thing about nicotine is itās good at first and then youāre addicted & have to maintain. so outta the say 8-10 cigs one may smoke a day only 2-3 will you actually āfeel somethingā being addicted to nicotine is basically just being addicted. also weed helps me but i try not to overdo it cuz then Iām too spacy
I feel like part of the reason people smoke is to self soothe and to guarantee they get breaks at work
If you work somewhere that isn't very regulated or has chaotic customer rates where you aren't guaranteed a break, then its much more likely your boss is going to acquiesce when you say you need to have a smoke VS saying you need to go de-stress "What are you gonna do? Go outside and breath? Play a game on your phone? We need you at the counter!"
Smoking (not so much vaping) is also a sort of a dirty meditation. You generally are stationary, have to focus on your breathing. Before smart phones, pretty much all you had to do while on a smoke break was think unless you brought a book or there was a common place people hung out to smoke. Of course its not going to get anywhere near the same results as actually practicing meditation, but it shares similar qualities
As for the "high", I don't really get it. I /think/ I feel more relaxed after I vape, but that could just be because I'm self soothing (I'm super nicotine sensitive so I don't go making crazy clouds) My relationship with cannabis is a bit fucked tho
The war on dr**gs continues to give us gems, such as unicorns like Juul, where we pick and choose what vices benifit calitalism enough to exist. The US government seems to love picking and choosing substances this way, campaign against cigarettes one day, promote psychologicaly adictive substances to make the same companies' bottom line.
When I switched from cigarettes to vaping, I noticed that I was vaping way more than I smoked, like with cigs I have to go outside and they burn for only like 5min, whereas I can vape for hours and I don't even have to go outside… I can even vape, while I'm doing other things…
It's not an anti-drug or anti-freedom mindset to acknowledge that addiction is bad, but I feel like the left fails to realize that. Just look under the Vaush video where he said that there ARE people who are ridiculous with their weed consumption and that it can turn unhealthy, the comments are full of angry stoners. I've seen someone say "I'd rather everyone be addicted than nobody be," even though somehow making everyone addicted would be equally as authoritarian.
Yeah nicotine is highly addictive and never used one, I had a friend who had a flavored one and I've been using CBD and THC vapes for 3 or 4 years and those are the only ones I recommend. Even though nicotine doesn't cause cancer its still not great for you
My little brother is pretty addicted to nicotine from vaping. He's tried to ween himself off, but it is hard. Plus the constant vaping, idk if it's the vapors or the nicotine itself, have been fucking with his lungs. I was shooting hoops with him a couple days ago, and he said he could really feel it in his lungs, and we weren't even going that hard. He was one of the top players on his senior varsity team 2.5 years ago. I know its not nearly as bad as cigarettes, but man it hurts to see. I hope he get better, but fuck is it hard to kick something like that.
I'm 17 and I smoke around 10-15 cigarettes a day. I started off on vapes, only trying cigs a few times, and fast forward about 6 months and basically cripplingly addicted to nicotine. It's something I really want to try and stop but Holy shit is it hard
I quit nicotine a couple months ago, and uh– yeah, the hardest part for me wasn't really wanting the nicotine itself it was the "oral fixation" or want desire to have something in my mouth. I ended up keeping a CBD vape on me at all times so i could hit it when the cravings got too bad, and it helped a lot
Those werent around when i was a kid, id polish off a pack of 20 by the end of the school day. Nicotine is an escape, if we want to conquer youth smoking we need to tackle the reasons they smoke ie stress anxiety ect
I don't like the focus on vape when cigarettes are still extremely popular culturally. I understand they can be an easier way to bring people into nicotine addiction, but they can also be used for people to ease off cigarettes. Trying to fight the influence of vapes when the worst product is still accepted will only push people to double down into smoking the worst option.
Cigarettes smokers need to be treated for what they are, drug addicts. the option to stop smoking shouldn't be treated as a subjective personal choice, but the necessary last step to coming back into society. Smoking doesn't give you personality, charm or mysteriousness, it makes you both a predator and a victim.
