In this video I go into the positives and negatives of quitting vaping and offer advice to those struggling with nicotine addiction/wondering if vaping is worth it.
Thank you for making this video. I’ve been struggling immensely to quit and I feel like it’s making my anxiety so so bad, a “living hell” as you said. I’m quitting today 12/26/23 and i’ll be returning to this video when i need motivation and I’m leaving this comment to maybe weirdly hold myself accountable. we’ll all get there eventually guys.
I vaped while studying, running errands, watching tv, before and after I showered, before and after I ate, and in the bathroom while out with friends. It was constant. I'm on day thirty-four of quitting. I keep in mind the reason I quit. Time passes but my emotional memory is still in effect because I know that in about 6 months, I might buy a vape knowing that I could simply "quit again". I need to remember what vaping did to me. I experienced brain fog, it messed with my throat, my skin aged, and I experienced shortness of breath while doing small physical tasks. Quitting will always be worth it. To anyone reading this, I know it's tough but keep going and one day you will forget that you even took up a vaping habit.
Yeah, I defo started again after 1.2 years off and 6 years on before that. IT WAS NOT WORTH IT!! You will quickly remember why you quit in the first place, and then realize how hard it is to quit again. Nicotine is a shit tier drug.
I'm two months in now, but i caved and bought one but threw it away the same day after seeing how it made me feel again. You get urges a lot and its hard to not give in but remembering how I feel (or seeing it again) has helped me to try to keep off of it.
It may take a few months before you eventually just stop. I would do few months on few months on, until eventually i just decided to quit, I notice when your soul truely wants to stop something it just will. dont remember when I quit since i didnt note the date, in my head noting the date told me im just doing it for another streak. But once I decided that was it no more vape no more craving. its probably been nearly two years.
The "debilitating anxiety" you speak of is SO GOD DAMN TRUE. Don't underestimate this one folks. I was having almost daily panic attacks and I kept asking myself "why? I don't even feel anxious about anything". The nicotine itself causes you anxiety, even if you aren't feeling it mentally. I didn't make the connection at first either while I was vaping but within 3 days of quitting it was all gone.
and ruminating thoughts. Was waking up thinking the SAME DAM thoughts for 6 months. Mind became so utterly basic and retarded. As soon as I stopped. The worthless thought patterns ceased and imagination and creative adaptive thought came back
@@Hifcrea Honestly needed to hear this. Been dealing with that for the last 6 months two years into my vape addiction. I plan on quitting cold turkey tomorrow and came here for some added motivation.
Ohhh yea I remember it too. The anxiety was baddd, I was already a semi anxious person before vaping nicotine, and it amplified it by 100. I remember while I was still addicted I couldn’t even think about presenting in front of a classroom, one time i literally walked to the class and was about to walk in the door but I turned around because I almost had a panic attack from being that close to presenting. 2 years clean off it now! Just kicked weed to the curb for good too, 30 days off that now, life is great!
I agree man, Nicotine definitely demotivates you in terms of certain things “making adhd worse” in a way. That’s the main thing I am noticing. The important things / less fun things to do are sooo much harder to do when using nicotine. Procrastination is insane on nicotine. You can be the most driven person & nicotine will slice that to pieces. Appreciate your insight on this as someone with adhd. Nicotine is disgusting & evil man, I’m certain on it. Waking up spiting out blood / having zero energy & feeling like death half of the time is not it. Don’t ever go back dawg 🤞🏽🖤
I feel like vaping made my caffeine addiction worse and reinforced it because the fatigue i felt from vaping made me more dependant on caffeine. I would have described myself as pretty motivated in working out more than the average person and while that may have been true, even while using nicotine, it was stopping me from being even more driven and also did lead to me to burn out a bit easier because it became too easy to use caffeine frequently as an excuse to get around the fatigue i felt vaping a lot of the time.
@@masondykstra9464 weed also effected my motivation but I haven’t smoked weed in about 6 months. Nicotine isn’t as significant but I definitely notice me looking for excuses to “take breaks” or “complain”. Idk it’s definitely not a huge thing but I have noticed the effect it has on my motivation in general.
I’ve lost track of exactly how long it’s been but it’s gotta be over 6 months sober for me, for those struggling IT FEELS SO F*CKING GOOD!! I remember feeling like a slave to the drug and I couldn’t live life without it but now a friend can vape next to me and I don’t even care!
