Is vaping bad for someone who takes care of their voice and skin?
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This is mostly true, but not in the extreme... You are exhaling the same aerosolized PG or VG you inhaled, minus the nicotine and some of the flavoring. Now, it is possible for vaping to dry your mouth and throat a bit because PG and VG are humectants - that is, they attract water molecules from their surrounding environments. It isn't literally sucking water out of you so that you exhale significant water vapor that wasn't there originally, but it can dry mucous membranes as much as aloe vera, lactic acid, or even honey can. The dehydration is to surface membranes though and not really the entire body. If you lived in say the humidity of Biloxi Mississippi, and moved to arid Tucson Arizona, you would certainly feel the same effect. However, your body will acclimate to it eventually.
BluCig, if you are a singer, you probably don't want to smoke or vape, just because doing nothing is better than using a nicotine product. That said, my voice has returned to usability since I quit smoking and still vaped. My lungs cleared up, I can exhale all the way down to nothing and I don't have that congested feeling that I used to get in the last part of the exhale. I can hit clear high notes that used to only rasp and break up when I tried. Smoking is a real problem for singers. I don't see vaping that way.
If you need to vape because the alternative is going back to cigarettes, then by all means vape! You will probably find that your voice improves and your breathing is fuller and deeper when you need it.
Drink lots of water based liquids when you vape. PG especially dehydrates your mouth, but a sip of water will counteract it. Try it and see and then make your decision. It's tough to quit smoking, but with vaping, you can taper downwards in nicotine content until you get to zero. Past that point, vaping is mostly just reinforcement for the hand to mouth habit that we all have as former smokers.
Remember that it takes 9 months or more for your lungs to completely recover from smoking. Some of the symptoms you experience until then may be after effects of smoking and not artifacts caused by vaping. Don't blame it on vaping unless you stop for a sufficient length of time and a particular symptom goes away and starts back when you vape again. At that point, you can change mixes and try VG liquids to see if PG caused your problem. A small number of people have PG allergies.
If you need to vape because the alternative is going back to cigarettes, then by all means vape! You will probably find that your voice improves and your breathing is fuller and deeper when you need it.
Drink lots of water based liquids when you vape. PG especially dehydrates your mouth, but a sip of water will counteract it. Try it and see and then make your decision. It's tough to quit smoking, but with vaping, you can taper downwards in nicotine content until you get to zero. Past that point, vaping is mostly just reinforcement for the hand to mouth habit that we all have as former smokers.
Remember that it takes 9 months or more for your lungs to completely recover from smoking. Some of the symptoms you experience until then may be after effects of smoking and not artifacts caused by vaping. Don't blame it on vaping unless you stop for a sufficient length of time and a particular symptom goes away and starts back when you vape again. At that point, you can change mixes and try VG liquids to see if PG caused your problem. A small number of people have PG allergies.
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What Chad said. You can use a piece of clear plastic tubing held to the mouthpiece of your ecig, inhale and watch the tube turn white as vapor is created from heat, boiling juice, and moisture from the air in the room. Right now, the humidity level in my home is 65% and outside is 50%. Some days, we reach 90 some odd % humidity. On those days, there's cool fog or hot haze in the air.
There's plenty of moisture in the air to create vapor with an ecig. A small amount is extracted from your mouth and throat, but only through brief contact. If you are properly hydrated, you won't notice.
SBR,
Sure would like to view the data and reports to substantiate your above claims! The second one is totally an excessive exaggeration!
It's tough enough to convince folk that vaping is a viable and less harmful path from 'bakky without claims that even the 'unvapacated' (new word!) recognize as sensationalism at best, and lies at worse!
SBR,
Sure would like to view the data and reports to substantiate your above claims! The second one is totally an excessive exaggeration!
It's tough enough to convince folk that vaping is a viable and less harmful path from 'bakky without claims that even the 'unvapacated' (new word!) recognize as sensationalism at best, and lies at worse!
Fixed! I will never darken your doorstep with such wild and crazy claims again. My deepest and most sincere apologies for screwing up everyone's day so badly. Whoa! Whoa is me!
I am still not sure how the percentage of people who are sensitive to PG or the number of carcinogens in a cigarette actually HURTS the vaping community in any way, shape, or form, but if you say so, then I must be wrong.
EDIT - Here ya go....http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ask-veterans/154951-list-4000-chemicals-cigarette-smoke.html
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PG will give me a raspy voice, almost like smoking, due to dehydration of the mouth and throat. Vg does not in general, although it can create a bit of throat phlegm occasionally. Some flavors can give a raspy voice too.
PG also tends to give more rashes to people sensitive to it. VG I have found tends to moisturize the skin, and yes it can make it oily at times. My skin is far healthier now than when I was smoking 1.5 pad. I'm pretty sure I have less wrinkles too, but that might be from the other health-improving things that I have done in addition to vaping.
For skin and voice, I would recommend vaping a VG e-juice, with zero or minimal flavorings.
PG also tends to give more rashes to people sensitive to it. VG I have found tends to moisturize the skin, and yes it can make it oily at times. My skin is far healthier now than when I was smoking 1.5 pad. I'm pretty sure I have less wrinkles too, but that might be from the other health-improving things that I have done in addition to vaping.
For skin and voice, I would recommend vaping a VG e-juice, with zero or minimal flavorings.
I found after about a month of vaping that I had a number of people I know comment that my skin tone looked better healthier. Have a little bit of the quit zits, but overall I notice now that my skin doesn't feel as dried out as it use to.
I second this. From my experiences and anecdotes from others, flavoring is a culprit for sore and raspy throats!
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