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Nicotine is absolutely addictive wtf are you talking about. I smoked cigarettes for 6 years and then used a vape to quit cigarettes, it took about 3 months to wean myself off cigarettes and get used to vaping full time. My original plan was to use a vape to get off nicotine completely by gradually lowering my nicotine from 24MG to 0MG of nicotine in my vape juice but that didn't work.
Now here I am 8 years later, vaping my 3MG juice daily and just as additiced to the vape as I was to cigarettes. I have literally the exact same habits with my vape as I did with cigarettes, as soon as I finish eating I pull out my vape, I wake up and have coffee, I pull out my vape, I have some drinks I have a vape. Nicotine is nicotine regardless of how you get it. I've literally tried to quit by going to 0MG juice or going cold turkey 6 times over those 8 years and I just can't do it. It's to fucking hard. I've given up on trying to quit because life sucks and I have no good reason to quit anymore, getting lung cancer is basically my retirement plan at this point. (no clue what the actual health effects are regarding vapes, I'm just being hyperbolic)
Don't get me wrong, vaping is definitely a MUCH better alternative than smoking cigarettes but don't try and downplay just how addictive nicotine is. Nobody should touch nicotine vapes unless you're using it to quit cigarettes.
I 100% agree that kids will get a hold of vapes or smokes regardless of whether it's legal or not to sell it to underagers, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing. Vaping is definitely preferable to smoking, but not getting addicted to nicotine is WAY better than either of those options.
Don't downplay how addictive nicotine is.
Former smoker here. Instead of trying to use zero nicotine juice. Take advantage of the fact that you can control how many drags you take per session. For me I hit a cig about 10 times. So when I vaped I was sure to only hit it 10 times. Then I lowered the hits from 10 to about 3 and from there I was able to cold turkey.
I don't think they're intentionally downplaying how addictive nicotine is, I think you're underestimating how addictive caffeine is. Caffeine is ridiculously addictive, it just doesn't seem that way because its use is normalized. Try skipping caffeine for a full week and see how that goes for you. In my experience, going without caffeine is way more painful than going without nicotine. Going without nicotine makes me kinda groggy and irritable. Going without caffeine gives me headaches, makes me achey and feel mildly ill, and I don't drink a lot of caffeine to begin with (I typically drink a single soda throughout the day, rarely coffee or energy drinks).
And there you go, you're not addicted to nicotine. You're addicted to your habit. It's why I can't stop biting my nails, they don't have any drugs in them at all, yet I've been doing it all my life and have tried to stop multiple times.
Habits easy to form and super hard to break.
Dude that guy said very clearly his method was to lower the nicotine dose in his vape to ween down to 0mg/nicotine free vape. He isn't trying to quit the habit, you didn't even read his post.
You might want to understand what a habit is. The nicotine isn't what kept him hooked, the habit of it is.
Why did you reply again without reading either post?
The post said they are trying to vape and gradually reduce their nicotine intake to 0. I don't know how it can be made any more clear in stating that their near term goal is not to stop vaping, but to reduce the nicotine dose in the vape to 0.
They are trying to reduce their nicotine dosage in their vape but due to their addiction, are having withdrawals and ultimately re-adding the dose. This is 100% due to nicotine, they are not trying to reduce how many times they inhale the vape.
Re-read what I said. I said physically addictive, not mentally.