Considering to buy one for a family member.

  • @[email protected]
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    57 months ago

    Yes, it just took me about 5 years of on and off vaping 😅. Vaping is a much better addiction to have than smoking though.

  • @[email protected]
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    17 months ago

    I quit smoking cigarettes after moving to vape but vape isn’t better for you so, it’s just reading one for another.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      37 months ago

      It is absolutely better for you. Whomever told you that it isn’t, is probably reading tobacco company propaganda.

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    87 months ago

    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.

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    47 months ago

    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.

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    17 months ago

    Vaping didn’t help me quit, lozenges and lining up my quitting date with some dental work that you’re not supposed to smoke with was what finally worked for me.

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    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.

  • 💭 ᴍɪɴʏᴀᴇɴ
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    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.

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      47 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

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    67 months ago

    Vaped for about 7 years after quitting smoking. Switched to 0 nicotine vape fluid and then finally got tired of vaping and just sort of stopped.

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    807 months ago

    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.

  • Berttheduck
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    Vaping is safer than cigarettes, it’s still bad and we don’t know how bad it is long term but it is safer than smoking. It’s better to just stop completely using a stop smoking service to get alternative nicotine products if that’s available. If the person doesn’t want to stop then you’re unlikely to be able to make them however a vape might be able to replace it with something better. Other products to look at are patches, gum, lozenges and inhalators which can be useful in quitting.

    In summary smoking and vaping are both bad but smoking is worse. Better off just quitting if possible, if not go for the vape.

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    Yeah, I switched to vaping for a few years, slowly tapered my nicotine, and quit. Been about 5 years since I smoked.