Bare with me here,
Here's a brief description of how dopamine works: You start a goal or action that has a desired consequence such as smoking to satisfy your nicotine craving, your dopamine starts to spike as soon as you begin the sequence of events leading up to smoking e.g. you pull the cigarette out of the pack, you put it to your lips, you take the first toke. After this the dopamine dips down a little and when you feel the "goal" is complete it will spike a little again - this is why the last few tokes often feel the best and why stomping the .... can feel satisfying.
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compare it to vaping: it's a little skewed how the sequence of events happen. Nothing feels regular, most of us don't have to go outside to vape, there's no end to vaping except when the tank runs out. The events of start and finish are very hazy and far apart compared to smoking cigarettes. This is especially a problem for new vapers.
My solution:
I suggest manufactures needs to come out with a e-cig that has a limit on the tokes with several LED's lining the side of the e-cig which slowly go out one by one to show roughly how many tokes are left, once no LED's are lit up the e-cig would deactivate. The e-cig would activate again and the LED's would light back up after a period set by the user (as a interesting side note: if you added a beep or something when it's ready to use again it would give you the sort of emotional trigger getting a text message does - if your a phone addict like most of the culture). Besides being much more satisfying it would also stop us chain vaping, which some (not all) people consider to be an issue.
As another side note: i feel a lot of vapers are getting addicted to buying gear and this might help them get their dopamine fix instead of trying to get it through buying stuff.
The point of this device is not to stop people chain vaping, so please stop with those comments.
Here's a brief description of how dopamine works: You start a goal or action that has a desired consequence such as smoking to satisfy your nicotine craving, your dopamine starts to spike as soon as you begin the sequence of events leading up to smoking e.g. you pull the cigarette out of the pack, you put it to your lips, you take the first toke. After this the dopamine dips down a little and when you feel the "goal" is complete it will spike a little again - this is why the last few tokes often feel the best and why stomping the .... can feel satisfying.
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compare it to vaping: it's a little skewed how the sequence of events happen. Nothing feels regular, most of us don't have to go outside to vape, there's no end to vaping except when the tank runs out. The events of start and finish are very hazy and far apart compared to smoking cigarettes. This is especially a problem for new vapers.
My solution:
I suggest manufactures needs to come out with a e-cig that has a limit on the tokes with several LED's lining the side of the e-cig which slowly go out one by one to show roughly how many tokes are left, once no LED's are lit up the e-cig would deactivate. The e-cig would activate again and the LED's would light back up after a period set by the user (as a interesting side note: if you added a beep or something when it's ready to use again it would give you the sort of emotional trigger getting a text message does - if your a phone addict like most of the culture). Besides being much more satisfying it would also stop us chain vaping, which some (not all) people consider to be an issue.
As another side note: i feel a lot of vapers are getting addicted to buying gear and this might help them get their dopamine fix instead of trying to get it through buying stuff.
The point of this device is not to stop people chain vaping, so please stop with those comments.
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