Awesome. As I link above PG is proven to kill Strep so I have little doubt that it played at least some part in your not getting it. Apparently whatever caused the actual cold part was not stopped, but hey no Strep is still a + in my book.
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Awesome. As I link above PG is proven to kill Strep so I have little doubt that it played at least some part in your not getting it. Apparently whatever caused the actual cold part was not stopped, but hey no Strep is still a + in my book.
Yeah, that was the study! I remembered that it involved children but I thought it was in a hospital.
Pretty interesting. Sounds like it should be investigated further.
Hope vaping keeps the chest colds away this fall/winter. I usually get bronchitis at least once a yr really bad in Sept, Oct or Nov. Being off cigs will help that a ton as I knock on wood that I didn't just jinx myself. 
Since the wife and I started vaping in January neither of us has gotten sick at all. My wife has MS and her medications can cause her to be more susceptible to getting sick anyway, so she is usually sick a few times per year. Especially since she works in a Middle School. It will be VERY interesting if she doesn't get sick at all this winter.
I'm 40 years old and have had at least 2 bouts of bronchitis every year for the last 20 years...until I quit smoking and started vaping. I have not had bronchitis in a year and half. That's all the proof I need and enough proof to convince my doctor that my switch was for the better.
Ditto what Barbara said above.
Wanna hear gross? Know how norovirus is spread? People who have Noro vomit or have ......... Then do not wash their hands. You touch something they touched after being in the bathroom. You put your fingers in your mouth. VOILA!
Biggest cold/flu/sniffling/sneezing/coughing/aching/puking/pooping/snotting preventative measure? WASH your HANDS!
Public service announcement brought to you by your friendly vape nurse.
That is a common misconception, though. It CAN BE spread through the air.
What people don't realize, is when a person is sick enough and has norovirus, you can actually breath it in and get sick, because tiny particles (yes, human waste particles if you want to get specific) actually go into the environment.
Also, norovirus is EXTREMELY resilent. No, washing your hands isn't a guaranteed prevention technique. Nothing is.
Anyway, many people come to this website for information, and I think spreading false information, regardless of the motives, does more harm than good.
While it is certainly a novel idea that vaping somehow increases your chances of not getting sick, there is not a shred of evidence to back up that claim.
I'm not trying to be a party pooper, nor say it is impossible. I just don't want people to get the wrong idea from reading this thread.
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Oh, and one thing that IS a fact: quitting smoking cigarettes DOES benefit your health. So anyway you look at it, if you have replaced smoking cigarettes with vaping, you WILL be a healthier individual, even if you do NOTHING else
There may not be very much evidence, other than anecdotal, which is something we vapers know all about.
However, I would disagree that there is not a shred of evidence, since I already posted that shred of evidence earlier.
hi feisty, did you get the cold after you started vaping? Just curious because most people who quit cigarettes get "cold like" symptoms when they stop smoking. Its a common side effect. All the stuff that has built up in the respiratory system are now clearing out and you will get a lot of phlegm and coughing. You might feel depressed and even tired for a bit. Its withdrawals.
SOme people get it more severely than others. Give it a few weeks and you will start to feel really good.
PG is pumped in many hospitals and ORs as it does have antibacterial properties.
PS, just saw that someone else already said this.
Yes, I am 11 weeks free and I just got the cold on Monday night. I'm pretty sure it was a regular cold. It had all the same symptoms as a cold. Very tired, slept a lot, blowing my nose like crazy, not much of a cough but it left me without a voice for a day. Feeling better now but still have the leftover nasal sound of a cold. I never had a cough when I smoked and never experienced one when I stopped smoking.
I personally have a history of every cold or whatever I get turning into major bronchitis. Since vaping, I've caught two cold/flu bugs, and both have been gone in less than 48 hours with minimal symptoms. That's enough for me.
Nothing is a 100% guarantee....But hand washing remains the first line of prevention against catching any illness.
And yes, you can breathe in noro particles, but it is a very short window of time. If you are sitting next to the person expelling *whatever* is flying out of them, you can breathe them in. After a few minutes, those particles merely settle onto objects to be picked up by your HANDS to further spread it. Handwashing does not kill noro virus, but it washes it off your hands and sends the virus down the drain. Bleach does kill Norovirus.
If I am around someone who is sick with the GI bug or I have it, I wash my hands after touching anything that is community property. And bleach the heck out of everything that I can.
Please do not be dismissive of handwashing. That is sending a false message around here as well.
cool thread; especially the anti-bug properties of PG...
i have felt that my nicotene use has helped keep some cold virus' at a minimum... i sense my body heats up a bit from nicotene, and that higher temp can kill off some bugs......
kind of a reach i know, but still ....
i have felt that my nicotene use has helped keep some cold virus' at a minimum... i sense my body heats up a bit from nicotene, and that higher temp can kill off some bugs......
kind of a reach i know, but still ....
I have to snicker at the smokers I work with now- always coming in griping about sinus issues, colds, blah blah. In a year of vaping, I haven't been sick once and my former sinus issues are gone. Whatever it is, I'm a fan!
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To add to what NICNurse said, anytime you smell anything, you are actually inhaling tiny little particles (molecule size) of whatever you are smelling. How do you think the sense of smell works? If you smell fresh chocolate-chip cookies, great! If you smell xxxx, well....
NICNurse - I give you credit. I did some clinical work in a NICU and positively know I wouldn't be able to handle it. On a totally unrelated note, having survived working as a nurse in a nurse home during an outbreak of norovirus, it takes a lot to gross me out.
Getting back to the original subject - if vapers are actually getting fewer colds, etc. than they used to, it doesn't necessarily mean that the PG in e-juice is doing anything. That could just be a benefit of no longer smoking. So it really doesn't mean anything on an individual level. But if vapers as a whole get fewer respiratory illnesses than the general population, that could point to beneficial effects of PG. In any case, it should be worthy of further research.
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