7 Reasons Your Last Attempt To Quit The Vape Didn't Stick
If you've tried 0mg, patches or cold turkey and ended up back on it, it probably wasn't your fault.
You quit smoking. That was the hard part. You did it once, which is more than most people ever manage.
So why can't you put a vape down?
Thousands of UK vapers have told the same story online: they swapped the fags for a vape to quit, and a few years later they're on it more than they ever smoked. "I quit smoking in 2017 and thought vaping would be a good alternative. 8 years later and I'm still heavily tooting away." (PistonHeads forum)
Here's why the usual ways of quitting keep failing, and what's actually working instead.
A cigarette ends. A vape never does.
A cigarette has a last drag. You stub it out, and that's that until the next one.
A vape has no end. It's in your hand in the car, on the sofa, in bed. You don't decide to have one. You just never stop. "I think it's because there is no natural end like there is with a fag." (Mumsnet)
That's why so many people vape more than they ever smoked. It's not weakness. It's how the thing is built.
0mg kept the vape in your hand.
Dropping to 0mg sounds clever. Cut the nicotine, and the habit goes with it.
Except it doesn't. Plenty of people on 0mg vape just as much as before, because the bit they can't stop was never just the nicotine. It was the hand going to the mouth.
Patches fix the craving. Not the habit.
Patches and gum do one job: they give you nicotine. They do nothing for the hundreds of times a day your hand reaches for something.
"Craving nicotine doesn't last so long but our habits do." (POTV forum)
The craving lasts minutes. The habit lasts all day. Most methods only treat the first one.
Cold turkey leaves your hands with nothing to do.
Willpower works right up until the first stressful phone call, the first pint, or the first drive home.
Cold turkey asks you to fight the habit every few minutes, all day, with nothing in your hand. No wonder most people last a few days.
The NHS will help you quit smoking. Not vaping.
The NHS stop smoking services were built to get people off cigarettes, often onto a vape. Getting off the vape itself? You're mostly on your own. "they cannot help with vaping only smoking" (Reddit)
So if you've felt like nobody's taking your vaping seriously, you're not imagining it.
Nothing replaced the thing in your hand.
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It won't feel like your vape. That's the point. It keeps the habit in your hand with nothing in it, so the urge fades instead of getting fed. And it's not a new habit either: "After about a month I forgot to use it entirely and suddenly came to realise I had no cravings!" (Trustpilot, HÜM customer, GB)
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