Your experience with the addictive voice is similar to mine with alcohol. I have decided that I will not drink...but I allow myself to re-evaluate that decision every so often. I can change my mind about drinking any time I want to, but I promised myself that if I did decide to pick up drinking, it would not be a spur-of-the-moment type of thing--it would be something I planned out carefully--almost like buying a car or a house. So my rules are: 1. Never ever drink. 2. You may drink again if you carefully evaluate that decision. "What would happen if I decided to drink again." I list pros and cons and I ask myself "Do you really want to drink" and the answer so far has always been "no" (just shy of two years alcohol free).
A few points I agree with the most and aren’t stressed enough are: -Lack of energy all the time - Thinking you have bad ADHD when you’re just withdrawing - E.D.
I stepped down from vaping to pouches and then reduced my intake until i eventually had the strength to quit. Still get intense cravings 8mo later but somthing RFK Jr said stuck with me. "I didn't want to be 'white knuckle' sober". So when i get these cravings I remind myself of the kind of person i want to be; the kind of person that has inner peace knowing they pulled themselves out of the depths of addiction without constant fear of crashing back down.
I actually loved this video. I think you are very introspective and you summed up a lot of stuff that’s really relatable to me. That feeling after a few months of ‘you could just go and get a vape’ is so annoying haha. Because it makes you feel like it’s not a big deal because you can’t remember the bad parts as deeply
I quit smoking by vaping (I smoked for 40 years). After a while vaping wasn't so important any more. So I quit vaping because I wanted to be free. I am feeling so happy every day that I don't have any addictions. I am truly free and been so already for 8 years😅
Sees other guy vaping after 8 month of quitting. Holy shit I would get a super buzz if I hit one right now. Then the other side of me is like I’m not spending $20 on bullshit I don’t need anymore. And then I’ll feel enlightened by the fact of how far I’ve come.
im on day 19. sometimes it feels easy and sometimes it feels impossible, its weird.. distractions help to an extent, but that's all i can do. hearing that cravings never really stop is a little discouraging, but i know its worth bettering my health. they're becoming less frequent anyway. i just wish i never started lol
Coffee really helps. I know caffeine is addicting too but I learned black coffee is healthy to drink. I haven't vaped in about a month and I'm still holding strong despite the cravings. I found your channel from your paranoid personality video and I struggle with that too. I value ur content so I'm definitely going to like and sub keep it up man 🙏🏽
I'm glad you made this video. I'm working on quitting vaping now as my new years resolution. My last hit was Jan 2nd (it's Jan 7th today) and I've been watching videos like this talking about what it's like after a year of quitting. I've found that's making me more envious of you guys that have quit rather than being envious of the people still vaping around me. I wouldn't mind if you did another few videos on the topic just kind of discussing life without it.
@@Hobinator17 Hey, this is my first time visiting this video since January. I am proud to say that I am still vape free as of Jan. 2 and I feel better now than I ever felt vaping. Whereas if I was offered a vape within the first three months of quitting, I had to try incredibly hard to say no. Today, If I'm out with friends and they offer me a hit it feels easier saying "no thank you" than saying "yeah."
im on day 5 and its making me realise how addicted i truly am. i only vaped consistently for two months and now that i quit i miss it more and more, completely ignoring the bad side affects i got. i was the same as you in that it made my anxiety so much worse. it became such a routine, every time i would go to the bathroom at work, at the mall, or even out for lunch with my family i had to have a couple hits. watching tv in bed or playing games, i would do it, it became a really fun mouth fixation. ive tried to move on to chewing gum as replacement for this, but my hunger has been extremely high since quitting so ive been overeating ( i didnt realise how much of an appetite suppressant vaping was for me until now). i will say thought i feel way less anxious already, and my lungs already feel 'cleaner'. despite these positives i really badly want to stop by the vape shop and buy a fresh one. thank you for your video it is very informative.
@@SalihFCanpolat jesus i forgot that i commented this. at the time i made that comment i quit for 11 days and then gave up. then i kept doing it for a few months, then i was able to quit for 3 months. and now i’ve been doing it again for like 3 months (regrettably). the first time i quit i started doing it again due to the physical withdrawal symptoms; empty feeling in my chest, and also constant hunger. however when i quit for 3 months the only withdrawal symptom i felt at the end of it was dopamine withdrawal. i’d gotten so used to the constant hit of dopamine my vape got me, so when i stopped i just felt depressed and welp now i’m doing it again
@@adoredelanofan3082It happens! I could quit cigarettes and even vape but hookah took me a lot of tries! Best is doing it cold turkey and never touching it again. You might also go for nicotine free vaping, helped me a lot. This is a process and failing is part of the process, best of luck!
