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Nicotine delivered through e-cigarettes is not even remotely as addictive as classical cigarettes. I also know 3 people that stopped using cigarettes using vape
by emsy 8y ago
Nicotine delivered through e-cigarettes is not even remotely as addictive as classical cigarettes. I also know 3 people that stopped using cigarettes using vapes, 2 of which stopped altogether.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoIt's the same nicotine, and a nearly identical delivery method, and it's just as addictive - if not more so in some cases. The reason I believe it can more addictive is because of the constancy of vaping for some: with cigarettes, you 'have a break' and go out now and again. With vaping it can be 'all the time'. The higher frequency makes for ready addiction. Using people who are 'trying to quit smoking and using vaping as a mechanism' is a poor measure of determining the addictivity of vaping because people are already trying to quit. Personally, I quit 'light smoking' with vaping rather easily. But then I took up vaping for about a year, and quitting was brutally hard. I was not even a heavy vaper. It consumed my entire body. Quitting smoking I would get 'pangs' or 'acute' points where I wanted to have a cigarette - if I could get past that, it would be fine. With vaping ... it was like a constant pain. I think this was related to the nature of usage. And I was using a log mg vape, I could have easily moved up. Vaping is a really, really bad idea. Though the nicotine addiction is not nearly so hazardous alone, it's far worse or addicting than say, a coffee addiction - particularly for young people this is a bad idea.
- daef 8y agoI've quit smoking involuntarily thanks to vaping: A friend told me to try vaping since he thought I might enjoy the 'manual part' (wrapping coils, mixing liquids). After 2 weeks of vaping I wanted to smoke a cig again. It tasted so awful that I instantly stopped smoking cigarettes and continued vaping (I still never intended to stop consuming nicotine, but the positive effects of not smoking were showing pretty immediately) My coils drifted into the subohm range pretty fast, mechmods and 100W+ boxes was what I needed to produce cubic meters of vape. But upping the volume of vaped liquid allowed me to reduce the relative nicotine contents (improving the taste of the liquid further) up to the point where I started asking myself whom for I'm consuming nicotine. Stopping to vape was pretty easy at that point. Never looked back.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoFully concur with both comments - for those who actively want to quit smoking, vaping can really help. It just opens the pandora's box to youth vaping. And also full-on vaping addiction as well. If I was king I would ban advertising for vaping other than as smoking cessation. In Quebec where I live , you can't even have vaping products in the window. All of the signage and rules are strictly limited, much like the limited packaging on cigarettes. It's amazing to see that if you separate brand and advertising from a product, how hard it is for companies to be successful. Tells you a lot about human behaviour!
- skybrian 8y agoI agree that it's not a good habit to start, but my wife quit smoking by switching to a vape and gradually reducing the nicotine to zero (over years). So all I can say is mileage varies on that.
- onemoresoop 8y agoIt's great if you want to quit and it helped me too. But it's not great if you just start, it's not great if you are a teenager who will dismiss parents or older people's advice to not get into it, just because it's cool and they know what they're doing.
- UncleMeat 8y agoAnecdotes are fun, but we observe higher degrees of nicotine use among young people now than we did before vaping exploded.