Many smokers don’t know that nicotine salt (or nicsalt) is horrendously addictive compared to freebase nicotine. And nicsalt is the primary form of nicotine in tobacco and some vapes. Cigarette companies sneakily add more to the rolling paper to make cigarettes more addictive.

It is orders of magnitude more difficult quitting nicsalt. It’s why many people who successfully quit recommend starting with stronger freebase nicotine tapes or lower nicsalt and then trying to scale back from there eventually moving to freebase.

Nicsalt is so addictive you can be going into withdrawal while vaping freebase nicotine.