Teens Are Struggling To Quit Smoking and Vaping

[DEAD7]

Teens Are Struggling To Quit Smoking and Vaping


E-cigarettes have been pushed to adult smokers as an alternative to traditional, combustible cigarettes -- some evidence shows they might be less dangerous, and there's mixed evidence that they could push adults to quit smoking altogether. But the picture might be different for teens, who started vaping in droves in 2018 and are far less likely to be cigarette smokers first. The new analysis shows that for younger people, the introduction of e-cigarettes made quitting more difficult.

The new study includes data from the Monitoring the Future study, which surveys eighth, 10th, and 12th grade students. It includes a question asking the participants if they had ever tried to stop smoking and found that they could not. In 2020, it added a question asking if they'd ever tried to stop vaping nicotine and found that they could not. From 1997 to 2019, the survey found that the number of students who reported using cigarettes and the percent of adolescents estimated to have tried and failed to quit smoking both dropped.

 

[Tommy Fits]

Nicotine is addictive, who'da thunk it

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

let them kids vape.

 

[Shogun]

let them kids vape.

They are.
And we are.

 

[FaTaL]

So they lack the willpower to stop?

 

[Shogun]

So they lack the willpower to stop?

They're kids. It's cool to them, and its real easy to get away with vaping.
We all did dumb shyt in high school.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

So they lack the willpower to stop?

I think that’s too black and white. Willpower is needed to take the steps to quit any substance that’s got you physically and mentally dependent, but it’s not super easy to just will yourself out of addiction. I quit hardcore opiates and most people I know that have kicked opiates and nicotine said quitting nicotine was right on the same level in terms of difficulty.

 

[get these nets]

Lifelong customers. As intended, when they pushed vaping to the teen/pre teen market.

 

[africngiant]

Don’t fall for the peer pressure. Follow through with your own decision instead of following the opinions of others. My colleagues aging like bread I’m glad I cut most of them off and their habits.

 

[MushroomX]

My guess would be that with Cigarettes, you have a normal amount of Nicotine because your just rolling up the plant material. With Vape/eCigarettes, you can control the concentration of Nicotine, and so it makes it harder to quit because your vaping concentrated Nicotine.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Government should’ve regulated it

 

[ItsPeople]

So they lack the willpower to stop?

When you add peer pressure and the actual addictiveness of nicotine it’s deeper than this breh.

 

[OfTheCross]

What do the studies say about quitting hookah?

 

[Zime]

See e cigs everywhere now I'm seeing a lot more kids vaping too

 

[FaTaL]

When you add peer pressure and the actual addictiveness of nicotine it’s deeper than this breh.

nicotine gum should lessen the addiction