I can't help but sit here and wonder if they weren't taking their own advice?!
e-cig contain dangerous tar
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I can't help but sit here and wonder if they weren't taking their own advice?!
Nope. Most of them smoked Camels.
When I started vaping about 4 weeks ago I asked myself about the amount of residue that was making it's way into my lungs from using a cartomizer opposed to an analog cigarette. To satisfy my curiosity I did the following. 1st I popped the end cap off of a new cartomizer, discarded it and took the semi clear rubber protective cap that came on the cartomizer and slid it back on. I then made a hole in that protective cap approximately the size of the hole in the end cap I had discarded. I then backed the rubber tip off the cartomizer about 1/3 of the way creating what amounts to a chamber for the vap to gather in and pass through as I am inhaling. After fulling using that cartomizer I looked at it and thought to myself “Well that can't be right” thus subsequently used that tip (and do to this day, I like the feel) on cartomizer after cartomizer different “flavors” all high nicotine content. The result? There is virtually nothing there. No discoloration, no residue build up etc. In fact I think what is there is most likely a miniscule amount of saliva. To be honest I find this a bit surprising, one would think there would be some sort of coloring from the juice alone. All I can say for sure is that if I put that cap on an analog cigarette and did the same it would be dark yellow ½ through the smoke.
Hmmm...interesting about your sister's doc telling her about tar. I was just at our doc because Hubby's sciatic nerve is acting up. We mentioned that we were getting ready to try the e-cigs & he said that several of his patients had tried them & have had great success. He also said that his brother, who until a few months ago, was a heavy smoker had quit using an e-cig. He seemed quite pleased that were going to use the e-cigs. Believe me, if there was something really bad about e-cigs he would've advised us to go another route.
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My doctor recomended that I try them. He knows from years of trying to talk me into stopping that I wasn't interested in quitting, that I enjoyed cigarettes. He explained it was the nicotine that was causing that feeling and it would be better to get that from an ecig because then I wouldn't be getting all the really bad stuff. That was 2 months ago and I haven't had a cig since I got my Joye 510 mega.
That's the path I'm on as well. I just ordered some new juice and went down to 18 mg. Next order will be 12 and so on until I am at 0mg.
Good luck!
Thank you...
I found that if I go slowly, the steps down are not really a big deal. What kinda screwed me up was I got on a "Every 2 weeks I should drop 4mg" thing.
I think a person needs to just vape a certain level until the feel good about it and Then drop down to a lower. If it is 2 weeks, fine. If it is longer than 2 weeks, thats ok also.
He just wants to get paid to write scrips for pills. That's like talking to your mechanic about swiching to a bike.
I too enjoyed cigarettes... I personally have no intention of "stepping down" my nic intake any more than I plan to reduce my caffeine intake. My only goal is staying off the analogues, so if I vape 36mg forever, I am good with that if it keeps me off the camel lights. I do like a lower nic vape before bed though
Same here. Fact is I enjoy the nicotine. I gave up cigarettes completely for 10 years and I'll admit it, missed the nicotine. Have not smoked an analog cigarette in over 10 years, did start back up with nicotine gum about a year ago and now stopped that and started vaping 3 or 4 weeks ago. I'm thrilled to have found vaping.
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The doctor in question may have simply been out of the loop when it comes to today's e-cigs. RJ Reynolds tried to market smokeless cigarettes with it's Premier (1988) and Eclipse (2000) brands. Both of these smokeless cigarettes failed to gain any foothold with the smoking public and still relied upon tobacco combustion which resulted in carbon monoxide and tar.
Riiight. I remember those things now. They had like an activated charcoal "ignitor" or something like that. Forgot all about that.
Haha, I remember those. I tried one "safe cigarette" back in like 1985 that was this plastic tube that looked like a cig. I can't remember what it was called or who made it, but they were vile.
Doctors being out of the loop and saying so is fine. Unfortunatrly a number of them won't "say so" and pull an answer out of the air. If I have learned one thing over the years it's to politely and respectfully challenge your doctors answers. If they have a problem with that find another doctor.
Hmm maybe the Doc was thinking about the "electric cigs" Marlboro tried making about ten years ago?
They where this HUGE device that you stuck a real cig into...they filtered the second hand smoke but the smoker still got the same stuff.
They where this HUGE device that you stuck a real cig into...they filtered the second hand smoke but the smoker still got the same stuff.
I'm a nurse, and it's a rare dr indeed that will admit that they don't know everything! lol I believe in doing your own research and then asking a professional opinion after you present your findings.
There's an idea, QSSV, take a used cigarette filter in for your next appointment, and your PV and a kleenex. Do the draw through the kleenex and show the 'tar' deposit.
Then tell the good Dr. you are going to find a Dr. with not only a certificate, but a whole brain.
Then tell the good Dr. you are going to find a Dr. with not only a certificate, but a whole brain.
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