A girlfriend I had would litter the house with disposables. Justā¦ dozens. It was such a serious addiction sheād even try to hide them so I wouldnāt know how many she went through. It IS worrying. Just like cigs are except some use these as decoration when they are done which further encourages buying more. š
I mean, a lot of weed vapes are easy to use, just like vapes. A lot of smokers smoke inside. This point is completely…pointless and isnt really an argument at all. All you can really say is its easy to do.
Also, nicotine is as addictive as heroin and alcohol. It should be worth mentioning that physical, chemical dependencies are far more serious and hard to shake than routine-based 'addictions' such as video games.
I work at a smoke shop, and yeah a lot of people don't realize how addictive nicotine is. The batteries use rare earth metals that may not always be mined 'ethically', especially if sourced from the DRC. Anyways, even if vapes weren't harmful to the users, they are demanding things to produce. Fwiw the ingredients are almost entirely composed of food grade flavoring, vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol, and nicotine, sometimes menthol
Iāve had many relatives pass away due to smoking diseases like emphysema and cancer and seeing their slow painful deaths as a child was a little traumatic. I canāt stand to be around nicotine smokers/vapers of any kind, I guess Iām terrified of having someone close to me die like that again. To the nicotine smokers out there, itās not too late to quit
I got addicted to cigarettes when I was 13 (almost 28 now), I ended up being a pack a day smoker and wake up with built up phlegm every morning. Vaping gets rid of that, and its definitely a lesser of two evils, but I would rather vape than smoke cigarettes.
if this video interested you definitely check out Knowing Better's "Light up a Torch of Freedom" video: https://youtu.be/GMOyNgLSX2g
it goes over the history of the tobacco & cigarette industry in very good detail in an accessible way – i watched it while playing video games š
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Im sorry, its just so funny for someone to say they are good at medarating their substance intake or their impulses or whatever
thing about nicotine is itās good at first and then youāre addicted & have to maintain. so outta the say 8-10 cigs one may smoke a day only 2-3 will you actually āfeel somethingā being addicted to nicotine is basically just being addicted. also weed helps me but i try not to overdo it cuz then Iām too spacy
The benefit is the slight high you get from the nicotine
Third day quitting delta 8 vapeā¦.itās just as addicting as regular weed to me. So I quit
I feel like part of the reason people smoke is to self soothe and to guarantee they get breaks at work
If you work somewhere that isn't very regulated or has chaotic customer rates where you aren't guaranteed a break, then its much more likely your boss is going to acquiesce when you say you need to have a smoke VS saying you need to go de-stress "What are you gonna do? Go outside and breath? Play a game on your phone? We need you at the counter!"
Smoking (not so much vaping) is also a sort of a dirty meditation. You generally are stationary, have to focus on your breathing. Before smart phones, pretty much all you had to do while on a smoke break was think unless you brought a book or there was a common place people hung out to smoke. Of course its not going to get anywhere near the same results as actually practicing meditation, but it shares similar qualities
As for the "high", I don't really get it. I /think/ I feel more relaxed after I vape, but that could just be because I'm self soothing (I'm super nicotine sensitive so I don't go making crazy clouds) My relationship with cannabis is a bit fucked tho
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The war on dr**gs continues to give us gems, such as unicorns like Juul, where we pick and choose what vices benifit calitalism enough to exist. The US government seems to love picking and choosing substances this way, campaign against cigarettes one day, promote psychologicaly adictive substances to make the same companies' bottom line.
When I switched from cigarettes to vaping, I noticed that I was vaping way more than I smoked, like with cigs I have to go outside and they burn for only like 5min, whereas I can vape for hours and I don't even have to go outside… I can even vape, while I'm doing other things…
It's not an anti-drug or anti-freedom mindset to acknowledge that addiction is bad, but I feel like the left fails to realize that. Just look under the Vaush video where he said that there ARE people who are ridiculous with their weed consumption and that it can turn unhealthy, the comments are full of angry stoners. I've seen someone say "I'd rather everyone be addicted than nobody be," even though somehow making everyone addicted would be equally as authoritarian.
