Quitting Vaping?

[MaryMarcelle]

LOL. I'll have to get back to you on that one! I just started vaping today to try and quit analog...quitting vaping isn't even an option at this point! But You definitely posted an interesting and thought provoking question there. I think I would rather be addicted to vaping than smoking (unless the big tabacco companies jump on this bandwagon and start producing their OWN line of juices and fill it with their sneaky little additives and poisons!)

Sorry for my typo...I meant tobacco.

 

[Addi]

I'm still experiencing the euphoria from quitting analogs, so confronting the question of stopping vaping isn't a priority right now.
For me it's a matter of personal preferences and if someone wants to keep vaping until they pry it out of their cold dead hand, then good for them If they want to quit vaping at some point then that's cool too.

Speaking just for myself I'm hoping that I can eventually cut down to zero nic (already have a good start doing that), and then turn into one of those "Social vapers"...something I could never pull off with analog smoking. The kind of person that can go all day without vaping and not give it a second thought, but then after a really great dinner and dessert when you have your favorite drink in hand (coffee, brandy, wine, etc...) you whip out your 510 filled with __________(insert personal favorite e-juice) and vape away.

Anyhoo, that's what I hope I can pull off down the road. One of the many things I detested about my addiction to analogs was the need to have them around always. I'd go into a frenzied panic mode if my smokes weren't handy. Even though I know how much better it is for me to be vaping it will rub me the wrong way if a year from now I'm experiencing the same "addiction" to my pv.

 

[potholerepairman]

The delivery of the nicotene takes a little longer in an ecig so that by itself should make quitting vaping easier, along with the much smaller amount of things to be quitting in an ecig compared to an anolog.My .02 cent thought.


ps: no way am I quitting vaping it seems almost harmless and fun.

 

[martha1014]

Well I really don't know. I wasn"t planning on quitting smoking either but I did and started vaping so who knows. Right now I would say no. I love vaping even with all of its hassle. Right now I am just thankful that I no longer smoke cigarettes. I probaby will never quit. It has to be much better for you since my health has improved 100%.

 

[ZERO]

Well I really don't know. I wasn"t planning on quitting smoking either but I did and started vaping so who knows. Right now I would say no. I love vaping even with all of its hassle. Right now I am just thankful that I no longer smoke cigarettes. I probaby will never quit. It has to be much better for you since my health has improved 100%.

Same here I can breath now!

 

[The Man]

My goal is to give up vaping. I think it is going to be far easier to give up vaping than it is to give up cigarettes. The PV was my means to get off cigarettes gently. It worked. Now I am weening myself off ncotine and it is working. That leads me to believe that the additives that are put into cigarettes are put in their to make nicotine more addicitve. I have found it easier and easier to vape less and less nicotine as I go along. Soon I should be able to vape 0 nic and then see how it goes from there.

My plan too. As for now I'm still perfecting my system. Since getting a 510 I now know that 24 mg is too much for me.

 

[googled]

I've gone far far longer without using a PV than I ever did without a cigarette when I was smoking..hopefully if the time comes and I enjoy this too much right now, then I hope it won't be too difficult.

 

[uzzaperez]

Scarlet Ohara (and Uzzaperez) says: I won't think about that today, I'll think about that tomorrow.

 

[Chriss]

At this point I'm not thinking about quitting vaping. Switched to vaping because I know analogs were unhealthy, they smell, and I had to smoke in a freezing garage in the Chicago winters.

I only vape (like I smoked) with beer. I don't vape in the morning or at work, or in the car or on most week nights. But when I crack a beer, I vape.

I vape 11 and 18 nic PG, but I don't believe that I am addicted to nic. I think I am addicted to the beer/vape combo. Smoking with drinking is something that I have done for many years, so now I vape with drinks.

That combo habit is strong and that's why trying something like nic gum would be totally useless. I think I'll keep vaping for some time to come.

 

[just-cass]

my OH didnt plan on even giving up cigs...when i got my kit he tried it so i let him bring one to work and he never bought cigs after that...a week ago or so he forgot to bring his ecig with him(got him a kit,pccs,juice-the works!) and hes given up ecig snow!!!so i get all his equipment.... : o) dunno how he did it altho already im thinking of going to 6-10mg from 24/18/10(different amts over the day) as i just donbt think i need it anymore(4 weeks later)

 

[Adam_S]

LOL! I feel the same way about my 1911....

Haha, me too. But my PV is coming in a close second these days.

 

[clinical]

I used to go through a pack of nat sherman MCD's a day rain or shine. I think a few of you know the drill - sneaking off during lunch break to smoke, etc... but with my first vape I quit the analogs pretty much on the spot. Yeah, hindsight allows me to say that but it's true.

The biggest difference between vaping and smoking is that headrush. I've never got it with vaping but I've never got the urge to smoke either so vaping does it's job. I'm not sure I miss it at this point.

Every now and then I find myself on the back porch with a beer (mixed with v8) and my screwdriver relaxing and it occurs to me that I haven't vaped in the last two, three days. The chill out is fantastic!

I really do think that this aspect of vaping is important and not to be overlooked.

To those of you who do not do the red beer thing - give that a go as well. The spicy tomato juice works best.

 

[DC2]

I am human therefore isn't a "handful" of vices a pre-requisite to basic life??? Or am I just sadly and pathetically trapped by my own warped views..........if this is the case then I'm okay with that .

As far as I am aware, pretty much every civilization all over the earth, from the beginning of time, has found a way to alter consciousness to some extent. I personally think it is natural, and perfectly normal to do so. In fact, the people that do not do anything, ever, to alter their consciousness even slightly now and then... well, they generally scare the crap out of me.

