Good news for nicotine addicts but Juul devices are re-usable but the pods aren’t which still create a ton of plastic waste.
This does not mean they are safe or ‘FDS Approved’.
There hasn’t been enough time and data to know the effects of long-term vaping.
I’m still hooked on nicotine. These days I mix my own juice, use refillable pods that last me a good month with two rechargeable batteries that I swap between. It’s very cheap when one does it this way. Quitting is obviously the best way to go, and believe me I’ve tried, but I keep coming back.
I’ve given up opiates, coke, and weed. But dropping nicotine is a real bitch.
If you mix your own juice why not slowly decrease the bicotine in the mix until it’s nonexistent? That should ween you off the nicotine and you won’t have to worry about it.
I have lowered the amount of nicotine in the juice I make. But getting down to 0 has been very difficult to do. Actually putting less in is not the hard part. Sticking with it is the hard part. It’s really easy to just make a new bottle at the level I had before that. Idk. It’s hard to explain.
Good news for addicts!
As a former smoker and a lover of drugs, nicotine is one of the dumbest drugs that you could consume.
Juul saved my life. I tell everyone who smokes about how easy quitting smoking was with Juul. I’m not being paid. I really believe it.
You quit tobacco and tar which is great. You’re still addicted to nicotine which is bad.
Your health outcomes would have been worse with tobacco but continued use of nicotine will have negative effects.
Nicotine is awesome for the first few months and then your body adapts and you literally get nothing out of it. Even if you take a break your receptors never reset so it’s really one of those single use drugs.
How is it awesome?
I mean I enjoyed the hell out of it when I smoked. Love a cigarette and black coffee.
Yes but that’s not the nicotine. That’s the smoke and the coffee and the relaxing and all that stuff. Which… yes is how I got started haha. But nicotine itself… nothing good, and lots of bad.
https://www.vumc.org/ccm/whynicotine
What the hell are you on about? Nicotine is not bad for you.
Nicotine is well known to have serious systemic side effects in addition to being highly addictive. It adversely affects the heart, reproductive system, lung, kidney etc. Many studies have consistently demonstrated its carcinogenic potential.
Yeah the nicotine makes you just feel like you are dying.
I eventually went to those mints which are basically nicotine candy. I was eating them like… well, candy. When I quit those, my resting heartbeat went from 80 to ~55.
But of all the drugs I’ve ever done, nicotine is the only one where I still want it.
But of all the drugs I’ve ever done, nicotine is the only one where I still want it.
Yeah, you smell that secondhand smoke and no matter how many years it’s been, it’s got that magnetic appeal, like the smell of a nicely seared steak.
But of all the drugs I’ve ever done, nicotine is the only one where I still want it.
Same. I still want a cigarette and its been way more than 10 years.
Its a very powerful stimulant and great for focus enhancement.
If you’re legitimately interested and not just trolling see this detailed psychonauts wiki page: https://m.psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Nicotine
Aren’t these full of lead?
Juul devices are re-usable but the pods aren’t which still create a ton of plastic waste.
Juuls/pod systems/“disposable” ones are, but there are plenty of options that are fully rebuild-able. RTA/RDA on a classic mod for example.
Idk why so many abandoned the classic mods, they are so much cooler, I had one with Bluetooth and LEDs back in the day LMAO.
Ig that “just works” aspect of the pods was as addictive as the nicotine :/
Yeah i used to smoke refills - it’s so easy and a bottle would last me for months. You can also mix flavors and cola + any fruit (like cola lichee) was my go to!
Not really sure what’s happened for that as well, as myself one who still uses an RTA and a mod. The local vape shop in my area went under… so now basically it’s ordering online as the only option. But even so the cost effectiveness is overwhelming.
Honestly I think it’s simply the fact that, nice mods etc… last years… my RTA with about 15 bucks worth of cotton and wire, has held me up for over 2 years. $30 of liquid can last me 2 months easily. Meanwhile I’m seeing people buying disposables that last about 3 days for $25.
I assume that’s basically what happened though, stores are incentivized to encourage things that bring lots of re-occuring income. I’d have to say it’s the same as the reason why almost everyone uses inkjet printers instead of lasers.
Half the reason I started vaping was because I couldn’t care less about killing myself, but spending $7 a day on a pack of cigs, was adding up fast.
