{"id":9266,"date":"2024-07-10T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9266"},"modified":"2024-07-10T09:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:26:33","slug":"how-to-quit-vaping-according-to-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9266","title":{"rendered":"How to Quit Vaping, According to Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes. There\u2019s little research into how to help them stop.<\/p>\n

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By his junior year of college, Zach Arledge had already tried to quit vaping about half a dozen times. But with each attempt, he found himself reflexively reaching for his Juul within a day.<\/p>\n

So when he decided to try again, Mr. Arledge wanted to be prepared. He waited until winter break, when he\u2019d have more free time, and took a week off work. He bought sugary cereals to help kick his cravings, and melatonin in case he had trouble sleeping.<\/p>\n

He drew 72 squares onto paper, each one representing an hour of his first three days without nicotine. He marked them off as the hours ticked by, checking off a chunk when he woke up. Those first days, Mr. Arledge felt detached from his body, unable to focus on anything. He chewed on chopsticks and stayed in front of the TV, trying to distract himself.<\/p>\n

The nicotine in vapes can be highly addictive, and can raise blood sugar<\/a>, heart rate<\/a> and blood pressure, among other health risks<\/a>. And while some people turn to vaping to stop smoking cigarettes, e-cigarettes<\/a> can contain substances that also pose health risks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite the popularity of vapes \u2014 more than 8 million Americans were current e-cigarette users in 2018, according to federal health data<\/a> \u2014 there is little established guidance to help people like Mr. Arledge quit. Many of the recommendations that do exist come from tobacco cessation efforts, not research into vaping specifically.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe health care system hasn\u2019t caught up completely,\u201d said Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, a psychiatry professor at the Yale University School of Medicine who studies adolescent tobacco use.<\/p>\n

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Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes. There\u2019s little research into how to help them stop.By his junior year of college, Zach Arledge had already tried to quit vaping about half a dozen times. But with each attempt, he found himself reflexively reaching for his Juul within a day.So when he decided to try again, Mr. Arledge wanted to be prepared. He waited until winter break, when he\u2019d have more free time, and took a week off work. He bought sugary cereals to help kick his cravings, and melatonin in case he had trouble sleeping.He drew 72 squares onto paper, each one representing an hour of his first three days without nicotine. He marked them off as the hours ticked by, checking off a chunk when he woke up. Those first days, Mr. Arledge felt detached from his body, unable to focus on anything. He chewed on chopsticks and stayed in front of the TV, trying to distract himself.The nicotine in vapes can be highly addictive, and can raise blood sugar, heart rate and blood pressure, among other health risks. And while some people turn to vaping to stop smoking cigarettes, e-cigarettes can contain substances that also pose health risks.Despite the popularity of vapes \u2014 more than 8 million Americans were current e-cigarette users in 2018, according to federal health data \u2014 there is little established guidance to help people like Mr. Arledge quit. Many of the recommendations that do exist come from tobacco cessation efforts, not research into vaping specifically.\u201cThe health care system hasn\u2019t caught up completely,\u201d said Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, a psychiatry professor at the Yale University School of Medicine who studies adolescent tobacco use.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9268,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}