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People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

248 points · 335 comments · alephnerd

dasKrokodil · 1790061745 · focus · HN ↗
A while back I saw this on reddit... in case you don't want to click the link, it's a picture of a cigarette with the caption "This plant-based alternative promises to help high schoolers stop vaping".
I would have never thought that people would be stupid enough to try this for real, but here we are...
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ffinally-i-can-get-my-friends-to-stop-vaping-v0-kullhw8l224h1.jpeg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D5b429d24bfe7cb66608ba3677ab4c8477ded1b72" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
1. d--b · 1790110860 · focus · HN ↗
  You're being judgmental but I think you're just misinformed.
  Vaping can be difficult to stop because:
  - it's more accepted
  - it's smoother on the throat, and there's plenty of tastes.
  - there is no "dose", if you want to you can just vape non stop, and you can pace yourself. With a cigarette, you can't smoke slowly, or you'll loose half the cigarette.
  All in all, it's just more convenient and cheaper to vape. If you're hooked, I can see it quite a challenge to stop. You can always say : "oh I am just taking x drags a day".
  Personnally I didn't like vaping much, cause it was the beginning, the tastes were weird, the gear was not great battery-wise. So I kept going back to smoking. Eventually going cold turkey from cigarettes was way easier than through vaping.
  1. axospaxos · 1790113602 · focus · HN ↗
    Heroin is even less accepted, offers less tastes and is more serious about correct dose.
    d--b · 1790143786 · focus · HN ↗
    do I really have to mention that vaping and smoking use the same chemical addiction in comparable doses?
    axospaxos · 1790161450 · focus · HN ↗
    Sure and maybe also cover why you wont add pure nicotine to your heroin instead of subjecting yourself and others to documented cancer risk from cigarette smoke.
    throwawayffffas · 1790152985 · focus · HN ↗
    Heroin does nothing for nicotine addiction, heroine addicts typically smoke as well.

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