I am curious to hear from people who started vaping without having smoked beforehand.

I’m curious about these things - feel free to respond to as many or as few of them as you wish. Primarily I am thinking about nicotine, but feel free to reply if you vape something different.

  1. What age were you when you started vaping? Feel free to reply with a vague range (e.g. 12-15) or description (e.g. young teen / adult)

  2. Why did you start?

  3. Do you regret having ever started? If so, why do you regret it?

  4. Have you noticed any long-term negative health effects from vaping?

  5. Do you feel that the socialogical and/or legal issues around vaping are more or less of a concern than health effects? (e.g. having to go outside to vape, vaping being banned/restricted in certain places/situations/countries, the risks of vaping being more legally controlled in future, etc.)

  6. Do you feel that the financial cost of vaping is more or less of a concern than the health effects?

No need to follow the numbered format or anything, this isn’t a survey, I’m just looking for answers to these questions for my own personal curiosity! Also, feel free to add any more information that you wish!

Please only share from your personal experience - no links to news stories or studies, please.

Also, not interested in responses from ex-smokers, sorry - those can be found in huge volume already.

  • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
    20·
    1 year ago

    If you’re asking this because you’re considering starting - dont. I vaped for a little while in college, started out with the 0 nicotine juices, but after trying a few nicotine ones I found I liked the “throat hit” you got from the nicotine versions, as well as the head high.

    One day I lost my vape and that’s when I realized how unexpectedly I got hooked. I stopped then and there and it’s only because I hadn’t been at it too long that I was able to quit cold turkey and permanently (10 years since then now).

    The fact is that on the “pro” side, you get a mild buzz, and only when you’re vaping stronger concentrations than you’re used to and that’s about it. I started because I thought it was cool and it was a conversation starter at parties (vaping was more novel then and college freshmen are easy to impress), but I’m so glad I knocked that shit off before it really got it’s hooks into me.

    On the con side its expensive, unhealthy (only considered “healthy” when compared to sucking smoke), uncool to everyone over the age of 20, and highly addictive (if using nicotine, but even if you plan to stick with 0 nicotine juice, you may eventually cave, I did.)

    Basically there’s very little reason to start and a lot of really compelling reasons to never pick it up