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

248 points · 335 comments · alephnerd

sph · 1790065032 · focus · HN ↗
For the past 3 years I have replaced my ADHD stimulant medication with nicotine patches and they’ve been great, cheap, and legal in the country I live in now.
Recently I got the urge to try vaping again, bought all the paraphernalia and started vaping like a chimney 24/7. Got light nicotine poisoning as well. After two days, I caught myself compulsively reaching for the vape.
So I threw everything away and I’m back to patches. Took me a week to forget the compulsive hand-to-mouth urge. I now believe intradermal nicotine is the superior method of administration. At least with cigarettes the smoke is such an intense irritant you self-regulate pretty quickly compared to a cupcake flavoured vape you can just suck on all day long.
1. dasKrokodil · 1790070236 · focus · HN ↗
  > At least with cigarettes the smoke is such an intense irritant you self-regulate pretty quickly compared to a cupcake flavoured vape you can just suck on all day long.
  In my experience: no, you don't. You just arrange your life around the fact that you need to smoke all the time.
  1. sph · 1790101530 · focus · HN ↗
    I've been a heavy cigarette smoker for 12 years (pack a day min.). When I switched to vaping, I vaped continuously the entire day.
    There is no human on earth that can smoke continuously the entire day for very long. A pack a day smoker means smoking one every ~30 minutes circa.
    xoxxala · 1790121606 · focus · HN ↗
    My step-father’s parents smoked a carton a day. Each. They started smoking before breakfast and stopped just before sleep. Their trailer home had a 2-3’ cloud of haze below the ceiling and every surface was sticky. I’m not how many years they smoked like that, but probably decades.
    As a kid, I could not breathe in there. This would have been late 70s. No way they could have afforded that habit at today’s prices.
    paulpauper · 1790126045 · focus · HN ↗
    That is crazy. How long did they live? It would be fascinating if someone could live a long life despite smoking so much
    userbinator · 1790131060 · focus · HN ↗
    It would be fascinating if someone could live a long life despite smoking so much
    Genetic variation probably has a bigger role than we'd like to admit. There are definitely outliers. I know smokers who lived into their 90s, and non-smokers who died much younger. The sibling comment says they lived into their 70s, which is probably average.
    ...and then there's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Health_and_lifestyle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Health_and_life...
    Calment continued smoking in her elderly years until she was 117
    bluecheese452 · 1790162873 · focus · HN ↗
    The data is pretty clear. The existence of outliers does not change this.

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