This may seem like a dumb question but does any one know of any health risks if any caused from vaping?
health risks?
- Thread starter jdurst05
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
Go to the Health, Safety, and E-Smoking section of this forum by clicking the Forum tab in the upper left corner and paging down to the section. There's tons of information there.
If you have to maintain the vaping habit to prevent going back to tobacco, it's healthier than smoking. Not doing either is even more healthy. Most of us consider vaping to be the habit that will lengthen our lives over smoking. I don't see anything that detrimental about vaping other than the fact that it does cause slight lung irritation if you inhale vapor regularly. PG and VG are both labelled as irritants to the lungs in the MSDS sheets from OSHA. You can always develop the habit of holding the vapor in your mouth and then exhaling. Most of the nic is absorbed through the mucous membranes anyway. Little gets into the bloodstream via the lungs. The droplet size of vapor is too large to make it into the alveoli and into the bloodstream through the lungs.
I try to do a shallow inhale, just enough to be able to exhale through the nose from time to time when I want a bigger nic hit. The sinuses absorb a lot of nic.
I try to do a shallow inhale, just enough to be able to exhale through the nose from time to time when I want a bigger nic hit. The sinuses absorb a lot of nic.
thanks everyone for the info and ill check out the health and safety section of the forum
When my doctor recently said it was time to think about quitting smoking, I mentioned the e-cig and he said go for it!
Welcome!
Mine, too. When I quit he was all for it. During my subsequent routine appointments two of his questions were, "Still not smoking?", "Still using the electronic cigarette?", "Good!". Then, he'd move on to other questions.
The wife showed her KGO to our pediatrician while we were there for a appointment. Her reaction was phenomenal, everything but fist/chest bumps.
Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
My doctor is an old hippie. He behind it 100%. Matter of fact he wants me back in the office in another month for a checkup. I'm sure it'll be a better visit than last time.
Evidently the AMA has communicated accurate and unbiased information to the doctors. The CDC report that said vapers may experience fewer lung related illnesses due to the encapsulating effect of PG and VG used in electronic cigarettes was a nice assist, also. They say that germs and bacteria in the lungs are absorbed and expelled in the PG/VG we cough back up.
It's also a commonly used method of introducing medications to the lungs to treat Pneumonia and Emphysema. Most of us have seen patients breathing a fog mist. It's a PG based medicinal mist that patients breathe through a tube and facemask.
How old is your wife?! Lol! ;-) x
Also, I've had mixed receptions from medical practitioners. Two dentists love them, one hasn't a clue. Two nurses are cool with them. One GP was thrilled, one (at a hospital- long story) basically told me to quit with the Alan Carr method and I had to resist the urge to ask if he got his medical degree off the back of a cereal packet as it was great that he'd quit so easily but the nature of addiction is that its different for everyone. My hygienist, evil mare that she is anyway, hates them!
I think there are a lot of people in here who would tell you their health has improved since quitting smoking and starting vaping but definitely do what the others have said and check out the health and safety section!x
MY dental hygienist is overjoyed with the lack of cigarette stains on the back of my front teeth since I quit smoking and started vaping. She's also sold on the ecig and recommended them to her brothers, one of whom has quit and the other who switched back and forth before quitting completely. My dentist is intrigued with the idea and on board with my choice.
Yuuuuup.
I had to visit the doc today. I told him I was off smokes but started vaping.
He said the risk is a lot less than cigs. Of course he said stop vaping as soon as u can.
Well I will be vapin for a while........
One thing at a time lol
Similar story; my wife informed her dosctor that she had taken to e-cigs and was no longer smoking real cigarettes. Her doctor was delighted and said she could puff away till the cows come home!
Seems that this is the newest thread in this subforum with the same question and concern. I'm a noob to vaping and loving it. I'm also very analytical so I did my usual research project before going in headfirst. I hope this post helps some noobs struggling with the same fears and doubts that I did before diving in.
I think part of the "fear" for noobs or even vets is that the risks of long term vaping are unknown. If the risks were acute and toxic then they would have been identified years ago but long term seems "ok" at this point but nobody knows for sure. Smoking risks are very well documented and everyone including non-smokers know exactly what they are. There is some comfort there even though the risks are quite horrifying when you sit down and think about it. At least you know what you are getting into. Humans like that even if what you are getting into is ridiculously bad for your health.
Another thing that kept crossing my mind after I realized vaping was the dream solution I've been looking for after almost 2 decades of getting on and falling off the wagon...being able to "smoke" without guilt, stink, hiding from my kids, knowingly putting thousands of toxic chemicals in my body, and shortening my life through a progressive degradation of health. It was defining moment when I knew vaping "did it for me" (and my wife too). I knew it instantly on my first couple of pulls. It was a brain firework moment.
