I felt like I was sucking on a USB filled with jam. How I quit vaping… [Video]

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I STARTED VAPING back in 2022 when a friend in a smoking area offered this colourful “Watermelon Ice” flavoured brick to me. I’d never vaped before. I’d never smoked, bar the odd cig in a smoking area over the years that never progressed as I hated the taste and didn’t understand how people could do this all the time.

But vaping was different. There was an instant hit of artificial fruit flavour and a lightness to the head. After a few more nights of being offered and accepting puffs on a vape, I decided I would buy my own and stop scabbing off others and from there, I was hooked.

The news last week that the government looks set to ban the sale of single-use vapes in Ireland was met with delight by so many and probably anxiety by others, the ones who, like me, were addicted to vapes. 

I …