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I remember when I was addicted for a long long long while but eventually I had absolutely nothing to smoke and it force me to quit (it was a living nightmare for about few weeks) but after a while I was like nah I’m done so I stick to weed instead 😊
L3G1T is the only youtuber that is from America that i can relate from eastern europe addict teenager. Like the same place, but a bit better. Pot is very risky just because most of the parents are like military inspectors
i used to vape, i started when i was like in 8th grade or something and im now a senior in high school. thank god i quit last december, i honestly feel a lot better, i dont have to worry about how im gonna get my next nicotine, i dont have to spend money on it, and i dont have to worry about any health affects.
@@jameull I still smoke quite often from my friends. I can last a week, but when someone offers I take. Also pretty cool that you'd quit. Because here it's really stressing to have a vape especially with strict parents (Like mine). But I lost mine. Because in my school we smoke not in the bathrooms, but in a dark stairway that is -1 floor. The most stressing time, but it pays off [Sometimes].
"You've tried quitting, you can't do it, so you've just accepted the fact that you're addicted". This sentence is so relatable in so many different ways.
I once had a vivid dream where in i bought a pack of cigarettes and smoked some. When i wake up i was tottally PISSED at myself that i started smoking again. I was totally baffeled that there where no cigarettes , ashtray and lighters in the house. The dream was so reaI i even asked people if they could smell if i had smoked.! I am now 12 years clean of nicotine and can say you it will be way easier when the years go by. You didn't loose something nice, you dit beat a adiction! The only thing i kept from getting of nicotine is drinking a cup of coffee on the toilet in the morning Cafeine and nicotine are both laxative chemicals. Find your dificult moment get a healthy substitute and you will win!
@@based_mediumchungus1788 better question, why is alcohol legal when it has the potential to be more fatal in terms of addiction and withdrawals compared to heroin?
2:41 is so accurate. People don't talk about this side of the addiction. Whenever you go more than 3 hours without nictoine, you get excited and extremely happy knowing your going to get an insane buzz. Which is terrifying.
Why is that terrifying? I went into vaping understanding the risks they have found it to be 95% safer then cancer sticks and that was fine with me. Addiction is only terrifying or bad if you are not happy with the habit
I started smoking cigarettes years ago as a teenage, spent my whole life fighting Cigarettes addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Denmark don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source🙏🏻
YES very sure of Dr.burkeshroom. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
It's like an empty hungry feeling like you have a hole in your chest and you can get irritable easily. Also, it's easier to ween yourself off vapes and cigarettes with Zyn pouches. Transition to Zyn and slowly lower your use of them. It takes away the urge to inhales something that is a double combo of addiction with vapes and cigs.
it’s been a month and 2 weeks since i quit nicotine. this was the most accurate video on this topic i’ve ever seen. i remember stage 5. “i’m not addicted” is the biggest lie you will ever tell yourself.
@@Aqua- 6+ years free from all nicotine products, I won't even hit a blunt. Get sober, or at least stick to real drugs kiddos. Nicotine is the NPC drug, all of the addiction with virtually no rewards.
as a former vape shop clerk, the amount of people that came in and said they were buying their first vape and WERENT getting one to try to quit cigs but instead to just start doing it is insane to me. Every time i had to fight telling them to not do it so i could keep my job. Eventually though i found out how shit the management was and got tired of the lack of hours offered and just started giving 100% honest reviews on every product and the look on peoples faces when a clerk is just shitting on all the products made my last 2 months there super fun.
@@Kaiyats just telling the truth about everything. most clerks have tried just about everything in the store anyways. for my fellow pot smokers i would tell them to never buy glass from us because it was from china and cheap as shit and if you bumped it the wrong way you would be back here in a week buying a new banger or stem. for the people coming in to start smoking i would basically beg them not too telling them how long i had been trying to quit how much it has costed me and how many problems it has caused. for the people that telling them to not do it didnt work on and they were buying a disposable i would tell them that anything on sale is broken and the company is just trying to get rid of it and get as much money as they can out of it before they get recalled. the devices, anytime someone was buying one i would tell them every problem they were going to run into with each device and that the warrenty that we offer isnt worth shit because you could just trade the device out for the same one or one of the same price but nothing higher because the company refused to owe anyone money. and that when they DO return a device, when we send it back to warehouse, the guys at warehouse would just fix it and send it back and force the employee to pay for it. basically the only things i suggested anyone buy from the shop were certain pieces of glass that we got from an actual good glass making company which we only had like 4 and then our papers and blunt wraps. i would basically just try to run everyone out of the store and deter them from going to any other shop. which wasnt hard because all the other shops in the area are owned by the same company. however for the people trying to quit smoking cigs i WOULD say that if they had tried to quit before and it didnt work then vaping may be a good alternative IF their plan was to dorp the nicotine level over time. oh and letting people know just how much nicotine was in our disposables. 5% is around equal to the 50mg bottles of salt nic which is the strongest shit we sell and letting them know how much of an effect that much nicotine does to your body, mind, and lungs. im stuck on the 5% disposables after working there because i didnt know how much nicotine was in them because i read "5%" and thought i would be fine. then after starting to smoke them, my 3mg vape juice wasnt working anymore and i sold my mods because i couldnt use them anymore.
This is incredibly accurate. You can tell this man has gone through nicotine addiction. It’s an overwhelmingly difficult habit to break. Quitting vaping has been one of my greatest achievements and is something that I share proudly.
Went up to 50 nic for a good 2 years, was cheap and always got me buzzed everytime I hit it basically, then went down to 20 2 weeks ago and now i’m cold turkeying it… it’s pretty difficult but I know longer have the urge to wake up with a vape, so that’s something.
Man Ive been through like stage 4 and can tell you with surety, this stuff has crazy side effects. One of the most evident ones was breathlessness. I was breathless most of the time even a short walk to the kitchen would make me breathe faster. And I am pretty fit and eat healthy. Dont reach lvl 7 guys, quit and stay strong.
@@deadmeatjb nah its more like feeling like you cant take a full breath, even tho your body feels fine for some reason you cant full take a breath it seems
Thing that really helped me with quitting was a study that said that over 90% of people that successfully quit smoking had to try quitting at least 10 times or more. It showed me that I don't suck at quitting but rather this is an extremely hard habit to quit for everyone, and you can't accept it, you have to try because one time you will finally succeed
I read one time is that some people are actually resistant to withdrawal symptoms and I honestly think it applies to me as I've never had any nicotine or alcohol withdrawal symptoms
Yah i was initially planning on smoking nicotine for 3 months just to see how addictive it would be, and 3 months turned to 6 and then to 9, quit for a few months then got back on, in total it took me a year and a half to realize that i didnt need it. Even if i take one puff of my friends puff bar, it will trigger my craving for it and i will buy an entire puf bar the same day or the next day just so i can stop feeling the craving, if you arent mentally strong enough to never give up on quitting, then i dont think its a good idea to start in the first place
@@TheSparton1177 Yeah people don't usually think about quitting it before trying it. That's why almost every heroin or crack addict are in fact in a very vulnerable position in society, since they can't really have access to priviledges that other people have, such as an stable job, health insurance, a home, etc, but they end up choosing drugs since once you are on that position, it's very hard to be on a good mindset and not wanting to try them.
