Well, I have major problems with out my vapes. Ask my wife as she has to deal with the brunt of it. And if I had to go without them for any lengthy period of time I'd be down the shop buying a pack of fags. My experience backs this up.
Your reported experience is valid , and worth mentioning. And that's an experience that a few of us share.
However, you can't just ignore all the other points raised on this thread, borne out by research as well as by other people's personal experience. It is obvious that
if nicotine is highly addictive, then it is only highly addictive for some individuals, not the majority.
You therefore can't reasonably generalise.
You're neglecting the fact that some things can be psychologically habit-forming, without being chemically addictive.
You're also neglecting the observation that nicotine can be therapeutic for an increasingly long list of health conditions, notably neurological disorders.
Quite a number of people are walking round with undiagnosed medfical conditions, so don't lightlly rule this out as a possiblility in your case. There's a lot of evidence to suggest that people are self medicating witjh nicotine, either knowingly or unknowingly, in which case their "niciorine withdrawal symptoms" might be largely due to the withdrawl of therapy, not due to addiction as such.
My own personal experience is that I took up smoking in my teens, as an easy way of being be sociable , and kept it up in spite of the increasing social pressure to stop, becauise I'd found that it helped me to concentrate , and also helped me to cope with social situations. I was , initially able to overcome my addiction, whenevber I neded to save nmoney, but at a price; the price being that I would be very reclusive , scatterebrained and dopey (or rather much more than usual) during these periods, much as I was during my chilhood , indeed.
I didn't like to think that I was self-medicationg, but, after doing a bit of research into nicotine's action on the brain, and a lot of hard thinkinng I eventually had to admit it to myself. This was before research began to shed light on miccotine;s therapeutic efffects, so I rearely admitted that to anybody else. When I diid, I'd be predictablty accused of coming up with the most off-the-wall excuse for my habit ever devised.
At some (quite recent) point in the journey, I was found to have Asperger's Syndrome as well as multiple "learning disabilities" . These had not recognised during my youth , because they were not well-known back then but Conversely, it
was well-known that hifghly intelligent kids don't have problems, but rather an unfair advantahe over other kids. My problems had therefore therefore explained away as "laziness" , "attention-seeking" etc, and also had to see a child psychriatist on account of my unwillingness to join in with other children. No medical diagnosis was ever proffered . The psychiatrists just said I was "an absent-minded professeor"
More recently, I've been found to have an underlying progressive metabolic disorder. There is no effective medicauion, but nicotine, caffeine and suigar all hekp considerebly with mitigating the symptoms, so it looks as if I shall remain self-medicatibng to my dying day (which is likely tto be earlier than avererage)
Nicotine addiction is
not my problem, but withdrawal of my nicotine therapy
would give me all sorts of problems, nonetheless. So says my personal experience, and thankfully, medical research is beginning to provide some considerable support for those assertions.
As you can see, I've thought long and hard about all this, and looked into the relevant research. You, on the other hand, have simply leapt to the obvious conclusion, and refused to pay atteention to other people's comments. So why the heck should we listen to your opinions? Because you type them out in big red letters, then reiterate them on every page? Oh, yeah, there's
that, for what it's worth.
