I would like to ask and find out the effect of being a long term vaper ?
Outside of too much time spent on the forum and too much money spent on stuff that never worked, no real cumulative effects I can see.
Have you noticed and bad health effects from
vaping at all ?
Yes. But nothing irreversible.
I am also not looking to debate anyone on my experience, but while
vaping has drastically increased my lung capacity from my time of smoking, based on my experience with 6 months or so of
not vaping, it's still not nearly as beneficial as being smoking
and vaping free. For me, vaping does affect my overall cardiovascular and lung health in a less-than beneficial way, but really only
during the time (about an hour or two after) of vaping. What I mean is, and for example, when I work out, as long as I don't use vaping as a silly pre-workout supp (LOL), I'll be fine. But if I try to workout after a vaping session, it will decrease my output, i.e., no personal bests after a vape session (and these are not "light" workouts.) All in all though, it's just something to be cognizant of and easily managed, unlike smoking where even with several hours off, the evidence of the habit shouts from the chest!
Note: I vape high nic liquid (24 mg to 32 mg, so when I speak of vaping, I am speaking of vaping high nic. Obviously there's a difference in the effects of vaping nic strengths--that's why there's choices.)
Has your health significantly improved (like if you had asthma or some other health issues) or maybe even declined (I hope not) ?
Maybe this is not exactly what you're looking for, but it's what is coming out of my fingers right now:
After I stopped smoking and began vaping, I began hitting the weights pretty seriously. I'd always been a skinny-fat, so fully clothed I never looked as out of shape as I was--but, man, I was really out-of-shape! Couple that with smoking and the other lifestyle I lead (ahem, the Rock'n Roll diet) I just never could sustain any of my body-recompostion efforts.
While being a vaper (and moderating when I vaped), I went from around 20-23% bodyfat (BF caliper test) to over the course of a year or so being around 7-9% (that was a cut; I maintain at about 10%) with only a loss of about 10-15 lbs overall weight (respectable muscle gain to counteract the loss of BF on weight--the before and after pics are not for this forum. LOL). Granted, that's due to intense working out, complete restructuring of my diet, and an overall mindset change, but vaping started it all and it likely wouldn't have been possible without vaping. How's that?
For me, smoking was always the gateway you-know-what, so when I stopped smoking, I stopped drinking, partying and leading the I-don't-give-a-bleep lifestyle. It also felt good to finally begin waking up on my own couch. LOL
Do you go to doctors regularly and what do they say ?
I don't know about "regularly," but since I have health insurance now, I do go. I remember when I smoked, once the doctor listened to my chest with a stethoscope and later in the appointment said, "well, since you are a smoker..." I remember thinking, "damn! He can hear that?!" Two years ago when I went to the doctor (different doctor), he went through all the same motions of that previous check-up (including listening to my chest and molesting me *cough*) and at one point in the appointment made reference to me being one of the few patients he had that was actually a
non-smoker. This was not based on any previous forms or anything, it was based on what he did
not hear in my chest. I ended up telling him about vaping and he was all ears!
As far as oral health, because of my former lifestyle, I did experience some bone loss (20%+) and unfortunately, no amount of non-smoking will correct bone loss or gum disease (only deep cleaning can do that, and unfortunately, bone loss is gone for good). However, all my numbers now check-out in the "healthy" zone and I miss no days flossing--at all! I am not endanger anymore of being a young dude with false teeth. Smoking didn't necessarily cause my oral health decay, but my lifestyle
as a smoker did (drinking, smoking, partying, never flossing, never seeing a dentist). In a nutshell, once I began vaping I embraced caring about my overall physical health, and for that, I can say that vaping ushered in a new life of health consciousness. Strange considering these clouds in my room.
