I quit smoking using a vape and then quit vaping.

I found that it was easier to quit smoking using a vape because I kept the same motion. I needed a powerful one to feel a similar hit.

And I found it easier to stop vaping than to stop smoking because I could mix liquids to have any desired nicotine content, allowing me to reduce it very gradually. A lot of people simply replace smoking with vaping but that’s still an improvement.

I quit by vaping.

I smoked for 15 or 16 years. I tried vaping one time, around 13 or 14 years in, but it didn’t do it for me. After a few more years of smoking, i tried a sub ohm vape, which used a low nic salt content. It made massive clouds which whilst making me feel like a twat, actually helped to fuel the illusion that i was smoking. The feel on my throat was similar to the cigarettes i was used to, and overall, it felt like smoking, so i managed to stick to it and not smoke at the same time.

The kicker was that the low salt meant that initially i was vaping more often, but as time went on i was finding that i was having less time to vape so i was t getting as much nicotine. Eventually, after maybe 6 months to a year, i found that one day, i went all day at work without vaping once. And when i realised i just decided… i dont need it, so i left the vape at home the next day.

Its been over a year and a half now, and i dont think about them anymore.

I am really fucking happy.

I did, but I also wanted to quit. No one quits a substance they don’t want to quit.

I did. I smoked from 1988 until 2010’ish and also chewed tobacco from '01 - '10 as well.

A friend had Strawberry Rhubarb vape so I tried it, loved it, then converted to vape. I slowly decreased the nicotine amount until it was 0-nic and then from there I started becoming more strict like no vaping at work, no vaping while driving until it got to the point where I just didn’t vape. Then I got bronchitis.

I got better and then began exercising more. I plateaued and saw a doctor. COPD.

Now I’m just depressed all the time because I apparently have Anhedonia to boot.

So I’m gambling with 20% of my take home in hopes one of these strategies has a huge payout so my wife and kid can be taken care of when I’m gone, which will likely be under a decade.