The remarkable ways the mind insidiously tries to trick YOURSELF into doing something, it's crazy. "Just one more, I can stop tomorrow." "It's been a rough day today, you deserve just this one hit." - after telling yourself yesterday that you WILL NOT TOUCH IT EVER AGAIN, NO MATTER WHAT. It's crazy.
I swear i told myself i would quit weed at least a million times,a week goes by and there i am buying it again it took me getting arrested for it to actually stop🤦🤦🙍
I jumped real quick to stage 7 with cigarettes and I immediately knew I was addicted, never lied to myself about it. Now I’m stuck in the cycle of “I’ll eventually quit once I can finally settle down and get my act together because life will be less stressful then”, maybe that’s my way of bamboozling myself.
speaking frome experience what helps is thinking that it can be more "stressful” in the future and only then I can allow myself to smoke. this made me reduce from one cig a day to one in two weeks when everything is crashing down and I feel like I can’t take it anymore. Next step for me would be one a month and so on.
Dropping cigarettes and vapes will make it easier to reach stability. Most people spend significantly more money on nicotine and vapes then they realize
My brother is 22. I asked him "Since we both know vaping isn't good for you, Do you think you could ever stop when you want?" he said "Yea probably" and stopped a week later. I love that man so much and respect him
Good for him, some people just don’t get addicted to much of anything. Not sure if it’s based more in personality or genetics, but some people are more susceptible, some aren’t.
For me nicotines not the hardest thing to go without, but it all depends on the stress. When things pile up I’ll just get angry and lash out, but when things are just kinda whatever I can usually just deal with it
@@sjeffy5137 I felt the same way. I had one for about a month my senior year of high school and did it everyday, it died and I just stopped on the spot and never really cared to do it again.
I used to smoke hashish and tobacco together, and take cocaine, and drink heavily, from the age of 14 to the age of 18, and I just got bored of it and stopped, and went back to playing video games, and going on my dirt bike, plus I have been vegan since I was about 10, so I know what it's like to abstain from something I like
i can relate to this highly. i started vaping last year and said i just wanted to try it out. i did it completely wrong and didn't get addicted but once you actually learn how to inhale, you'll feel the effects and my god i got addicted. definitely accurate and definitely not something good to do
@@Heaththegrat Sorry to hear. Does your mind manipulate you into "relieve stress, still like it"? It is tough to convince they are addicted and how their highs explain why the stuff is addictive. I am glad to admit you have a problem. Do you have a desire to give up? It is less hard when you are sick and tired of the stuff, struggle to hide it, use it like an adult pacifier, and hit it the second you open your eyes. It is okay to seek medical help. I hope you have decent insurance. My mother has been smoking for over 20 years, several prior to having me. She is aware it gives her skin crawling sensations yet claims to still "like it". It is tough to quit, but I implore you to try if want to stop. Get whatever support you need. I somewhat cringe whenever I see a young person vape (when not even to quit cigs). I would implore to discontinue or never pick up.
started vaping in high school, was addicted for 3 years and now am nicotine free for 1.5 years. It really messes up my lung, but quitting wasn't that bad once you put all your heart into it.
it was a month if hell for me, and =I still drea about buying Nicotine. For some people the withdrawl is utter hell. Don't take nicotine lightly its hard AF to quit for most people. I quit and have stayed clean for 2.5 years ny literally moving myselkf away from any scenario where I start playing with the idea of a small relapse. I fight myself at least 5 times a month rn but its getting easier still. \ I feel much better and love not having the call of nicotine after everything I do or before I do it. No more running to the shop just before game sessions or class. No more anxiety of not having any nicotine is actually so worth quitting and fighting.
@@DCxSkateboarding yeah I agreed nicotine is really difficult to quit. However, your dream about buying will change to not buying nicotine in a month. I have been through this stage. For me it was weed. I first dreamt about smoking weed in my dream, to thinking about should I smoke weed in my dream, to not smoking weed in my dream. It is your subconscious trying to rewrite itself. Good sign.
I'm really proud of myself for ignoring drugs throughout my life. My dad was a heavy addict to all kinds of drugs, and it took him decades to finally get on a good path. I don't even want to start, it sounds terrifying.
It's a dark road, my dad severely screwed over not only his life but mine and my siblings because he got addicted to pain meds after tearing some muscle. He's back on the right path but it's been a journey getting back to where he previously was in life. I find drugs scary as well, i won't even touch a vape/cigarette/weed
it’s so „great“ that there are people being so honest about addiction and show especially young people that its not so easy to quit and can be very harmful
Everything is going to shit and the future is so far in there you can't reach it even if you roll your sleeve all the way up. Nicotine addiction is the least of young peoples problems.
@@thatcooldudeisawesome876 Yes, its about as important as giving your oxycodone addicted friend the talk while they lie on their deathbed with stage 4 cancer. Sounds a bit immoral doesn't it? That's how fucked up the future is.
I started doing drugs years ago as a teenage, got addicted to heroin. Spent my whole life fighting heroin addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with OCD. Not until my husband recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them
Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Never addictive. Thank you for sharing this point!
I'm 7 months free tomorrow and I have to say it has changed my life. Quitting after 5 consistent years of vaping has saved me hundreds of dollars a month, to the point I actually am considering getting myself a new car because that's where that money can go. I was lazy as fuck while vaping, and more stressed than ever, and couldn't even walk up the stairs without feeling winded. I'm in the best shape of my life now and can run for miles. It makes me feel so accomplished, however quitting, I had a little more motivation because I caught Covid and got Pneumonia really bad and almost died, but if you put your mind to it, you can do it.
I left it out of this video but I also caught pneumonia and quit for about 2 weeks, unfortunately I came right back just for some shitty nicotine buzz. This is what mainly prompted me to make this video.
Did you work out while vaping or no? I’ve seen some people that do both but then quit the vaping so they talk about the benefits of quitting while they still have fitness in their life. There’s this character in a story I’m interested in who’s done martial arts and been in the military in the past but the story now takes place in the present and the character vapes but I’m wondering how often though (like I’ve seen some people that aren’t abstinent from alcohol as they drink but not every week and def not full blown alcoholic). I was wondering how much you’d have to vape for it to cause problems in your breathing and when working out and I wouldn’t mind specific details. Also does vape stress everyone out or only some and you just happened to be one of them? Because I’ve seen people relaxed but I’ve also seen people get bad highs when doing weed so I wanna know if it’s a gamble like that. Idk much about vape, weed, and nicotine but only know that I wouldn’t want it for myself. If I’m curious, is it ok if I ask you a whole ton (not exaggerating) of questions on this?
