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I get really like anxious and like that
crave it my temper gets really short
when I'm using it usually PAH today the
craving I'm constantly we're like
running through my head like I really
want nicotine right now I really want to
use my vape it sophomore year I remember
going to tryouts it's like not having
the lung capacity to constantly be
skating up and down the ice my breathing
is so fast I just feel drained of energy
there were definite changes in him anger
I would say that's probably the biggest
effect that we've noticed it took us
until about a month ago to really
understand that he does have a an
addiction
I think it wasn't until I found a tin in
his car that was filled with empty pods
hundreds of them made me sick to my
stomach a lot of kids don't consider it
a drug but it absolutely is it changes
your brain maybe just half a pod and
then your brain is susceptible to
continued and lifelong addiction with
the teenage brain it takes less nicotine
the addiction is stronger and it's much
harder to ever quit
and what's really unfair is there's not
good treatments so once you become
addicted to this it's a long road back I
got caught in school with a vape device
on me i suspended five games those five
games I had Scouts coming and I wasn't
able to play obviously so it didn't
really it didn't really work out
and it was big blow because my senior
year and I lost my captainship
having what happened to him happened I
think it was a huge eye-opener that he
had a problem through the past few years
when this has been going on
ultimately the only real joy that I as a
mom had was watching him play hockey
when he was named captain it allowed us
to have a bond we were able to
communicate about events for the team it
was great
I felt like it was our chance to kind of
reconnect I was like viewed as one of
the better players on the team like I
constantly was living up to that
expectation and then since I screwed up
that expectations
still there for other people I always
thought it was water vapor going into my
lungs and wouldn't do anything it's
taking a toll on my body over the past
four years I've really noticed
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