Um. Okay. I was an 18 year old girl who could run half-marathons, and bike over a century in a day (that's over 100 miles, since you are not from here) with the greatest of ease. I really, really enjoyed it, too.
Then, I went to England and started smoking. I am a yoga enthusiast (but it's been harder and harder over the years) and I would give ANYTHING not to be a former smoker, now vaper. My cardiovascular system has improved, but at the end of my smoking I was a 3 ppd smoker, who had pneumonia for 18 mo straight and was facing the dreaded COPD diagnosis.
I'm making this comparison, as in the past, there really wasn't as much information about how harmful cigarettes were, (and back then they had so many less additives and etc.) and sometimes athletes (even Olympians) smoked. You will notice that world records are being broken pretty consistently, and it's not all drugs or training improvements, I'm sure cardiovascular health and athletes NOT using cigarettes and other drugs if they are serious about their sport. AT this TIME, we know very little about vaping over the long term (even with no nicotine, even with no flavors). The outcome is looking good in some ways, with some areas of concern. If you want to blow HUGE clouds, you will likely be exceeding safe temperatures in your vape, which MAY give of harmful things, though the impact of that is uncertain. It's not as simple as No Nic, this is a fairly new and longitudinally unproven method of harm reduction and the jury is still out.
You may find it doesn't impact you, or you may find it impacts you severely. Why take the chance? If there were ONE bad decision I made in my life (and I have made many) that I wish I could TAKE BACK, it would be smoking. I would give ANYTHING to NOT be a former smoker, but a NON-smoker, who'd never tried it. I'm quite sure I've taken years off my life, not to mention the costs associated (by the end, things were getting VERY expensive, health wise) and I never forget cigarettes, even now that I've been a vaper for some time.
I am glad vaping is available to me as a HARM reduction device, but if I was a never smoker, I would NEVER have picked one up.
I would counsel anyone looking to START vaping, that they COULD wind up in my shoes, decades down the line. We just don't know enough yet to say how safe it is, though it does seem to be clearly safer than smoking. Robbing a bank is (probably) safer than murder, but that doesn't make either one a good idea.
Please find something else to replace McDonalds or Vodka, which, like, there are a myriad of options. If you want to inhale or exhale, take up the flute (distracting! You may well INCREASE your lung capacity! it's fun! etc.)
Just don't throw out a vice or two and expect vaping to replace it. A) that's a justification, nothing more and B) I'm pretty sure (I know 18 year old boys) you'll still be eating unhealthily some of the time, and also drinking vodka, just vaping on top of it all.
Then again, do what you want, it's not like I can stop you. Google. And, welcome to ECF ALTHOUGH THESE are my least favorite welcomes, ever. Sigh.
Anna
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