Jocelyn Altagracia knew her vaping had become a problem. Her then-boyfriend first handed her a Juul when she was 17 years old. Nearly a decade later, her habit wasn’t so fun anymore. If she dropped her vape in the toilet while she was out — which was often — she’d run from the bar to the corner store, grab a new one, and resume partying. “Every night, I would go to sleep with it next to me, then in the middle of the night, I would hit it if I got up to use the bathroom,” she said. “Like, why am I so addicted to something that can literally ruin my insides?” Her relationship with her vape was the longest one she’d ever been in.

It was time to quit. To satisfy her oral fixation, Altagracia sucked on toothpicks, straws, lollipops, Jolly Ranchers, and Life Savers. Her friends recommended leav

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