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How to Quit Vaping When It’s Really, Really Hard

When you first started vaping, it might have seemed like a better alternative to smoking cigarettes…but maybe you’re finding that now you’re just hooked on something else that makes you feel short of breath and twitchy. Whether your brain is dominated by the urge to hit your pen or you’re noticing that your lung capacity isn’t what it used to be, vaping takes a toll—and it’s notoriously hard to quit once you’ve picked it up.1 That’s bad news, because vaping can lead to e-cigarette- or vaping-product-use-associated lung injury (EVALI), the symptoms of which include shallower breathing, chest pain, coughing, digestive issues, and fever and chills2—as well as straight-up nicotine addiction.

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 Having Trouble Quitting Vaping? You’re Not the Only One

But there’s a need for more tools specific to vaping addiction, which is “a public-health crisis hidden in plain sight,” says Richard Stewart, CEO of Achieve Life Sciences, a pharmaceutical company working to secure FDA approval for the U.S.’ first dedicated vaping-cessation aid. The company’s medication, cytisinicline, is designed to not only reduce cravings but also make using nicotine less pleasurable when someone vapes while on the drug. In a small company-funded study published in May, people who took cytisinicline were more than twice as likely to stop vaping as people who took a placebo.

 How to Quit Vaping

Kicking any addiction can make you feel like you’re at war with yourself. But experts recommend asking for help. “The most effective means of tobacco treatment is medication combined with counseling,” said Buckles. That’s because you’re not just trying to reverse physiological changes—rewiring your brain, in a sense—but also unraveling a whole host of everyday psychological habits. That might mean turning a smoke break into a walk break, for example.

 How to Quit Vaping

Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes. There’s little research into how to help them stop. Experts caution that there is no silver bullet. Instead, they suggest that you try a constellation of approaches.

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I Accidentally Got Addicted To Vaping. Now, I’m Determined To Quit

What got me to try to quit wasn’t fear for my health, or the planet’s, but a quote for income protection insurance. Looking at the stark difference in “smoker” and “nonsmoker” rates, I felt that it was not a price I was willing to pay. My flirtation was over; it was time to grow up.

Want to quit vaping this year? Here’s what the evidence shows so far about effective strategies

Our report focuses on strategies for helping people stay vape-free for six months or longer. We found that text message-based interventions may help young people to stop vaping nicotine. These programs typically provide encouragement, support and practical advice on quitting, delivered directly to people’s cellphones. All the evidence on these programs came from one text message-based program in particular, called This Is Quitting. People can sign up to this program, which will then send them daily automated, interactive text messages supporting them in quitting.

‘No need to rush’: How to give up vaping

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Addicted to Vaped Nicotine, Teenagers Have No Clear Path to Quitting

Alarmed by the addictive nature of nicotine in e-cigarettes and its impact on the developing brain, public health experts are struggling to address a surging new problem: how to help teenagers quit vaping. Until now, the storm over e-cigarettes has largely focused on how to keep the products away from minors. But the pervasiveness of nicotine addiction among teenagers who already use the devices is now sinking in — and there is no clear science or treatment to help them stop.

How to Help Teenagers Quit Vaping

Though options are limited for now, they exist. For starters, parents should recognize that they are confronting an addiction to nicotine, which is hard to break.

How to Quit the Juul, According to Comedian Cazzie David

There are millions—millions!—of idiots like me, with no plans or tools on how to get off this thing when the time comes for a nationwide ban on Juul, at which point we’ll have no choice but to save ourselves from the presumably hundreds of undiscovered health impacts. For this reason, I’ve compiled a list of what I believe are the only ways to get yourself away from the Juul. The solution is similar to weaning off breastfeeding, since the Juul is actually the anxious adult’s pacifier.

How to quit vaping – a practical guide & tips

So you’re a vaper and you wish you weren’t. Join the club! In fact, every vaper in the world is a fully paid-up member. More than 70% of smokers say they wish they could be non-smokers; the rest just don’t admit it. You have admitted it, which is great news and you now need to evaluate why you should quit, find solutions to quit vaping and which method to choose to help you.

My teen is addicted to vaping. How can I help them quit and manage their withdrawal symptoms?

Young people are at greater risk of nicotine dependence than adults and can develop dependence faster. Once nicotine-dependent, a person will experience withdrawal symptoms if they reduce or cease their use. These symptoms can include irritability, frustration, or anger; anxiety; difficulty concentrating; increased appetite; restlessness; depressed mood; and insomnia.

People Tell Us In Six Words or Less How They Quit Vaping

Vaping, am I right? We’ve all suckled at the devil’s fruity teat and many of us have fallen into his hazy hell. But some have clawed their way out again, back to the land of the living, fresh air, and soothed throats.

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Teen Vapers Who Want To Quit Look For Help Via Text

Social media is often blamed for helping popularize e-cigarettes among teens. Now it may be playing a role in quitting, another Chatfield freshman points out. But do the students think it will make a difference? "I do, yeah. For a lot of people, actually," the freshman says. "I've known kids who have stopped vaping because of it."

Vaping Doesn’t Often Help Smokers Quit, New Study Finds

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Wanna Quit Vaping? There’s An App For That

As the people who use vapes and the companies that make them become increasingly freaked out by the health effects of these relatively new products, the thought of quitting e-cigs sounds more reasonable. In a recent flurry of ominous decisions, even JUUL essentially admitted that its products are perhaps not much better for you than actually smoking. Amid what now feels more and more like a vaping-fiasco, programs to help people quit the thing that helped them quit cigarettes are starting to crop up.

Young adults who started vaping as teens still can't shake the habit

For years, slick marketing by e-cigarette companies, and the allure of sweet, fruity or even candy-like flavors and names, led teens to try vaping. As more high schoolers and even younger kids picked up the behavior, doctors and researchers warned it could lead to widespread addiction, creating a 'Generation Vape.' Now, new data about substance use among young adults suggests that many of those former teen vapers haven't quit.

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