Not to cause alarm or anything but I experienced some uncomfortable side effect which was bothering me a while and which funnily enough was documented in another thread by others ( Thread was shortness of breath in the health forums) and I put down my e-cig a week ago- not because of that thread, but because the issues raised had been niggling at me for some week or two prior. In short, my lungs felt trapped for lack of a better description.
I also felt at times, I wasn't getting enough oxygen. I never had asthma or COPD and I smoked heavily (20-25 analogs daily) prior to e-smoking for 26 years. I do have sleep apnoea and I once used CPAP for several years.
Firstly, giving up the e-cig, even at high mg. (in my case 26mg down from 36) is pretty simple compared to the herculean task of quitting cigarettes.
I was amazed how easy it was just to put the things down and walk away. Okay, I was in a bad mood all week, but that passes. Chalk that up to nicotine withdrawal. (This was not the MAOI tobacco alkaloid withdrawal by the way, since I stopped using snus and snuff many weeks ago. This was just a nicotine withdrawal alleviated from time to time with a nicotine spray. I'll still have 1mg to 2mg or so twice a day.)
My SO smokes tobacco and I cannot stand the smell and I have absolutely no urging to pick up a tobacco cigarette, although sometimes I find my fingers unconsciously weaving downwards, or homing in on other people's cigarette packs around the house. I find that amusing after I've stopped myself. Old habits. New learning. Nope, I don't even miss the e-cig but I do admit that when I get a tobacco craving, and I do get them but nothing that sends me out of my mind insane; it will be for the e-cig and only because it gave a better throat hit than cigarettes themselves.
Secondly, since putting down the e-cig, I've felt even better as the days pass (but I do get the occasional bad day) Feeling better as in lungs feel like they are getting a proper break. The clearing of my lungs has started again. (It took a while to get started anyways once I started vaping, but after a month or so stuff started coming up) For a couple of weeks, when the breathlesness started, as mild as it was, I couldn't clear my lungs at all for some reason, but since I stopped vaping and got mucosal thinners and use steam the lungs are slowly starting to clear the brown tar rubbish of years past. There's only one problem. I noticed blood on a few occasions. And nearly a week after quitting vaping. But the ease of breathing has returned so that could just be inflammation. I'll let the Lung specialists make that determination. I don't feel it's anything serious at this point.
Thirdly, I'll be not posting so much anymore as the e-cigs are no longer part of my life. I want to thank those of you who were so generous and who traded crucial info with me on all things e-cig. You know who you are. These are great forums and the e-cig is a great invention. I have no idea how I would have stopped without it and I tried everything.
So yes the e-cig has helped me, but comes a time when I see there is more to life than worrying about nicotine and I no longer wish to be part of a big experiment with unknown outcomes. It took an adverse reaction for me to see that.
I want to see my kids go through school and have kids of their own.
I want to complete an ironman triathon without being hooked to an iron lung.
I want to be able to do all these things and more without worrying about the possibility of adverse health effects and the possible knocking of years off my life with the continued use of e-cigs and e-liquids.
Thats why I stopped smoking tobacco.
Maybe the damage is already done from that.
Who knows?
e-cigs and e-liquids might be less harmful than tobacco
But that's not good enough for me.
And in closing, I want to encourage the Chinese Manufacturers to be forthcoming and active in their disclosures. Nobody really trusts anything Chinese made these days, and the disinterest, even disdain shown by the Chinese over the past year in supporting studies of any form or even addressing customer health concerns is worrying. It's all about money. Just like the FDA, Big Tobacco, and Big Pharma. Nobody cares about health.
God forbid there be a non nicotine dependent healthy ex-smoker out there.
I also felt at times, I wasn't getting enough oxygen. I never had asthma or COPD and I smoked heavily (20-25 analogs daily) prior to e-smoking for 26 years. I do have sleep apnoea and I once used CPAP for several years.
Firstly, giving up the e-cig, even at high mg. (in my case 26mg down from 36) is pretty simple compared to the herculean task of quitting cigarettes.
I was amazed how easy it was just to put the things down and walk away. Okay, I was in a bad mood all week, but that passes. Chalk that up to nicotine withdrawal. (This was not the MAOI tobacco alkaloid withdrawal by the way, since I stopped using snus and snuff many weeks ago. This was just a nicotine withdrawal alleviated from time to time with a nicotine spray. I'll still have 1mg to 2mg or so twice a day.)
My SO smokes tobacco and I cannot stand the smell and I have absolutely no urging to pick up a tobacco cigarette, although sometimes I find my fingers unconsciously weaving downwards, or homing in on other people's cigarette packs around the house. I find that amusing after I've stopped myself. Old habits. New learning. Nope, I don't even miss the e-cig but I do admit that when I get a tobacco craving, and I do get them but nothing that sends me out of my mind insane; it will be for the e-cig and only because it gave a better throat hit than cigarettes themselves.
Secondly, since putting down the e-cig, I've felt even better as the days pass (but I do get the occasional bad day) Feeling better as in lungs feel like they are getting a proper break. The clearing of my lungs has started again. (It took a while to get started anyways once I started vaping, but after a month or so stuff started coming up) For a couple of weeks, when the breathlesness started, as mild as it was, I couldn't clear my lungs at all for some reason, but since I stopped vaping and got mucosal thinners and use steam the lungs are slowly starting to clear the brown tar rubbish of years past. There's only one problem. I noticed blood on a few occasions. And nearly a week after quitting vaping. But the ease of breathing has returned so that could just be inflammation. I'll let the Lung specialists make that determination. I don't feel it's anything serious at this point.
Thirdly, I'll be not posting so much anymore as the e-cigs are no longer part of my life. I want to thank those of you who were so generous and who traded crucial info with me on all things e-cig. You know who you are. These are great forums and the e-cig is a great invention. I have no idea how I would have stopped without it and I tried everything.
So yes the e-cig has helped me, but comes a time when I see there is more to life than worrying about nicotine and I no longer wish to be part of a big experiment with unknown outcomes. It took an adverse reaction for me to see that.
I want to see my kids go through school and have kids of their own.
I want to complete an ironman triathon without being hooked to an iron lung.
I want to be able to do all these things and more without worrying about the possibility of adverse health effects and the possible knocking of years off my life with the continued use of e-cigs and e-liquids.
Thats why I stopped smoking tobacco.
Maybe the damage is already done from that.
Who knows?
e-cigs and e-liquids might be less harmful than tobacco
But that's not good enough for me.
And in closing, I want to encourage the Chinese Manufacturers to be forthcoming and active in their disclosures. Nobody really trusts anything Chinese made these days, and the disinterest, even disdain shown by the Chinese over the past year in supporting studies of any form or even addressing customer health concerns is worrying. It's all about money. Just like the FDA, Big Tobacco, and Big Pharma. Nobody cares about health.
God forbid there be a non nicotine dependent healthy ex-smoker out there.
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