I’ve been told 5 hits of a 20mg vape (UK) is one cigarette but the issue is quantifying the size of a hit.
(Please note I’m extremely sensitive to nicotine and it doesn’t effect me normally, I also have used nicotine to dangerous amounts, like 60+ death drag puffs of a 20mg vape a day etc)
Anecdotally for me, the feeling is distinctly different, a vape feels what I imagine is a baby version of a crack pipe, crazy head rush, with a decent touch of euphoria and rushy thoughts.
That’s from one decent hit without tolerance,
A cigarette is quite different and its effects last longer, and they are far less compulsive.
I have always thought this is due to other alkaloids in tobacco.
I personally think the vape is far more sinister, even if “healthier” the ability to repeat chain hits could be making people have absurd tolerance issues especially with silly high concentrations we have here like in the UK not to mention the unstudied affects of massive vaporised concentrations of PG etc (but I don’t want to be making uncorroborated claims)
All the trendy disposable vapes here were 20mg, and also the kind all the kids were on. I’ve seen kids as young as 11-12 vaping.
Maybe not the best comparison but I quit smoking for 3 years, and I quit many other drugs basically cold turkey (benzos, opioids, please don’t take that as any kind of brag, that is DANGEROUS) but it has taken me over a year of vaping with the new kind of vapes to finally have gotten over my insane self harm and to put the fucking thing down.
I think it’s been two days, I’ve quit 4-5 times before in the past year and a bit, with only a few weeks at a time.
It’s taken this far to make me realise how much damage it’s done to my sinuses, my breathing and how badly it’s affected my mental health.
It’s only after realising; that after taking mega doses of GYLNAC (1800mg a day) that I can only breathe properly while vaping, that I’ve started having panic attacks for the first time in years, so bad I nearly call the ambulance due to have strange my heart rhythm gets, that I generally watch my whole mind state shift to constant anxious paranoia all day, and a constant desire for obtaining more gratification.
These two days off have made me realise how badly nicotine interferes with my prescription stimulant and makes it basically not work, how I get tightness in my veins and chest pain, and the constant craving and searching.
Luckily this time the memory of a panic attack so bad that I didn’t sleep for 30 hours to come right at the forefront of any nicotine cravings and helps me swipe them away.
Being prescribed 92 mg of Methylphenidate a day has taken care of any withdrawals and this time although my track record is bad I’m actually ready to permanently abstain from nicotine.
It’s way to easy to joke about studies that nicotine prevents Alzheimer’s to watching you kill yourself with a silly electronic rod that only makes you feel continually worse and slowly degenerates your behaviour
I may be unique in this and I don’t want this to be taken as preaching or advice,
These issues basically stemmed from my use, and it’s not really the fault of nicotine or the device, but I question the ability of some to have the restraint to not be overdosing themselves with nicotine all day.
Although people argue I’ve seen a fair few studies saying vaping appears mostly safer and that it’s the most effective NRT
But a final say of I found vaping so unbelievably damaging to my health, and that I do worry their effects on very sensitive people like me with severe mental health issues.
and drinking water after being hydrated does very little. It's a lot better to drink water before you rip it
