When medications and/or medical conditions warn against smoking, does the same hold true for vaping? I can understand being pregnant and breastfeeding due to the nicotine and it passing through in concentrated levels, and I can see how perhaps taking other stimulants could still warrant health problems, but otherwise I was wondering if the nicotine from vaping then still harmful?
For example, certain birth control pills, antidepressants, cholesterol meds, etc. warn about smoking. It's advised to quit smoking if you're obese, diabetic, have high cholesterol, etc. Is it the nicotine that's really the enemy, or was it the carcinogens in tobacco products that could worsen symptoms and/or interfere with medical conditions?
I see several forum users have noted they've lowered their blood pressure since quitting smoking and turning to vaping. Nicotine though is a stimulant that raises blood pressure and heart rate since it's a vasoconstrictor. I guess then that even vaping is harmful if taking stimulant medications? What about certain pain relievers?
Also, since some employment and health insurance plans test for nicotine, if someone is vaping, then there's going to be nicotine in their system and so test results with show this. Since vaping is generally regarded as less harmful than tobacco products, and the purpose of these tests is to screen for smoking which everyone knows now is bad for you, how can these smoking tests then be valid? If you are asked if you smoke do you say yes? And how many packs/day? Before this forum, I used to think vaping was essentially the same as smoking and that it was a lame excuse to say one had quit smoking.
And now with reading more and more, is the nicotine in e-juice derived from the tobacco plant? I know some titrate tobacco to extract the nicotine. But is synthetic nicotine ever used? And are similar chemicals to nicotine (I guess nicotine agonists) ever used? I suppose the latter would be more expensive since they're still being researched? How would these synthetics and agonists compare to vaping nicotine?
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For example, certain birth control pills, antidepressants, cholesterol meds, etc. warn about smoking. It's advised to quit smoking if you're obese, diabetic, have high cholesterol, etc. Is it the nicotine that's really the enemy, or was it the carcinogens in tobacco products that could worsen symptoms and/or interfere with medical conditions?
I see several forum users have noted they've lowered their blood pressure since quitting smoking and turning to vaping. Nicotine though is a stimulant that raises blood pressure and heart rate since it's a vasoconstrictor. I guess then that even vaping is harmful if taking stimulant medications? What about certain pain relievers?
Also, since some employment and health insurance plans test for nicotine, if someone is vaping, then there's going to be nicotine in their system and so test results with show this. Since vaping is generally regarded as less harmful than tobacco products, and the purpose of these tests is to screen for smoking which everyone knows now is bad for you, how can these smoking tests then be valid? If you are asked if you smoke do you say yes? And how many packs/day? Before this forum, I used to think vaping was essentially the same as smoking and that it was a lame excuse to say one had quit smoking.
And now with reading more and more, is the nicotine in e-juice derived from the tobacco plant? I know some titrate tobacco to extract the nicotine. But is synthetic nicotine ever used? And are similar chemicals to nicotine (I guess nicotine agonists) ever used? I suppose the latter would be more expensive since they're still being researched? How would these synthetics and agonists compare to vaping nicotine?
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