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Hello all! I am new to vaping, 2 weeks, and I dropped cigarettes like yesterday's gossip as soon as I got started. So far I have found vaping much more enjoyable and dare I say...guilt-free. I smoked on and off for years, basically consider me a former smoker who smoked about 3/4 a pack per day for 3 years, (always intending to quit, seriously).
Yet, with the advent of vaping in my life, I am daring to hope I have found a healthier substitute (perhaps even long-term... lifetime) that sates nervous penchant to orally fixate when feeling stressed, to which smoking and now vaping have been the only things that thoroughly relax and release me. I can now admit I don't REALLY WANT to quit (vaping), but I will do it if convinced that it's significantly better for my health by a reasonable "more likely than not" standard. So, I am off on a research project to weigh the information available for making that decision.
This forum is vastly informative and full of incredibly knowledgeable and truly helpful vapors, who have already informed me, via searches and reading threads (truly civil discourse!), about the debate regarding the healthfulness and dangers of PG and VG. So, I feel good with my current understanding of the safety of e-juice, and I approve of allowing it in my body in moderate amounts.
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My question is this: what else might be getting into my body besides the e-juice vapor? Do we have any empirical information, not just pure theory, about this? The coil, the wicks, the fibers in the cartos, the metals used in bridges, any chemicals released as by-products included: am I inhaling anything more than trace amounts of other, potentially harmful elements/chemicals/things? (All of this is assuming proper use of the e-cigarette, where I am not dry-burning).
If you have any answers, I would love to hear them. If you know of any studies or sources of information, I would appreciate links to them. I'm a dry sponge here, and any info or sources would be awesome!
Thank you all ahead of time for (1) creating a super resource for vapors and (2) assisting a newbie in making an informed life-changing decision.
Hello all! I am new to vaping, 2 weeks, and I dropped cigarettes like yesterday's gossip as soon as I got started. So far I have found vaping much more enjoyable and dare I say...guilt-free. I smoked on and off for years, basically consider me a former smoker who smoked about 3/4 a pack per day for 3 years, (always intending to quit, seriously).
Yet, with the advent of vaping in my life, I am daring to hope I have found a healthier substitute (perhaps even long-term... lifetime) that sates nervous penchant to orally fixate when feeling stressed, to which smoking and now vaping have been the only things that thoroughly relax and release me. I can now admit I don't REALLY WANT to quit (vaping), but I will do it if convinced that it's significantly better for my health by a reasonable "more likely than not" standard. So, I am off on a research project to weigh the information available for making that decision.
This forum is vastly informative and full of incredibly knowledgeable and truly helpful vapors, who have already informed me, via searches and reading threads (truly civil discourse!), about the debate regarding the healthfulness and dangers of PG and VG. So, I feel good with my current understanding of the safety of e-juice, and I approve of allowing it in my body in moderate amounts.
...start here:
My question is this: what else might be getting into my body besides the e-juice vapor? Do we have any empirical information, not just pure theory, about this? The coil, the wicks, the fibers in the cartos, the metals used in bridges, any chemicals released as by-products included: am I inhaling anything more than trace amounts of other, potentially harmful elements/chemicals/things? (All of this is assuming proper use of the e-cigarette, where I am not dry-burning).
If you have any answers, I would love to hear them. If you know of any studies or sources of information, I would appreciate links to them. I'm a dry sponge here, and any info or sources would be awesome!
Thank you all ahead of time for (1) creating a super resource for vapors and (2) assisting a newbie in making an informed life-changing decision.
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