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3. Have you been able to stop vaping?
Thu Nov 28, 2024, 10:38 AM
Nov 28

If so, that's great. For me, it was more difficult to stop vaping than it was to stop smoking.
I used vaping to break the cigarette habit, incrementally reducing the tobacco flavor and the nicotine levels. After many months I was down to the non-tobacco flavors like the ones being debated here and with zero nicotine levels. I soon realized that vaping had become my new habit and decided to stop vaping. The habit, whether it was the smoking of cigarette or inhaling a vape, had been reinforced millions and millions of times; each time bringing one to my lips went from being a decision to an act of feeding the habit. Think about it. Let's say someone takes 20 draws on a cigarette, 20 cigarettes per pack, one pack a day for a year. That's 20x20x365. That's 146,000 times in one year, smoking for 10 years means the decision to smoke has been made a million and a half times - and that's a low-ball figure. A cigarette smoker takes way more than 20 draws on each one.
In summary, to quit either cigarettes or vaping requires breaking a habit mindlessly repeated millions of times, and the producers of these products know full well that the users become victims unable to break the habit.
So, again, if you were able to quit, I congratulate you.

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