u/Duggie1330

https://www.reddit.com/r/self/s/Osl8TdophQ

Made that post 3 weeks after quitting vaping.

It was the first week of april that I quit so right now its slightly over 6 months.

I haven't owned a vape since. Ive had nicotine though, maybe 3-5 times in the last 6 months. If a friend or coworker had cigarettes or a vape I would bum a hit or a cig.

This is exactly where I wanted to get back to. I love nicotine the rush is great especially in certain situations where you want to essentially get high for a moment but then go right back to work after.

But I don't want to carry a vape in my pocket, I don't want to consider waiting 2 hours for my next hit as a huge victory, i don't want to NEED it or be so addicted that most of the time the hits don't even do anything.

I didn't touch nicotine for like 2 months after I quit in april, so I had nicotine 3-5 times between June and September.

My last hit was over a month ago. Its no big deal. If i get an opportunity in the future, and I feel like having a drag, i will take it. If i go 6 months without having the opportunity, i don't care. If i have a couple drags a week for a month straight, i don't care.

Im finally free. Because freedom to me isnt freedom from nicotine, its freedom from addiction.

The problem is that moderation does not exist. You buy a vape and it has enough juice to keep you lifted for 2 weeks. Hitting a single vape from 100% until 0% is basically a 100% chance youre buying a second one. Same with cigarettes. You buy a pack of 24 and it takes you a week plus to smoke them, when that pack is gone you will already be chemically dependent on it.

That's literally my story 3.5 years ago when I got hooked. My friend got himself a vape, i was like oooh let me hit that, but we spent so much time together that I was hitting it basically every time he did.

But at the end of the day id go home without a vape and be fine. It was when I finally bought my own and started hitting it 24/7 that I was cooked. "I'll buy my own vape this one time" turned into a 3 year addiction.

Anyway I dont have any advice or anything this is just some shit that happened to me. I guess if anything, I will say this. It was easier than I expected to get to this point. It was like 2 weeks of struggling then- i haven't felt an urge since then and im in control. Just do it man

Quit April 7th so today is actually 3 weeks vape free.

I tried tapering with the vape. I tried buying identical vapes, one nicotine and one non to try to trick my brain. Nothing worked, ultimately I would just bounce back.

One day my vape hit 0%. And I kept hitting it, you know, just until I get another one. Usually get an extra couple days out of 0% vapes.

Well this time I could taste the coil almost immediately. And all I could think about was those ads about inhaling heavy metals and chemicals from dead vapes. I decided, just for today, no vape. Don't suck this thing all day. Throw it out now and get a new one when I get back home.

Well fuck me that was tough, committed to about 10 hours in the middle of nowhere with no nic. (Working in a remote location) Fortunately, I had a case of salt nic pouches I had purchased over a month ago and never opened.

I do not like pouches. But I was forced to use them that day to cover the cravings. Day one, I had 6... Day 2 was like 4, day 3 was like 3, I don't remember exactly but it was less than a week before I stopped using the pouches too. Bcuz I don't like them. And all they did was help kill a craving, barely any buzz.

I kept the pouches as a just in case but after a few days of not using them I threw them out as well.

I was a daily vaper for about 3 years, honestly, this has been easier than I thought it would be. The cravings are totally gone. Sometimes I do feel an inkling for a hit. But it doesn't feel like a desire for nicotine or a vape. It feels more like my brain sends a request for a non descript "status change," I politely decline, and we move on.

Anyway, today I'm officially 3 weeks free of vaping, and roughly 2 weeks totally free of nicotine. I always said I could quit at any time, I guess I wasn't lying