don't get the cravings I got once off analogs. So I can see where getting off vaping is not that hard or just use zero nic if you want to keep vaping. bnrk
Maybe we just need a zero nic sub forum if there isn't one. That would be fun bnrk
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Hey John,
I don't think that any vaper that quits would want to guilt anyone about their vaping habits, and if they would then they would be incredibly hypocritical seeing as vaping most likely saved their lives. That being said though there are a handful of reasons one would want to quit vaping:
1. Money. I can't speak for everyone, but I know it was one of the factors that made me want to quit seeing as I was spending on average $200/month on supplies.
2. The addiction. After so many years of being dependent on cigs, and now being dependent on vaping, it's a nice change being able to leave the house without freaking out if I forgot my PV at home.
3. Health uncertainties. Seeing as vaping is still in its infancy nobody knows what, if any, the long term effects of vaping are. Also with no governing body, no industry standards, you never know what you might actually be vaping, I mean just look @ the BE fiasco. E-juice aside, think about the different materials: metals; steel/brass/lead or the different materials used for meshes; silica/fiberglass/kanthal, or the rubber used in o-rings etc. Are there any adverse effects of inhaling e-juice that came into contact with those kinds of materials? Most likely, although I can't say that with any kind of certainty all I do know is that nobody can say that vaping is 100% safe.
4. Health Benefits. Just as I saw immediate improvements in my health after I quit smoking and started vaping, I noticed immediate improvements in my health after I quit vaping. I sleep a lot better, I can breath easier, I have more energy (although the first few days I was constantly tired and lethargic), and most importantly, my blood pressure has dropped.
I'm sure that if we took a poll on ECF "Do you plan on quitting vaping someday" 90% of the respondents would say "No", but what about the other 10% that said "Yes"? If we're encouraging people that want to quit smoking, why would we not do the same for people that want to quit vaping?
I'm am in no way saying that people should quit vaping if they don't want to, and I would never ever guilt anyone about their vaping habits, that would be incredibly hypocritical on my part. I loved vaping, it changed me in a lot of ways and I'm still a major advocate of vaping and trying to convert as many people as I can, but now I see it as a means to an end and that's how I'm presenting it to current smoker/potential vapers.
I don't think that any vaper that quits would want to guilt anyone about their vaping habits, and if they would then they would be incredibly hypocritical seeing as vaping most likely saved their lives. That being said though there are a handful of reasons one would want to quit vaping:
1. Money. I can't speak for everyone, but I know it was one of the factors that made me want to quit seeing as I was spending on average $200/month on supplies.
2. The addiction. After so many years of being dependent on cigs, and now being dependent on vaping, it's a nice change being able to leave the house without freaking out if I forgot my PV at home.
3. Health uncertainties. Seeing as vaping is still in its infancy nobody knows what, if any, the long term effects of vaping are. Also with no governing body, no industry standards, you never know what you might actually be vaping, I mean just look @ the BE fiasco. E-juice aside, think about the different materials: metals; steel/brass/lead or the different materials used for meshes; silica/fiberglass/kanthal, or the rubber used in o-rings etc. Are there any adverse effects of inhaling e-juice that came into contact with those kinds of materials? Most likely, although I can't say that with any kind of certainty all I do know is that nobody can say that vaping is 100% safe.
4. Health Benefits. Just as I saw immediate improvements in my health after I quit smoking and started vaping, I noticed immediate improvements in my health after I quit vaping. I sleep a lot better, I can breath easier, I have more energy (although the first few days I was constantly tired and lethargic), and most importantly, my blood pressure has dropped.
I'm sure that if we took a poll on ECF "Do you plan on quitting vaping someday" 90% of the respondents would say "No", but what about the other 10% that said "Yes"? If we're encouraging people that want to quit smoking, why would we not do the same for people that want to quit vaping?
I'm am in no way saying that people should quit vaping if they don't want to, and I would never ever guilt anyone about their vaping habits, that would be incredibly hypocritical on my part. I loved vaping, it changed me in a lot of ways and I'm still a major advocate of vaping and trying to convert as many people as I can, but now I see it as a means to an end and that's how I'm presenting it to current smoker/potential vapers.
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I thought about it, but I guess I was hoping to see an actual sub-section rather than a buried sub-sub group that would not get a lot of attention.
I actually dropped to 2mg nic, but never vaped 0mg - mostly because a huge part of vaping for me was the TH which I was never able to replicate without nic.
Maybe we just need a zero nic sub forum if there isn't one. That would be fun
Totally agree there should be one! Maybe it would stimulate some ideas about how to replicate the TH without nic.
cinnamon and menthol work well. I was talking to warped (w) in live chat and he could never get down to 0 and stay there because of the TH issue until he tried a Ry4/cinnamon/menthol type blend named after a certain moderator on this forum. YMMV of course.
I completely agree that there should be a sub-section for those hoping to quit and those who have successfully quit Vaping. This is an Electronic Cigarette Forum, the best Ecig Forum there is out there actually , and quitting, although not everyones goal, is a part of using Ecigs.
, and quitting, although not everyones goal, is a part of using Ecigs.
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