My doctors reaction to my PV at my checkup today :)

[steved5600]

I remember my doctor, also a two pack a day smoker, lecturing me in my early twenties as he blew his brains off. My former fiancee, a pack a day smoker had a stroke, and when he asked me if he was smoking again I said we were vaping. So in his diagnostic for the stroke put "flight stroke". My doctor knows little about it and was unsympathetic about it. I haven't been in yet, we'll see. The one that doesn't like it is my neumonologyst because I'm alergic to something in the juices I'm using. Strange, but I don't cough when I smoke but I do cough when I vape.

Try reducing your PG or going pure VG. As I understand it it will appear that you don't get as much vapor. I saw a stealth vape vid. The only thing i noticed it that the less PG you have the thicker the juice. I went down to 30% PG.

 

[Rickajho]

I have another appt to see my doc in a month...I have HBP and we're both curious to see if a good month or so off the analogs and vaping only will have any impact on my BP and heart rate, either in the negative or positive. For now, he's just told me to keep a close eye on things...he's mostly worried that my BP will drop too low with the meds I'm on and the absence of analogs.

Of course it's always worth monitoring if BP is an issue for you but I wouldn't expect a big surprise there. Your heart rate can drop (in a good way) within 20 minutes of smoking your last cigarette and it will settle down to a consistently lower rate from there. But any significant drop in BP takes a long time - months to years - to show up. The rapid lowering of heart rate has to do with losing all the chemicals you take in from smoking and, well, smoking. But all that damage we have done to our cardiovascular system from years or decades of smoking - that can take up to 15 years to completely reverse to the state of a non smoker.

Personally, after over a year since my last .... my BP is only down slightly. It is down consistently - but only slightly. I was thinking "Oh gee! No more BP meds for me a month after I quit smoking!" It doesn't work out that way. Still, I'll take what gain I have made there.

I know BP is important. But to tell ya the truth the thing I'm really glad I lost was that accelerated heart rate from smoking. That's something you can actually feel. Makes it easier to appreciate. You know - "smoker's denial." I didn't realize how jacked up my body was from smoking until the transition phase - when I was smoking and vaping at the same time. Sure you know smoking isn't good for you. But as I started vaping and smoked less I felt how much my heart pounded and the rate went up every time I smoked a cigarette.