Can anyone explain vaping to me?

I smoked for a couple of months once but gave it up because I'm hopeless at lighting cigarettes without them snuffing out. I bought a vape once and couldn't get it to work. So I went to another supermarket and asked the young person serving me if they knew how to set it up and if I bought it, could they do it. And they did. I opened it and they showed me how to use it. But I couldn't figure out how many times you're supposed to vape on it as compared to a cigarette. With a cigarette it burns out but the vape keeps going on, so how do I know the right amount to vape?

  • I think it may be common for us to get addicted to things than NTs, I smoked when I was younger and pretty much lit one every chance I got, 40 a day was easily done, more some days.i had to quit, hard stop, very difficult, wrecked a couple of years with anxiety and stress packing those up.

    If I drink I hit that "ones too many but a thousands not enough" theme too , so I have to watch that carefully.

    I fear vaping would be much worse, it's socially acceptable, easy to get a nicotine hit without making the effort to go stand out in the rain in a designated smoking area, once you find it.

    Essentially they're a liquid that you're inhaling, it's not regulated properly so there could be anything in it, lungs don't like anything much except air.

    I'd say avoid them, I can't see any benefits from starting using them, other than to maybe help get off cigarettes . it's a bit like deciding "you know what, I might become a heroin addict" , unless there's some benefit, which I can't see in vaping or heroin addiction.

  • I've never seen the fascination with smoking/vaping. I tried smoking once as a kid and I hated the smell, taste and the way it made me feel. Pretty much the same with weed but I quite like the smell. Walking through clouds of second hand fruity smelling steam/smoke hasn't really changed my opinion of vaping.

    Everyone to their own I suppose.

  • I wonder what are the side effects of e-cigarettes? Are they really as good as advertised?

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  • I tried vaping once but I never liked it. Soon after my dad died, I packed up the cigarettes altogether. Been clean since 2016 and I have no desire to go back :) 

  • "Can anyone explain vaping to me?" Yes, it is the result of a partially repressed desire to be a steam engine. 

  • Just mentioning for anyone not heard of them there are now nicotine pouches which young people are experimenting with. They can result in nicotine poisoning which can have frightening side effects as equivalent to many cigarettes all at once 

  • How does it make you feel? Do you feel addicted to it?

  • I depends what you are vaping...

    If you've been tempted to try cannabis, ONE small toot on a decent vape should be enough...

    The same part of my mind that recoils from aspartame also doesn't like propylene gycol (the active ingredient in vapes that generates the "fogging" or vape effect) so I don't. 

  • It's best not to start. Once you start it's really difficult to stop and the harmful health effects it has on your body are not worth it. Stay as you are, you're much better off without itBlush

  • The right amount to vape is zero