Does anyone think it's possible?

[CapeFearRipper]

Does anyone think it's possible that the moisture in the vape going into your lungs is helping to break up the tar from smoking analogs? I just noticed that during the first few months of vaping that the rate of tar coming up when I cleared my throat was pretty amazing versus other times i've quit with no vaping. Also since propylene glycol is used as a germicide for airborne disease that could play a factor as well?

 

[Los Marauder]

Great question. Not sure of the answere. A few folks on this site will lay back and wait for people to give any type medical answeres then attact like rabit sharks to cut good meaning advise to the bone. I have given exactly appropriate advise that was medicaly correct lately but used laymens terms and got critisized and laughed at. I don't know the big words, just the idea.

 

[Steelvap3]

Well no idea mate.. But it should be doing something to the lungs with all the properties it has. It hasnt been affecting me in a badway till now + i dont feel any loss in stamina, which is great.
Sorry to hear that Marauder. Just ignore the "turds". Happy vapin!

 

[DC2]

I think it's possible.

 

[noi_max]

Oddly enough, I smoked similar to how I vape. Drew into the mouth then inhaled, versus drawing straight into the lungs.
I think since people smoke and vape differently than one another, and in varying amounts, it will be different for everyone.

I was actually afraid that the moisture from vaping would prevent tar and crap from coming out. I haven't coughed up much, but got that froggy throat thing going on still after 2 months.

 

[tidegirl]

I would think that the dehydrating factor would make it worse. But if you are drinking enough water to compensate for that it should help with getting the crud out of your lungs.

Marauder- a good healthcare professional knows the big words, but also knows how to translate for the general public. <3

 

[smbray]

yes,I believe so,it is water vapor.when the humidity is real low and my nose is clogged up,I will exhale all my vapor out my nose and it loosens everything up and I can then blow my nose and unclog it.Sorry if that's to much info for some(or to gross)but it's the truth, it works and another advantage of vaping over smoking.

 

[yzer]

I never coughed up any tar or discolored mucous after I quit a 35-year smoking habit. Are you still smoking? Have you seen a doctor about this?

 

[EddardinWinter]

Funny you should mention it.

I am recovering from a horrible flu bout. It was so bad that Wednesday and Thursday I barely vaped (maybe a few puffs each day). On Friday, I was still quite sick, but feeling better and I started vaping. Not since I quit smoking in June have I had so much clearance to make from my lungs. I believe the vaping was very much helping me do it.

 

[k3vin]

When I quit with the patch some years ago for almost a month I was hacking ad coughing junk up especially when I laid down at night, it got so bad I had to take cough syrup before bed or I would not get any sleep..

When I started vaping a little over a year ago I lough the same thing would happen, so I go out and get my cough syrup, ready for the coughing from hell I had experienced years before, and not so much a throat tickle.. Noting, nada came up as it did years before..

I did go to the dr. A few weeks ago, and he checked my lungs and said they sound great, over a year ago when I first went in, they sounded tight...so the stuff, tar and such,I am guessing slowly made its way out slowly but surely..

I do know despite what the alarmist's would say, that my lungs feel better than they have in I don't know when..suffice it to say, I have gotten a lot of my stamina back..and it can only get better..

 

[EddardinWinter]

PG is not used as a germicide as far as I know. It is used as a solvent for certain water non-soluble products like when they are used in respiratory therapy treatments. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure this is true.

 

[yzer]

PG will impede bacterial growth while it is stored but no, it's not considered to be an anti-bacterial agent.

 

[SissySpike]

It all depends on weather your using a Provari or not Top oscar winning scientist, doctors,politicians, and clergymen agree Provari is the best old lung tar removal mod available to the general public.

 

[tidegirl]

PG is not used as a germicide as far as I know. It is used as a solvent for certain water non-soluble products like when they are used in respiratory therapy treatments. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure this is true.

It is often quoted that PG is used in respiratory treatments, but I am a respiratory therapist and in 14 years I have never given a breathing treatment with PG. I would love to know what they are referring to.

