It's difficult, even frightening, to see a loved one so sick. Our every instinct is to protect them, yet in the face of disease we are often helpless.
Your girlfriend's COPD wasn't caused by vaping. COPD is a progressive disease, meaning it gets worse over time. It's caused by
long term exposure to chemical irritants, she didn't get it overnight - it likely took decades to develop.
There is no cure for COPD, but with treatment quality of life can improve and serious complications become less likely.
This is what the doctors are concerned with in her case; immediate quality of life and fewer severe complications, though nothing will cure her at this point.
For her quality of life, It's best she quits since she seems at a later stage where serious complications are more likely to develop.
As for you, you have to weigh the facts in your own case:
Do you have COPD? If not then what she is dealing with and what you deal with are two
very different things.
- Are you able to quit vaping without going back to smoking?
Smoking is far worse for you than vaping, so consider this answer carefully.
If you can't quit vaping without a return to smoking there are things you can do while vaping to decrease harm to you even further.
- Remove flavoring from your juice, and only vape unflavored nicotine ejuice.
- Keep your consumption level lower. (lower wattage, MTL devices).
It's perfectly natural to let fear take over when we see our loved ones sick, but it's better when we look at the facts in our particular case and deal with those facts.
Talk to you doctor as he knows the particulars of your own case, but when you do don't let fear dictate the direction, but instead, the facts.
