Nobody knows how to quit vaping

Vaping giants like Juul attracted billions in investment from tobacco companies by reversing decades of progress in weaning children off of nicotine, thanks to deliberately targeting children with advertisements and phony in-school "mental health" seminars that advised them to take up their carcinogenic, highly addictive products.

Juul and other vaping products are marketed as a safe way to quit smoking, but as their products are increasingly discovered to be uniquely and fantastically unsafe, it raises a new question: how do you quit vaping?

The answer is: no one knows. There's virtually no research on how to quit vaping, which is incredibly addictive, thanks to the extremely high levels of nicotine salts in many vape liquids, and to vaping's smooth delivery, which allows users to take in much higher levels of nicotine than they would get from traditional cigarettes.

It's especially hard for teens, thanks to the prevalence of vaping in school, which means that kids who quit face massive social pressure to start again.

Quitting is a physically uncomfortable experience, and includes withdrawal symptoms like cravings, headaches, irritability, and depression. Managing these symptoms is the key to successfully quitting, Levy says, because thats what makes it so hard to stop. Her program uses nicotine patches to ward off withdrawal. Levy tries to treat with the lowest dosage possible, but if the patch isnt working, there are also stronger medications like Buproprion. She also counsels parents to give kids nicotine lozenges if they start to get a craving. Because lozenges are ingested, not inhaled, the nicotine is absorbed more slowly into the body and they dont deliver the same euphoric dopamine hit of ripping a Juul.