# @thecut on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DN5oWTnDDYN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33859120-thecut-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-28T13:32:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Cut (@thecut) — https://gondola.cc/thecut

## Caption

For a moment, vapes were as stylish of an accessory as a Telfar bag. It was hard to walk downtown without getting caught in a cloud of blueberry vapor. Now the conversation around vaping has shifted from begrudging acceptance to vocal disgust. Lina Edwards, a 26-year-old who works at a med spa in Ohio, remembers the first time she heard someone refer to a vape as an “adult pacifier.” The thought of sucking on a Watermelon Ice Elf Bar for comfort was embarrassing enough that she eventually quit. 

It added to the humiliation that her best friend often showed her men’s Hinge profiles that included responses like “Deal-breaker: you vape” or “No astrology, no vaping.” She’s not the only one who’s tired of sucking on a piece of plastic. After a decade of steady growth, e-cigarette sales have tumbled; in the U.S., they’ve fallen nearly every month over the past two years. Hitting the vape is now déclassé, a habit associated with teenagers and men who live in their parents’ basement.

But while vaping may not possess the cultural cachet it once did, posting about trying to quit certainly does. Making content about the quitting process (or #QuitNic, as it’s known on TikTok) has provided a path to virality for fledgling creators, some of whom are sucking on straws to satisfy their “mouth boredom,” griping about how ditching your vape feels like losing an eyeball, or hyping up their followers as they embark on this harrowing “journey” together. Read more at the link in bio.

Videos: jocelynaltagracia, klassickyla [via TikTok]

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