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Mortlake
Republic Military School
#1 - 2015-10-11 14:39:51 UTC
I gave up a week ago after 20 years. I've been waiting for a stress free period in my life to take the plunge, so the week I lost both grandparents seemed ideal.

I want to stab unicorn babies but I feel pretty smug also as I haven't broken yet, however I do feel like I need something. I've tried the gum, it sucks, as do patches. Right now I'm eating a lot of cake.

Basically I'd like to know your experiences with vaping and, if at all, how dependent you've become on it. I'm asking as everyone I know who vapes seems to be just as hooked on it as they were on cigarettes.

If you've found a particularly effective alternative to vaping that doesn't involve consuming your own body weight in sugar each day, I'd also be interested in hearing about it.


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Azda Ja
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2015-10-11 17:57:30 UTC
Mortlake wrote:

I want to stab unicorn babies but I feel pretty smug also as I haven't broken yet, however I do feel like I need something. I've tried the gum, it sucks, as do patches. Right now I'm eating a lot of cake.

The unicorn genocide fantasies stop after a while. Personally I recommend not doing things like gum, patches or whatever, once you get over that period of feeling like you need something, you really are free. My previous attempts at quitting always featured some kind of replacement, and all the replacement would do was remind of how badly I wanted to smoke again.

I was smoking a pack or more a day for 6 years, so it might be more difficult if you've been smoking for 20, but this is what worked for me; I've managed to stay away from cigarettes for a year and a half, now I can be around other smokers and not even consider lighting one.

I wish you the best of luck. Maybe a replacement of some kind will help you more than me, but based on my experience with it, I'd say just go straight cold turkey and punch imaginary unicorn riding puppies (pillows) until you wake up one day, and go through it without thinking about tobacco even once before bed.

o7

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#3 - 2015-10-11 18:01:45 UTC
Hiho, vaping for about as long as I'm in devil's.
Definitely dependant but less of a hard dependency.
I can and have gone extended periods without it and it is substantially easier to do that with vape than cigarettes so if you have the motivation to drop it you probably can.

I'd say go for it just treat it like a cigarette I.e. don't use it inside and sparingly anywhere you do .

Bummer about the grand parents dude o7 to them.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#4 - 2015-10-11 21:38:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Been vaping for nigh on 2 years now after smoking for 20, apart from the occasional "herbal".

The good thing about vaping is that you can cut and control the nicotine levels if you wish by choosing a different strength e-liquid; I'm down to 3mg/ml nicotine from 12mg/ml 2 years ago and using the vapestick a lot less than I did at first.

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#5 - 2015-10-11 23:42:21 UTC
You know you will always be hooked on something. Brain functions this way. Replaces one addiction with another. Try something healthy, like sports, running, cycling, athletics, something what will make you feel pain and then relief.

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Mortlake
Republic Military School
#6 - 2015-10-12 08:25:47 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
something what will make you feel pain and then relief.


Like divorce?

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Mortlake
Republic Military School
#7 - 2015-10-12 08:26:53 UTC
Thanks all. Plumped for a really low strength juice. I'll give it a whirl.

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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#8 - 2015-10-12 14:16:52 UTC
Mortlake wrote:
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
something what will make you feel pain and then relief.


Like divorce?


Big smile I enjoyed this quip.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#9 - 2015-10-18 23:37:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
I have a couple of friends/family who switched from cigarette tar to vapor-only nicotine. Crap, I'd take the nicotine addiction over the cigarettes' smoke-borne tar, + nicotine addiction any day. I'll be switching to vaping myself. There's a hipster/techy/fine-tuning/elitist-better-informed-than-anybody aversionthat I have to overcome first. It brings to mind having to listen to vegetarians. Having to listen to long information about their most recent diet, the current states of their GI tracts, etc. I'd rather go to great-aunt's house and hear about her procedures. At least she's 90 years old, not 25. Roll

Anyway, if it stops the accumulation of asphalt in the lungs, arteries and capillaries, it can't be bad. No matter what the side effects.

Go man, don't stop! One month and you've pwned it. o7
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#10 - 2015-10-18 23:46:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
I have a couple of friends/family who switched from cigarette tar to vapor-only nicotine. Crap, I'd take the nicotine addiction over the cigarettes' smoke-borne tar, + nicotine addiction any day. I'll be switching to vaping myself. There's a hipster/techy/fine-tuning/elitist-better-informed-than-anybody aversionthat I have to overcome first. It brings to mind having to listen to vegetarians. Having to listen to long information about their most recent diet, the current states of their GI tracts, etc. I'd rather go to great-aunt's house and hear about her procedures. At least she's 90 years old, not 25. Roll

Anyway, if it stops the accumulation of asphalt in the lungs, arteries and capillaries, it can't be bad. No matter what the side effects.

Go man, don't stop! One month and you own it!. o7