Asthma question

[oppenheimer]

Ok Did people who feel their asthma to be better with ecig use Propylene glycole or VG in E-liquid? I mean did you feel your lungs and asthma disease to be better with E-liquid with propylyn G or VG?

[oppenheimer]

I got the ecig specifically because of my asthma. My asthma wasn't terrible, but it had gotten worse after 10 years of smoking. I was probably using my inhaler twice a week or so especially if I was stressed and smoking a lot. After smoking a regular cigarette my chest would get heavy, and sometimes tighten up all together, at which point I would reach for my inhaler, wait for a few hours, and light up again. Stupid.

I've only been vaping for a week but I can say I have not generally had this chest tightening problem so far. My chest feels infinately better than it did when I was smoking. I CAN say though, that I still get that tight feeling in my chest if I spend too long vaping at a stretch. It's also irritating to my chest if I get a hit of burning plastic/fibers at which point I spit all the smoke out and put it down for a few hours.... that's been the biggest drawback for me so far. Besides that, all the "clean" hits have not caused me any problems, in fact, I feel terrific and haven't used my inhaler for a week! So much better than regular smoking. Of course, as an asthmatic, anything is better than smoking.

just my .02 cents worth.

Ok Did people who feel their asthma to be better with ecig use Propylene glycole or VG in E-liquid? I mean did you feel your lungs and asthma disease to be better with E-liquid with propylyn G or VG?

[CollapsiblePony]

I have the JC sampler in VG with 0 nic as well as a variety of other PG juices in low nic because I wanted to see if one was better than the other for me. So far, I haven't noticed as much of a difference between them. I do seem to do slightly better with the PG, but that could be because I go a little overboard vaping the JC sampler since it's 0 nic...... I'm pretty sure at this point that heavy vaping sessions are a no-no for me, regardless of PG/VG. Not sure how helpful that is.

Of course, like I said, I've only been at this for a week...

[oppenheimer]

I have the JC sampler in VG with 0 nic as well as a variety of other PG juices in low nic because I wanted to see if one was better than the other for me. So far, I haven't noticed as much of a difference between them. I do seem to do slightly better with the PG, but that could be because I go a little overboard vaping the JC sampler since it's 0 nic...... I'm pretty sure at this point that heavy vaping sessions are a no-no for me, regardless of PG/VG. Not sure how helpful that is.

Of course, like I said, I've only been at this for a week...

ok but please tell me honestly did you go to a chest`s doctor and he told you that Ecig is good for you asthma?

last but not least so you felt also very better with PG right?

[Frankie]

You can find more answers/experience here: Effects of ecigs on Asthmatics

[babylonx]

I am 25 and I have light asthma since 17. It is very light so I do not regularly use an inhaler.

I was a very light smoker, practically a non smoke since I did 2-3 cigarettes a week. Sometimes I could smoke 10 cigarettes in rare cases (social smoking, going out with other smokers) and some other periods I would not smoke at all for weeks. Defenitelly not a nicotine addict.

When I discovered vaping I really liked it but I think it made my asthma a little worse. Vaping may not even be the cause as it may be just an asthma exacerbation that all asthmatics have from time to time but it definitely does not help with it.

I still haven't found out what the cause is but I noticed it getting worse when using ready pg/vg made e-liquids with nicotine. I used vg only base liquids without nicotine that I did myself before and they didn't irritate me at all. Now I think it has to do with throat hit. If I use bigger atomizers with lower resistance that produce warm vapor and give better TH I can feel my chest and my breathing getting heavy and my airways getting tighter. The next day I may also have some cough. If I turn back to simple 510 atomizers I think the puffs are not irritating anymore. The problem is that I like warm vapor and TH and these atomizers does not even perform the tastes very well!

So for me I think it is the nicotine that creates the problem but I am still doing trials.