Hey just wanted to stop by here and share my experiences vaping and now that I've quit for those of you wondering just how bad vaping is for the body and how I've felt since I quit. I started vaping back when it all first started to kinda hit mainstream in 2012. I started with crappy pen vapes like the eGo from Joytech that would leak all over my pants/shorts and always gave crappy hits. Like everyone else I eventually graduated to full-on mods and building my coils myself etc. From the day I started, I was a pretty heavy vaper. I worked from home (even back then) and could basically vape all day. And I did. Quitting smoking to vape had positive changes immediately. I stopped wheezing and I snored far less at night. However, I noticed that, even years later, I would tire out rather quickly when exercising. My blood/oxygen levels were always fine when I went to the doctor, but while exercising my lungs struggled to replenish oxygen to my muscles.
Fast forward almost a decade and I had become tired of the hassle of vaping. Building coils, charging batteries, hauling it around with me. I got sick of it. It had also become a pain to find/buy the fluids that I had been using for years. Saints Vapors went out of business and they created my daily driver. Other favorites went out of business or could only afford to produce one flavor. I just got sick of it and started buying zero nicotine of whatever I could find. I did that for a month or two and woke up one day with no fluid and just decided to not buy any more. That was it. I quit.
It's now been six months since I quit. I used to drink a can of Red Bull every day and people told me that when I quit I would feel much better. I did and felt no different at all. At first I thought quitting vaping was the same thing. I felt no different. I still don't feel much different, but what I've noticed as time has gone on is the stuff coming out of my lungs. The first two months it was nothing. I literally couldn't tell that I had quit. Then it started happening. Hacking up huge globs of what looks like clear jelly. I just hacked another one up five minutes ago (six months after quitting), which prompted me to write this. I'm still hacking it up all this time later. But what I've noticed is that my lungs are finally clearing and I'm able to exercise like I haven't been able to in decades without becoming exhausted or feeling like I'm going to pass out. Who knows what having that glycol in my lungs all this time will do to my lifespan, but it's pretty freaky hacking this stuff up so long after quitting.
So while I do think that vaping is probably healthier than smoking, it is not perfectly healthy to do. So I would try to quit if you can. I found the hardest thing to quit was the activity of vaping and not the nicotine. I hadn't had any nicotine for two months before I quit, but vaping had become a physical tick almost. I still get brain "pings" to vape when I do certain things, but they have definitely waned over time. I will never vape or smoke again and I'm glad I finally broke the chain. Good luck!
Fast forward almost a decade and I had become tired of the hassle of vaping. Building coils, charging batteries, hauling it around with me. I got sick of it. It had also become a pain to find/buy the fluids that I had been using for years. Saints Vapors went out of business and they created my daily driver. Other favorites went out of business or could only afford to produce one flavor. I just got sick of it and started buying zero nicotine of whatever I could find. I did that for a month or two and woke up one day with no fluid and just decided to not buy any more. That was it. I quit.
It's now been six months since I quit. I used to drink a can of Red Bull every day and people told me that when I quit I would feel much better. I did and felt no different at all. At first I thought quitting vaping was the same thing. I felt no different. I still don't feel much different, but what I've noticed as time has gone on is the stuff coming out of my lungs. The first two months it was nothing. I literally couldn't tell that I had quit. Then it started happening. Hacking up huge globs of what looks like clear jelly. I just hacked another one up five minutes ago (six months after quitting), which prompted me to write this. I'm still hacking it up all this time later. But what I've noticed is that my lungs are finally clearing and I'm able to exercise like I haven't been able to in decades without becoming exhausted or feeling like I'm going to pass out. Who knows what having that glycol in my lungs all this time will do to my lifespan, but it's pretty freaky hacking this stuff up so long after quitting.
So while I do think that vaping is probably healthier than smoking, it is not perfectly healthy to do. So I would try to quit if you can. I found the hardest thing to quit was the activity of vaping and not the nicotine. I hadn't had any nicotine for two months before I quit, but vaping had become a physical tick almost. I still get brain "pings" to vape when I do certain things, but they have definitely waned over time. I will never vape or smoke again and I'm glad I finally broke the chain. Good luck!