Back in my days people just called it smoking. I've smoked for 17 years, quit one day and it's been 3 years since and I'm feeling fresh. Good luck to y'all and hope you stay clean long!
good job will. i was bad news - when i sday that you can trust that i am not telling tales or stretching truths , i was bad news . nicotene had me . i was a smoker ,then i switched to vape with intent to quit , i vaped for one year and tapered the nic slowly. i hit zero and sold all my vape stuff . now it is been maybe ten years for me . i dont miss it at all . stay strong pal . you will know you are finally quit because you do not miss it . thats the thing , i tried to quit for 9 times and every time i made it from 3 months to a year but i went back .
man i’m only halfway through this video but i just want to say thank you because so many of these things that you’re bringing up describe me perfectly!!!!! however i never realized in the first place that some of these things had to do with nicotine. (btw i am actively trying to quit, i’m barely even a day sober lol but im still trying)
Your a strong man I’m 19 been smoking them for two years no matter all the adverse health effects I’ve noticed it’s been one of the hardest battles I’ve faced in my entire existence to quit the darn thing I work graveyard shift now for a year and a half since I was 18 and it’s been helping me stay up and be alert but I’ve been trying to faze it out with nicotine gum but it’s very hard since everyone around me at work smokes them as well so it’s easy to get a hit or keep hitting it all night even if I don’t have it I pray to God in Jesus name amen King of Kings that I find the willpower and faith to quit amen this definitely is the universe trying to make me quit I haven’t even watched any vids about this and I was talking to myself about quitting then this is recommended or maybe it’s my phone listening to me 🤣💯😅
Congratulations on hitting one year nicotine free! I had been vaping since the early days of ecigarettes for nearly 11 years. Currently I'm 7 months nicotine free. You definitely hit the nail on the head in regards to the cravings. I often find myself driving by vape shops and just thinking I could go for a quick puff bar. It's not a physical addiction anymore it's all mental. For me the first two weeks after quitting were the worst. I had many physical withdrawal symptoms such as tachycardia, shivers, cold sweats, increased appetite, and oddly enough, very vivid stress dreams. I believe this is because of how long I had been using nicotine. If any younger folks that haven't vaped for an extended period of time are reading this just know that quitting only gets hard the longer you put it off.
I notice that since I quit It feels like I have so much more time and energy to do productive tasks. Time slows down for me because I’m not constantly thinking about hitting it or looking for the vape. And I can focus that energy on good things.
All y’all in the process of quitting, full respect and I’m there with ya - currently 2 and a half weeks without touching the stuff and feeling great. For me, honestly wouldn’t have been able to do it so far without finding the perfect replacement in this thing called a Capnos EZ (free publicity for these guys I guess haha, they deserve it though tbh). It literally looks and feels in your hand like a vape, and you get the ‘good’ parts of smoking and vaping (flavour, throat hit, sound, oral fixation) but it’s just pressurized air running past some cotton soaked in some food additive type stuff. Whenever you get the cravings you just hit this thing as much as you want till you get distracted. Quitting nicotines worth it, whatever way works for you - you got this 🤝
01:19 I quit smoking about 2 weeks using a vape because i failed too many times going cold turkey .. and it's a strange experience because i don't like the smell of cigarettes right now but many times i feel like having a cigarette in my hand .. it's absolutely disappointing to think about how much time i'm gonna have to deal with this depression even if i've read too much approaches about smoking and with all this knowledge i still have that idea of " this all makes sense but i still want to smoke " but anyways i'm still determined even if i don't have the least requierement to stop an addiction which is a taking a direction in life .. but it's gonna be better .. i choose to go through this now rather than later .
I'm on week 3 after quitting and I hate the brain fog and lack of focus. I hope it improve with time. The good thing is that I'm unable to procrastinate. Thanks for sharing your experience.
@@beyondthelol Yes, it eventually goes away. But it really takes a long time. It was so bad I almost lost my job. It took four months for me to get back to normal.
I smoked for 25 years, and I just quit. I'm in week 8 smoke free right now. Dont know if vaping is stronger or lighter than cigarettes. Anyways, I smoked 70 grams of tobacco a week plus a pack of marlboros in the weekend. Never had any problems with my health. Until 8 weeks ago, got a raging fever and breathing became hard. After a week I felt normal again but couldn't walk the stairs without taking an extra breath. I was scared to death. I just quit, it was like a switch in my head flipped over. The first week I was sick so I don't count that one, but week 2 and 3 were hard. After that it became better and better. Now I just get a cup of coffee instead of a cigarette. I hope it will stay this way, but for now I don't want a cigarette at all. Oh and nicotine couses higher blood pressure so its possible (at least In my case) that you get REALLY tired in the first weeks. Good luck!
