LOL WUTThis generation is the worst - “Vaping ruined my life”

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[–]LtGreenCo 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As someone who has been addicted to nicotine on-and-off for 30+ years, I can safely say that yeah vaping is by no means a healthy habit but I wouldn't call it "life ruining" any more than cigarettes are. It's not like nicotine is crack or heroine. But some of these anti-vaping commercials you see on TV are showing kids in shambles and digging vapes out of toilets like they're meth heads or something.

Sorry but nicotine isn't a hard drug and anyone who thinks vaping ruined their life is either full of shit or really doesn't understand what real suffering is. If you think nicotine withdrawal is bad then I invite you to try benzo withdrawal for comparison.

[–]IMissPorn 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

As a vape user myself, I'd advise people against taking up the habit (but if you smoke now, by all means consider switching). It's pretty far from ruining my life though. Other than a modest expense (bad if you're right on the poverty line I guess?) and possibly contributing to my messy sleep schedule, I really can't think of any bad effects on my life. It is hard to quit though.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I used it to quit smoking and it helped a lot, but I found that I vaped way more than I smoked because it isn’t as effective at delivering nicotine as cigarettes.

After four and a half years, I definitely would never smoke cigarettes again and I have no desire to vape either, but if I found myself backsliding (tough times or some such) I’d go vape everytime.

I don’t know why anyone who didn’t already smoke would even try vaping.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've tried it just to see what it's about. I really don't get it. Like vaping to me just seems stupid. Why would I bother with a vape when I can just get a cigarette instead.

I've never gotten hooked onto tobacco though so I guess I don't really get why it's so hard to quit. I've mostly stuck to the occasional cigar though so that's pretty easy to go without.

Cigarettes I get how addictive they can be. I've been out drinking and chain-smoking late into the night and I'm like "damn a smoked a whole pack, I'm gonna feel like shit tomorrow"

But I've never had it where the next day I feel like smoking again.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There’s more to addiction than just the addictive compound (nicotine, in this case). You might be one of the lucky people who are far less susceptible to addiction and addictive behaviour, maybe you get less reward because you have fewer nicotine receptors or something so the drive just isn’t there.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A woman who became addicted to vaping at the age of 16 has warned of the struggles she has faced, claiming e-cigarettes have ruined her life. Belle Moore, now 19, from Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, said she felt she has "no control over it" and now needed to vape every couple of hours. "I start to get shaky and it's almost all I can think of," she said. She has revealed her story after public health bosses called on the government to do more to stop young people vaping. Belle said she started vaping through peer-pressure from some of her college friends, and used to hide it from her mother. She has since made two unsuccessful attempts to stop vaping but says she has now also become addicted to cigarettes. "It honestly feels like I have no control over it," she told BBC North West Tonight.

Who would have thought quitting nicotine was hard?

I’m an ex-smoker who successfully quit using vaping after smoking for twenty years and at the end of the day the only way to do it is to decide you want to quit and get on with it. The worst of the withdrawal effects last about a week and it’s not pleasant but once you make it through that it gets easier.

This stupid bint has not only failed to quit vaping, she apparently started smoking cigarettes for some fucking reason.

If I was a conspiracy theorist I would think that this is an attempt by the anti-vaping crowd (which includes the WHO) to justify more restrictions on vaping (despite the all the findings that vaping was a far more effective method of quitting tobacco than all the other nicotine replacement products).

[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, your lack of discipline ruined your life. And I'll wager some doting parents who never told you "no." I quit smoking 8/20/2007 and haven't had a cigarette or vape with nicotine since. Wanna know how? Spite. I imagined someone who did me wrong being really pissed that I was able to quit and they weren't and fed off that. Worked like a charm. Smoked for 20+ years before that.