Bad for you?
Any anons able to share story about how they stopped? I’m on day two. It’s already easier but the cravings are strong. The physical symptoms have all dropped by like 90% since yesterday. So far into my morning anyways, it may end up getting bad or worse later.
So far, my HR is a lot lower. Even with caffeine it’s in the 70s, where before sucking an entire disposable vape each day it was 90-100+ at all times.
What other health benefits will I get?
Stopped multiple times this time hopefully the last, i just drink alot of coffee and use nicotine gum to quit, you also get hungry so eat be careful of gaining weight though, no withdrawals felt whatsoever this way.
The benefits are: cleaner breathing, pain in my chest is gone, food tastes better, and just feeling healthy in general.
I’ve tried the gum in the past but it never helped. I have a case of zyn on my desk but I’m not using it. Just cold Turkey. Caffeine, normal chewing gum (mint so it opens my lungs similar to the vape), and I’m eating whatever I want until after tomorrow.
The issue I have is the cravings now. I REALLY frickin’ want that nicotine feel. And it’s not something I wanna give up forever but I only want to enjoy it on occasions. Like a cigar on my birthday.
Agreed, it’s one of my reasons for quitting. It feels trashy, and I cringe at other people who use them.
>The issue I have is the cravings now. I REALLY frickin’ want that nicotine feel. And it’s not something I wanna give up forever but I only want to enjoy it on occasions. Like a cigar on my birthday.
I quit vaping cold turkey 5 years ago. The time between cravings will increase and after 6 months to a year you will just miss it every now and then. In my opinion giving in to any impulse puts you in grave danger of regression. It starts with one on your birthday, then one when you get a promotion, then you're sucking on one every night to unwind. Just never ever vape again. It's that simple.
There's no point in quiting could turkey, i used the gum for like three days so there's no withdrawals when quiting, if you want nicotine just switch to zyn.
whenever I finish a vape, I usually get zyns (lowest strength so 3mg) to ween myself off nicotine, and then when I'm done with that pack, I'm good to stay off nic for a while until I inevitably meet up with a friend for drinks or something and hit his vape while drunk and the cycle starts over again
the hard part about it is that while cigarettes absolutely do frick up your aerobic capacity and make anything athletic much harder, vaping causes way less immediate damage and using gum or pouches barely affects you at all. I just ran a sub 20 5k yesterday after hitting a gay ass Elf Bar all week and I just threw it out a few hours before the race.
I hate these things. Not only they look terrible and are unclassy as hell, smoking chinese god knows what soaked in some plastic foam is probably worse for you than cigarettes. Inhaling lead, nickel and chromium with strawberry taste. What the actual frick. I know several people who developed rhinitis, sinusitis, anosmia and other complications from these.
Hate seeing kids and women with em.
>unclassy as hell
This is what gets me. Nobody looks cool or good smoking one of these things.
remember like 10 years ago when they were just becoming a thing, I remember mates and I making fun of people who vaped since it was such a homosexual hipster thing to do, now half those blokes are constantly chuffing one of these.
Smoke until you throw up. Take the biggest rip you can and then immediately take another one. Repeat over and over. Do it as fast as you can until you puke.
Yeah that’s why I have to quit and why it’s been so hard that’s been my normal way of using them and it doesn’t even make me sick. I pull blinker after blinker and go through a 2000+ puff HQD brand disposable each day.
It’s like the equivalent to 4 packs a day.
That's a lot. How long have you been using them? Do you remember vapes back when "vape nation" was topical and what were your thoughts then?
I’ve been using since end of 2019. Been using like this for the last 1.5 years.
I’ve failed so many times and it’s been crushing my ego feeling so weak willed because of how strong willed I used to be. That’s one of my incentives to suck it up, to feel that I have some control over my own willpower again. Even though this is just day 2, this is the longest I’ve ever gone since I started this shit. I feel each hour is too much investment for me to frick up and start again
Try to keep busy doing something else. Of course it is hard. Just don’t erase all your progress.
This is probably naive of me since I've never been addicted to any substances, but why don't you just throw out any vapes you have, and then just not buy any new ones? I would have thought the whole process of having to go to a store (or dealer since they're now illegal here in Aus) and actually buy the vape would give you more than enough time to just not.
>why don't you just throw out any vapes you have, and then just not buy any new ones?
You'd be surprised how easy it is to justify going out to buy another. I tried throwing them all away once. When I finally quit for good I didn't toss anything until I was a week or two in. But imo it's not about the barrier between you and your addiction since addicts will go through any lengths to get a fix.
