Vaping may deepen your nicotine addiction?

[BillyTheWild]

First off, I am NOT a troll posting here to be negative about vaping. As a newbie, I just want to learn as much as possible. No flame please.


I was a pack-a-day smoker. Never train smoked. However, a lot of times I find myself vaping constantly or at least vaping more often than b4 when I smoked. It’s b/c 1) it’s very convenient, 2) it doesn’t stink up the house (I didn’t smoke in the house b/c of the smell) and 3) the yummy flavoring. Those factors, I think, make it more likely for you to become a train vaper even if you weren't a train smoker before.


I am worry that this may deepen my nic addiction. Sure, compare to smoking, it is still BETTER, I believe. But by itself not comparing to smoking, it is concern to me. Your thoughts?

 

[Ferrel1134]

It does not worry me in the fact that I'm cutting down. Was at 24 now 18 soon to be 12. Yes I vape more but I like it way more than smoking.

 

[klynnn]

I find just the opposite. I have reduced my nic content from 18 to 10mg. You are not getting as much nic as when smoking.

 

[williebb123]

smoked a carton a week for many years when i started vaping i was using 48mg now 2 1/2yrs later im using 6mg , addiction is what you make it more psychological than anything else

 

[alisa1970]

First off, I am NOT a troll posting here to be negative about vaping. As a newbie, I just want to learn as much as possible. No flame please.


I was a pack-a-day smoker. Never train smoked. However, a lot of times I find myself vaping constantly or at least vaping more often than b4 when I smoked. It’s b/c 1) it’s very convenient, 2) it doesn’t stink up the house (I didn’t smoke in the house b/c of the smell) and 3) the yummy flavoring. Those factors, I think, make it more likely for you to become a train vaper even if you weren't a train smoker before.


I am worry that this may deepen my nic addiction. Sure, compare to smoking, it is still BETTER, I believe. But by itself not comparing to smoking, it is concern to me. Your thoughts?

I'm not too concerned...I smoked like you--and now vaping more than I smoked. I think it's the fact that if I have a higher nic juice, I tend to get dizzy/buzzed which I don't like, and a lower nic level is just not quite enough to tackle the craving.

But I have moved down from 18/24 to just 18, and I just bought a bunch of 12mg juice, so that I can chain vape more comfortably.

I noticed today that I am beginning to get used to the new feeling of vaping, and I have cut down a bit from the last 2 weeks.

Since nicotine hasn't been shown to have any real adverse health risks, I am not really bothered by the fact that I am doing it more. We're probably not getting as much systemic nicotine as we did smoking, so it only seems like we're getting more. Plus, we're not getting all the other nasty stuff, so even if we were getting more nicotine, you can easily regulate that.

 

[BillyTheWild]

Hmmm, may be I am just too new to vaping - about 1 month. Started out w/ 18mg on a cig-alike and didn't get the satisfaction at all and had to grab the stinky sticks all the times. Then I bought a more powerful batt, tank and up the nic to 24mg and it's been good. So, maybe when I get more used to vaping, I will naturally go down on nic concentration and vaping frequency?

 

[Orobas]

well OP, if you're just starting your body may be trying to compensate because nicotine actually isn't delivered as effectively through vapor as it is through smoke. AND the sensation isn't the same so the reward portion of the hand to mouth addiction isn't the same.

after a while the need won't seem as urgent, promise. A year later and i can set it down for a few hours to concentrate on something else. You remember how if you forgot your pack of cigarettes at home you'd have to stop and get a pack? Well once you've been vaping a while you can usually shrug and just hurry a little at wallyworld.

At this point i don't feel I'm any more addicted to nicotine than I am coffee. Which in my case is still probably more than the average person, but still.

 

[eratikmind]

In the past 2 months, I have dropped to 11mg and 12mg from 24mg.

- Andy . . . Embrace the day.

 

[VaprDevil]

I believe the converse to be true - Vaping has lessened my addiction to nicotine. I vape more often than I smoked, but I have been able to drop from 18mg to mostly 6mg in less than 2 months.

