vaping when sick

[casuald00d]

any thoughts on vaping while you're sick? i'm more than a little under the weather right now and so i've cut back on the vape stick quite a bit but i still find myself taking puffs here and there. i don't seem to have a treacherous reaction to it but i also don't feel like i'm doing my body any justice, especially as whatever this ailment is happens to have me all congested with a sore throat and the works.

i'm guessing the best advice is to probably lay off the vape for a few or at least til i'm feeling a bit better, yeah?

 

[QcVaper]

Had a cold last winter, i kept on vaping although a bit less than usual.
I switched to menthol and less candy ish flavors , i felt fine and barely had issues with vaping.

 

[casuald00d]

Had a cold last winter, i kept on vaping although a bit less than usual.
I switched to menthol and less candy ish flavors , i felt fine and barely had issues with vaping.

interesting. i mean yeah, i seem to be recovering fine. feeling better than i did a couple of days ago, that's for sure. and seeing as i'm always on the menthol e-juice kick (mint juul pods for days), it doesn't seem to bother me much - although i did notice at what seems to have been the peak of my cold, assuming that's what this is, my respiratory system didn't seem all too excited when i took a puff, leaving me coughing at times. can't help but think that it's probably best to refrain until i'm fully recovered.

 

[Big Me]

It would probably be better not to inhale but you can still vape by drawing the vapour into your mouth and holding it there for a few seconds before exhaling.

The nicotine will be absorbed by the mucous membranes in your mouth.

 

[Bunnykiller]

when I smoked I would get a spring and fall cold every year... once I started vaping, havent had one yet ( KOW)... maybe its related???

 

[Ryedan]

any thoughts on vaping while you're sick? i'm more than a little under the weather right now and so i've cut back on the vape stick quite a bit but i still find myself taking puffs here and there. i don't seem to have a treacherous reaction to it but i also don't feel like i'm doing my body any justice, especially as whatever this ailment is happens to have me all congested with a sore throat and the works.

i'm guessing the best advice is to probably lay off the vape for a few or at least til i'm feeling a bit better, yeah?

I smoked for almost 40 years and have been vaping for 6 1/2 now. When I smoked with a cold or flu I found it made my symptoms worse and significantly lengthened my recovery time. I've vaped through colds and flus since I switched and have experienced no negative effects from it.

Having said that, I don't vape as much as usual when I'm really sick (but then again, I didn't smoke as much as usual either ), and this is also just my experience.

My suggestion is vaping less is likely better than more, but don't sweat it if you feel the need.

Hope you're feeling better soon @casuald00d

 

[casuald00d]

thank you for all the feedback and leave it to the canadian to wish me well lol thanks @Ryedan

 

[Rossum]

I'm about to find out. It seems my nearly 5 year long cold-free streak that began when I put down the traditional cigs got broken by something I picked up in Europe last week. I felt it coming on over the weekend and the symptoms started to manifest in a big way on the plane home yesterday. So far, it's just a head cold and hasn't crawled into my chest, and I've been vaping normally.

FWIW, when I was smoking, no cold ever completely stopped me from smoking.

 

[Eskie]

Feel better. And yes, most of us gave no thought to smoking while sick so not sure why vaping would be any worse for us. Good judgement would call for laying off cigarettes / vaping, but given how we smoked, good judgment isn't always at the top of the list.

 

[score69]

I used to smoke through colds when I was younger. As I got older, it always turned into bronchitis, but that still never got me to quit. Sometimes switched to dipping when I was a tobacco user, but mostly smoked through it.

In all honesty, I vape now when sick, I still vape DTL, unflavored 3mg juice. I'll switch to nic salts though. Even though 3mg freebase has no noticable throat hit for me on a normal day, I can feel it when I'm sick. Using low conc nic salts instead of freebase makes a big difference. And since I usually vape unflavored anyways, there's not much in the juice to irritate the throat/lungs IMO.

