Oh goodness no. I've only been cigarette free for 2 1/2 weeks which, barring the times I tried Chantix (evil, evil drug btw) is the longest I've been able to quit and never as easily as with a PV. I haven't stopped using my PV since I started using it (nor would I, as a stay at home dad it would be bad for the kiddies
).
Addiction is a very individual thing. I've known people who experimented with various opiates for years and then just stopped. I've also known people people who became hopelessly addicted after just trying them once. When it comes to neurobiology, it is nigh impossible to determine how specific drugs will affect individuals. That's why the side effect lists are so expansive on many of the "medicines" we ingest (well, that and the fact that BP is trying to protect their collective asses from lawsuits).
I've seen some of the studies regarding Nicotine+MAOI's vs Nicotine by itself and they're kind of scary. Cigarettes are almost the perfect drug (other than the whole "dying" thing) and the data seems to make
sense when speaking generally. I'm not disagreeing based on the science though, I'm disagreeing based on personal experience. "Science" (as well as my doctor) told me Chantix was a good idea when it first came out. It wasn't. I'll take my chances on experience from now on.
OK. Much better information. You just missed how high or low you are
vaping at.
However, at 2.5 weeks, you are DEFINITELY still addicted to tobacco. You will not know how addicted to just the nicotine until after all the other poisons have left your body.
I was highly addicted to tobacco. Inhaled to my lungs on a pipe for 30 years and could not stop even when I started getting the COPD symptoms.
Then came vapin! For me, I lost all interest in smoking within a day. I attributed lingering withdrawals on tobacco and just kept on chain-vaping. That is what worked for me. After just a month... No withdrawals and no desire to smoke again.
Other people take up to 6 months. Still others still have to have one or two cigs a day after two years. That will vary.
Meanwhile, just say that smoking is highly addictive, since that is what falls in line with the studies done so far and say that "your milage will vary"
You will get lots of help and encouragement here on the forums, so you have found the right place.
If you want to discuss further, create a thread with your time vaping, time smoked, and any symptoms and you will be surprised at the help and advice.
Back on topic, the OP started a thread about KIDS vaping, but was actually talking about a 20 yo....
I do not go around advising ANYONE to smoke or vape. But if a non-smoker of legal (voting) age decides to vape instead of smoke, I have and will say " much better choice!"
But I have done much research on the effects of nicotine in and out of tobacco products. So as long as you don't have an existing high blood-pressure condition, the "dangers" of vaping are anywhere from 90 to 99% lessened depending on which study you look at starting from as early as the mid 90s to the current date.