 

[Rachy_B]

I used to smoke 20 roll-ups a day...minimum. Then I started vaping. To give you a brief timeline:
Early November-mid November: 24mg first thing on a morning, then 18mg the rest of the day
Mid Novemeber- mid December: 18mg all day
Mid December-early January: 18mg in the mornings, 11mg at night for about a week, then 11-12mg all day (exceptions being when drinking over the festive period when I used 18mg)
January: 11-12mg all day
February: 12mg all day (the beginning of my nicotine reduction plan!)
March: 11mg for the first 2 weeks, then 10mg for the second two weeks... by the end of the month I was using 8mg during the day and 4mg at night.

I'm sticking with 8mg at the moment...I'm not going to push it any further for a little while as I've got a stressful time coming up and I find that if I drop down to 4mg, I actually vape more...

Anyway, my point is that if I can reduce my nicotine consumption, anyone can. I don't think it has deepened my addiction to nicotine at all as I'm certainly getting less than when I started vaping and when I smoked. I also don't immediately reach for a nicotine supply upon waking up anymore so I know I'm less addicted! My reduction plan will continue in the middle of May, until then I'm praying for a plateau in my usage but that may be wishful thinking!

One thing to remember is that tobacco contains other chemicals (ammonia, I think) which heightens the addictive nature of it. Take those out, get over those first few days without them and job's a good-un!

I've got some blog posts about my reduction plan (I chat rubbish about R squared and everything!) so have a look at those and you'll see the change over time...

 

[GraceH]

SO far, what I've seem/heard other people say is that they have successfully reduced there nic mg for those that choice to. If nic deepened your nic addiction it would be more of a struggle to decrease and increases would be more of a trend.
When I smoked cigarettes I'd find, over time I'd smoke more than I'd like and struggle to reduce it back down to PAD. I do feel this trend is common because I had also seem/heard other smokers have the same problem with smoking to much and needing to reduce how much they smoked.
In my opinion we vape more often because we enjoy it more than smoke, not because we have to. When I do crave nic and can't vape, I can wait, no big deal or hurry. Same thing with stepping down on nic mg, I do vape more and feel that I need more, but I adjust much more quickly. Vapeing nic just doesn't have the same control over me.

I don't believe vaping deepens my nic addiction but empowers me in quitting. Gives me the control over my nic intake.

Happy Vaping

 

[Myk]

It did for me, but only because when I went to 5mg and 0mg (and was perfectly happy) ulcerative colitis flared. Once I was diagnosed I increased my nicotine and worked up to higher than I started at. I'll take addiction over cancer or an ostomy any day.

 

[BillyTheWild]

Thank you for sharing your experience, guys. This eases me of the worry a lot. I will vape on and see.

 

[Dvx67]

At lest with vaping you can gradually reduce your nicotine level over time without reducing the frequency in which you vape. That isn't really an option with cigs.

 

[Faylool]

Im definitely less interested in nicotine now....

 

[2nd chance]

The answer for me is no, I found also along with what the other members are saying about cutting down on MG's, I find I can go longer putting my PV aside a while, while walking,Visiting, working Etc.

 

[kabonk]

I started with 36mg of nic and now I vape 4 mg. when I was a smoker I would be climbing the walls after 2 hours of not smoking as a vaper if I go all day without vaping it rarely crosses my mind. I think the reason we vape more then we used to smoke is because the nic gets in your system slower with vaping then it does with cigarettes

 

[Faylool]

Im definitely less interested in nicotine now....Heres my reason. It gets me wired so i vape WTA to get the natural syntergistic effect of cigarette Plus i added lightly snussing and snuffing to keep it natural. Vape low nicotine now when its regular e juice ( because I DIY and like to vape for the activity as much as anything and you all know we cant DIY our WTA and its usually not available plain at Aroma)

 

[hvac999]

Yes there is some addiction to nicotine when vaping. I think what you are forgetting is what you are NOT addicted to when not smoking. There were a few thousand chemicals in a lit cigarette. Once 99.99% of the chemicals are out of your system it will be MUCH easier to quit altogether, if that is what you want. Most people simply taper down on their nicotine until they get to a comfortable level be it 24mg or 0mg. I am up at 36mg and I am happy. I am not smoking cigarettes after 35 years.

 

[greenman]

I'm down from 30+ to 15 with no prob, undicided where I feel like going from here.