It's like you take one hit of an Elf Bar and before you know it you're on 48 controlled substances.
REJECT MODERNITY, EMBRACE TRADITION
Yeah nicotine is highly addictive and never used one, I had a friend who had a flavored one and I've been using CBD and THC vapes for 3 or 4 years and those are the only ones I recommend. Even though nicotine doesn't cause cancer its still not great for you
My little brother is pretty addicted to nicotine from vaping. He's tried to ween himself off, but it is hard. Plus the constant vaping, idk if it's the vapors or the nicotine itself, have been fucking with his lungs. I was shooting hoops with him a couple days ago, and he said he could really feel it in his lungs, and we weren't even going that hard. He was one of the top players on his senior varsity team 2.5 years ago. I know its not nearly as bad as cigarettes, but man it hurts to see. I hope he get better, but fuck is it hard to kick something like that.
I'm 17 and I smoke around 10-15 cigarettes a day. I started off on vapes, only trying cigs a few times, and fast forward about 6 months and basically cripplingly addicted to nicotine. It's something I really want to try and stop but Holy shit is it hard
I quit nicotine a couple months ago, and uh– yeah, the hardest part for me wasn't really wanting the nicotine itself it was the "oral fixation" or want desire to have something in my mouth. I ended up keeping a CBD vape on me at all times so i could hit it when the cravings got too bad, and it helped a lot
Those werent around when i was a kid, id polish off a pack of 20 by the end of the school day. Nicotine is an escape, if we want to conquer youth smoking we need to tackle the reasons they smoke ie stress anxiety ect
And thats why I only use edibles wheee
I don't like the focus on vape when cigarettes are still extremely popular culturally. I understand they can be an easier way to bring people into nicotine addiction, but they can also be used for people to ease off cigarettes. Trying to fight the influence of vapes when the worst product is still accepted will only push people to double down into smoking the worst option.
Cigarettes smokers need to be treated for what they are, drug addicts. the option to stop smoking shouldn't be treated as a subjective personal choice, but the necessary last step to coming back into society. Smoking doesn't give you personality, charm or mysteriousness, it makes you both a predator and a victim.
A girlfriend I had would litter the house with disposables. Justā¦ dozens. It was such a serious addiction sheād even try to hide them so I wouldnāt know how many she went through. It IS worrying. Just like cigs are except some use these as decoration when they are done which further encourages buying more. š
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Yeah, I don't trust any of that stuff. I'll live and die straight edge.
I mean, a lot of weed vapes are easy to use, just like vapes. A lot of smokers smoke inside. This point is completely…pointless and isnt really an argument at all. All you can really say is its easy to do.
Vapor: Vaping is actually worse than you think.
Non-smoker: No fucking shit!
Also, nicotine is as addictive as heroin and alcohol. It should be worth mentioning that physical, chemical dependencies are far more serious and hard to shake than routine-based 'addictions' such as video games.
I work at a smoke shop, and yeah a lot of people don't realize how addictive nicotine is. The batteries use rare earth metals that may not always be mined 'ethically', especially if sourced from the DRC. Anyways, even if vapes weren't harmful to the users, they are demanding things to produce. Fwiw the ingredients are almost entirely composed of food grade flavoring, vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol, and nicotine, sometimes menthol
Iāve had many relatives pass away due to smoking diseases like emphysema and cancer and seeing their slow painful deaths as a child was a little traumatic. I canāt stand to be around nicotine smokers/vapers of any kind, I guess Iām terrified of having someone close to me die like that again. To the nicotine smokers out there, itās not too late to quit
I got addicted to cigarettes when I was 13 (almost 28 now), I ended up being a pack a day smoker and wake up with built up phlegm every morning. Vaping gets rid of that, and its definitely a lesser of two evils, but I would rather vape than smoke cigarettes.