@@twentyonetortas5921 Vaping definitely relaxed me while I was actually hitting it, however in-between hits Id either be stressed I wasn’t hitting it, or because I felt the negative effects, for me it was mostly nausea, constant post nasal drip, and it even fucked up my blood vessels and hardened them up, so my blood pressure was high. I pretty much was anxious when i was hitting it and was anxious because i didn’t get my fix. Since quitting all symptoms have totally subsided, including BP returning to normal.
@@stayinreality-OK yeah withdrawal from any form of addiction causes similar experiences… the human body is an intricate system, and we abused our own :/
I think a key phase you missed is the in-between phase. A state of mind where you want to want to quit. Like you know it’s bad, a waste of money, and you don’t even like it that much. But the effort required to quit is enough to deter someone
@@afeklevi8861 Yup, same. I hate it and want to quit, know it's a waste of money that I need for a car... But trying to quit when I'm stressed about not having a car...
i can appreciate that someone is actually voicing the fact that doing something once isnt going to get you addicted, doesn't matter what it is. Telling young kids that if you do (blank) even once you'll get addicted is super harmful. What ends up happening is they're going to try it anyways, because they're kids and we all we're like that, they realize they're not addicted from that one time so they just assume they're an exception and won't get addicted, and so they do it more, which is then when the problems start. I've tried all sorts of substances, but my rule is usually "only once" just so i have the experience and don't have the desire or curiosity to try it again.
But it can. If you have any kind of internal "problem" then solving it even once can make you addicted to the solution. Like, if you never knew life could feel that way, then just feeling it once could get you to return to it time and again in your mind. Kinda like, seeing and interacting with another person just once can get people fall in love with them and think about them constantly for a long time
Addiction suddenly turns from “hey, this feels cool” into “this feels like shit when I don’t get any”. In couple weeks, it is not a pleasure anymore, it is a burden like doing the chores.
I dont get why ppl smoke nic all it do is make u dizzy give u a headache amd make u feel sick i don hit alot of vapes never got addicted i jus stick to weed
@@ChrisJones-rd4wb I started smoking just with alcohol at first. Then after meals or with a cup of tea or coffee. Then I realized I was smoking a pack everyday.
2:53 this is a part of addiction that I wish was more prevalent in DARE and Red Ribbon Weeks. Once you try something, you can never “undo” that. That’s why so many people relapse, being sober isn’t all you know anymore, and it’s now associated with the feeling of being “without”. Being sober also starts to feel exhausting and stressful, making those demons that much harder to escape from. That’s just a side of it that I never really thought about growing up, and to be honest I really wish I had.
@@kaleb7591 The first time I used meth and heroin I was hooked. You will NEVER EVER forget how good it feels. People who say this clearly haven’t been through it
My therapist told me that once you get an addiction, you'll have it forever. You cannot quit, you can become abstinent/ stop using that drog, but you cannot escape the addiction. You could be craving that drug at any point in your life. I think she's right. I give up smoking for months, but once I had a bad day and gave into that craving I started again. Now I am once again not smoking, but being pregnant is the reason, most likely I'll start again when another being won't depend on my body.
@@MrCmon113 It depends on your age now. I found out the hard way that I was still addicted to a mario after 20 years of not using. I just got a craving iut of nowhere and couldn't help myself untill I got a dose. Who knows?? Maybe in the distant future you'll get a craving. Those thing are dangerous so take care.
When you gave birth, the physical withdrawal is over. You'll only be mentally addicted, you can reduce that by consciously doing the things you associate with smoking, WITHOUT smoking. That way you'll unlearn. :) take that chance. Do you wanna be a smoking role model to your child?
@@piiinkDeluxe Yes I wanna be a smoking model for my child so he would know how bad it is and won't start smoking when his friends start vaping/smoking. I didn't have such a model so I am a smoker.
@@Suntobabacomunista92 I get "cravings" of all sorts of things all the time and then I do some of the things and the cravings get replaced by other cravings. That's just being alive.
My friend quit as well he was very addicted for like two years😂 The first day he quit it look like he was going through the stages of grief he looked depressed for a week and now he’s back to normal never got addicted to vapes I bought a wax pen and I want to try some weed (blunt) But I’m not really addicted maybe I should quit while I’m ahead but I don’t crave it I don’t need it😂
I started vaping at 15. Vaped until I was 21. I was doing 6mg on dripper/tank mods. Went through a 60ml bottle every 2 days or so. One day I told my (now) wife “this is too expensive. After I finish this juice, I’m done.” I held true to that. I’m 25 and haven’t vaped since.
i started vaping probably when I was 16 and stopped like 6 months ago at the age of 21. quitting that time was easy for me but i think it was mostly my mentality because I just wasn't getting anything out of it. If you can make it four days without vaping, you're doing a good job. eat a snack or drink some water each time you get a craving. the biggest part is definitely doing it by your own volition
yeah when I stopped id just take a sip of water to calm my oral fixation every time I would have normally been hitting the vape. tbh it was really easy for me to stop nic, im 23 and my will is strong. occasionally during the first week you do think about it, but if you don't act and get one, youll forget. its all mental, you CAN convince your brain you don't need it trust me
I dont know if this will help you but me i smoked cigarettes for 7 years until 2 years ago, a pack a day is normally what i consumed but at the start of the pandemic i stopped, and whenever i get the urge to light i just chew a menthol gum to lessen the urge i dont know if this will help you but it did for me so... Heres to another nicotine free year
I always thought I am hella addicted to nicotine, always heard stories about how hard it is to quit, so I tried it and it was much easier than I thought it would be. First day was suffering, always did a motion of grabbing my vape, had strong cravings. Days 2-3 were very easy, I had that "if I did it yesterday, I can do it today" mentality, still had that motion of grabbing my vape though. Days 4-7 were probably the hardest for my mentality as I always tried to find an excuse to come back to vaping such as "I did not vape for 3 days, I can easily quit whenever I want again" or "I'll just start vaping to get through my life, when life gets better I can quit it again". After 1 week, it got neutral, I wanted to vape, but did not have the craving for it at all. I am 2 weeks clean today, kind of proud of myself as hearing all these stories about quitting nicotine really scared me.
I've vaped for a few months now. Recently checked how addicted I was as an experiment by going without any puffs for a few days. After 18 hours I started feeling the cravings. I was surprised but then went to bed to sleep. Couldn't really sleep the whole night and was constantly thinking about taking a hit in order to get some sleep. Woke up next day with a little bit of sleep and went to work without bringing my vape. I was starting to feel better but still wanted to take a little hit. When the day was almost over I was feeling better. Next day was depressing but still fine. Now on the 4th day I didn't really think much about vaping anymore and didn't feel like I had to take a hit. Now I was convinced I could stop any time I wanted if this is all it took. So. I'm back to vaping knowing I can quit any time I want.
