here's a vape thread for everyone to talk about vapitos shit because nobody else cares

I gave up smoking cigs (roll-ups) about 15 years ago but since my kids have grown up, and our house has become a bit of a hang-out for dusty yutes, I've been having a go on a few vapes here and there. Stupidly bought my first disposable one the other day and can already feel it getting out of hand. Duh.

i'm seriously wondering whether this is antagonising my anxiety and whether i shd try and stop it. i'm not really heavy vaping, probably use it less often than i used to smoke, but right now i've got an unpleasant baseline anxiety at least half of my time and i'm willing to look at anything that might get that down. couple of months without cigs now tho so...sigh ffs

It’s a positive step!

But yeah that little nagging voice saying “have a vape”… not great

i'm thinking that the nicotine hit from the vape is probably adding to my anxiety in a different way than cigs do. not going back to smoking, just cautious about giving up the crutch altogether

I'd get into some anxious/wired states from vaping heavily and drinking too much coffee. I'm into going into my 6th week without vapes and onto a strict coffee a day diet. Although still a slave to the nicotine through patches and pouches, but down to 14mg per day now. I was having various health problems that I know was a combo of doing too much of various things, well booze as well to be specific. I feel much better now, and also some of that is down to not drinking for 4 days. I chose the perfect time to give up my vices because I can't even afford them anyway -yay! migration to Universal Credit - it's actually had a positive influence on my life!

Vaping got banned in Australia this year. It was never being well-policed, and a lot of schoolkids were vaping and in Melbourne there's a whole underworld war going on with vape/smoke shops being firebombed, so instead of going "hey maybe lets do our jobs better at ensuring this shit's only sold to adults" they just went "nope, total ban". You cannot buy any disposables, and the only liquids and pods/devices are if you get a prescription and buy them from an allowed vendor - they say pharmacies is one but afaict no chemists are selling any. I got a refillable pod device and some unflavoured ejuice from QuitClinics and then started trying DIY flavours using dropper flavour concentrates. Its messy and hit and miss and tbh I a starting to really go off the whole palaver.

Still, it got me off cigs, can't complain there.

NB the firebombing is also due to tobacco being so heavily taxed here that smokes are, I do not joke, upwards of $60 a pack.
So now the smoke shops all sell black market imports that skipped customs instead. And theyre having turf wars over it. Its like a mini-prohibition thing.

At my kid's middle school there's a lot of sneaky vaping on campus. Some parents vaping too while waiting in their cars at pickup.

That's crazy

A friend of mine was in town recently and wanted to buy some tobacco so we went to the corner shop and when he was told the price we both almost fell over. £23 for a pack of golden virginia! I have no idea how the shopkeeper knows which pack is which - no colours or design or logo or even brand name is allowed on the packs at all

xpost yeah vaping seems like a thing with kids pretty much everywhere unsurprisingly

less than 20 years ago you could get a big 50g packet of Drum baccy from bloke in local WMC for a fiver. When I was an underage smoker 10 Berkeley Superkings was 67p. Not surprised UK kids are vaping!

Yeah the packs are all plain here now too, with the ugmo cancer faces and rotted feet and all that crap. None of that bothered me - it was the prices that killed it for me, no one can be spending hundreds of dollars a week on smokes. Vapes cost me like $150 for a supply that'd last me 3 months or more (using pods). More so now, as I only vape when drinking and thats now only once a week.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fj2rHY4XgAETf6s?format=jpg&name=medium

was looking at some pics on my phone, this was how ridic my vaping setup had become before I decided to stop (4 indoor guns on the go and I also had a lightweight pen for outdoor vaping).