Anyone Develop Lung Cancer after switching to Vape?

[niczgreat]

One of the things I noticed is that on the Forum I haven't seen anyone post that they switched to vaping and developed Lung Cancer later.

It's quite Odd and raises the question: Does the switch stop or reverse the risk of Cancer.?

 

[Clearo-Mizer]

Cancer can develop 2-3 years after smoking stops...my aunt was just diagnosed and she quit 3 years ago with chantix..I do know vaping PG is actually good for your lungs because it is a strong anti bacterial,anti fungal and anti viral....and it actually helps sluff off the accumulated carbon residue left there by smoke...thats why some folk cough up alot of stuff in the first few weeks of vaping.

 

[niczgreat]

Cancer can develop 2-3 years after smoking stops...my aunt was just diagnosed and she quit 3 years ago with chantix..I do know Vaping PG is actually good for your lungs because it is a strong anti bacterial,anti fungal and anti viral....and it actually helps sluff off the accumulated carbon residue left there by smoke...thats why some folk cough up alot of stuff in the first few weeks of vaping.

You make me feel better, I quit 4 years ago!

 

[phonedude]

Since quitting two (almost) years ago I have been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome. I believe it is a form of cancer.

But I don't blame it on vaping. I just wish I had found e-cigs sooner.

 

[Drael]

One of the things I noticed is that on the Forum I haven't seen anyone post that they switched to vaping and developed Lung Cancer later.

It's quite Odd and raises the question: Does the switch stop or reverse the risk of Cancer.?

You find that odd?

I thought the practical absence of carcinogens was one of the major motivations for using e-cigs.....

 

[Commie]

Problem is that there's always risk of lung cancer. Some people have chances of developing it even though they have never smoked at all. Smoking only increases the chances.

But, like others have said here, switching to vaping, or otherwise quitting at all, does revert your lungs to the non-smoker state after several years. I assume the time needed to revert depends on a lot of things (age, general health, how much and what you smoked, etc), so it's impossible to give an exact number.

A very nice feel-good thing to do is to get a chest X-Ray after a while, and say "neener-neener" to your doctor.

 

[MrSelf Destruct]

My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer 10 years after she quit smoking. Everyone is different. I guess it just depends on the individual and how much damage has been done already. Also remember, you can get lung cancer without ever touching an analog...

 

[Pentarth]

Well some articles I have read state that once you get the Tar from cigarettes in your lungs it's there forever. I don't know if over time your body kicks out some or all of it. I don't believe the cilia in the respirator tract lines the Alveoli. Therefore any tar that far down is "stuck" there. That could be why people years later develop cancer. I don't believe everything I read, but the latest studies show that the Tar of cigarettes are the single worst part and the biggest cancer causing agent of the cigarette. Eliminating tar completely by vaping is sure to reduce your risk of getting lung cancer from tar. What more can we expect? We were all told that cigarettes are incredibly bad for you unless you started smoking before 1950.
Myself I'm grateful that electronic cigarettes were developed or else I would still be smoking 2 + packs a day and would surely die from it had that continued.
To the op I would say, from my 25 years in the medical profession as a nurse. Stop the risk? no. Everyone, smokers and nonsmokers, have a risk of developing lung cancer.
Reduce the risk ? Yes.
Reverse the risk? That is still up for debate and time will tell. (my guess would be some reversing of risk varying greatly by individual)

 

[BobAgainstApples]

As far a reversing the risk, I did see an article a few weeks ago that showed the average smoker loses 10 years of life. If you quit before you are 40, you will on average lose only one, before 50 only 3 or 4 I think ... etc. This is not accounting for the potential miracles of PG however, as it was a generic study.

 

[Renolizzie]

The main cause of deaths for smokers is not lung cancer.

If your dead you can't post on ECF.

Those are my two reasons people on this website aren't posting that they have lung cancer on the ECF website.

 

[BobAgainstApples]

Ha, dead men tell no tales.

Rethinking my above post, the study I mentioned is really only an example of reduced risk. It would be interesting to see a comparative study in 20 years or so of vapers and compare the results. That would potentially demonstrate reversed risk.

 

[denali_41]

You can have lung cancer long before you start vaping.the only way to truly be able to answer this question is to get tested the day you quit smoking

 

[Constance Shutts]

My mother's mother died from lung cancer in 1938 and never smoked a day in her life. My mother died in 1988 from lung cancer 12 years after she quit smoking. My father smoked until he died in a car wreck in 2000 at age 86. He did not have lung cancer. So time will tell for me I guess. Who's genes are more predominant..my mothers or my fathers.

 

[Tanti]

Well some articles I have read state that once you get the Tar from cigarettes in your lungs it's there forever. I don't know if over time your body kicks out some or all of it. I don't believe the cilia in the respirator tract lines the Alveoli. Therefore any tar that far down is "stuck" there. That could be why people years later develop cancer. I don't believe everything I read, but the latest studies show that the Tar of cigarettes are the single worst part and the biggest cancer causing agent of the cigarette. Eliminating tar completely by vaping is sure to reduce your risk of getting lung cancer from tar. What more can we expect? We were all told that cigarettes are incredibly bad for you unless you started smoking before 1950.
Myself I'm grateful that electronic cigarettes were developed or else I would still be smoking 2 + packs a day and would surely die from it had that continued.
To the op I would say, from my 25 years in the medical profession as a nurse. Stop the risk? no. Everyone, smokers and nonsmokers, have a risk of developing lung cancer.
Reduce the risk ? Yes.
Reverse the risk? That is still up for debate and time will tell. (my guess would be some reversing of risk varying greatly by individual)

Thats not totally true, 15 years after you quit smoking your lungs will be of a person that never smoked. That is put out by the Lung association.

 

[Commie]

Thats not totally true, 15 years after you quit smoking your lungs will be of a person that never smoked. That is put out by the Lung association.

It's hard to believe their research. They're also claiming that vaping is possibly worse for you than smoking.

 

[jimmyh]

Did quitting help? I would say ,yes. Will it stop me from getting cancer? Our genetics's determine a lot of what happens to us. The only thing a person can change is the present.

 

[speedjason86]

lung cancer is not related to smoking anyway. there is yet evidence saying smoking causes lung cancer.
even non-smokers can have lung cancer.

 

[Jadesrayne]

Well since vaping has not been around long enough to have any real info on that, I will just say same as others: Anyone can get lung cancer....

 

[D4rk50ul]

Kind of like asking if having 6 drinks 6 hours ago then drinking water now caused you to have a car accident in an hour due to the water's effect on you.

Sent from my Nexus 4

 

[martinc]

I dont beleive everything the government says.

Scarmongering tactics from do-gooders is one of the most abject type of lies on the planet.