So you vape to quit smoking... Will you quit vaping?

[Xtro]

I quit smoking a few years ago. Been vaping a few months now because I missed the habit of smoking...not the nic or the smoke, just the action of smoking.
I just enjoy vaping. Learning as I go about different devices, trying and mixing different e-juice and building coils. Reading forums, watching YT reviews etc. It's a whole lotta fun. So, replying to the OP, nope I won't be quitting vaping.

 

[parcivous]

vaping is so fun I don't know that i'd want to stop. =)
Altitude000 has it right, it can eat up your life in a lovely way. =)

 

[3.5geek]

I'm just about to start vaping and my hope is that if I can make the switch then I'll cut down the nicotine content until I can cut it out entirely and the new just use it to smoke socially with flavors. At least that is the hope lol

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[Origami]

I would say probably not anytime in the near future. I enjoy it too much and I really feel like I am in good health and not being significantly negatively altered by vaping in any way. I keep to a low amount of nicotine (3mg) and sometimes even vape 0mg.

 

[Charon]

Nope, no desire to quit as I see no reason to quit. I'll move toward 0nic, my gear collection will grow, I'll keep introducing new people to vaping if they want to quit smoking. I'll keep advocating for freedom to vape in public and it's permanent separation from the status of "tobacco product". I'll keep building coils, playing with wicking, and fiddling with the lock rings on my mechs because moving parts occupy my twitchy hands.

I'll keep loving it for what vaping alone, and the vaping community has done for me.

 

[Hypatia]

I haven't read through every response, but I will say, probably not. Why would I quit the very thing that is keeping me from NOT smoking? That would be silly!

 

[dlingo]

Just curious.......
So it seems a lot of people use vaping to quit smoking. Do you guys plan on quitting vaping, eventually, as well? Do you guys consider it a step to stop any sort of smoking altogether or is it a "healthier" substitute for you?

I just switched a few days ago and have cut out regular smokes almost all together after a pack a day for 13 years.

Technically you are not 'quiting' smoking, you are just finding a safer 'alternative' to smoking.

 

[JerseyBoyToy]

Like most have said, that was the initial plan, but I've been sucked into this now. I plan on just seeing where things go from here.

 

[TRoxx]

A loud pop is heard and YardByrd is suddenly there sitting on a plain, brown, wooden, perch, with a bevel cut on 1/4 of the "T". The platinum "YB" medallion around his neck is glowing yellow and you hear a deep, smooth, male, Latin, voice translating for him:

"Hail, lauds, and greetings seekers of the philosophical, physical, and mental aspects for vaping! I for one am ashamedly a cigaholic. If I do not vape I will surely be smoking so stopping vaping isn't a real option for me. One of the beauties of vaping, IMHO, is that each vaper can tailor it to his own particular, tastes, likes, and needs. So....I stop by to pose this question to stimulate your thought, discussion, and consideration: Is the ultimate end of vaping to quit vaping? CAW!"

You hear the loud report of a string of firecrackers going off and as each one pops a dot disappears from YardByrd, and his faithful Realm traveling perch, until they are gone.

I read that ..and ..I had to use the voice of Captain Beefheart in my head to totally appreciate it

 

[Bramble]

Technically you are not 'quiting' smoking, you are just finding a safer 'alternative' to smoking.

Technically if you are using an alternative to something you are not using that thing. If I chose to cure an illness with diet and exercise as an alternative to pills, then I am not using pills. If you aren't inhaling burning tobacco, then you aren't smoking.

 

[amctom]

I've only been vaping for about 3 weeks. Originally to quit regular cigs, but i actually enjoy it more than my old cigs. I haven't had a cigarette in three weeks and I don't even miss it after 50 years of a pack a day. I see no reason to ever quit vaping.
Tom

 

[ian91]

I quit smoking 5 mths ago and started vaping with 18mg. Am now down to 12 and my next batch of juice is 9%. Steeping it now. I plan to work my way down. Not sure where I will stop. I definitely have no plans to stop vaping. I agree with others that it is also a hobby now.

 

[TRoxx]

The thousandth and tenth day of the human totem pole.
The morning was distemper grey,
Of the thousandth and tenth day of the human totem pole.
The man at the bottom was smiling.
He had just finished his breakfast smiling.
It hadn't rained or manured for over two hours.
The man at the top was starving.
The pole was a horrible looking thing
With all of those eyes and ears
And waving hands for balance.
There was no way to get a copter in close
So everybody was starving together.
The man at the top had long ago given up
But didn't have nerve enough to climb down.
At night the pole would talk to itself and the chatter wasn't too good.
Obviously the pole didn't like itself, it wanted to walk!
It was the summer and it was hot
And balance wouldn't permit skinning to undergarments.
It was an integrated pole, it was taking on an reddish brown cast.
Exercise on the pole was isometric,
Kind of a flex and then balance
Then the highest would roll together,
The ears wiggle, hands balance.
There was a gurgling and googling heard
A tenth of the way up the pole.
Approaching was a small child
With statue of liberty doll.

 

[Phlotsum]

I don't feel as if I've quite smoking as much as changed the delivery method.

 

[Bramble]

I don't feel as if I've quite smoking as much as changed the delivery method.

I would never argue with how you feel about it But to be fair, we would never say that someone hasn't quit smoking just because they might still be using the patch or gum. Most people intuitively understand that vaping is more complete and effective form of NRT... someone here has suggested vaping be called Smoking Replacement Therapy which I think is very accurate.

 

[MikeMills]

I'm claiming the "healthier substitute" reason.

I've been an inhaling pipe smoker for about 45 years, then about a year ago I started vaping pipe tobacco in a box vaporizer.

About a month ago It dawned on me all I wanted was nicotine so I bought a Kanger Evod and some juice. I haven't used any tobacco since, spent a bunch of $$$ on vape stuff but no tobacco.

 

[FourWinds]

I think I probably will...well not quit, but more likely just forget to do it; already I'm finding that I forget to leave home with my cig-a-likes, and it wasn't long ago that I got stressed if I didn't have at least 40 analogues about the house just in case.

We'll see I guess. Not sure I care either way, and I'm very pleased to be able to say that honestly.

 

[Bramble]

I think I probably will...well not quit, but more likely just forget to do it; already I'm finding that I forget to leave home with my cig-a-likes, and it wasn't long ago that I got stressed if I didn't have at least 40 analogues about the house just in case.

We'll see I guess. Not sure I care either way, and I'm very pleased to be able to say that honestly.

I still have the three Marlboros in a very crushed up pack on top of my fridge. Just in case. I think I will always reserve the right to have a cigarette if I really really really want it.

If I forget to vape I reserve the right to remember about it.

 

[Candace Champney]

I enjoy vaping a lot more then smoking. Ive gotten a few people off cigarettes and into vaping. Eventually ill quit vaping...maybe a zero nic level but the flavors are just too good to give up

 

[FourWinds]

I still have the three Marlboros in a very crushed up pack on top of my fridge. Just in case. I think I will always reserve the right to have a cigarette if I really really really want it.

If I forget to vape I reserve the right to remember about it.

I agree, but I'm one of the lucky ones that switched to vaping with no issue at all, and that was after more than 30 years smoking; so probably no analogues for me. Even if I do forget to vape eventually, I'm still going to keep some cartomizers (blister packed so they last for a couple of years) at hand just in case I too remember.