Are you getting less colds since you smoke e-cigarettes?

[DC2]

You realize that makes no sense, right?

If there are exceptions (to any assertion), then it cannot be, by definition, "indisputable".

What if the assertion is that the propylene glycol in our electronic cigarettes can help prevent sickness.

 

[Serpent Shane]

Definitely.. Used to get sore throats all the time when I was on analogues, but not anymore

 

[Hoofhearted62]

Hardly ever get sick or colds, so I'm not a good subject for this poll

 

[baseballmom]

Not sure yet, will see what the kiddos bring home this year. Think I'll feel better when sick without the cigs though just due to how much worse I felt while smoking them normally not sick.

 

[Dacholiday Dach]

Usually I get several long drawn out colds a year, this past winter, had one, lasted for only about three days. WOOHOO.

 

[rico942]

I work in a sealed office building, with substandard ventilation, not so unusual. Its like a petri dish of chronic respiratory infections, fed in part by surfers and ocean swimmers who pick up every new strain each morning and bring it to work with them, sharing generously ...

Someone here is always sick, coughing, sneezing, wheezing and spewing microbes in every hallway and bathroom ...

Its a short time span to draw any conclusions (5 months), but I know the symptoms of an impending cold or flu all too well, and no less than three times since I started vaping, I went to bed with the certainty that I would wake up the next day with a sore throat, racking cough, and congested lungs, facing 2 to 3 weeks of misery ...

Haven't had a cold yet this year, for the first time I can remember in decades ...

What's the difference ? I quit smoking in May. Is that alone enough to dodge the bullet ? Well, I had the early symptoms, on 3 separate occasions, after having a co-worker blow a cloud of bacteria in my path. What protected me ? Was it the PG ?

I do know I have seen PG referred to as a "bacterial suppressant". Makes sense to me, but as Scotty would say, "I'm an engineer, not a doctor !" ...

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

I noticed fewer and less severe colds over the last 2 winters since I started vaping. I do have one question , how many who haven't seen an improvement are VG vapers as I have not seen it mentioned as a bactericide.

 

[Wow1420]

No difference, but I haven't had a cold in 7 years and no flu in 11 years. I credit taking vitamin D in the winter and vitamim C year round. Prior to the vitamins, I'd get sick at least once a year.

 

[Nat79]

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I do know I have seen PG referred to as a "bacterial suppressant". Makes sense to me, but as Scotty would say, "I'm an engineer, not a doctor !" ...

My understanding is that PG is not a "bacterial suppressant" so much as a hydroscopic fluid it prevents mold and bacteria in hvac systems by "drying things" out as it was explained to me I believe (opinion) that many of us vapers are also reaping the benefits of healthier living as many of us are getting out more, have more energy, etc because we stopped smoking. I'm not a engineer or a doctor and hope someone with more info will correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[DC2]

My understanding is that PG is not a "bacterial suppressant" so much as a hydroscopic fluid it prevents mold and bacteria in hvac systems by "drying things" out as it was explained to me I believe (opinion) that many of us vapers are also reaping the benefits of healthier living as many of us are getting out more, have more energy, etc because we stopped smoking. I'm not a engineer or a doctor and hope someone with more info will correct me if I'm wrong.

Medicine: Air Germicide - TIME

“A powerful preventive against pneumonia, influenza and other respiratory diseases may be promised by a brilliant series of experiments conducted during the last three years at the University of Chicago’s Billings Hospital. Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson last week was making final tests with a new germicidal vapor — propylene glycol — to sterilize air. If the results so far obtained are confirmed, one of the age-old searches of man will finally achieve its goal…

“…the researchers found that the propylene glycol itself was a potent germicide. One part of glycol in 2,000,000 parts of air would — within a few seconds — kill concentrations of air-suspended pneumococci, streptococci and other bacteria numbering millions to the cubic foot.

“How did it work? Respiratory disease bacteria float about in tiny droplets of water breathed, sneezed and coughed from human beings. The germicidal glycol also floats in infinitesimally small particles. Calculations showed that if droplet had to hit droplet, it would take two to 200 hours for sterilization of sprayed air to take place. Since sterilization took place in seconds, Dr. Robertson concluded that the glycol droplets must give off gas molecules which dissolve in the water droplets and kill the germs within them.

 

[JoanSC]

What I get from the above is it could kill bacteria. Since most colds and flu are viral, I wonder if the same holds true?!

 

[heroinesick]

I do notice that I get WAY less sick. However when I first started vaping in March, I got pretty darned sick just as I quit smoking ( I expected quitter's flu, but this was way, way worse.) Horrible sinus infection, double ear infection that just would NOT die with the usual antibiotics, the lot. However, being that when I smoked I used to even get summer colds, this is much, much better. Usually by now I'd be on second or third cold of the winter.

 

[grayscale]

Definitely don't have the smoker's sniffles anyway.