I have an unusual reason for taking up vaping. It's also a bit of a dilemma. I was a heavy smoker. Within months of quitting, I was diagnosed with Colitis. All the research I did showed that nicotine suppresses symptoms of the disease. Unfortunately, heavy smoking also gave me PAD (peripheral artery disease) - and nicotine makes that worse. PAD, unfortunately, can kill you but Colitis will just make life miserable. Weird, right?
Just goes to show you all the ways that smoking can wrap itself around our lives. What you *may* find is that even a very small amount of nicotine may at least *ease* some of the symptoms of colitis, and not smoking may allow you to exercise more, which may help the PAD somewhat -- a knife-edge balance maybe, but the possibility is there. I have to do that fine balancing too, because of asthma -- smoking may not have caused it, but it sure wasn't doing it any favors; since quitting and taking up vaping, my asthma has actually grown *less* manageable, so I've had to experiment to find a way to vape comfortably, that will also keep me from craving cigarettes. Enter WTA -- whole tobacco alkaloids -- which seems to be a lot of the reason my asthma has grown less manageable, but without it, I'd never have been able to stick with vaping, because of cravings.
WTA may be beneficial for you as well; one of the other,"minor" alkaloids, anabatine, appears to have even greater anti-inflammatory properties than nicotine, which might enable you to use less nicotine to achieve a good result. WTA is 95% nicotine, but if the nicotine is used together with the other tobacco alkaloids, you may not need as much.
Andria
