e-smoking with CopD

[Adik Ted]

Thanks for sharing that MissJaaxx. My worry is that I was off the smokes for about 12 days before I started vaping and felt I was breathing easier and my chest felt clearer towards the end of those twelve days than it does now. It may be nothing to do with vaping though as I've been up and down like a yo-yo for the last 6 weeks.

breakfastchef, I think a doctor's the last person I'd ask. What we were hoping was that someone who's had breathing difficulties would tell us how they've got on vaping. Mind you, maybe they're all dead.

[Kate]

Here's a thread by someone who had breathing problems - When the e-cig brought tears to my eyes

[breakfastchef]

That is fine, Adik Ted, but I come from a family where my father was a physician. If you can turn your physician onto e-cigs as a reasonable therapy for your condition, you have a very good chance to, perhaps, get some finannial assistnce from you health insurance carrier. Never hurts to give it a go. I plan to introduce my primary care physician to e-cigs in his office during my six month check up this Spring. I expect he will be blown away and ask more questions than I probably could answer. This thing is truly a blessing (if you believe in such things) and needs to be considered as a viable nicotine replacement therapy device. Despite all the caterwalling about losing the fun benefits of e-smoking if it ever comes under the control of government agencies, I say that I am fine with that, as long as I can vape and avoid the detrimental effects of analogs. By perscription or personal choice, these things are changing my life. Just ask my wife!

[surbitonPete]

The best a doctor could ever say is that vaping is 'probably' better than smoking tobacco and a lot of them already are....but they are unlikely to actually recommend it.

We are our own Guinea-pigs, taking our own risk.. and that's why this forum is so important, it's great for us to let each other know if we are feeling 'any' good or bad effects from vaping. Unfortunately I haven't got a clue how to let anyone know if I have died!!......

[Kate]

... Unfortunately I haven't got a clue how to let anyone know if I have died!!......

I know you mean this in jest Pete but I genuinely get worried about some people who disappear. There have been a couple of overdose/hospital cases where the posters didn't come back. They probably were just put off vaping but how would we know?

[surbitonPete]

I know you mean this in jest Pete but I genuinely get worried about some people who disappear. There have been a couple of overdose/hospital cases where the posters didn't come back. They probably were just put off vaping but how would we know?

Well it was a jest Kate....but perhaps we should all have a note on our desks saying something to the effect that in event of our death please notify the e-cigarette forum of the cause!!

Although I suppose if anyone did die from an overdose of nicotine......it would be something that would get headline news.

[jennydotz]

I was kinda thinking about something like this, not to be morbid. . . Is there a way to track people who haven't been heard from? Mods have our e-mail addresses, right? I don't know what's in the realm of acceptable respect for privacy on forums.

It would just be nice to know: Returned to analogs, quit for good, vaping but not posting, etc. I have a "contact", my sister knows I post here and would drop a line in the unlikely event of an unfortunate incident, related or not. FWIW

[Adik Ted]

Here's a thread by someone who had breathing problems - When the e-cig brought tears to my eyes

That was a good thread Kate. Thanks for posting it.

[Adik Ted]

That is fine, Adik Ted, but I come from a family where my father was a physician. If you can turn your physician onto e-cigs as a reasonable therapy for your condition, you have a very good chance to, perhaps, get some finannial assistnce from you health insurance carrier. Never hurts to give it a go. I plan to introduce my primary care physician to e-cigs in his office during my six month check up this Spring. I expect he will be blown away and ask more questions than I probably could answer. This thing is truly a blessing (if you believe in such things) and needs to be considered as a viable nicotine replacement therapy device. Despite all the caterwalling about losing the fun benefits of e-smoking if it ever comes under the control of government agencies, I say that I am fine with that, as long as I can vape and avoid the detrimental effects of analogs. By perscription or personal choice, these things are changing my life. Just ask my wife!

I tend to agree with Pete's comment about doctors breakfastchef. I'm in the UK where we thankfully don't have to worry about health insurance but chemists over here have just started stocking the nicocig so there's an outside chance they'll be available free one day (a one off course of nicotine patches/gum are already free, as is the drug champix). Hopefully that will set an example for your regulators. Thanks for the post.

[taz3cat]

Cass the peson that wrote the thread Kate listed is very much a live and still wrting book. I thought well that is one person i can check on.

People just fall away and don't wish to tell us about it. Some people just don't have time for forums. There are lots of reason peole leave the forums. i really don't think they OD and died or gave up from OD. I just easeir to grab a analog than mess with VP for some people.