I've been fighting that urge for 2 years now, been off for that long feels crazy to me, I still get that urge all the time unfortunately being a blue collar worker and everyone vapes or smokes around me and the tough days, but I've made it this far I know I'll continue to make it further keep fighting guys and girls its possible!
It's really not that hard. Once your environment changes and you have supportive people around it's really easy. I wasn't craving vape, I was craving social interaction.
I had a nicotine addiction for like 3 years, from 15 to 18, a couple of months ago I decided I couldn’t poison myself anymore and quit, it was hard but no where near as hard as people made it out to be after that first day. Maybe it was because 3 years may be a shorter addiction length than many who smoke well over half their lives. Maybe I’m just really lucky, idk but don’t vape or shits bad for you
In all the times I genuinely quit and then randomly came back the worst of the withdrawals happen in days 1-3. Once youre like a week off it you dont even wanna go back
I cant believe I have to say this but vaping and smoking or two entirely different things and comparing quitting makes no sense. Cigarettes are made up of thousands of chemicals some of which are made to make you addicted to them. Also nicotine on its own is harmless like caffeine, it's all those other chemicals in cigarettes that are dangerous.
@@scottyee707 you’re still inhaling heated vapor into your lungs. There are no studies to show the long term side effects because vapes are a fairly new invention. I’m not saying they cause damage for sure, but it’s not a good idea to believe that it’s just harmless vapor either.
I was addicted for 5 years and quit cold turkey a little over a month ago. Honestly after the first week it was so much easier. I just figured "only having to feel shitty for one to two weeks is so worth not being miserable for years" I'm hoping I don't relapse
i was badly addicted, like to the point where id go through 1 a day, shit was wild but ive thankfully overcome it and im proud of myself. A change of environment is my big tip, leaving the city going back to the hometown and relaxing helped ease my stress and end it
Yeah im a nic addict as well and I do my best to deter people away from wanting to smoke/vape. I know its hypocritical but im stuck in this weird loop right now and honestly I hope no one has to go through this shitty addiction phase.
For me I had already smoked pot before I hit a vape for the first time so I was just like, "this is just a worse shorter lasting high than pot" and on top of that it was also bad for your health so I just don't hit them anymore Edit: Let me rephrase, smoking pot is still inhaling foreign chemicals into your lungs so it will obviously have a chance to cause issues but consuming high levels of nicotine is very addictive and over 20.5% of people who have vaped first had turned to tobacco products afterwards. Smoking pot isn't addictive and actually has a lot of health benefits that nobody talks about. I have Crohn's Disease and it's actually medically proven that smoking pot reduces the effects and symptoms of it and manyy other diseases or illnesses. I am not promoting the idea of smoking pot but if you're going to do one then ditch nic and tabaco.
+NeverBlight Ok, so a few things. 1 - "Vaping" is a technology, a method. You can "vape" damn near anything, from nicotine, to cannabis, to freaking rose pedals if you wanted 2 - Inhaling on a [nicotine] vape is inhaling an aerosol. Smoking a cigarette is ALSO inhaling an aerosol. "Smoking" is a colloquial term, both are an aerosol. The difference is the temperature and what chemicals are actually in the aerosol DUE to the temperature its consumed at. 3 - Nicotine and Cannabis are both drugs, with different effects and different risks. However, the dangers involved in SMOKING either of these things comes from the chemicals produced when heated to that temperature. Cannabis is safer than nicotine , but BOTH are safer when done at lower temp, that's just a fact. Now this doesn't dispel ALL the insane amount of misinformation I'm seeing in these comments. It certainly doesn't help that the uploader doesn't seem to know that much himself because, and I'm sorry, if you thought you were vaping water vapor to get high you're already a lost cause brother. Final note, I recommend you don't do nicotine of any kind, but if you wanted to know what people get out of it, watch Bostwiki's video "Dave Chappelle Explained: Why Smart People Smoke". As for things like Cannabis or Alcohol, I recommend you live life sober for a good while, and then when you're an adult and you have a good grasp of the world around you, have fun but be responsible. Simply put, fill your mental with useful and cool things before you start modifying it. [ps: you're asthma puffer is also an aerosol lol]
As a formerly heavy nicotine user for 10 years- quitting is pretty hard. I knew going into it that it would be 3-4 weeks of suffering, and that's what it was. I never want to go through that again, so I have no temptation of smoking/vaping. Personally I used Allen Carr's "Easy Way" audiobook to quit and it worked well. I didn't think it was possible, but I am so much happier being a non-smoker.
@@RomansMentalHealthAssociation the 3-4 weeks when I was quitting I couldn’t think or function very well at all. The first three days were the hardest. It sucked- but what helped me was getting a 0mg nicotine vape while I went through the withdrawal, a lot of it is the hand to mouth habit. After the physical withdrawal symptoms stopped I gradually stopped caring about my 0mg vape, and eventually I lost it 😂 now I feel just fine!
@@JemmaHeigis Thank you for responding. I currently vape but I don't want to mess myself up either. All my hobbies involve a lot of thinking so I should probably quit but I probably won't anytime soon because I think all my friends will think I'm a coward.
honestly I feel kinda proud of myself for not buying into the "trend" that my school made this, literally almost EVERYONE vaped, and if you didn't you weren't cool. I kept reminding myself how it's just not worth it no matter how many times I get picked on for it. I hope everyone else who suffers from this addiction overcomes it.
Drugs are fucked but at the same time they’re amazing. It’s really a twisted thing… nicotine has never been my thing but anyone that tells you weed isn’t addictive is lying !
Im 21 and i started my nicotine adventure around year ago. I quickly became addicted (I was using first snuffs but quickly switched to vape and nicotine pouche them being the most adictive shit ever because its strong)I've quit on 4/20 when I came back to smoking weed after 3 weeks tolerance break. Im clean since then.
Did you work out while vaping or no? I’ve seen some people that do both but then quit the vaping so they talk about the benefits of quitting while they still have fitness in their life. There’s this character in a story I’m interested in who’s done martial arts and been in the military in the past but the story now takes place in the present and the character vapes but I’m wondering how often though (like I’ve seen some people that aren’t abstinent from alcohol as they drink but not every week and def not full blown alcoholic). I was wondering how much you’d have to vape for it to cause problems in your breathing and when working out and I wouldn’t mind specific details. Is it cool if I ask you stuff on vape and weed in case I’m curious since I don’t know much about them?
@@twentyonetortas5921 when I vaped a lot and worked out at home (peak Covid days) well, sooner or later my family mentioned how I breath like I’m out of breath. It was the vaping that did that. I would be out of breath bringing in groceries and now (after many months since quitting) that hasn’t happened. On certain days though I still miss just the action of inhaling and exhaling something. Especially the throat hit. God I loved the throat hit. Like the video said I reached a point where I wasn’t getting buzzed, but man I loved that throat hit.