It was a paradigm shift in the way I viewed my future. I had a hard time accepting the reality because it was too good to be true. I tried cold turkey, gum, lozenges, wellbutrin, and all were total failures. Just short term breaks from a life long desire to smoke. It's not all about nicotine addiction. I had that beat twice. Smoking is simply part of who I am as a "whole person". Looking back over the last 30 years, I realize that the only opportunity I had to not smoke was to not begin in the first place. I came assembled with the wiring that tobacco companies love.
Now there was a too good to be true solution and we all know what they say about too good to be true? That easily starts the mind working looking for the darker side of vaping. I'm sure many noobs have felt the exact same way.
I'm a bit of a risk taker by nature. ALL smokers are risk takers by nature. Nothing is safe anyways. Too much of anything is bad. Even stuff that is good for you can be bad for you. Each potential vaper simply needs to make the decision that the potential risk of the unknown outweighs the risk of the known (and those risks are staggering). I take comfort in the fact that vaping has been around a solid 4 years and no smoking gun (pun intended) has been found yet.
There are only a couple of choices for smokers. You can smoke till you die from it, try patches, gum, drugs, or maybe succeed cold turkey or through hypnosis or something like that. I like millions of others tried everything and I'm a strong willed person too. I kept going back because I was simply in a "better state of mind" when I smoked. And vaping is a homerun solution. I get to have it all now and it makes me giddy.
The health section on the forum is awesome and I'm sure most if not all noobs read it because they are feeling some of the same points I made above. After thinking things through, my fears were based on unknown risks and a too good to be true solution. There is no "perfect" solution other than complete nicotine/tobacco abstinence and I'm apparently not cut out for that. I've decided for myself that vaping is clearly the most viable and safe solution for me. And I feel incredibly optimistic about my future.
I think part of the "fear" for noobs or even vets is that the risks of long term vaping are unknown. If the risks were acute and toxic then they would have been identified years ago but long term seems "ok" at this point but nobody knows for sure. Smoking risks are very well documented and everyone including non-smokers know exactly what they are. There is some comfort there even though the risks are quite horrifying when you sit down and think about it. At least you know what you are getting into. Humans like that even if what you are getting into is ridiculously bad for your health.
Another thing that kept crossing my mind after I realized vaping was the dream solution I've been looking for after almost 2 decades of getting on and falling off the wagon...being able to "smoke" without guilt, stink, hiding from my kids, knowingly putting thousands of toxic chemicals in my body, and shortening my life through a progressive degradation of health. It was defining moment when I knew vaping "did it for me" (and my wife too). I knew it instantly on my first couple of pulls. It was a brain firework moment.
It was a paradigm shift in the way I viewed my future. I had a hard time accepting the reality because it was too good to be true. I tried cold turkey, gum, lozenges, wellbutrin, and all were total failures. Just short term breaks from a life long desire to smoke. It's not all about nicotine addiction. I had that beat twice. Smoking is simply part of who I am as a "whole person". Looking back over the last 30 years, I realize that the only opportunity I had to not smoke was to not begin in the first place. I came assembled with the wiring that tobacco companies love.
Now there was a too good to be true solution and we all know what they say about too good to be true? That easily starts the mind working looking for the darker side of vaping. I'm sure many noobs have felt the exact same way.
I'm a bit of a risk taker by nature. ALL smokers are risk takers by nature. Nothing is safe anyways. Too much of anything is bad. Even stuff that is good for you can be bad for you. Each potential vaper simply needs to make the decision that the potential risk of the unknown outweighs the risk of the known (and those risks are staggering). I take comfort in the fact that vaping has been around a solid 4 years and no smoking gun (pun intended) has been found yet.
There are only a couple of choices for smokers. You can smoke till you die from it, try patches, gum, drugs, or maybe succeed cold turkey or through hypnosis or something like that. I like millions of others tried everything and I'm a strong willed person too. I kept going back because I was simply in a "better state of mind" when I smoked. And vaping is a homerun solution. I get to have it all now and it makes me giddy.
The health section on the forum is awesome and I'm sure most if not all noobs read it because they are feeling some of the same points I made above. After thinking things through, my fears were based on unknown risks and a too good to be true solution. There is no "perfect" solution other than complete nicotine/tobacco abstinence and I'm apparently not cut out for that. I've decided for myself that vaping is clearly the most viable and safe solution for me. And I feel incredibly optimistic about my future.
Good post, Bob Chill, and welcome to the forum! I absolutely agree with you about the known risks of smoking vs. unknown risks but known benefits of vaping. I think of us first-generation vapers as pioneers, or as I said in another post, "I am a guinea pig for vaping and proud of it!"
- Status
Similar threads
