Do hundreds and hundreds of daily Elf Bar hits leave you feeling drained, horrible and buddy-less? Is your NJOY robbing you of joy, your VooPoo tasting like poopoo, your Vuse in use from dawn to dusk, or are you at last beginning to realize that your Puff Bar has forged the bars to your prison cell?

Do you want to quit vaping e-cigarettes but so far have been unable to muster and sustain the motivation needed to succeed in reaching Easy Street?

Still under construction, the following list of reasons to stop vaping e-cigs is being built at Reddit's Quit Vaping support group, home to more than 22,000 dreamers and doers:

1. To reclaim my time
2. To arrest my addiction and end my mind's neuro-chemical slavery
3. To regain my original mental clarity and improve my headspace
4. To increase how long I can maintain focus
5. To end "it" being my plus-one, to stop being ashamed of it
6. To be able to go places and enjoy things without the monkey on my back
7. To end the headaches
8. To improve the quality of my sleep
9. To end the weird pain in the center of my chest (or chest tightness)
10. To take back emotional and dopamine control from a USB stick
11. To increase my libido
12. To avoid erectile dysfunction
13. To be less irritable and short-tempered with the people I love
14. To eliminate the risk of accidental nicotine poisoning
15. To stop wasting money
16. To end premature wrinkling
17. To stop propylene glycol from damaging lung airway cells
18. To prevent glycerol from damaging my liver
19. To diminish my risk of heart disease
20. To take better care of myself
21. To feel better
22. To start exercising again
23. To be a better parent to my children
24. To diminish anxiety
25. To no longer rely on a battery to survive
26. To help heal my chronically upset tummy
27. A former smoker, to eliminate additional harm
28. To lower my blood pressure
29. To have warmer hands and feet
30. To improve my lung capacity
31. Because 638 juice flavoring chemicals pose respiratory health hazards
32. To have more time with my children
33. To experience greater mood stability
34. To NEED nothing but food and water
35. To save fuel by not having to drive home because I forgot my vape
36. To improve my workout endurance, running and fitness
37. To again be in tune with my body
38. To stop thinking about vaping all the time
39. To stop worrying about the long-term unknown consequences
40. To reduce the risk of developing kinetic tremors
41. To succeed and never need to quit again
42. To improve my circulation
43. To improve the health of my skin
44. To diminish risk of gum disease and tooth loss
45. To stop waking up in the middle of the night to vape
46. To end the mini panic attacks when I couldn't find it
47. To stop being a slave to it
48. To regain control of my behavior
49. To allow my body to heal
50. To reduce my risk of developing inflammatory arthritis
51. To vastly improve my acne
52. To make my sense of smell scarily better
53. To end the metallic taste in my mouth
54. To reduce the number of "bathroom breaks" when eating out or at work
55. To end the brain fog
56. To end the constant need for water and increase the moisture in my mouth and throat
57. To reframe my personal identity
58. To be happier
59. To diminish impulsivity, to hopefully restore impulse control
60. To have more room in my pockets or purse
61. To diminish premature hair graying
62. To keep more hair longer
63. To get rid of the residue on the inside of my windshield
64. To stop feeling like a social outcast
65. To eliminate the risk of battery fires or explosions
66. To end my mouth being chronically dry
67. To reduce risks of mouth lesions or hairy tongue
68. To diminish my risk of developing chronic rhinosinusitis and allergic rhinitis
69. To allow my body to feel strong again
70. To allow me to become more social and less reclusive
71. To stop getting winded so easily
72. To stop working against dental treatment, facials and sunscreen
73. To stop pretending that vaping isn't hurting me
74. To substantially increase the dating pool
75. And get through a date without vaping
76. To stop messing up my throat and vocal cords
77. To end my use of a proven cancer promoter, nicotine
78. Including the development of breast cancer
79. My overall cancer risk is 2.2 times higher. That's unacceptable.
80. To not be the last among my friends to stop vaping
81. To stop inhaling dihydroxyacetone, the active ingredient in sunless tanners
82. To get pregnant without damaging the fetus'/baby's brain and lungs
83. So nicotine doesn't determine the shape of my unborn child's face
84. Or cause them to be born with a congenital heart defect
85. To create a healthy environment for my newborn
86. To become a father whose child is more important than that next fix
87. To stay healthy and alive for my children
88. To reduce the e-cig carcinogen acrolein in my body up to 9-fold
89. To improve bone fracture healing and diminish bone disease progression
90. To improve my appetite
91. To stop vaping in places I shouldn't
92. To reduce my risk of visual impairment
93. To end nausea and dizziness
94. To hopefully end or at least improve my worsening depression
95. To diminish my risk of suicidal thoughts and attempts
96. To end or improve my acid reflux
97. To stop overdosing on nicotine
98. To leave the house without a mad scramble to find the vape pen
99. To stop living and being on edge
100. To, at last, relax
101. To concentrate again because I can't concentrate if I can't vape
102. To breathe deeper and fuller
103. To stop feeling like crap, to have energy again
104. To restore my immune system and my body's ability to fight infections
105. To reduce risk of wheezing by up to 41%
106. To reduce risk of shortness of breath by up to 48%
107. To reduce risk of bronchitis symptoms up to 55%
108. To diminish my risk of early onset of stroke (median age: 48)
109. To diminish my risk of heart attack
110. To arrest my addiction to inhaling nature's most potent insecticide
111. Because there is no legitimate reason to vape
112. To be me again 😎
113. And to hopefully live longer
114. While 61-62% of vapers dream of quitting, I'm about to make it happen
115. To prove to myself that I can!

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John R. Polito received his JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1985, where he graduated Wig & Robe. He is a former 3-pack-a-day thirty-year smoker and the 1999 founder of WhyQuit. A nicotine cessation educator since 2000, John mentored under Joel Spitzer for two decades, presenting more than 100 live nicotine dependency recovery programs modeled after Joel's programs. He is the author of "Freedom from Nicotine - The Journey Home," "Smart Turkey," and 6 peer-reviewed journal articles. John is the founder and director of Turkeyville, a 15,000-member Facebook support group exclusively for cold turkey quitters. Email: johnpolito54@gmail.com

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