You said at the end “spending thousands a year on something you don’t like”. Bruh I get so much enjoyment from these new disposables. I was sick and tired of the bland and cheap bottles refilling my pod vapes and was ready to quit, now I’m doomed after getting into disposables.
i remember my initial pull to nicotine was the super light headed feeling i would get when i would take a massive rip off a vape. pretty quickly i would have 2 vapes in my mouth at once. after about 2 years of never having a empty hand without a vape i quit one day cold turkey and i feel like a living human again. i dont know how intense my addiction was with only about 2 years under the hood. but it was an intense 2 years with a lot of nicotine crammed into it
Facts dude literally all exactly the same only difference is I started used weed as a replacement to quit cold turkey then stopped once I realized I didn’t crave the nic anymore
this is facts and actually good advice. id like for you to do one about weed. (weed isn't physically addictive but 7 levels of being a stoner would be a fun and educational video)
@Beth Ninji No im not being sarcastic, good for you for quitting, weed is fine but it can make your problems worse when you use it a lot. So, again, good for you🙂
I was in my late teens when vaping became super popular and when I was 18 I would buy the vape juice without nicotine because I just wanted the taste and “the look” when vaping socially. I thank god that I never gave in to switching to nicotine because I don’t think I ever would have stopped. I know my friends are struggling with it now and it’s sad to see when they can’t hang out with the group before needing to leave mid-convo and hit their vape before they can rejoin.
Kinda similar to what I did. I would just get dead ones and suck the air where you don’t get any nicotine or buzz at all, just did it to look cool. Just like you I’m glad I never actually got nicotine with it
I started doing drugs since my teenage. Got addicted to heroin for over 16 years. Heroin addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
@@GooglechriseOliverCan you help me with the reliable source A. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in France. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.
@@Tina-hb7ecI'm really happy for you that your mom decided to help you...I hear about alot of family members or so called friends shutting an addict out of their life, which since most addicts do it to mask emotions to me is the worse thing someone can do to an addict.
Took me throwing away my stuff or giving it away and making a new hobby to get over it. So when i thought "i could throat a loud rip rn" or however the kids put it, I thought "man I wonder if I can PR my deadlift." Moral of the story is, don't fight the urge. Just redirect that energy into something else that makes you happy since that's what you're really looking for anyways.
this is true af i quit by changing my urge to vape into doing pushups they both give me a break from what im doing and give me a satisfying feeling after
To those of you that haven’t gone through addiction, PLEASE don’t. No substance is worth it. Forget the negative health effects of the substance, the negative effects of addiction itself is not worth it If you’re stressed out, going through it, depressed, struggling, etc. reach out to a better coping mechanism. Friends, significant others, family, hobbies, hell if you got none of that, find someone to talk to on the internet You don’t realize how bad addiction is until you beat it
I'm a social/occasional smoker. Smoked my first cig at 15 while very very drunk on a party (always said was never going to drink much less smoke) and kinda liked the feeling. Then it became a once every few months habit. With time passing, more stress and resposibilities i adopted the work hard play hard mindset and starting going out, getting drunk etc every weekend. After some time, it became a almost every weekend must. I can definitively say it became at least a psychologically addiction after some years. A good example is when i was stressed out, very tired, sad or angry, i'd crave junk food, maybe some games or exterme sports. Now it's almost certain i'll crave a cig in one of those moments. I try very hard not to smoke during the week (ok, i may smoke 1-3 during the whole week) but this craving is kinda annoying. So what i can realize from my experience is that addiction is a progressive thing, not instant. And that is the problem, you don't realize it until it's too late. I'm lucky enough to keep my bad habits for the weekend but i fear that if at soe point i'm not doing very great in life they will catch up. Live your life as you want but at least know the risks you are taking and if they are worth it
Nicotine is difficult because like what's mentioned in the video, it's near impossible to quit unless you have a really good mental state. For me I was able to recently quit cigarettes for 8 months, reason being is that I was motivated to quit due to being in a long term relationship. Once that relationship ended though I lost the motivation that lead me to quit so I started smoking again. A lot of people my age tell me that I should vape but in my opinion vaping has the potential to be so much more addictive than cigarettes, especially due to the fact that you can just sit in your room and hit it all day. Cigarettes force me to leave my house and plus they're really shunned where I live so you have to hide it unless you wanna get looks from people. On top of that I can't stand how vapes taste, if I'm really gonna be damaging my health then I'd rather taste some nice tobacco rather than fruit or mint or whatever. Just my personal opinion.
Technically vaping is better than smoking but the reality is more complicated...Nowadays is almost impossible to quit nicotine with all these alternatives around. Tobacco is so disgusting that it actually could you quit. But with vaping....you are fucked.
The Royal Institute of Health in England came out with a study that vaping (even considering the unknown long-term effects) is 95% safer than smoking. Please switch
It's honestly crazy I didn't even think I was addicted until about 8 months after starting. I obviously was always craving it always hitting my vape but I just thought it was because I enjoyed it not that I was addicted. The realization finally hit me that I was addicted when I couldn't get a vape for 2 days and my skin was literally crawling from the withdrawals. Really wish I never started.
I started smoking at 16. Then smoking everyday at 18 when I could buy cigarettes. Then at 19 I was driving someone around who was selling vapes and he gave me a free one. Instantly preferred it to cigarettes. When I turned 20 I switched back to cigarettes because I thought if I liked them less it might help me quit. Then I was spending over $300 a week on cigarettes and vapes and using both. I live in Australia and I called Quitline and they would call me every week and send me nicotine gum, patches and lozenges. After using these products and recognising triggers to smoke/vape I cut down until I eventually didn’t buy anymore. A few hiccups a long the way but once I knew how it felt to be healthier I knew I would quit. Then about three months I had my last cigarette and shortly after my last source of nicotine. The longest I’ve ever gone without it since my first cigarette. I’m almost 21 and I still get cravings when I see people smoking or other very random triggers. But it quickly passes. If you want to quit you will quit and it won’t happen overnight. ❤
@@knurft3 Do you understand what it means for someone's skin to "literally" crawl? That would mean that their skin actually detached from their muscle and started crawling up their body. I didn't have to be there to know that that didn't happen because that would be impossible.
Stopped vaping and everything with nicotine a year ago. This video is pin point accurate on addiction but as one of the "few" that made it out I would relapse constantly until you really take control of your life. It sucks but self control is another form of self love. I'll go out now and all of my friends have a vape and not a single thought of hitting it comes to mind. If you've read this far you got this if you're struggling trust me.
"It sucks but self control is another form of self love" Thats a really good perspective man. Ive been struggling with vaping for a long time, and I've been trying so hard to stop. But I've never really thought of it that way, thats a based take
I didn’t realize how addicted I and my friends were until when we completely ran out of our vapes, they invited other friends who weren’t in our close circle to hang out just to hit their nic. Personally I didn’t invite them, but I was on board most of the time, and a few of us would text them occasionally asking for their extra ones, or if their supplier can get us one also.