Yeah I tried that. The corner store is 2 minutes from my house which doesn’t help. But even though I hate leaving my house and driving any distance it wasn’t a huge deal when I was fiending. Sometimes I’d cave, but a new one, toss it out 5 hours later to try again, then 5 more hours later be back at the corner store buying another. This attempt I just let my last one run out, spent 2 days consciously hitting it less than I normally would.
I won’t lie, I’m jonesing hard right now. I WANT it so bad. But I can power through cravings. It was the antsy/irritability/anxiety/weird physical feels that we’re making me cave before.
you can do it bro, stay strong
>I’ve failed so many times and it’s been crushing my ego feeling so weak willed
It doesn't take some inhuman feat of willpower. That's the trick nicotine plays on your mind. You just need to recognize that the discomfort you're experiencing is really not a big deal. It'll never get so bad you NEED to puff.
Every hour you go without regressing is another hour where you proved to yourself you really don't need it, you really are capable of commanding your own will and guiding your actions in a manner which serves your best interests. The cravings only feel like they die down slowly over days but in reality its every minute that passes, you are one minute closer to getting rid of the cravings (almost) entirely. They will become less frequent and much less potent until it becomes something of a nostalgic wonder which you scoff at like a smug nonsmoker absolutely should.
>Any anons able to share story about how they stopped?
Just stop. I vaped for years and just stopped cold turkey. It's not hard...
Yeah OP grow up. I used to use them a lot, taking 2-3 hits sometimes 4 hits nearly every single day of 3% and I was able to quit no problem. Everyone’s experience and brain chemistry is the same as mine, just the same that a penis cannot be larger than 4.5 inches like mine.
Who the frick just takes 3 or 4 hits a day?
I know dude my addiction was so out of control. And if it was easy for me to stop then OP shouldn’t be complaining.
Stop lying homosexual you never even used it, people who are addicted take atleast 100 puffs a day.
You’re not that intelligent are you?
That’s how I’ve been until finally starting this attempt. It would just be “after this one runs out I stop” and sure enough I was buying an entire disposable at the end of each day/first thing in the morning out of bed.
Damn im dumb i just realized you were joking
Yes these are terrible. If you want Nicotine just use Snus or Nicotine Pouches
Yo what???? Where pouch
The only mental trick is just not doing it. Addicts shit their fricking pants at this answer but… it is the answer.
It gets easier the longer you last. Keep a tally of every day sober.
Willpowerlets can’t do it. That is why these fricking products are so successful in the first place. They are chemically designed to keep weak willed people attached for life. Duh.
Used to vape all the time. Cut that back to only when I'm driving to work which is like 15 minutes away. Planning on quitting after I run out of this juice. Tired of smoking the damn thing and want to improve my lung/throat health.
It was also easier to cut way back because the girl im with hates smoking with a burning passion so I just didn't do it in front of her.
Every single person I know that smokes cigarettes or vapes has been “planning on quitting” for the last several years. Some even decades. Damn it must be a complicated plan.
Nicotine constricts your blood vessels, which is never a good thing
There's no easy way about it. The only thing you can do is throw every vape you've got away and don't buy any more. You'll feel like SHIIIIIIIIT for a bit but it'll get better eventually. You'll feel a lot more in control in a week or month from now than you do now. Just be patient and distract yourself if you've got to. Go to the gym, watch something.
Damn good on you. Can't even imagine how fricked I'd be if I ever smoked a ciggy, quitting weed was pretty fricking hard. I'd probably never be able to do it if I'd gotten addicted to nicotine. Keep it up bro
Anon, like most things in life, if you want to do something, do it and commit to that shit. Best advice I can give you is that it will be over, and you WILL feel like shit. Mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't fricking matter.
That said, I like the feeling of nicotine, so I still vape. I'm twenty so I can reasonably get away with it as long as my cardio is good enough.
Listen up you little shits. I kept one of these under my lip 24/7 for 13 years. Slept with one in, put a new one in the moment I woke up. Zonked on nicotine all day every day.
I managed to quit. It sucks REALLY bad for a week, and is pretty difficult mentally to break the habit for the next month but then it just gets better and easier with every day.
after a month or so try eating different fruits
but, like, sit down, and enjoy a fruit while doing nothing else
it will feel amazing
ciggies butcher your buds
Yeah, you just stop and don't buy another.
