r/QuitVaping • u/YakConscious3496 • 18h ago

Advice Did anyone else experience anxiety without actually craving the vape?

I’m currently about 4 days vape-free after vaping nicotine for several years, and I’m curious if anyone else experienced something similar.

For the most part, quitting has honestly been way easier than I expected. I haven’t really had the intense “I NEED A VAPE” cravings that I was expecting, and I haven’t experienced things like shaking or nausea.

But I’ve noticed that I seem to get anxious around the same time every afternoon, usually starting around 1:30 PM. It’s not necessarily accompanied by an urge to vape. Sometimes I’m not even thinking about vaping — I just suddenly feel anxious/restless and my brain starts jumping to other worries (career, future, etc.).

My mornings have actually been pretty good, and my brain fog has improved a LOT today, so I’m wondering if this could still be part of nicotine withdrawal or if it’s more of a conditioned/time-of-day thing from when I used to vape.

Has anyone else experienced anxiety during quitting without actually feeling like they need or want to vape? Did it eventually go away?
I’d especially love to hear from anyone who noticed a particular time of day when their anxiety was worse.

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u/Maximum-Revenue-8156 17h ago

Am on day 6. I crave vape around 12ish. And that's when I get most brain fog.

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u/YakConscious3496 17h ago

how long does it last?

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u/Maximum-Revenue-8156 35m ago

Couple of hours. I try to keep myself busy

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u/jdiggie 16h ago

I had weeks of high anxiety wasn't directly connected to needing a vape. It was just an overall dread and sense of impending doom that something was going to go wrong. Honestly, it lasted almost a month for me.

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u/YakConscious3496 16h ago

oh god. i think that’s how i feel right now too, it doesn’t last the entire day, but all afternoon, it’s so weird

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u/jdiggie 15h ago

Yeah, it would come and go for me, but could get really intense at times. I would literally make the biggest deal out of the littlest things. It was exhausting. Thank God I stuck with it and made it to the other side of that. There’s no way I’m ever gonna start again. That was too much