Positive side effects of vaping

[Myk]

I can smell and taste already. I was able to sleep most of the night through the first night (add about 12 hours to my banner, I am officially 15 minutes into my 3rd day), it took me at least a week to get where I wasn't waking up for smokes when I switched to a pipe (I still wake up for an e-cig puff but it's only once and quite a few hours later than usual).

My cough was instantly better, now I only cough while vaping.
Other than earlier today my resting heart rate is down to almost 60bpm.

That's about all I really expect from not smoking. I've never got where I was feeling healthy from it, not even after one 1 1/2 year stint.

Naturally today being the 3rd day I feel like total crap. That coupled with stories on here sent me into a panic attack which sent me to the Xanax and a nap, so now I feel total crap scraped off someone's shoe.
I think I'm going to use the opportunity to cut back my nicotine.

[RainbowznStarz]

I gotta agree with the sense of smell! Yesterday I was driving through a parking lot and EWWW! I could smell about 10 different bad smells...have no idea what they all were but UGH. The world really stinks. For real.

My sense of taste magically reappeared the other night. I made my spaghetti sauce as I always have for the last 15 years. I went to taste it and I gagged! It tasted like flowers! Apparently...my use of Basil has been a tad bit too much and I never knew. I threw that sauce away and started a new batch.

I'm curious to see what happens when Spring arrives and flowers start blooming.

[spyderuk]

Count me in for sense of smell and taste. Traffic fumes are terrible. Other smokers are even worse.

I no longer gag on the cold mornings when going to the car. Coughing is almost non existant. Breathing is much better without the raspiness.

[bluewolf]

MORE energy. I get more done at work.

[ladybug51]

So glad you started this post nitewriter. We DO need to look at the positives more. Yes, were going to have some side effects of getting all the toxins out of out body but they'll go away. Getting out the toxins!!!

Been vapin since a month now. My lungs don't hurt, no more coughing, I can breathe deep, smell things, good and bad, I can taste food better.

I can walk up the two flights of stairs carrying groceries even and not wheeze or stop mid way to catch my breath. More energy, sleep sounder.

"I am a happy camper and I like myself for doing this."

[ladybug51]

My question would be what caused the nicotine overdoses. Nic is dangerous and much care should be taken in handling it and refilling the cartridge. I wash my hands after handling it and I blow gently from the mouthpiece to make sure I don't suck nicotine into my mouth.

[TropicalBob]

Rats, wrong thread for removed post.

[surbitonPete]

After 43 years of heavy tobacco smoking ...I have been e-smoking for just over a month now...but in my case .. the only thing that has changed with my sense of smell is that I can now smell cigarettes, I have always been able to smell everything else O/k.

The 'really' positive thing for me though is that I do not have a smokers cough any more and I was coughing all the time before I started vaping. That has made me feel very much happier.

I had already started trying to get fitter by taking up cycling before I took to e-smoking and at the moment I can only say my breathing 'seems' to have very slightly improved but after 43 years of tobacco smoking perhaps it's too late for me.....I keep reading completely different opinions about whether the lungs can clean themselves out... so I really don't know.

[ExPropTrader]

I have been one of those "ghost-readers" since I found the e-cig a month ago. I was diagnosed with cancer a year ago and one of my doctors suggested an e-cig that he had seen at a local bar. I thought it was the silliest thing I had ever heard and then the doctors told me that it appeared the cancer had spread to the lungs....that's when I decided to try one. I have been through two "cheapies" so far and was pleased with them other than the reliability but thanks to Katy at thesmokelessshop.com I should have my first quality e-cig in the next few days.

The most positive side effect in my book has been peace of mind and knowing that after smoking for 25 years I'm done. I love these things and intentionally try to get noticed in public just so I can tell my story and encourage others to make the switch.

[nitewriter]

I'm so proud of us ALL!

ExPropTrader- You mentioned cancer and I had to reply. What inspired me to quit was watching a dear relative struggle after a lobectomy (Partial lung removed) from cancer. She also developed COPD (because she couldn't quit even after cancer) and I watched her take her last breath Feb 26th, 08. I swore I'd quit right there and then. Thanks to e-cigs I've been smoke-free since new years eve.

I think "living" is the ultimate positive side effect of vaping!