My friend, it seems like your anxiety is nicotine withdrawal. That explains why smoking makes your anxiety go away; you're getting another hit of nicotine to ease off the withdrawal.
Vaping isn't harmless. Especially since you're 18, it will inhibit your brain development and the chemicals in the vape are chronically toxic. Nicotine is extremely addictive. Many people get addicted after just a few goes.
There are better ways to manage your anxiety than with nicotine. You’re anxious about your parents finding out because you know they’ll be upset, and they’ll be upset because of the negative impact you’re having on yourself by vaping. Maybe you should consider why they would feel that way.
The impact being it's super fucking addicting. Trust me, as I hit my vape, avoid nicotine at all costs.
It's permanent too. As someone who managed to quit smoking cigarettes & vapes which wasn't too hard for me personally, I still get withdrawal jitters if someone smokes or vapes around me.
Even just this post mentioning nicotine made me feel the urge go get a pack of smokes.
Once you're addicted, it's extremely hard to not relapse.
You're telling me. I had finally weened myself down and hadn't had any in months then the pandemic hit and the stress got to me and I caved.
And now the regulations have changed where I am making it way harder to get your own juice and mix your own nicotine strengths to taper down. They claim they wanted to stop kids but all they really did was take power away from the adults who were already hooked. And the teens are still easily acquiring their strong disposables so nothing good actually came from it.
The only reason vaping or smoking makes you feel less anxious is because withdrawal makes you more anxious
it’s wild to me how willingly people will give themselves over to nicotine addiction
i blame our nonsensical drug laws that rank cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms as “worse” than nicotine and alcohol, even though the latter two are more harmful and much more addictive
i love me some cannabis, i’ll have the occasional mushroom, and i even enjoy a glass of whiskey every now and then, but nicotine scares the absolute hell out of me
Am I seriously being aged out of Lemmy, too?
I doubt it. I feel like the demographic here has to be older than reddit's became.
Smoking doesn't make you less anxious or more relaxed, all it does is stop the withdrawal symptoms from smoking.
Im 14 and this is deep.
I mean many people have to find this out themselves but smoking is highly addictive and you'll regret having started for the rest of your life...
Quit before you're truly addicted. If you're still living with your parents you probably haven't truly been hooked like you will be when you live on your own.
The sheltered-ness of kids these days. I used to smoke on my way home from school. I can only imagine that stench in my clothes today.
Can't believe I actually thought I could fool them. French family though, when they found out they just let me smoke at my window lmao.
My mom found out while I was getting prepped for cancer surgery.. nurse asks if I take marijuana, and I was like "ummm... Yes?"
It's a good thing you answered truthfully. Cannabis affects the way anesthesia works so they may not have given you enough if you had lied and said no.
PSA to anyone getting any sort of anesthetic/anesthesia. Always be truthful about your marijuana use.
My best friend wasn't upfront about Cannabis-use and apparently the anaesthetist really struggled to get him to wake up post-surgery. Scary stuff
Garbage-tier children's meme