Going on my 3rd day of no smoking right now. When I moved to Florida two years ago vapes were really blowing up and I gave in rode the train. Literally went through every stage you’ve described. From experience- nicotine is way harder to fully quit than a cocaine addiction. Because it’s sold everywhere and it’s not expensive. Yesterday I bought a whole pack of cigarettes just to smoke one and throw the rest in the dumpster. The nicotine withdrawals are something else when you’ve been hardcore vaping for two years straight. Used to smoke those Fume bars in 2 days and the elf bar bc5000 would last a week max. So unhealthy. The first two days I felt really happy and content with my decision to quit. Body started getting color again. Im able to breathe easier. I have a LOT more energy and eating a lot more. Just fight through the urges. You’ll make it to the end eventually
I quit for 2 years then picked vaping back up. I realized it's a lot like candy/sodas. Definitely possible to kick it if life is going in the right direction. But a terrible day turns into a terrible week turns into a terrible month, and nicotine can be a distraction from that. People are under too much pressure to quit honestly but don't let pressure make that choice, because it will probably fail.
@@lazzypuppets2929 bad trips are usually pretty scary. But they can be the most therapeutic thing for you. Sometimes you need to face your demons to move past them
I know of a few people who have quit whatever their addiction was at the time they were tripping and doing shrooms. Some of them weren’t even considering quitting. They just happened to see their addiction for what it was and how it wasn’t good for them and all of a sudden decided to quit. It’s like seeing it for what it is and how the addiction is taking advantage of you and all of the glamorization is taken away. Others I know who microdosed on Shrooms daily only taking a very small amount and not tripping and because of it changing their thought patterns and seeing things in a different way they were able to quit their addiction. One person used it to quit adderal and another was treating themselves for anxiety. Another did it to get better from depression. They all were successful. However, I know another person who was suffering from chronic deep depresssion and it made him worse. He ended up committing suicide about 6 months later.
Me and my (now currently) ex girlfriend of 2 years watched this video together and it made her quit smoking cold turkey, that night after seeing that she was at the top tier stage. 2 days later she broke up with me after picking a fight at any possible opportunity up until then lol. Withdrawals are no joke. Thank you so much for this video, you saved me a big headache!!
I hit a point where I didn’t want to talk to anyone, didn’t want to leave the house or eat sometimes. Stopped working out, doing homework. I would start vaping as soon as I woke up until 6am being hard to fall asleep because of coughing. I threw my whole kit out swearing to quit only to buy it all again the next week. I kept telling myself I was having fun and being young and stupid. Please nobody start.
So glad I was innocent as a teenager and just focused on education. Because when I started drinking at 19, smoking at 23, vaping at 26 and drugs at 27 I find it easier to stop.
I quit vaping a year ago because the addiction was getting bad. It was one of the hardest things I’ve done to this day, but I consider it worth it now. After all that time I still crave it often and I occasionally need to distance myself from people who do it a lot.
I quit exactly one month ago. Quitting is half the battle. The other half is constantly reassuring yourself that you don’t need it. I still desire it but I’ve recognized the point of no return when I become dead set on acquiring nicotine, and I’ve worked really hard to get past that feeling before it starts.
Lmao I got to stage 7 and just got bored in a way and stoped. But ita funny how accurate he describes the “not getting the buzz anymore” stage and the whole process afterwards
I had a weed addiction for about a year and a half, basically did it every night straight for 500 days, luckily I was able to stop, now I only do it once every 1-2 months
Hell yeah man trying to quit right now because of this video. I started on the cigs at 18 and vaping only made the nicotine addiction worse not better. I always told myself there would be a time to quit and I would do it later , but as the years went by , you begin to realize that you actually lack the ability to emotionally regulate yourself without the nicotine as a coping mechanism. I have gone 4 months without it but always has crept back into my life in some way or another. I hope this time will be different and I hope for anyone else who is struggling with nicotine addiction you can quit as well. I have been using for almost 8 years now and this video sums it up perfectly “why did I even start doing this in the first place?”
This is so accurate. Well done. I steer clear of disposables and fill pods myself. The worst part is how expensive disposables can be. I spend roughly $500 a year on my vaping habit and I do it quite a lot. But if I was using disposables, what you said about spending $1k--$2k, I believe it. I also have seen videos of them filling these things in china and the machine looks like it was dispensing some kind of aerosol. Quick tip if you still do it and need to save money. Buy a pod system like a Smok Novo and salt nic juice. The device is like $30 and you only end up spending about $40 a month on pods($15) and juice($25 for a 30mL bottle of 55mg salt nic). It's much healthier and you can ensure you're buying a water-based PG/VG juice and not whatever they're filling disposables with. Works for me at least. If you don't vape, theres no point in getting started unless you're trying to quit cigarettes. I'm hooked on this beyond belief and it will drain your bank account, especially if you're a teen with minimal income. It's not worth it kids.
man i feel that, "every time i have a shity day i coudl just make it better" EVERY FUCKING TIME i have a bad day thats the first thing i think if and ive sucsesfully quit
once saw on youtube someone saying "Nicotine makes good parts of life better and the worst parts of life more bearable". It's the perfect drug in that sense, cigarettes especially because they have a more clear start and end when compared to vaping. and I know many smokers myself included that view it unconsciously as some sort of reward. you smoke when you're happy, you smoke when you're sad, you smoke when you're bored... Somehow it makes all of those type of feelings that got nothing to do with each other slightly better.
Man it’s been months since my last vape hit and I catch myself thinking “can’t wait until my birthday so I can legally buy myself a vape”. But I think I’m going to watch this video every time I think that because it really reminded me of how much a hated being dependent on my vape. Like I couldn’t sleep for more than a few hours at a time because of it, rarely ate food because it suppressed my appetite really bad, and I also couldn’t exert myself too much or I’d end up coughing and wheezing. Thank you for this
It's a fun hobby but if you do it like most highschoolers with like 50mg juuls and shit of course you're gonna get addicted to chasing the buzz. You gotta be into like, RDAs and shit for it to be more than just being addicted
I grew up in the south, and when I was growing up it was riiiight before ecigs were a thing. Early 2000s. They just weren't a thing yet. So, back then my first experience with beginning to regularly use tobacco was going into the bathroom and seeing kids putting dipping tobacco in their mouth. I had tried cigarettes before and liked them, but I was literally like 12 years old with parents that actually didn't smoke so it wasn't super easy for me to get cigarettes and even harder to smoke them without being detected. Anyway, I, being the curious lad I was, decided that I wanted to try it. Let me tell you, the buzz that you get from cigarettes doesn't even remotely compare to the buzz you get from smokeless tobacco. I was walking down a hallway in school and it felt incredibly narrow and long. I was sitting in class barely able to focus on anything other than the fact that my head was spinning. But, I loved that feeling. The one positive I will say about dipping is that it actually lasts longer because of how it is delivered and I remember fondly getting a crazy buzz every time I did it. You can also do it wherever you want (you eventually get used to swallowing it and unless you put some insane half a can hog in your mouth nobody is going to be able to tell shit, even teachers that told us they could tell never caught me), you can control how much you use each time, and finally at least to me it actually tastes kinda nice. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Nicotine has pretty much had a hold on me for over half of my life now, and while I've been taking the steps to gradually quit it's very hard and I slip off the edge a lot. Ultimately today though, I'm leagues better in terms of controlling my nicotine usage and tapering it down than I ever was. It's kinda unfortunate, it's this totally rad feeling that I wouldn't recommend anyone try because it can be pretty addictive.
