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Vapers Seek Relief From Nicotine Addiction in β€” Wait for It β€” Cigarettes

It isn’t a complete surprise that some young people are β€œgoing back to the product they were trying to quit in the first place,” said Pamela Ling, a professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco

Lucas McClain started smoking cigarettes in high school but switched to vaping after he heard e-cigarettes were a safer alternative. His vape of choice became the Juul, the king of electronic cigarettes β€” which comes with a king-size nicotine hit, NBC News reports.

Now 21, McClain wants to quit so badly that he’s turning back to the problem he fled in the first place: good old-fashioned cigarettes.

One Juul pod, which provides about 200 puffs, contains as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. On stressful days, McClain could finish a pod in three hours β€” and as he and others figure out just how potent these and other e-cigarettes are, many want out.

Some are turning back to combustible cigarettes β€” or taking them up for the first time β€” in a dangerous bid to lower their nicotine intake and ultimately get off their vapes.

β€œIsn’t it ironic that to quit juul I bought cigarettes,” says one Twitter user. Another points out that it’s β€œstrange” that she used the device to quit smoking cigarettes but is now β€œfar more addicted to my Juul than I ever was to cigs.”

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