Long term results.

[Txrider]

Just a question for long term vapers who were long term smokers.

As someone who has smoked 35+ years and now started vaping, what effect has vaping had for lung capacity and shortness of breath issue us long term smokers have experienced?

Do you feel vaping has allowed your lungs to clear up as quitting smoking does after several months?

 

[SharonLM]

Tx, I have smoked analogs for over 40 years, 2+ packs a day. I have only been vaping 14 days now. I no longer cough!! I'm serious!

DH and I live up a steep, steep, steep (takes a 4 x 4 to get up it) hill. I'm not out of breath near as much as I was after a climb upon returning from the mail box.

That's all I have or now.

 

[ccure]

I was 35+ years analogs smoker, 2 to 3 packs per day marlboro red.

I feel my lungs HUGE! with just about 2 1/2 months of vaping. My taste, smell have improved a lot. My skin looks better!

Some day ago I went to a farm with a friend and I had to walk a really hard slope. It was about 7 miles walk and I did it without any problem! I know for sure that if I was on analogs I could not do it.

 

[surbitonPete]

After more than 40 years of smoking, I couldn't really have expected an amazing difference in only 5 months of vaping but I am now cycling up a hill that I couldn't possibly cycle up before, I don't have my constant cough either.
I am intending to take a walk down my local beach soon because there is a path coming back up the cliff that has always made me stop at least twice to catch my breath. I am curious how far I will be able to get up it without having to stop now.

 

[wv2win]

30 year smoker and a pack and a half a day for the last 15 of those years. I started vaping in mid-February with a 901 and cut back immediately to 8 a day or less. Once I got my Screwdriver, with all the benefits it provides, I quit altogether and have been off analogs for about 45 days. No more coughing, can walk the dog up a hill in our neighborhood without getting winded like I use to. Definite big improvement.

 

[four2109]

Good post. I hope you get someone with "long term" experience. So far 5 1/2 months...?

 

[katink]

Smoked 45+ years, 2-3 packs a day. Vaped 15+ months now. I was on the verge of COPD, lungcapacity 65%. 8 months after I started vaping that was back up to 95% (perhaps higher after that, but doc decided he didn't need to see me anymore). Hope that answers your question.

 

[invidregis]

Katink, that is outstanding! You my friend should be the poster child for vapers, very inspirational. I was a pack a day man for 25 years, vaping only for 8+ months and never felt better.

 

[chief druid]

Katink, that is outstanding! You my friend should be the poster child for vapers, very inspirational. I was a pack a day man for 25 years, vaping only for 8+ months and never felt better.

can we have a poster child that doesnt look so much of a dog please

 

[Kevin]

I have smoked for 30 years and the last 20 have been 2 packs a day. I started vaping in Nov. 08 and been smoke free for 4 months. I haven't felt better in years, no longer get winded running up and down the stairs, working in the yard all day. Not to mention food taste so much better and things smell as they should, some better and some not so good.

There major thing when I first started was not enough batteries or vaporizers to last the entire day. I would have been smoke free from the start it I had enough. I now carry plenty of supplies to make it through the day.

 

[gavin]

I smoked a pack a day plus for 30 years, and although I've only been off analogues since the beginning of May I feel much better. I had a lung function test on the 1st of April, smoked 10 cigarettes max per day while I vaped and then stopped altogether. I'll go for tests every 4 months and post my results. I would like to urge everyone beginning to vape to get a lung function test periodically so we can all see if the benefits are are real for everybody.

 

[katink]

can we have a poster child that doesnt look so much of a dog please

Haha... She will have to do though, sorry

 

[Stormynights]

I found out that my dog has been ...... in the house. I just never smelled it before. She is very small and went by the fridge and I thought is was some kind of condensation. Boy is she busted.

 

[Txrider]

Thanks for all the replies. It's only been a couple weeks for me. I've gone from a pack, to two packs a day and back to pack a day over 35 +years.

The last year or two I have been able to hear noises, like gurgling from my lungs when go to bed, I had to cough a few times to get it to stop. That seems to have gone already within a few days.

Shortness of breath I can't really tell yet, It seems much better going up the normal hills I walk my dog up. I actually have forgotten to think about it when I get to the top of the hill, when before I was consciously thinking "man I'm outta breath" by the time I got to the top before. I guess if I'm not noticing it it must be getting better.

I did quit for three months about 3 yrs ago, and I remember the feeling of better breathing.

I just wanted to see what longer term e-cig users have experienced, those that had noticeable or bad shortness of breath, after vaping for several months.

I'm pretty sold on this and just wanted to hear some longer term results from similar long term smokers who have vaped for months or years before I stock up on a years worth of supplies. I've been using an M402 and it's been going pretty well so far.