I quit vaping about a month ago now and I used to rip that thing constantly with high amounts of nicotine. I’ve quit a couple times previously but always seemed to come back to it. Although this time before trying to quit I began to think why am I stressed and focused on repairing those issues before battling 2 things at once. All I can say is, it’s all mindset. Give in, don’t give in.. either is fine. You’re not a bad person if you relapse.
i quit vaping at the end of last year, i started to have like chest pains and stuff and it scared me and i was also using a lot of caffeine which made my heart go too fast as well so might of been a combination of the two. I still hit vapes when offered but i just made it a rule to never buy another one of my own as that way its impossible for me to get addicted and since I'm a regular in the gym i really noticed the effects the vapes had on my lungs last year when i was running, i used to run 1k easy but after hitting vapes for a few months i could barely run half without my lungs collapsing.
Haha I quit coffee instead. I got onto nicotine first by using the nicotine lozenges to help with my adhd. But that’s hella expensive so I use vapes now and just use pure veg glycerin and nicotine and I make it pretty strong so I don’t have to vape as much. Honest I recon coffee is way worse than vaping, coffee gives me palpitations makes me anxious and scattered and makes me run out of breathe hella quick. Vape just makes me more focused and mellow but energised.
@@doaimanariroll5121 i quit coffee as well and i do definitely agree that coffee is terrible and it freaked me out a few times with the palpitations but vapes are definitely worse because if you drink coffee everyday for 3 months the worse that will happen is you may think your having a heart attack by slight palpitations but with vapes it affects your lungs and it becomes permanent and yes your heart is nothing to mess with either but I've been using caffeine but mostly coffee since i was 10 and so its been 7 years using coffee almost daily and i quit vapes after a few months of use as it made me feel like my body was dying basically
@@cortex7024 really? What vapes were you using, I hear the disposable ones can be pretty dodgy. Like I say I make my own liquid out of pure glycerin or buy from a supplier who makes it locally using ingredients I know are safe. I’m still on the fence though, I’ve been using it for a few months now and can’t really tell if it’s affected me or not. I freedive and summer is coming soon (I’m from Australia) so I guess I’ll see pretty clearly how my lungs are doing. I definitely find it helps with focas on study and thinking more clearly, and I’m using it to ideally reduce the dex- amphetamines I take for my adhd. I kind of hate taking all that shit, I don’t drink or do anything else and was full clean for like 5 years from 18-23. But now Im at uni, work full time and have a family and still want to Persue my sports of MMA and Freediving. so It’s either a supplement to help assist me with my busy life….. or a coping mechanism to suppress my stress haha I’m not sure yet.
This is why I allow myself to try something I’m curious about just once. I wondered what cigarettes are like and a friend let me try it. Right away I thought it was the best thing ever so I knew if I got addicted I would never be able to quit. I never smoked again. This mindset was effective in my case. The only thing I’m addicted to is sugar. 🙃
That's the best disposition - to actually know yourself. Not these simple rules, do this don't do that etc. Our bodies find ways around the simple rules, and the replacements they find aren't necessarily "better"
i quit vaping back in like march and it’s still a constant battle because i miss it so much. nicotine addictions are REAL and i wish they were taken more seriously. it’s crazy how i let a $15 disposable díctate my mood for MONTHS. whenever i crave it, i try reminding myself how awful it made my body feel.
Gave me a new outlook on what I should call addiction. I have no problem just putting it down and forgetting it exists, but when I’m at work, or around friends that do it, I’ll take a hit sometimes. I feel like I don’t have an addictive personality, but it is sort of off and on with me for stretches of 2-6 months. Currently haven’t hit one in 3 months and haven’t had the urge or even thought of one until I saw this video.
exactly the same as you, Ive stopped and started a few times, my last gap being more than a year. it was my choice to get a few over summer, and told myself ill stop at the end of summer once school starts and etc and I did with no problems. interesting that this video popped up
you're probably not very physically dependent on nicotine, which is good when i quit i pretty much stop functioning for a couple days, just cold sweats and shivers, kind of like a fever
Yeah I def also dont have the physical dependency , I quit probably 5 or 6 times for 2+ months over the last 3 years with no withdrawals, not even headaches, I maybe get some sleep troubles for like a week; but man, whenever the going gets tough, I'll keep going back for the insane emotional regulation that nic provides me as well as the mental stimulation that that makes my brain light up with creativity that I struggle to find while sober and depressed, and these parts dont go away with any level of tolerance for me like the buzz most vape for, it makes it so much more addictive than any other drugs I've tried so far, none of which I've become even close to being addicted.
The worst part about nicotine addiction is how easy it is to relapse. I’ve been addicted since I was 12 but was able to quit at 15 but relapsed a year later and now I’m having trouble quitting. Everyone thinking of vaping or smoking just don’t. I started because I wanted to do tricks and now I’m addicted to something I hate
@@ToxicFruitSnack the way you replied to the other dudes comment proves you genuinely have no idea what life is nor the idea shits far different for others, hope your suburbs are cozy.
