Considering to buy one for a family member.
I quit smoking cigarettes after moving to vape but vape isn’t better for you so, it’s just reading one for another.
It is absolutely better for you. Whomever told you that it isn’t, is probably reading tobacco company propaganda.
You can try but some people are allergic to the liquids used. And the person vaping has to slowly decrease the nicotine amount over time, a lot of people start increasing it instead and end up with more unhealthy nicotine levels than regular cigs. Also vaping is not good for the lungs either.
Yes! I smoked for over 20 years. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to quit. I started vaping with the goal of quitting, and eventually quit! Then I quit vaping too, about six months later. It’s an excellent cessation method, with almost a 70% success rate. The next closest cessation method has a success rate of 3% and is owned by the tobacco companies.
Get a device that hits like a cigarette. This means mouth to lung, and not a big DTL cloud machine. It also ideally means a round mouthpiece. Make sure it’s good enough to give throat hit, but not so good that it produces massive clouds. Ideally you want a device that is not sub-ohm. Start with 18mg tobacco flavored juice. Then just vape. Sometimes you’ll smoke cigarettes, and sometimes you’ll vape. Don’t beat yourself up when you smoke, but try to vape more than you smoke. Before you know it, you’ll be reaching for the vape more than the cigarettes, until you don’t reach for cigarettes at all. Then you’re free!
Once you’re free, wait a month and then cut the juice down to 12mg, then 6, then 3, then a mix of 0 and 3, then 0! After a couple weeks of 0 you’ll just naturally quit, no discipline required.
Share this information with the person you know, and tell them that if I could do it, anyone can do it!
Edit: for such a device I recommend the Geekvape B coil series, in higher ohm ranges.
Yes, it just took me about 5 years of on and off vaping 😅. Vaping is a much better addiction to have than smoking though.
To stop smoking I will smoke something else. A better logic would be, I’ll use something that can have a reduced nicotine content.
That’s what’s so great about vapes, you can precisely chose the nicotine content. You might go up a bit in nicotine when you switch from smoking to vaping to ease the transition. But after that you can easily tweak the nicotine content to lower it bit by bit until you reach 0.
I quit some 20 years ago without using vape (did it exist back then? Not sure) or any medication. That day, after careful consideration I made up my mind and never looked back.
And not just because of my health (it was a very important factor) but also because I had realized how much money I was throwing away. Thousands each year.
I quit smoking using a vape and then quit vaping.
I found that it was easier to quit smoking using a vape because I kept the same motion. I needed a powerful one to feel a similar hit.
And I found it easier to stop vaping than to stop smoking because I could mix liquids to have any desired nicotine content, allowing me to reduce it very gradually. A lot of people simply replace smoking with vaping but that’s still an improvement.
11 years without a cigarette, still vape though.
Yes.
Wife and I switched to vaping, then that eventually dropped off to nothing.
I quit not only because of vaping and tobacco-less nicotine pouches, but because I wanted it. If you are buying it for a family member, you can’t make them quit… Hopefully they are wanting to, because you can’t make that decision for them. Just like any other addict.
I agree with this sentiment. I vaped for years and years because I didn’t actually want to stop.
But once I did make the decision the vape made it considerably easier.
That’s what irritates me about people like OP’s argument. I vaped to get off cigarettes but I don’t necessarily want to quit nicotine. They conflate all the terrible aspects of smoking with vaping and then point to people not quitting vaping as “proof” that it doesn’t work. Not everyone who picks up vaping is trying to quit nicotine.
Yep. I moved from smoking to vaping. It became a bit of a hobby but I quit that too after a few years just by lowering the nicotine bit by bit and ended up just not using it when the habit was no longer fuelled by addiction.
I’m not a smoker/vaper so my opinion doesn’t really matter here. But from a sober perspective, I believe that switching to vaping CAN be good, as long as you’re willing to follow the rules diligently.
The biggest problem I can see going down would be that vaping can be more addictive because you can put more nicotine in it. So if you plan on getting one for a family member, make sure they are actually willing to quit. Because there is a possibility that you can make the addiction worse if they have the opportunity to put even more nicotine in their system.
Once again, this is from an outside perspective, if I’m in the wrong vapers, please let me know.
This is a little more complicated because vaping doesn’t get nicotine into your blood as effectively as smoking. So even if the liquid seems like it’s stronger than a cigarette would be, it’s likely not actually getting them more nicotine. If anything too little nicotine is an issue because this could make it harder to switch.
Smokers (and vapers) also self titrate, meaning they adjust their smoking/vaping habits to get the amount of nicotine they want. So if you had a genuinely stronger vape, they would stop after fewer puffs. Nausea comes pretty quick after too much nicotine too so it’s not pleasant to take too much.
I learned something today. Thank you for making me less ignorant.
Vaping is about as effective as a quitting aid as other nicotine replacement methods but with an as yet undefined long term risk profile.
Buy them some gum or patches instead.
It has the benefit of putting something in your mouth, and preserving the smoking ritual. Which is as important for many smokers as nicotine.
It’s not without reason that it became so popular in the few years since it went mainstream.Just offer them a dick to suck on along with the nicotine gum/patches /s
(For real though, sucking dick can be quite meditative)
Thanks I’ll make sure to try it
To be clear it has become popular as a substitute for (or adjunct to) smoking. As a quitting aid it isn’t especially effective, even if slightly more effective than NRT.
I must say in my practice I haven’t seen anyone quit using vapes, it just becomes a substitute.
Buy the gum and patches as additional options. The ritual of putting cig to mouth is incredibly strong, especially if there are social factors in play.
You can’t make someone quit your way, they have to quit their way.
I think the ritual was the hardest part for me
It seems to be more effective: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010216.pub8/full
Thankyou, I have been relying on an article I read several years ago, which in my memory was Cochrane also, I may be able to track it down. Turns out I’m out of date on that stat.
I stand by it having uncertain long term consequences when other forms of NRT are proven safe.
I stand by it having uncertain long term consequences when other forms of NRT are proven safe.
Still better than smoking.
I did. Been a decade since I had a cigarette.
Going cold turkey is supposedly not as delicious as it sounds, but it’s probably the best way.
There is no best way. What matters is what works and different methods work differently on different people. It’s good to have a multitude of ways.
As for efficiency it seems that vaping is very efficient.
Maybe not the best way to quit, but the most likely way to stay quit.