I can really tell the difference in throat hit between freebase and nic salts when sick. Not so much on a normal day since it's pretty low concentration. 3mg 'smooth' nic salts (unflavored) seems to go well for me when I'm sick. Higher concentrations at MTL would definitely not go well for me when sick.

Just my two cents. I usually mix up a 240ml bottle of 3mg salts and keep it in the fridge in the fall. If I start to feel sick, I switch over to it immediately and mix a new bottle to replace it once I'm feeling better. I like to have it on hand and ready since it doesn't take long to start going downhill when I get sick.

 

[JCinFLA]

when I smoked I would get a spring and fall cold every year... once I started vaping, havent had one yet ( KOW)... maybe its related???

I thought the same thing was happening to me every year for the first 25 years I was teaching. My "colds" would hit sometime from Mar.-Apr. and again in Sept.-Oct. However, my new PCP then asked me what he said would be a slightly disgusting question, yet my answer to it would be very helpful: "When you blow your nose during those times...would what came out be clear & runny, or yellow tinged and thicker?" When I told him it was always clear & runny, he said, "You haven't been getting colds. You've got an allergy to something that's blooming during those 2 times of the year. Colds have no time schedule or routine, but blooming things do."

Five years later I retired from teaching and haven't been back to those school grounds, except twice, for about 3 hours each time. I've not had the problem at all since then, and it's been 14 years now. Something was growing there that was causing it all those years.

Did you also maybe change job locations, or move, or get rid of plants you had while you were smoking...that could account for you not getting your Spring and Fall "colds" any more after you quit?

 

[stols001]

I always smoked when I was sick (sometimes more, because I was so sick, I just wanted to) I will never forget the weight loss flu, as the husband and I termed it because it was a real flu, there were times we argued about who was better equipped to get out of bed for more water.

I smoked through that.

I have only gotten one minor head cold since starting vaping and I just vaped right through it and it was an almost pleasant experience.

With that said, you should do what is best for you and refrain from vaping or vape less if it's making you feel bad. I suppose them methods offered might be of use to minimize any vaping symptoms and/or pick up some nic lozenges in case of emergency or whatnot in case you need them in order to avoid smoking.

Feel better soon!

Anna

 

[Pete M]

I actually smoked more when sick, and vape more when sick, as a comfort. Especially if I was bedridden as I'd be really bored two (Idle hands etc)

 

[charlie1465]

Always continued either smoking or vaping through a cold. It always felt like ''I'm not going to feel anymore crap by going through nic withdrawal''. I even smoked all the way through bronchitis once....Of course the sensible thing would be to stop.

 

[Susaz]

when I smoked I would get a spring and fall cold every year... once I started vaping, havent had one yet ( KOW)... maybe its related???

I kept having flu like symptoms, sometimes a lot of runny nose, cough and feeling low but no fever. Until a doctor told me that that was an allergy, and in the absence of fever to take an allergy med. It's worked wonders. I went from having "colds" every month during spring and autumn to not having any for the past 7 years. Check with your doctor first, it might not be a cold after all.

 

[stols001]

There is nothing sensible about addiction. I vaped through 18 months of straight pneumonia, pretty much (3 ppd day) and it did not FEEL good nor was it sensible, but my brain was having None of That.

I can't emphasize enough how much I enjoyed my first (so far only) vape cold. I just felt mildly off, was tired, and had an excuse to laze around. It lasted four days, and I vaped the whole time. I even got to cancel my preemptive "doctor's appointment for lung issues," that I usually made for about a week out after my first colde symptoms.

It was the best cold I ever had. I'm not trying to get sick, but I wouldn't mind having it again.

Anna

 

[United States]

The other day my allergy symptoms acted up.

Smoking made me cough, and cough and cough. Vaping did not. Instead of toughing out cigarettes I vaped.

Next day vaping made me cough. Cigarettes did not. I smoked.

Today I did neither until about 4 pm. I smoked my last cigarette of the day at 5:30 stuck in traffic. A typical 12 minute commute took an hour. I vaped and cussed, cussed and vaped....

After about 25 rapid puffs I was thinking "yay, another light is red" lol.