This was majorly helpful for me. I'm on day 4. The thing that really got me in your description was just how disgusting it is. I never want to cough up strawberry flavored phlegm again. 🤮
It's hard. I'm on day one again, its 5 pm and I wanna cry because I'm thinking about how chill it is to vape and play a video game or working around my room. I tell myself that I can vape again as soon as I start doing better in life and find a good career. Maybe it's the constant noise around the house that bothers me. What the hell, I'll stop for a year as long as I'm productive as hell and then see if I still wanna vape. I'll give life a chance. I don't plan on never vaping again but I'll give sobriety a chance.
Day 14 here, it was so worth it. You know when you wake up and can’t breathe before you cough for 5 minutes clearing out that mucus? Yeah that’s gone, you know when you have to speed walk to complete a task at work and you need to stop to breathe even though it’s a 30 second walk? Yeah that’s gone. You know when your talking and you have to stop to take a breath to finish your sentence? Yeah that’s gone. I feel incredible. I’m not going back. Take action now. It will never get easier.
I assume you are talking about smoking? I switched to vaping many years ago and don’t have any of these problems anymore. In fact I participate in quite a few cardio intense athletic activities all while vaping. I know it’s not good but I don’t really notice any issues.
Theobromine, the compound in cacao that gives you a buzz is helping me a lot after quitting zyn. I was up to a can a day of the 6mg zyn pouches. Day 3 was the worst. Felt like I was going to have a breakdown
10:52 holy fuck, thank u for saying that, everytime i'll stand up, I get dizzy af, but I never thought nicotine could be the reason. I was blaming weed or other substances, because I hadn't this feeling when I was only smoking nicotine, but when I'll think about it, I'm probably now smoking like five times more cigarettes per day. Often getting numb limbs is also a big thing. /Well, sexual disfunction also sounds quite familiar, and also I was blaming anxiety. I was thinking few times in my life that I'll quit smoking some day, but I was thinking maybe like when I'll hit 30 yrs. Now I'm 21, and I think I'll do it a little bit sooner XD Thank you for video, the only information about quitting nicotine with ADHD on YT that I've found, and I'm now definietly more decided on quitting. Wish me luck i guess, and also good luck for everyone on this path.
I smoked hookah for a decade and switched to vaping when I was working two jobs. I have been away from both for two years and still routinely crave both. I quit drinking two months ago. Whenever I was drinking I linked it to nicotine and wanted the combo of them
I’ve just tried quitting and it’s the dizziness that made me pick my vape up again anybody else relate? I’m going to try again tomorrow but not have my vape with me so I don’t have the option! I’m annoyed at myself about today I just want to stop it’s so crap
For me the Nicotine was on top of my other addictions which was one of the reasons that I quite. When I was using nicotine I was watching adult media content, masturbate, energy drink. plus feeling guilty and fear of cancer.
I used to smoke a lot, I mean two packs a day plus 8 bowls of hookah. I just cold turkey the cigarettes. Hookah was much harder, first step was to not to ever smoke it at home. Reduced the amount from 6 per day to 4 per week then vaping came into picture and I was using nicotine free vape to have the feeling of hookah. The 4 per week slowly went down to once a week sometimes bi-weekly sessions then totally dropped. Later on, I started to have less urge to pick up my vape. When my old mod died out, I just didn't pick it up. These days I vape from time to time with my personal box mod but I am strictly nicotine free for my own mod. Rarely, I sample what others have but I never ever buy and hold a personal nicotine containing product. I am fine now, I still have the cravings to smoke a nice bowl of hookah. If your addiction focus is vape, never, never, ever touch it again. Even after 6 years I still have cravings or find myself inhaling second hand hookah smoke while passing in front of a hookah bar. So best is to keep it away and never to touch it. If vaping were my addiction focus, I would do the same for it. Best of luck, you do need it.
I to quit vaping. Constant anxiety going up . Constantly clearing my throat and coughing. Started out with beginners pen with atomizer. And worked my way to the RDA kit . Loved the rda as I could buy 8 loose coils in small container . Had a bag of cotton bacon and would wick my own coils . Besides that vaping is still not safe and I dont recommend doing it .
I really wish people talked more about the difference between nicotine salt and freebase nicotine. Salt is straight up the devil but freebase not so much. Freebase is not nearly as addictive and it doesn’t hit that intensely. I honestly don’t know how people can stand the salts as they cause every symptom you listed in this video; freebase gives me no troubles at all. I’m not advocating for freebase here, but the differences should be made clear to people, especially anyone going for harm reduction to get off the analogs.
Did your productive levels/ability to focus eventually balance out without using nicotine? Also would you say nicotine overall increases or decreases your motivation as a person?
