Gonna get long-winded here:
If withdrawal symptoms include tingling in hands or feet, sweating, nausea, headaches, coughing, insomnia, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, irritability, depression, and weight gain, then no. I took my family out of town on vacation this past weekend and left the pens at the house. Nothing changed and I didn't drive like a bat out of Hell with its wings on fire to get back home to vape up. Quite honestly, the way some people speak on nicotine, I thought it would do far more to me than it did. If nothing, it gave me a light-beer buzz and maybe a little more focus and concentration that I didn't miss after it wore off. It's done no more to me than caffeine from a strong cup of coffee. Then again, only 6mg here and a cig is what...18?
As a non-smoker into vaping, I did weeks of research before making that decision and because any Johnny Afro can create a website these days, it was very difficult to disseminate Big Tobacco propaganda from anti-vapers from the F*ck the FDA'ers from actual legitimate data. But, up until vaping, tobacco was the primary vehicle for nicotine intake, so any studies done with nicotine most likely had tobacco along side it, so, by proxy, who's to say that one of those other 4,000 chemicals doesn't exasperate the effects and addictiveness of nicotine that's simply absent in vaping? Any one of those components can be the true addictor and nicotine is simply guilty by association.
I will also say this, about five years ago, I became hooked on opiates following a surgery. I can't speak for smokers as I've never smoked, but if this is what "vaped" nicotine does to me, then it is absolutely NOTHING compared to opiates - it's affect or dependency. The highs are much higher and the lows are much more devastating. Oxys, Percs, Loris, H, your body literally turns against you in ways that words can barely go into. Take all of the above and add full-on mood swings, bladder control (imagine having the urge to pee, but your bladder is empty or "weak stream"), constipation, cold sweats, loss of sex drive, impotency (in case you do get the drive back, but no gas in the tank), suicidal thoughts and tendencies, runny eyes and nose (at the same time), diarrhea (with constipation, imagine a gun wanting to fire, but the barrel was plugged up, like in the cartoons), high blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, the "shakes", and night terrors - and that's after it wears off in an an hour or so. There are no patches for that sh*t. I would rather be waterboarded than go through the 96 hours of shaking that sh*t off.
Anybody who tells you that nicotine is as addictive and dependent as h*roin, has never did h*roin.
I won't dare say that nicotine is not addictive, that's been scientifically proven, but A, only one-third of people who try nicotine actually get addicted to it; and B, people need to stop putting nicotine on the level of H, X, Benzos, Opiates, Salts, Spice, M*th, and C*ke. As someone who has used that stuff, it's not even close.
My confusion comes in most anti-FDA'ers and pro-vapers alike constantly rant that smoking and vaping isn't the same thing, but when someone who's never smoked decides to take it up, you treat it as if it is the same thing and try to talk them out of it - I mean, if it's not the same thing, why not? We're all adults here. Like me, by the time I made it to this website, my decision was made and the supportive answer is "smoking and vaping can have potential negative side effects in the form of foreign debris in your lungs as well as addiction and dependency if you choose to add nicotine to your mix, but if you must choose between the two: vape."
Contrary to popular belief, vaping was not invented nor outright designed to help people quit smoking - but as an alternative to smoking (see bold print above). Hell, go to every ecig site and in their small-print terms and conditions, you will see that "our products are not intended and make no claims to be a smoking cessation device." But, since an estimated 87% of vapers are (ex)smokers, they treat cessation as the de facto reason to vape and it simply is not. I mean, you can drink Moonshine or you can drink a Beer - one is far more destructive than the other and both will eventually destroy your liver, but I won't tell someone that just because they've never experienced hard liquor that they shouldn't try a Bud Light. But, I will say, as someone who has gotten so black-out drunk that I've forgotten all concepts of time and space, you shouldn't drink, but if you choose to drink, drink this and do it responsibly.
End noobie rant.