As someone who INCREDIBLY regrettably starting vaping like 10 years ago when it just started becoming popular I can say wholeheartedly that nicotine addiction from vaping is way way way more intense please don’t ever EVER buy or own a vape
There’s another few stages if you’re really in a bad place: Stage 8: Increasing the dosage. You start to experience nicotine sickness occasionally, it sucks. You start to develop a tolerance to that level of nicotine and you no longer feel nicotine sickness. Most people stop here, they realize, if I don’t increase the dosage anymore, I won’t get nic sick anymore. Stage 9: You don’t stop increasing the dosage. You get even more nic sick than before, but again you keep going and after a few weeks you’re not getting sick anymore. Stage 10: You are now buying the highest concentration juice available, and still blinking every hit. Now the nicotine sickness is so bad you can’t move until it subsides. Stage 11: You continue to vape through the sickness, and now you’re vaping more often and more intensely than you were when you were on a lower concentration. You reach the point where you no longer feel sick from the nicotine sickness, it’s still there but you’re used to it so you don’t feel like throwing up, you just feel completely numb. It’s like being a functioning alcoholic, you don’t feel the buzz of being drunk anymore, and you feel just a sick but you’re used to it and can now “function” that is, do everyday tasks like walk and think. Now the nicotine sickness is the feeling you chase rather than the buzz. When you aren’t numbed anymore your anxiety and stress levels are through the roof, your heart is beating out of your chest and you are going to the public bathroom 5 times an hour to get back to feeling numb. There might be more beyond this but this was as far as I got. Ironically enough it kind of helped that I was this horribly addicted when I ended up quitting because when most people quit, their last time vaping before quitting was a positive experience to them, so they remember “oh that day it really helped with my stress” so they have the craving to do it again, and one day when the stress is bad enough they relapse. For me, yes the vape was “helping” with my anxiety, but it was the damn thing that caused it in the first place. I never had anxiety anywhere close to that bad before I vaped, I was just having insane withdrawals because of the amount of nicotine I was consuming that caused anxiety attacks and intense stress. So I know for a fact I will never go back because of how horrible it got, sometimes my brain tries to trick me into thinking of it fondly; “oh I remember when I used to vape and I could just inhale and my problems would melt away” but then I snap back to reality and remember that it’s the nicotine trying to trick me, and it’s a lying because it wasn’t all that great looking back on it objectively. Personally I think nicotine is one of the more fucked up drugs because you can use it and “function”, like if you’re smoking weed or something most people can’t think straight and therefore don’t get high before going to work and then only do it at night, and you can’t smoke indoors in a public place without getting caught but with nicotine you can abuse it 24/7 and be in public or at work or school and still be using it because it’s in your pocket at all times.
True, im at the point point where i put 50mg salt into a mod, i dont even feel that anymore, not even after i wake up in the morning because there is so much in my system, just sucks. cant really stop at this point though sadly
yeah i feel the same, vapes are just too convenient, u dont have to go outside, look everywhere for a plug, find the right time or really think about what it means 2 abuse it unlike legit everything else lol
Im on an elf bar that is starting to taste burnt. I'm gonna try and quit cold turkey. Im tired of having it constantly on my mind and wasting money for something that doesn't even give me anything in return .This video pushed me to stop, very accurate
@@DonDadda45 I used to use "real" vapes, even built my own coils in RDA's, and DIYed my juice in the beginning. But I got pretty lazy and just wanted my nic, and the disposables usually taste and hit good. I think kids may use them because they are really low profile you just hit it, and charge it till it dies, and you don't need to buy coils, and juice separately, its much easier to hide from people.
Congrats on making it two years🎉! Forget your one relapse. Even if your goal was to quit forever, two years is absolutely perfect. Reach for three years!
one relapse doesn't have to be the end it's not enough to build up your physical dependence fully, so quit while you're ahead, don't finish the pack :p
it's absolutely true about being something you don't like anymore but still do it, and i feel i get tired instantly after smoking. Also tried quitting a hundred times, the most successful attempt went down in one cigarette at a party. So if you're going to quit, you have to make sure never to smoke again, because you'll go straight to level 7
You described my journey until stage 3 exactly. My first vape hit was from a friends vape who had a very powerful expensive vape (I think it was like 200W or something) and my first nicotine hit ever was from that thing. It would produce a lot of vapor and the feeling was out of this world. I kept using his vape throughout the whole night (it was a party). The next day I immediately went and bought a beginner vape. In the beginning I would get the feeling everytime I hit it, then it would take 2-3 bigger hits and by the end I wouldn't get it at all. Not soon after (2-3 days) my vape died. At that point I was like "eh, I'm over it.. I can't be bothered to go buy a new one" especially since I don't get the nice feeling anymore. After that, I never vaped again. It was a nice one time experience and the tingly feeling was great, but it sucks that you stop getting it so quickly. I was kind of scared I'd get addicted, but I was also in a pretty bad place at the time so I didn't really care. I probably didn't do more than a 1000 puffs in total
I find this applies to weed because when I first started smoking almost half a year ago now (jeez) every time I got home from work I’d roll up and smoke. I’ve progressively noticed that I need more and more of the blunt to be high, and my job’s really stressful so to hold onto that thought of “I dont need it” is fkin insane. Literally like Spongebob looking at that jar of water in Sandy’s house repeating “I dont need it…” but then something happens…anything….I stub my toe, or I dont have any food to prepare, or I lose in a PvP match…..I NEED IT!!!!! PS: Nice touch with the Made in Abyss OST at the end, Kevin’s a literal god. Have you seen s2 yet?
It’s because you’re smoking blunts, which contain tobacco, which contains nicotine, switch to bowls or joints and you won’t be dependent. It’s not the weed it’s the tobacco.
@@2060-y9n second that, Ive been smoking throughout the day for years now to self medicate a plethora of mental issues. Its not even fun anymore unless I just sit and smoke for 30 minutes straight.
Thats just a result of overuse. Smoke one hit and wait 10 minutes, guarentee you'll be surprised by how high you are. Whenever I felt I needed more, that was key to slow it down. You have that "I smoked X amount and I am still not even high enough" moment, and quitting altogether isn't a good option. Just linit yourself, you'll be surprised how much more you enjoy it and it'll help your tolerance decrease without the shit side effects.
@@GTHaroFITBMX facts I have a dry herb vaporizer and am able to get high with as little as a 8th a month as well as smoking a blunt occasionally with homies (unless I’m on vacation which I smoke a lot) you start to realize that you don’t actually need a lot for the desired effects if you simply stick to a certain amount and take a tolerance break here and there
I'm 13 years old and i've started vaping because it's apart of the "Australian culture", i started doing it because i thought its cool but i dont know how im ever gonna quit now.
Try your best to quit the longer you wait the more damage you do. You might be thinking to yourself “oh its a vape its safe” welp you’d assume it is but here i am coughing up a lung every morning.
bro no vaping is not cool you are very young and must never poison yourself with this please go to the therapy and tell them you are vape overlord and then press x when dialogue (???????) pops up
yeah its fucked here, seems like everyone is addicted, so many cunts cant get through one lecture without hitting it. Great video king, love your stuff
Started with 13 as well, quickly went up to 30+ cigarettes a day, spend way more than 2000 bucks a year (Germany is hella expensive), did this for around 18 years and then my depression and social anxiety let me quit from one day to the next no problem, because I was literally unable to go the store to buy a pack
The thing is, its so hard to go back to stage 0 when most your friends are in stage 2-7. You know exactly who has what and when they have it. But I reached the no buzz stage as soon as I actually got my own and just gave up and threw it out.
I feel you dude, my whole circle of friends are all smokers, not vape tho but cigarettes, and a pack each is a minimum consumption, after every class we bum one or two, from highschool to university but then pandemic happens then quarantine and i actually able to quit so yeah going to my 3rd year now, heres to another nicotine free year
@@kurokuro8626 Cheers to you. I’m only four weeks clean but that’s four weeks compared to my short 2 months ish of using every day. Trying to convince the people I’m close to to quit rn. Not even everything, just nic because it’s so easy but bad for your lungs. I told them like do eddies if you have to, it’s so much more efficient and enjoyable than nic and you won’t be coughing chronically ykyk??
