After 20 years, I quit smoking. Vaping was the answer.

Cigarette = Vaping = Juul

It's all bad in the end, you've taken a good step but you are still on the wrong road.

I used vaping to quit smoking 4 years ago. Started at 16mg went down to 1mg. 1mg was too little, so I went back up to 3mg with sub ohm vaping. I even quit vaping until recently I took it back up again just for something to do since all my friends smoke.

The one thing I noticed though through my travels is sub ohm vaping (direct inhale) uses WAAAAY more juice than just puffing. Puffing is how I started, my fav being the nautilus.

With puffing a 30mL bottle would last a month or more.
With sub ohm it lasts me a week.

And to add, the effects of the nicotine with either method are the same, so if you are strapped for cash go the puff puff route. If you have cash to burn, there is nothing like blowing phat clouds out your sunroof.

when quitting I tried initially with vaping, unfortunately I then slipped back to smoking and *boom* found out the vaping had made my nicotine craving had grown exponentially and was smoking a lot more, shortly afterwards I just out right stopped and went cold turkey, no vaping, no patches etc and just tried sleeping as much as I could for about a month when I wasn't working on stuff to keep me distracted, for me the worst times while quitting was the idle times, so napping or taking on a bunch of extra work helped in that regard

unfortunately after 2 and a half years smoke/nicotine free I was on a night out and got drawn in by the little voice in my head to just have one while my mates were all outside smoking, its just one for old times sake, ....ok maybe 2.....well i might as well get my own box instead of bumming them of my mates.......*fck*

when I shake the habbit again I'm 100% never going to listen to the little voice who lingers saying "yeah your in the clear now, you can just do it socially" that slope is just too slippery

Don't listen to the nay sayers, this is a great accomplishment. Vaping has almost none of the negative side effects of cigarettes.

You probably just added 10 years to your life - 10 healthy years, unlike the smokers who will live out their last days struggling to breathe on oxygen tanks.

oh I'm certainly not trying to dismiss the benefits of switching to vaping over normal smoking, just mentioning that it turned out backfiring on me personally, obviously due to my own weakness by going back to smoking after vaping for a few months

if you can stick to it and not slide back to smoking (or at least be a little more aware of what levels of nicotine your consuming to not increase your existing levels of addiction if you feel like there's a chance you might regress back to smoking at some point)

Hello @morrison22

Are you still on vaping ?