Vape, is this you?

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Hi, why did you start using a vape?

To quit cigarettes and other issues

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Well, I wanted to stop smoking and a friend gave me a vape to use it was cheaper to buy

Now I’ve stopped smoking, but…

I use the vape because I wanted to relax, I thought it would help me.

I like the fruit flavours, and mixed candy tastes.

It doesn’t feel I am smoking or that it’s going to hurt me I’m only inhaling a cloud.

It’s socially acceptable, I feel everyone is vaping. (Even young teens)

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I enjoy the feeling of being social accepted when vaping

• I can vape anywhere and anytime, as many times as you want, there is no Judgement.

• More socially acceptable to Vape (I can vape at work, at my desk, in the office, outside, most of my friends vape, I feel everyone’s vaping, and

• Never thought vaping could hurt me, or be detrimental to my health it’s only a cloud and it tastes soo good.

• People who don’t vape can be bullied and judged, told it’s better than smoking and treated like a social outcast if they don’t want the cloud around them.

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ARE YOU SUBSTITUTING VAPING FOR SOMETHING ELSE?

• Cigarettes

• Social acceptance

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What you didn’t know, but need to know now?

The effects it has on my body – mood, harmful chemicals

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We don’t realise some vaping liquids contain potentially harmful chemicals, such as formaldehyde, and according to the American Lung Association, using electronic cigarettes or vaping, especially flavour varieties, may lead to popcorn lung.

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HAVE YOU NOTICED ANY HEALTH CONCERNS FROM VAPING?

• Sweat smells different

• Coughing more phlegmy

• Skin issues

• Heart racing

• Anxious or stressed

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DOES VAPING HAVE A HOLD ON MY MOOD/CONTROL OF YOU

• Anxiety especially if you can’t find you vape

• Feel too tired to get out of bed

• Get the shakes

• Stressed

• Do you feel you can’t put the vape down

• Can you do without a vape for 5 min

• Do you get angry and need to vape

• Do you panic, can’t concentrate until you find the vape

• Does your anger start increasing and you don’t know why

• Do you feel out of control

• Lost your freedom, just sit and veg out

• Have no control

• Lack of energy (Unhealthy eating habits)

• Unmotivated

• Anxiety

• Stressed

• Feel panicked if you can’t find the vape and will search everywhere

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Have you changed?

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Can you be bothered to do the things you once enjoyed? Do you feel you’re wasting time doing nothing? Are you still doing the excersie or any visits to the gym, are you still eat healthy?

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Do you feel you can’t do anything, or, just want to sit at home, veg out? 

Does it feel like it too hard to get motivated to do anything?

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Financially, do you buy two or three vapes at a time. Do you buy several vapes, just in case we can’t find one. Are they’re scattered everywhere, in the car, bed, at work, in my belongings.

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The costs may be lower than cigarettes but, is your vape use increasing. And costing you MORE in the long run. Unknowingly you may have increased other wellness risks like; low self-esteem,  motivation, have no control and feel like you have poor health, what you do?

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Ok, why did you come to see me, for hypnosis

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• I WANT TO STOP VAPING

• I noticed my heart beat increase.

• I don’t know what the chemicals are in the flavours.

• I couldn’t tell by the packet if the oils include nicotine or know how strong the nicotine was.

• I’m getting annoyed when I don’t have my vape on me.

• I say things I don’t mean because I’m feeling anxious/angry.

• I can’t leave the house or go anywhere unless, I’ve picked up the vape, then my, phone and keys. The vape is controlling me.

• I want to be myself again

• That’s when I realised, I need help.
   

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