It becomes a lot easier to focus in the long run after quitting especially if you were entirely dependent on nicotine to focus. The first month felt like a complete fog but by the second month it already became easier to focus. I think the hardest part about quitting is learning how to focus naturally but it's an extremely important skill to have. As for motivation, I think it highly depends on how often you use it. If you're addicted and using it constantly, it will lower motivation, at least it did in my case. But if used occasionally (not promoting it) I think it does have a positive effect on motivation and focus, but the issue with nicotine is that it's just too addictive for the vast majority of us to moderate it lol. To address your other comment on dopamine fasting, I have done that a few times throughout the past few years and I think it can be beneficial if you're in a unmotivated rut although I generally prefer to do these things gradually.
I also had sexual performance issues I never attributed to nicotine until a moment of clarity later. Years later, here I am trying to quit vaping again. It's incredible just how subtle nicotine's power is. Nicotine will embarrass you in the bedroom and you'll casually wrap your arm around her. I find myself successfully quitting and going right back in a cycle that starts again every few years or so.
I’m glad you quit although I think most of these experiences are exclusive to you. I quit a long time ago and have never dealt with even half of these issues but everyone’s brain and body are different
Started in high school, stuck with it since. On and off constantly throughout. One thing I can say it for sure messed with emotional intelligence. You lack social queues. It ‘s literally hard to walk/stand upright; in result poor posture. Gum discolouration. Puffiness in face/bad jawline. Say goodbye to any cardio or endurance demanding sports. The list goes on man. I have to quit, because it’s deviating me from my purpose and what I love to do. Deemed as a tranquilizer to minimize or reduce stress is just a gimmick, it makes it worse. It’s a plant from the devil. Adam was told not to eat the fruit from the tree.
I have nothing to say about the effectiveness of nicotine for ADHD, I've seen no studies and am not a sufferer... though your mention of heroin is not apropos. Adderall and heroin are on completely opposite ends of spectrum between "stimulant" and "depressant." Adderall is amphetamine (an "upper") and heroin is a narcotic analgesic (a "downer".) I believe the claim that's being made is that, since nicotine and Adderall are both "stimulants", they might have a similar mode of action in some of the ways they interact with a person's brain chemistry and psyche. Saying the comparison is akin to comparing heroin kind of hurts any credibility you might have to speak intelligently on the subject.
Also saying that nicotine is bad because it is addictive... ahh, well again, I think you might need to read up about the addictiveness and harm potential of amphetamine. Can't make the argument about one while ignoring the other.
@@mercster Yeah it was a dumb comparison, but the point I was trying to make is that saying just because something raises your dopamine, that doesn’t mean that it inherently helps your ADHD, I would cut out that part if I could because it doesn’t really land but the video is over a year old man lol not everything I’m going to say is going to be perfect and I have never claimed to be a professional, it really isn’t that deep, you’re allowed to disagree, most people with ADHD who use meds don’t find them to be addictive that’s just statistically true, and I don’t use weed anymore but that was never a substance I personally found addictive and it didn’t negatively impact my life, everyone is different
Don't vape but alcohol fine lol! I vape an don't smoke no more, but vape does no damage at all, all in people's head's. I do boxing training in garden an go hard, i vape during it an it don't effect my training at all, smoking does 1 billion %, done that an couldn't last the session. People who only vape have made progress from cigarettes. Try working out, sitting at home making video's will add 2 your addiction, get out in the sun an exercise, get endophines going. Being unpopular won't stop my opinion
A lot of what I say in these videos is moreso directed at people my age that start vaping without prior history of smoking, vaping is definitely better than smoking and making the switch is an accomplishment
Hey man. I'm a never smoker never vaper. The nicotine patch is a life saver for me as an alternative for adhd meds since its free here. But thats just my own experience. I feel that the consistent release over time without any dopamine spikes gives me cognitive benefits. Check out the MIND (memory improvement through nicotine dosage) study.
You look to young to have done anything for a long time. I'm 60 smoked cigarettes for 42 years and have been vaping the last year and never had the problems you claim. Don't think I'm genetically gifted so maybe your a little hypochondriac prone.
Everyone’s different, there are people that can drink in moderation and have no issues but then there are people who get extremely sick from even small amounts, there are people that can handle high amounts of caffeine and others who get anxious from the caffeine in a soda, most people my age I’ve known who have used nicotine have had similar issues to me, some people just tolerate vaping better than others
@@WiseWordsofWill o personal tolerance in your video you seamed to just blame the vape. You might want to consider this could discourage someone from switching from smoking cigarettes witch we know kills
My opinion is that Vaping should be completely banned and so should smoking 🚬 in this 🌍, Weak minded people get hooked and can’t stop ! I’ll stick to exercise and swimming x
