Long Term Vaping Intentions

Mindful

Hi all,

I'm just wondering what your individual intentions are for vaping. It seems to me that vape-ers are divided into those that are using it as a means to an end (quitting nicotine addiction) and those that are just happy to be non smokers now and have little or no intention of quitting the vape.

Personally it's a means to an end. Although vape is infinitely better than smoking in every way that counts, I do intend to break free from nicotine altogether.

How about you?

Stefan_Cork

Good question,

short term - i like it too much!
long term - as per definition, it is far away and eventually, maybe but surely will be very little to almost no vape, maybe

bye

Darkginger

Eventually, I'd like to cut down to 0 nic juices - I just don't like the idea of being addicted to something, if I can manage to not be addicted without horrible withdrawals. I really enjoy the flavours of e-juice though, so would continue to vape even without the nicotine content, purely for the tastes (am on one of those diets where you don't get to eat cake etc. so being able to vape nice sweet flavours is like having aforementioned cake and eating it!). So, yeah, my eventual goal is to vape without the nic content. Not in any hurry though (unless that pesky EU legislate!).

redkid

Currently I'm in no hurry to stop vaping and am enjoying it, if the nic is an issue for some the they can still vape no nic juices, all the bad issues of smoking are gone and as for the being addicted to the nic well everybody is addicted to many things including some substances too, on it's own (ie without the smoke) it's fairly harmless so il be vaping on.

grindle

No quitting intentions here, no reason to. Don't feel a slave to nicotine the way I did with cigs. My battery died today just before getting into the car for a long journey home and I thought "Oh, fiddlesticks." but wasn't really affected by the four hour wait - very different story with cigs.
Would've gone through the ashtray to make up a cig from the butts, which is fairly desperate. And I would have felt a shameful pride at my resourcefulness.

artyeva

no intentions to quit here. they can't ban metal tubes, batteries, VG and flavouring can they? and i'm sure if/when the EU apocalypse does happen there'll be nic available somewhere, somehow.

Anyone

I've been vaping about 9 months now. In that time I've cut my nicotine from 18mg-20mg down to 12mg. I plan to cut that level again soon, and eventually go 0mg.

With the news of incoming regulation, I will in my bollox give money to pharma and tobacco companies to provide a product at a massively inflated price.

tommy2bad

Never intended to quit smoking, it just happened, so no intention to quit vaping either.
Having said that, I vape differently to smoking, I used to smoke a cig about every half hour (yep heavy smoker) now I vape all the time exept when I'm not vaping. I can go for about 4 hours with out any urge to vape if I'm busy but as soon as I stop I'll vape away.
The days of working whit a cig hanging from my lip are gone.

Mindful

Thanks for the replies so far. It's interesting to see different takes on it.

I'm not aware of the incoming regulation myself, but I'll do a search now and see what I can find out. Is it too late to oppose it?

As for working with a cig hanging out the mouth..yup that was me too (in my old line of work). It's not possible to do that with vape and just as well I reckon

banger01

Off topic a bit ..Any one know if ESI can still supply wingnuts juices in what ever nicotine content you want as they did when they made it inhouse??

Engine No.9

For me personally I got into vsping purely as an exit strategy from cigarette smoking. I just wanted to stop the influx of carcinogens into my body. I stopped getting nicotine cravings a while ago so it was purely the habit of smoking which I was addicted to. I started on 18mg nic juices 2 months ago and in the last week I've started on 11mg. I've enough here to get me through the month of July so hopefully will be ordering either 5mg/8mg juices with my next batch and the next one after that will be 0mg. So to answer your question, I've no intention of quitting vaping, ever.

redkid

banger01 wrote: »

Off topic a bit ..Any one know if ESI can still supply wingnuts juices in what ever nicotine content you want as they did when they made it inhouse??

Probably wont be as flexible I'd say but as far as I know you can still order no nic from them if you want.

the_syco

I like smoking. Vaping allows me to vape as much as I want, without it effecting my health as much, and not effecting my gym workout.

I find that I can go longer without vaping than I did without smoking without feeling the craving, though.

dubtom

Although I enjoy vaping,it's not something I intend to do for ever. I want to cut out the nicotine,I had intended to reduce to 12 mg on my last order of liquid but chickened out for fear of not getting the hit I obviously need,that's despite the fact that I strangely dislike the smell of tobacco now and am convinced I'll never smoke again. I had expected to try out everything at one stage but I settled fairly quickly on T2's and then mega carto's with ry4 so it hasn't turned in to the hobby I thought it would. Judging by the mini panic I've just had when my battery ran out,a fresh one means walking downstairs,I've still a way to go before quitting vaping I think.:)

BeansBeans

grindle wrote: »

No quitting intentions here, no reason to. Don't feel a slave to nicotine the way I did with cigs. My battery died today just before getting into the car for a long journey home and I thought "Oh, fiddlesticks." but wasn't really affected by the four hour wait - very different story with cigs.
Would've gone through the ashtray to make up a cig from the butts, which is fairly desperate. And I would have felt a shameful pride at my resourcefulness.

Its funny I have had the same experience myself, when I smoked an hour or 90 minutes without a smoke and i would be seriously agitated, going to similar lengths to yourself.
Since I have started vaping, I am fine going for a few hours without nicotine, I'm not delighted but i wouldnt be snappy and fidgety and generally a grumpy pain in the arse like going without fags. Would be interesting to know why there seems to be a lower level of dependence.

eeloe

I'm never quitting, I was a 60 a day smoker, I LOVED every one of them each day.

Then I found this place, and it all went pear shaped, I've got friends all over the world through this hobby, and it's fantastic! :-) never giving it up, and instead of smelling like ****, I've got an aroma of vanilla custard around me! :-)

grindle

BeansBeans wrote: »

Would be interesting to know why there seems to be a lower level of dependence.

Go here
and do a Ctrl+F for
5.3 What does the evidence say about specific additives influence on nicotine addiction?

Tons of maybes and possiblys but some at least are likelys due to the fact that they were (presumably) put there for a reason, we've felt the effects of weaning off them and now the non-effects of being without them.

FASCINATING!!! yeah... I kn...yea...yeahikno....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Mindful

grindle wrote: »

Go here
and do a Ctrl+F for
5.3 What does the evidence say about specific additives influence on nicotine addiction?

Tons of maybes and possiblys but some at least are likelys due to the fact that they were (presumably) put there for a reason, we've felt the effects of weaning off them and now the non-effects of being without them.

FASCINATING!!! yeah... I kn...yea...yeahikno....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Interesting. I would have never considered that but it makes a lot of sense esp when taking into account the massive failure rate of NRT