 

[kiwivap]

Does anyone think it's possible that the moisture in the vape going into your lungs is helping to break up the tar from smoking analogs? I just noticed that during the first few months of vaping that the rate of tar coming up when I cleared my throat was pretty amazing versus other times i've quit with no vaping. Also since propylene glycol is used as a germicide for airborne disease that could play a factor as well?

I'm not sure that moisture from vaping is breaking up tar. I think not having smoke going into the lungs is the big key. The cells can regenerate without suffering damage. With smoking, new cells are subjected to the smoke so it becomes an ongoing vicious cycle. Take away the smoke and the regenerated cells don't sustain that damage.
Another thing that happens with smoking is that the cilia in the lungs get paralyzed by the smoke. Cilia are like tiny hairs meant to sweep up gunk. I think its possible that when we stop smoking the cilia recover, and start sweeping up some of the gunk.
Another possibility is that although we are vaping nicotine, it may be less than when we smoked. Nicotine is vaso-constrictive. When smoking this meant it constricted the blood vessels in the lungs - which meant the lungs did not work as well.
With a lower nicotine intake the blood vessels work better - so the lungs work better - and we breathe deeper and cough up more of the gunk. Smoking can also damage the alveoli - the tiny air sacs deep in the lungs. So as the lungs start functioning better, the gunk starts coming up.
All of that is dependent on how much we smoked, for how long, and the general health of our lungs.

 

[J.R. Bob Dobbs]

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE...

However there is nowhere near enough data to support this either way. Simply not enough medical testing has been done and e cigarettes are still new to the market. Had they been around 10 years+ i would say maybe. but sine the e cigs that have been here the longest(the rn4081's) are not as popular as the big battery tank, clearo stuff i cant say one way or the other. I doubt anyone really could, unless they have long term expirence with PG and a hefty chemistry and medical background. I will ask my chemist friend see what she says.

 

[RosaJ]

All I know is that after 10 months of vaping and no cigarettes, I breath while I sleep, and that allows me to sleep throughout the night without waking up in distress several times during the night because of stuffy nose and/or stop breathing because of sinus issues. I now fall asleep on my right side, wake up after 6 hours of sleep to go to the bathroom, and then go back to bed and lay down on my left side and sleep for another couple of hours. I don't even wake up to move during the night.

You can do a search online for pg used in medicinal applications. I found that pg is part of the base for baby/children flavoring given by the drugstores to make children's prescriptions more palatable. They've approved it for children/babies to ingest for heaven's sake! And as far as I've researched hospitals do add pg to their air conditioning systems because of its antimicrobial properties. From what I understand, it is also used as a base in some of the iv medications that go straight into your bloodstream.

 

[CapeFearRipper]

All I know is that after 10 months of vaping and no cigarettes, I breath while I sleep, and that allows me to sleep throughout the night without waking up in distress several times during the night because of stuffy nose and/or stop breathing because of sinus issues. I now fall asleep on my right side, wake up after 6 hours of sleep to go to the bathroom, and then go back to bed and lay down on my left side and sleep for another couple of hours. I don't even wake up to move during the night.

You can do a search online for pg used in medicinal applications. I found that pg is part of the base for baby/children flavoring given by the drugstores to make children's prescriptions more palatable. They've approved it for children/babies to ingest for heaven's sake! And as far as I've researched hospitals do add pg to their air conditioning systems because of its antimicrobial properties. From what I understand, it is also used as a base in some of the iv medications that go straight into your bloodstream.

Awh, that's what I heard, about the hospitals adding it to the air. Actually I saw this in one of rip trippers youtube videos about propylene glycol. He said he had sources linked, I didn't check them but he was also talking about a test group of lab mice infected with something. The group that had propylene glycol in the air lived and the ones who didn't died.

 

[DC2]

It is often quoted that PG is used in respiratory treatments, but I am a respiratory therapist and in 14 years I have never given a breathing treatment with PG. I would love to know what they are referring to.

Google this: lung transplant propylene glycol

 

[DC2]

PG will impede bacterial growth while it is stored but no, it's not considered to be an anti-bacterial agent.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1675525