 

[DC2]

To those of you who do not do the red beer thing - give that a go as well. The spicy tomato juice works best.

I am a HUGE beer snob, but I can tell you this as long as you don't tell anyone that knows me...
The Budweiser Chilada is really damn good.

If anyone that knew me heard me say that, I would never hear the end of it.

 

[CaptJay]

Hey guys I'm new here and just read the last few posts on page 1. I'm not trying to give anyone a bunch of crap and I'm not knocking ecigs as they are HEALTHIER than analogs but still not healthy.

Nicotine is not healthy but from what I understand as one of the poster's mentioned it doesn't cause cancer. Nicotine does effect the elasticity of the blood vessels, increase metabolism, I think blood pressure as was already mentioned and there are a few other downsides to it. I do not have any formal education on the subject but both my parents are nurses, my dad in particular has an extreme amount of education and experience in the medical field not to mention he's done a lot of research on this to try and help get my grandmother to quit.

As my dad put it an ecig will get rid of the cancer causing effects, respiratory effects but you will retain the cardiovascular effects. Switching to ecigs gets rid of the worst parts of smoking. My dad told me the time frame for full body recovery from my 7 years of smoking an average of 30 cigarettes a day is between 3-7 years (I'm 24). A few years to get almost back to baseline before I ever started and another few years to totally allow my lungs to fully replace the cells and tissue. Some of the potential cancer causing stuff will repair itself, some may not but the more time away the better chance I'll have. He also said the cardiovascular damage is something that at this point would take about 2 months maximum for my body to recover.

I once tried to tell a smoker friend of mine about this since he just bought an ecig and he pretty much blew me off which I guess is fine. All I'm saying is that nicotine does cause problems, the longer you do it the better the chance it will cause damage. For example my grandma's husband recently had a huge blood clot in his leg relating to all the smoking in his life and there was a serious potential for him to die if they couldn't remove or break up that clot. He's doing fine now, I believe they were able to break it up with meds or something but the point is nicotine does can have some serious effects that should not just be completely dismissed as harmless or non life threatening.

I'm sure you're dad is more educated on this than I am, as you say he has researched extensively for personal reasons and I'm not knocking your info at all, but anecdotal evidence on the forums here seems to show BETTER circulation after going from analogs to Vaping. I can't speak for everyone, only myself, when I tell you that my circulation has gotten heaps better.
I know that Nicotine *is* a vasoconstrictor but I'm wondering if its vaporized properties are much less than its smoked properties.
It does seem to operate in a different way just from using myself as a guinea pig
I honestly don't think anyone who vapes thinks vaping is 'completely harmless'
I am sure that as we are inhaling something OTHER than fresh clean air (if there even is such a thing in our world anymore, lol) our respiratory systems aren't getting off scott free from effects. The effects though, are LESS than those obtained through smoking analogs and i think most smokers, especially ones to whom giving up never seemed to be a real choice would rather go for that than deal with the nightmare that is breaking nicotine addiction. They say its harder or as hard to break than a ...... or ....... addiction because of the dopamine element.
I think using a PV will make a lot easier to step down from xxmg to 0mg - afte that the only addiction left to break is the hand-to-mouth one
Eventually I'd like to give it all up but if I can't then doing something LESS dangerous than smoking would be a good compromise.

 

[420GypsyGirl]

Hey guys I'm new here and just read the last few posts on page 1. I'm not trying to give anyone a bunch of crap and I'm not knocking ecigs as they are HEALTHIER than analogs but still not healthy.

Nicotine is not healthy but from what I understand as one of the poster's mentioned it doesn't cause cancer. Nicotine does effect the elasticity of the blood vessels, increase metabolism, I think blood pressure as was already mentioned and there are a few other downsides to it. I do not have any formal education on the subject but both my parents are nurses, my dad in particular has an extreme amount of education and experience in the medical field not to mention he's done a lot of research on this to try and help get my grandmother to quit.

As my dad put it an ecig will get rid of the cancer causing effects, respiratory effects but you will retain the cardiovascular effects. Switching to ecigs gets rid of the worst parts of smoking. My dad told me the time frame for full body recovery from my 7 years of smoking an average of 30 cigarettes a day is between 3-7 years (I'm 24). A few years to get almost back to baseline before I ever started and another few years to totally allow my lungs to fully replace the cells and tissue. Some of the potential cancer causing stuff will repair itself, some may not but the more time away the better chance I'll have. He also said the cardiovascular damage is something that at this point would take about 2 months maximum for my body to recover.

I once tried to tell a smoker friend of mine about this since he just bought an ecig and he pretty much blew me off which I guess is fine. All I'm saying is that nicotine does cause problems, the longer you do it the better the chance it will cause damage. For example my grandma's husband recently had a huge blood clot in his leg relating to all the smoking in his life and there was a serious potential for him to die if they couldn't remove or break up that clot. He's doing fine now, I believe they were able to break it up with meds or something but the point is nicotine does can have some serious effects that should not just be completely dismissed as harmless or non life threatening.

Nicotine also has benefits that medical research is now bringing to light after all the years of research that has been done on it. For example, it is now known that nicotine can act as an anti-depressent.

"Nicotine stimulates the release of specific neurotransmitters, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, which carry messages between nerves cells. Depression has been linked to chemical imbalances of these neurotransmitters," Joseph McClernon, Ph.D., an assistant research professor of medical psychiatry and researcher at the Duke Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research.

Many clinical studies done by prestigious medical research facilities, including some sponsored by the federal government, have shown that nicotine may in fact delay the onset and effects of both Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

So there you go.