I have heard this statement over and over through the four years that I have been vaping. Always it comes from someone who cannot say where they learned of this and always it is said by a person who has a stupid cigarrette in their fingers--the nicotine staining their fingers and the burning material slowly killing them. NOW THAT has been proven over and over and the results can be felt in your body if you are a smoker. Smoking sucks the life out of you and the smoker can FEEL it happening.
The horrible coughing. Spitting up nasty brown gue and wheezing like a wounded dying water buffalo.
I was a smoker for many years. I started sneaking cigs from my grandmother and then from my dad and then started buying them from cigarette machines in places all over town. I also used to steal them from the market that had stacks of them right next to the empty boxes that they saved for folks. I would just push a few packs into the boxes and then carry them out. They were the only things I ever stole from a store.
I started smoking at age 12 and didn't stop even though I had all of the above symptoms. Then one day that was THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKE OUT. I just tossed a full pack of Camels out of the windown of my truck and then went into the withdrawal that was awful. I drank to stop the symptoms and that just made it worse. IT took three days but I did not smoke
Then one day at the gym SIXTEEN YEARS LATER. I was working out. I did this THREE DAYS a week and I did everything from lifting free weights to jumping rope. I could bench press my own weight and I was quick and strong.
I started feeling a heaviness in my chest but I was on the bike and there was a line to use the one I was on so I pressed on. The weight in my chest got worse and I finally finished six miles and I left and went directly across the street to The Heart Center.
After a lot of tests the doctor came and and told me I was going to have to have a 3x bypass on that night or I might not live to see the sunrise.
I had the bypass and woke up with the ventilation tube down my throat. They said I had awakened early in the process and that I had to be on that ventilator for at least 3 more hours and that they could not put me to sleep because it might kill me. I have to tell you that laying there with that giant hose down my throat was a long, long, long three hours.
The surgeon came in after I was off of the machines and was in recovery. HE told me with a stern warning that I HAD to STOP smoking. When I told him that I had not smoked in SIXTEEN years, he simply did not believe me and waited there lecturing me-- telling me that my arteries looked like the arteries of a 70 year old man who smoked three packs a day.
My wife assured him that I had not smoked and he was baffled. HE said: " I have never seen ANYONE ---alive--- with arteries that were that blocked and was not either dead or dying and still smoking.
Over the year following the bypass---I had SIX emergency cardiac stents inserted in my body and had these done over a 3 month period so it was two EMERGENCY--AMBULANCE enabled rescues stent placements per month for three months.
Every time I smoked a cig. (toward the last few months of my smoking) I got sick and had to sit down and catch my breath. But smokers know that they got sick the first time they smoked and they went right back and did it again and again-- they got sick for the first 3-4 times but DID IT ANYWAY and now they can't stop and when told that they could quite easily quit if they just started vaping... they would get the nicotine in a way that is much LIKE smoking EXCEPT their is no burning matter involved. When you vape-- the nicotine can be quite low and easily lowered systematically. They say: " Those things will blow up in your face."
Well let me tell you. I would rather have TEN of these things blow up than go through what I did because of smoking. Why did I start vaping? I don't really know. I used to LIKE smoking until the last couple of years and so I investigated the process and learned that water vapor transfers the nicotine ( which is NOT what causes cancer) through the lungs.
I have vaped for four years and once I started to have a hacking cough and I simply reduced the nicotine by 1/2 and I now get to enjoy the pleasures of smoking without the bypasses.
I believe if someone actually did blow up in someone's face it was because they altered their unit somehow or mismatched systems in some way to cause the accident. But truthfully I believe it is an urban legend. Plain and simple.
IF not-- no matter. I see no way that a BLOW UP could happen with the system that I use. The needed elements for an explosion are not there. So I know that was long and I know I have written it before--and.. perhaps it will ease your mind. IF you can document an explosion of a person using properly matched systems.... I would appreciate return email with the proof attached or the information on how to see the docs.
