This is my first post so i hope i’m not breaking any rules!
I have been vaping for a little over 3 years and have never had a problem sharing my vape with my friend or even strangers. My friends would occasionally take a few hits of my vape and i wouldn’t mind, but one of my closer friends started asking for it more frequently and i still wouldn’t mind. But as time went on he started using it more and more.
Fast forward to the present and he is now midly addicted to nicotine and is constantly using my vape. He vapes almost as much as me when we are at school and it is starting to get really annoying. He is a really good friend and he will always ask for permission before he uses it which i respect but i have a very hard time saying no.
I live in europe and nicotine prices have really gone up in the last years. My friend knows this and would very occasionally give me like $12 (he has given it to me twice) but it doesn’t come close to the amount of money i spend on his addiction. I try to keep the cost low, making my own coils and juice but as a student without a job it’s starting to become a problem. I hate taking money from my friends and i could tell him to pay for the liquid he uses but he has even less money than me. Another problem is that i don’t know how much juice he is using and therefor can’t put a price on his consumption.
And to make it worse he will always mess up my coils in my MTL RDA even if i tell him not to rip like a sub ohm he somehow still ends up destroying the coils.
I’m going to rant a little more so hang in there
I think he is starting to notice that i get annoyd when he asks for vape because he sometimes ask if i mind him using my vape and i always tell him that it is not a problem(I know this one is on me)
From what i have noticed i don’t really know if he is addicted because he can last several days without nicotine when i’m not in school.
I believe that he thinks it is cool to have an addiction because when we are around friends or a group of people he would ask me ”(my name), am i addicted to nicotine?” (Weird right?? How would i know?) but i say yes because he has told me that he is. He will also ask for me vape when we are at places where you shouldn’t vape(in class, in the buss or train etc) and sometimes i tell him no but when i do let him i noticed that he tries to make people look at him when he vapes, i think he likes the attention it gives him.
The worst part about this is that i have offred him one of my old vapes that i don’t use and he doesn’t want it because he doesn’t want to hide it from his parents(he is 18 btw). I have tried several times to make him buy his own, giving him recommendations and finding small starter kits that can be hidden easily and doesn’t even look like a vape. I have even offered to buy him a new vape and he never says no, he just tries to change the subject or doesn’t answer at all and just sits there quiet.
This friend is a good friend of mine and i know that he has my back but he is weird, and i mean really weird, so confronting him about things like this always makes the conversation uncomfortable and akward(like the part where he doesn’t even answere me when offering him a vape of his own).
I know that i will have to talk to him about this and i really need some advice on how to bring it up. I can’t just tell him that i hate how my vape is almost also his because then he will feel really guilty because this has gone on for a while.
If you have any tips or ideas on how to talk to him about this or what to do that would be much appreciated!
(Sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes, english isn’t my native language)
I have been vaping for a little over 3 years and have never had a problem sharing my vape with my friend or even strangers. My friends would occasionally take a few hits of my vape and i wouldn’t mind, but one of my closer friends started asking for it more frequently and i still wouldn’t mind. But as time went on he started using it more and more.
Fast forward to the present and he is now midly addicted to nicotine and is constantly using my vape. He vapes almost as much as me when we are at school and it is starting to get really annoying. He is a really good friend and he will always ask for permission before he uses it which i respect but i have a very hard time saying no.
I live in europe and nicotine prices have really gone up in the last years. My friend knows this and would very occasionally give me like $12 (he has given it to me twice) but it doesn’t come close to the amount of money i spend on his addiction. I try to keep the cost low, making my own coils and juice but as a student without a job it’s starting to become a problem. I hate taking money from my friends and i could tell him to pay for the liquid he uses but he has even less money than me. Another problem is that i don’t know how much juice he is using and therefor can’t put a price on his consumption.
And to make it worse he will always mess up my coils in my MTL RDA even if i tell him not to rip like a sub ohm he somehow still ends up destroying the coils.
I’m going to rant a little more so hang in there
I think he is starting to notice that i get annoyd when he asks for vape because he sometimes ask if i mind him using my vape and i always tell him that it is not a problem(I know this one is on me)
From what i have noticed i don’t really know if he is addicted because he can last several days without nicotine when i’m not in school.
I believe that he thinks it is cool to have an addiction because when we are around friends or a group of people he would ask me ”(my name), am i addicted to nicotine?” (Weird right?? How would i know?) but i say yes because he has told me that he is. He will also ask for me vape when we are at places where you shouldn’t vape(in class, in the buss or train etc) and sometimes i tell him no but when i do let him i noticed that he tries to make people look at him when he vapes, i think he likes the attention it gives him.
The worst part about this is that i have offred him one of my old vapes that i don’t use and he doesn’t want it because he doesn’t want to hide it from his parents(he is 18 btw). I have tried several times to make him buy his own, giving him recommendations and finding small starter kits that can be hidden easily and doesn’t even look like a vape. I have even offered to buy him a new vape and he never says no, he just tries to change the subject or doesn’t answer at all and just sits there quiet.
This friend is a good friend of mine and i know that he has my back but he is weird, and i mean really weird, so confronting him about things like this always makes the conversation uncomfortable and akward(like the part where he doesn’t even answere me when offering him a vape of his own).
I know that i will have to talk to him about this and i really need some advice on how to bring it up. I can’t just tell him that i hate how my vape is almost also his because then he will feel really guilty because this has gone on for a while.
If you have any tips or ideas on how to talk to him about this or what to do that would be much appreciated!
(Sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes, english isn’t my native language)