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
Am I seriously being aged out of Lemmy, too?
They make DMT vapes. 🤯
Blew my mind when I first saw that.
I doubt it. I feel like the demographic here has to be older than reddit's became.
Im 14 and this is deep.
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.
Kids don't even get lung cancer no more
Recent animal and human tissue studies have shown that vaping is just as likely to cause lung cancer as smoking does, it just has a predilection for a different type of lung cancer.
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.
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.
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...
Garbage-tier children's meme
