I have a friend who has been using an e-cigarette for 10+ years. He doesn’t seem any less addicted to smoking as back when he was using old-fashioned cigarettes.

I understand e-cigarettes are supposed to help you quit… but has anyone actually had success with them? Or, is it more like trading one vice for another?

    • @[email protected]
      11•1 year ago

      Because so many of us have quit using them, as you can ween yourself off of the nicotine with lower and lower concentrations.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      People HAVE used them to quit successfully though. You can keep lowering the nicotine levels on them slowly in a similar manner as the nicotine gum and patches and it tends to be cheaper.

        • ANGRY_MAPLE
          2•1 year ago

          No offense, but as someone from outside of the US, the FDA is not the sole speaker of what is safe or what helps addiction. You guys have a LOT of commonly consumed things that are outright banned in other countries.

          While vaping specifically isn’t mentioned as a cessation-aid, my country states that “nicotine is approved for use in nicotine replacement therapies, (e.g. the patch, inhaler or nicotine gum) to ease withdrawal symptoms and help people quit smoking.” Research is ongoing, of course.

          I’ll listen to mine, you listen to yours.

    • Aesthesiaphilia
      5•1 year ago

      and there have been some health questions about the oils that serve as a medium for the nicotine and how healthy they are to inhale.

      Yeah, by fear mongering satanic panic moms and by monied interests

      Nicotine vapes are orders of magnitude more safe than cigarettes. All the research shows it, and the medical establishment is full of cowards with “vapes lead to cigarettes” bullshit.

      The only harmful vape chemicals (on any scale close to cigarettes) are sketchy fake weed from China. 100% of the popcorn lung cases stem from that.

      • Digitalprimate
        4•1 year ago

        Actually the popcorn lung was traced back to one dude in LA who used a thickening agent to make his THC liquid seem thiccc.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        There’s also sketchy fake vape juice from China. A huge amount of disposable vapes (elfbar etc) for sale are counterfeit. Who knows what they’re filled with.

        • Aesthesiaphilia
          3•1 year ago

          Yeah, and it’s all from bullshit THC additive stuff. Not from nicotine vaping. If I add rat poison to my apple juice, it doesn’t mean apple juice is harmful.

          This is the shit I’m talking about, conflating harmful with not harmful.