I remember back when I first started vaping, I gave some advice as to how to manage the non nicotine elements when switching. So this was just based upon speculation, and now that I am finally off cigarettes and vape only, my experience in managing all of this has become first hand, so I decided to revisit this topic.
People have various experiences in switching, and my guess is that this really depends on what people are getting out of smoking tobacco. So you hear of people just ordering a kit and some juice and just throwing away the cigarettes the moment they started vaping. Other people struggle for a while and then may learn that they just need to up the nic and once they do that they are all set.
Other vapers struggle a lot more with kicking the habit, and some end up both vaping and smoking for a long time. Others manage to kick the habit but may feel something is missing, and may turn to things like snus, WTA, or even go back smoking full time.
It's fairly well known that tobacco in itself provides antidepressant relief, and I've speculated that nutritional supplements may help people over this so they don't have to turn to forms of tobacco to get what they are missing.
So now that I've quit smoking, I definitely experienced this first hand, and I'm one of the people who had a great deal of trouble both quitting and trying to become satisfied with vaping alone. However I've been trying so long to quit that this time I just made up my mind to seek alternatives to smoking to feel good.
I do think that while there is something more relaxing with smoking that you don't really get with vaping, even at the highest nic doses, it probably has to do with the anti depressant effects of tobacco. Now depression is a relative term, and you definitely do not have to have anything like clinical depression to get the benefits here. The benefits may be just a matter of feeling a little blah versus being in a better mood.
So that's a good way to describe how it was like when I first started vaping exclusively. I thought this was a matter of withdrawal but as the days went on, that did not seem to be the case. I already was looking to address this potential problem with 900 mg of St. John's Wort each morning, which definitely did help, although I did notice that the second half of the day was more difficult.
I don't want to take more of that though, I tried spreading the Wort out over several doses but that didn't help, so I've now added 400 mg of SAMe, 2 grams of L-tyrosine, and 3.2 grams of ginseng complex, in addition to everything else I take. All of these supplements are known to have anti-depressant properties and together this has really helped me fill the gap. In fact I now believe that I have the tools to finally beat smoking after 34 years of complete failure.
So I'm passing this on just to let people know what kind of regimen that I am on and what is working for me, in case other people who are having trouble making the switch want to give this a try. I do not want to look to tobacco for anything and want to feel better than I did when I smoked, and never want to smoke again. I am happy to say that I am achieving that, and after 11 days away from smoking, am almost there.
So if you are looking to quit or are in the process of quitting, and you are thinking of lighting up again, but don't really want to, there are definitely some other things to try.
People have various experiences in switching, and my guess is that this really depends on what people are getting out of smoking tobacco. So you hear of people just ordering a kit and some juice and just throwing away the cigarettes the moment they started vaping. Other people struggle for a while and then may learn that they just need to up the nic and once they do that they are all set.
Other vapers struggle a lot more with kicking the habit, and some end up both vaping and smoking for a long time. Others manage to kick the habit but may feel something is missing, and may turn to things like snus, WTA, or even go back smoking full time.
It's fairly well known that tobacco in itself provides antidepressant relief, and I've speculated that nutritional supplements may help people over this so they don't have to turn to forms of tobacco to get what they are missing.
So now that I've quit smoking, I definitely experienced this first hand, and I'm one of the people who had a great deal of trouble both quitting and trying to become satisfied with vaping alone. However I've been trying so long to quit that this time I just made up my mind to seek alternatives to smoking to feel good.
I do think that while there is something more relaxing with smoking that you don't really get with vaping, even at the highest nic doses, it probably has to do with the anti depressant effects of tobacco. Now depression is a relative term, and you definitely do not have to have anything like clinical depression to get the benefits here. The benefits may be just a matter of feeling a little blah versus being in a better mood.
So that's a good way to describe how it was like when I first started vaping exclusively. I thought this was a matter of withdrawal but as the days went on, that did not seem to be the case. I already was looking to address this potential problem with 900 mg of St. John's Wort each morning, which definitely did help, although I did notice that the second half of the day was more difficult.
I don't want to take more of that though, I tried spreading the Wort out over several doses but that didn't help, so I've now added 400 mg of SAMe, 2 grams of L-tyrosine, and 3.2 grams of ginseng complex, in addition to everything else I take. All of these supplements are known to have anti-depressant properties and together this has really helped me fill the gap. In fact I now believe that I have the tools to finally beat smoking after 34 years of complete failure.
So I'm passing this on just to let people know what kind of regimen that I am on and what is working for me, in case other people who are having trouble making the switch want to give this a try. I do not want to look to tobacco for anything and want to feel better than I did when I smoked, and never want to smoke again. I am happy to say that I am achieving that, and after 11 days away from smoking, am almost there.
So if you are looking to quit or are in the process of quitting, and you are thinking of lighting up again, but don't really want to, there are definitely some other things to try.
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