The thing that makes vaping, and at that time especially Juuling, so appealing is the way it “hits”. I vaped my way through the Fourth of July, fall foliage season, and (with a blanket over my head, feigning sleep) a flight relocating me from New York to London. As for the long-term consequences? Back then, the jury was still out. With no instant body cues to moderate my usage, I went from vaping socially to habitually in a matter of weeks. Unlike cigarettes, vaping never made me feel sick or wheezy. Photograph: Niyi Fote/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock So I followed my friends and jumped off the cliff: I bought a Juul.Ī store selling vapes in New York, where Alyx Gorman’s habit started. Hello, new friends.īut by spring of that year, nobody had a lighter – everyone had started vaping instead. When I moved to New York at the beginning of 2018, I bought a pack of American Spirits and didn’t buy a lighter. But I still did it socially in the most literal sense of the word: to meet people. Thanks to asthma and a generally weak constitution, smoking has always made me feel very ill, very fast. When I see my friends vaping at parties now, I suppress the urge to bum a puff by telling them my cautionary tale, the same one I’m about to tell you. “In some ways the experiences are the same, because you’re trying to quit nicotine,” and that’s an experience “people are finding very difficult”. “Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs that we know of,” Harper says. But just because the delivery mechanism is novel, it doesn’t mean the substance is. It felt too good, and not bad enough – at least short term. For me, vaping was just too easy, too accessible, too cheap.
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