Thank you and only buy your gear from a place that KNOWS their stuff. Don't buy it from some dude on the street. IF you are given one--have it checked out by a local vape store before you use it.
Warren E. Justice NCARPT, CDMS, CCIMS, CAS, CADC
The horrible coughing. Spitting up nasty brown gue and wheezing like a wounded dying water buffalo.
I was a smoker for many years. I started sneaking cigs from my grandmother and then from my dad and then started buying them from cigarette machines in places all over town. I also used to steal them from the market that had stacks of them right next to the empty boxes that they saved for folks. I would just push a few packs into the boxes and then carry them out. They were the only things I ever stole from a store.
I started smoking at age 12 and didn't stop even though I had all of the above symptoms. Then one day that was THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKE OUT. I just tossed a full pack of Camels out of the windown of my truck and then went into the withdrawal that was awful. I drank to stop the symptoms and that just made it worse. IT took three days but I did not smoke
Then one day at the gym SIXTEEN YEARS LATER. I was working out. I did this THREE DAYS a week and I did everything from lifting free weights to jumping rope. I could bench press my own weight and I was quick and strong.
I started feeling a heaviness in my chest but I was on the bike and there was a line to use the one I was on so I pressed on. The weight in my chest got worse and I finally finished six miles and I left and went directly across the street to The Heart Center.
After a lot of tests the doctor came and and told me I was going to have to have a 3x bypass on that night or I might not live to see the sunrise.
I had the bypass and woke up with the ventilation tube down my throat. They said I had awakened early in the process and that I had to be on that ventilator for at least 3 more hours and that they could not put me to sleep because it might kill me. I have to tell you that laying there with that giant hose down my throat was a long, long, long three hours.
The surgeon came in after I was off of the machines and was in recovery. HE told me with a stern warning that I HAD to STOP smoking. When I told him that I had not smoked in SIXTEEN years, he simply did not believe me and waited there lecturing me-- telling me that my arteries looked like the arteries of a 70 year old man who smoked three packs a day.
My wife assured him that I had not smoked and he was baffled. HE said: " I have never seen ANYONE ---alive--- with arteries that were that blocked and was not either dead or dying and still smoking.
Over the year following the bypass---I had SIX emergency cardiac stents inserted in my body and had these done over a 3 month period so it was two EMERGENCY--AMBULANCE enabled rescues stent placements per month for three months.
Every time I smoked a cig. (toward the last few months of my smoking) I got sick and had to sit down and catch my breath. But smokers know that they got sick the first time they smoked and they went right back and did it again and again-- they got sick for the first 3-4 times but DID IT ANYWAY and now they can't stop and when told that they could quite easily quit if they just started vaping... they would get the nicotine in a way that is much LIKE smoking EXCEPT their is no burning matter involved. When you vape-- the nicotine can be quite low and easily lowered systematically. They say: " Those things will blow up in your face."
Well let me tell you. I would rather have TEN of these things blow up than go through what I did because of smoking. Why did I start vaping? I don't really know. I used to LIKE smoking until the last couple of years and so I investigated the process and learned that water vapor transfers the nicotine ( which is NOT what causes cancer) through the lungs.
I have vaped for four years and once I started to have a hacking cough and I simply reduced the nicotine by 1/2 and I now get to enjoy the pleasures of smoking without the bypasses.
I believe if someone actually did blow up in someone's face it was because they altered their unit somehow or mismatched systems in some way to cause the accident. But truthfully I believe it is an urban legend. Plain and simple.
IF not-- no matter. I see no way that a BLOW UP could happen with the system that I use. The needed elements for an explosion are not there. So I know that was long and I know I have written it before--and.. perhaps it will ease your mind. IF you can document an explosion of a person using properly matched systems.... I would appreciate return email with the proof attached or the information on how to see the docs.
Thank you and only buy your gear from a place that KNOWS their stuff. Don't buy it from some dude on the street. IF you are given one--have it checked out by a local vape store before you use it.
Warren E. Justice NCARPT, CDMS, CCIMS, CAS, CADC
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