Cold turkey is the only way. Coping mechanisms are for the non committed.
You want to stop, so stop.
I did. It was easy.
yeah they are bad for you. nicotine isnt but the chinks but god knows what industrial waste in this. enjoy the atrazine and red 40 killing your T.
swedish snus is still the only healthy way to consume nicotine.
>nicotine isnt bad for you
It's a vasoconstrictor. The opposite of a vasodilator. Vasodilators are banned for use in competitive athletics because they significantly improve athletic performance. Hmmm... I wonder what effect vasoconstrictors have on athletic performance?
nicotine gum works bros, dont listen to the haters. switch to gum and wean yourself off gradually. its ok to fail just start again.
Op here it depends on you I think. It didn’t work for me. Did nothing to aid in cravings or withdrawal symptoms.
Cold Turkey and I’m fine after 30 hours later. Now sips & mint gum are getting me through it no problem
Why anyone gets these disgusting chinkshit disposables is beyond me. Every time I rip a friend's dispo I nearly gag. Get a simple pod style refillable vape. Then you can change the coil when it gets nasty, decide what juice you're putting in your body. Buy a 30ml bottle of salt nic juice from a reputable brand and check the ingredients. Vape juice only needs to have propylene glycol(FDA approved food additive), Vegetable Glycerine(in fog machines, completely harmless on its own), food grade flavoring and nicotine. Lord knows what's in dispos. I've been vaping for 7+ years and if you make sure to always keep a clean pod/coil and use quality juice I honestly believe the health risks are negligible(minus the aspect of consuming nicotine which comes with its own pros and cons).
Pros
>Healthier
>Tastes better and wider variety of flavors
>More satisfying hits
>Cheaper
>Your favorite brand won't be made illegal by the government
>Looks less homosexual
pic rel
Fricking horrible, worst decision I made when it came to nicotine was switching from smoking cigs to chinese mystery juice. Lucky for you the most uncomfortable part is almost over, the first 1-2 days are the worst. When I quit nicotine I just coped with weed for 2 days straight (dudeweedlmao) and slept it off, been sober since. Stay strong, it's 100% worth it when you stay the long run and realize you don't have your brain reaching for its binky every hour or two. Your lungs and nose are gonna clear up, heartrate will recover quick, and you'll stop damaging your heart and arteries too. Cardio gets easier pretty quick and the longer you stay off it the more your body heals and cleanses itself.
34 hours in…
OP here yeah I didn’t wanna do this but delta 8 (weed lite) was clutch last night while going to sleep. Hopefully that’s only yesterday and today I won’t even need that to sleep. Quit weed earlier this year. So far today normal gum + sips are getting me through. I’m mostly chill, it’s just a strong desire to hit a vape get that rush, that head pressure relieving, lung & airway opening, calming rush.
Losing my shit still at any loud consistent noises though. Father has Covid and every time he coughs I’m jumping out of my fricking skin. Hopefully tmrw is better.
It’s a good way of looking at it. This is by far my longest attempt, I can’t frick this up. I’ve invested and struggled too much already. I’m not going through yesterday again, pacing my house nonstop with my fists clenched jumping at any noise I hear, just clenching my jaw ready to scream.
Nicotine free for over 3 years now
Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor, that's the single biggest health benefit you will get from not using it. Your blood vessels will actually be able to return to normalized flow reducing stress on your heart, making recovery easier, tired less easily etc
Think of it this way: if you quit using nicotine, you will go from a vasoconstricted state to a normal one. That's going to give you near immediate cardio gains similar to if not more than a professional athlete blasting vasodilators. Literally not just free cardio gains, but cardio gains that pays you money. A dollar saved not consuming industrial solvents is a dollar earned.
Well my resting HR is already dropped way down. Even increasing my caffeine intake and being a massive ball of tension, it’s dropped to the 70s. Previously, while sucking down and entire Chinese bathtub chemical inhaler per day, my resting was 90-100+ on average, if I was lucky high 80s. It hit me, no wonder I’ve been so quick to tire and get so out of breath from once super simple basic tasks like cleaning my room or laundry. Like shit I did two sets of squats X10 just light weight warm up and had to stop because I was dizzy.
I am quitting right now... but I was a former smoker who someone could accurately describe as 'super fricking addicted'
I went from salts, to 16 mg, to 12, to 6, to 3... then a couple weeks ago totally quit and started to use 2 mg lozanges from Costco
these bad boys