Glenn I don't believe I am allowed to post links here...did try and it is disallowed.
At first, posting is restricted. It's to slow down "spammers". As you have more posts, the restrictions end. I forget the exact numbers for which restrictions but it's not many.
[*]E-cig still has nicotine content in it. Although one can vary the concentration to very minimal or to nothing. But in most cases than not, most smokers chose one with a high concentration of nicotine. Since to choose one with low nicotine concentration would defeat the purpose of actually smoking: the stimulation obtained from smoking is mostly the reason people smoke, it’s only in rare case do people do it for the gesture of it. Nicotine however small the concentration is, it is still a vasoconstrictor substance.
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I don't believe this at all. There are
many reasons people smoke. It's never just "one thing".
I was a heavy smoker. Yet as I became more experienced as a vaper, I cut my nicotine level. A lot. For one, I like to
vape. I liked to smoke. I was a "pleasure smoker" to the end. Much of the reason I do this is I
like the... experience? I still, sometimes, buy a disposable e-cig like an
njoy brand that looks like a cigarette and feels like one when I hold it.
Being "like a cigarette" is less important now (I've been
vaping a little more than one year) and my Innokin VTR is
nothing like a cigarette but I still like to "blow smoke". I don't know why that's important to me, only that it is. And that is one reason nicotine gum and nicotine patches failed for me (and more than once).
Since I like to vape a lot, I had to cut my nicotine back or get "jitters". Like I would sometimes get when, as a smoker, I chain smoked to stay awake and alert. For me, at least, nicotine is a stimulant of a kind. Too much and I'm wide awake way too late at night. Like drinking coffee in the evening.
I smoked 40 or more cigarettes per day
but vape as low as 6mg/ml. I rarely go higher than 12mg/ml and mostly stay around 9. If getting the nicotine was the main factor, I'd be fine with higher nicotine levels and fewer "puffs". But I've worked to have more "puffs" even at the expense of cutting the nicotine.
And I'm not alone.
One thing about the vapor world I am certain of is "everybody's different". You see people say that a lot here. I saw experienced vapers say that when I first showed up. I can see it these days. People go in all kinds of directions in vaping. There is no "one size fits all". Some go high nic, some low, some eliminate it entirely over time and vape 0 nicotine juices. If the nicotine was the only reason for our behavior, you could never understand the people who ween themselves off nicotine
and then keep vaping.
The reasons for smoking are not that simple. Nicotine's addictive quality isn't even the same for different people. Some people smoke "socially" and rarely and never get addicted. I became addicted fast. I remember that. Even though it was so, so many years ago. I remember "cravings" the first week I ever smoked.
Nicotine may have some negative effects in the mouth, yes. Nobody said it is a health food! But keep in mind that cigarette joke has
thousands of chemicals in it. Not just nicotine. Tobacco smoke has actual cyanide in it. Poison gas they used to execute people with. That has to be worse than just nicotine.
But you need expert opinion, not just an online forum. Still, I would think vapor would be better for your teeth and health than the many, many chemicals in tobacco smoke.
