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should you continue vaping if former smoker

by Junius Leffler Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago
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And while we are no longer allowed to encourage smokers to use vaping to kick their nasty habit due to FDA regulations, it’s not exactly a secret that many former smokers have successfully rid their lives of cigarettes by learning to love vaping. It’s part of the reason vaping is such a hot topicin this country right now.

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Should you replace your smoking habit with vaping?

However, it's essential that you don't replace your smoking habit with too much nicotine, which some people accidentally do when they begin vaping. For example, if you're a moderate smoker, it's best to go for a 12mg nicotine-containing e-liquid when you start vaping, but heavy smokers should choose 18mg or over.

Is vaping safer than smoking?

Vape devices heat a liquid-based nicotine oil, which creates vapour when you exhale. As it only uses heat and liquid, vaping is safer than smoking because there's no carbon monoxide, tar and fewer chemicals. The Quitting Smoking Timeline

Can vaping replicate the Act of smoking a cigarette?

Still, most people find they don't replicate the act of smoking a cigarette. In the past few years, vaping has become one of the more popular methods to give up smoking because it's the closest thing to smoking a cigarette. Vape devices heat a liquid-based nicotine oil, which creates vapour when you exhale.

Do e-cigarettes make it harder to quit smoking?

“Although it is true that some people successfully quit smoking with e-cigarettes, for most smokers who use e-cigs it actually makes it harder to quit,” says Dr. Glantz. “ If you look across all the studies, what they show is smokers who use these cigs are about a third less likely to quit smoking than smokers who don’t.

When did e-cigarettes start?

How many chemicals are in a cigarette?

Is vaping bad for your lungs?

Do e-cigarettes stop smoking?

Is vaping safe for food?

Is vaping better than smoking?

Is smoking bad for you?

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When did e-cigarettes start?

E-cigarettes have been around since 2003 and we still don’t know much about their health effects or safety. But, as we’ve pulled the flavored smoke from our Juuls and similar vaporizers, we’ve blindly assumed one thing: they have to be a better idea than smoking cigarettes.

How many chemicals are in a cigarette?

After all, the average cigarette has some 4,000 chemical compounds, including dozens of confirmed carcinogens, while my e-cig cartridges contained just five: distilled water, nicotine, glycerin, propylene glycol, and some flavoring.That’s a flimsy argument: “something with lots of scary chemicals is less dangerous than something with just a few scary chemicals.”

Is vaping bad for your lungs?

Vaping also seems to trigger potentially harmful immune responses in the lungs. It's not just tasty air. “As time passes, the evidence that these are a lot more dangerous than people thought keeps piling up,” says Dr. Stanton Glantz, Director of UCSF’s Center for Tobacco Research, Control & Education.

Do e-cigarettes stop smoking?

As encouraging as the data was a few years ago, it’s starting to look like that’s not the case. The FDA is yet to approve them as a smoking cessation aid and a recent CDC study found that most adult e-cigarette users — 58.8 percent of them — don't stop smoking cigarettes and instead wind up using both products.

Is vaping safe for food?

It’s actually FDA-approved for use in food (believe it or not it’s common in pre-made cake mix) but when heated to vaping temperature it can produce the carcinogen formaldehyde. In other words, just because something is safe to eat doesn’t mean it’s safe to be inhaled. (Duh.)

Is vaping better than smoking?

If you’re going to smoke it’s clearly better to go with e-cigarettes. In fact, the U.K.’s Public Health England had published a review concluding vaping was 95 percent less harmful than smoking. A Greek study had found 81 percent of people in a group of over 19,000 had successfully used e-cigs to quit. I’d heard (and inhaled) enough.

Is smoking bad for you?

Cigarettes might be the least controversial enemies of your health. They cause cancer, emphysema, heart disease, even impotence. While saturated fat and alcohol still have their supporters, nobody is rushing to cigarettes’ defense. Enter e-cigarettes, which were new, high-tech, and came with no proven health risks.

Vapeon4Life Super Member ECF Veteran

Why ? - The many varieties of devices, flavors, and nicotine strengths still available in many places not contaminated by the political whores who apparently hate all tobacco so much that they are willing to jeopardize the lives of many thousands, if not millions, of ex and even current smokers, by killing off the vape industry in favor of their hypocritical agendas of tobacco control..

Mike Mc Full Member

It all boils down to mega bucks with the huge conglomerates. They could give a crap less about anyone's health or lack of it.

Territoo Vaping Master Verified Member ECF Veteran

Thar post in its whole is a large pill to swallow. Try for little bits at a time.

evan le'garde Vaping Master ECF Veteran

You know now i come to think about it, TPD regulations etc have not made the slightest difference to me. I can even come to terms with 2 mil tanks by using them as a re wicking reminder. Nicotine liquid over 20mg was banned but i can still buy 72mg nicotine liquid anytime i want. There isn't anything i can't get actually.

tj99959 ECF Guru ECF Veteran

When I started vaping, NJoy was involved in a law suit with the FDA. NJoy won, and that pizzed the FDA off.

What are the recommendations for smoking cessation counseling?

For these higher risk patients, the recommendations also say they need to: receive smoking cessation counseling if they are still smoking. be involved in shared decision-making about the benefits, limitations, and harms of screening. have access to a high-volume, high-quality lung cancer screening and treatment center.

Does smoking cause lung cancer?

Although not all lung cancers are caused by smoking, about 80% of all lung cancer deaths are thought to result from smoking. Besides lung cancer, tobacco use also increases the risk for cancers of the mouth, lips, voice box, throat, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, cervix, colon/rectum, and myeloid leukemia.

Is screening a substitute for quitting smoking?

And it emphasizes that screening is not a substitute for quitting smoking. The most effective way to lower lung cancer risk is to stay away from tobacco. The most recent guidelines were published May 30, 2018 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Can non smokers get lung cancer?

Although non-smokers can develop lung cancer, there is not enough evidence to know whether screening them would be helpful or harmful. Likewise, it is not known if screening would help people who were lighter smokers than those in the studies, or those of different ages.

Is it better to quit smoking or not?

Quitting is still best. The recommendations emphasize that screening for lung cancer is not a substitute for quitting smoking. The most important thing anyone can do to reduce their risk of lung cancer is not smoke or use any form of tobacco. Although not all lung cancers are caused by smoking, about 80% of all lung cancer deaths are thought ...

When did e-cigarettes start?

E-cigarettes have been around since 2003 and we still don’t know much about their health effects or safety. But, as we’ve pulled the flavored smoke from our Juuls and similar vaporizers, we’ve blindly assumed one thing: they have to be a better idea than smoking cigarettes.

How many chemicals are in a cigarette?

After all, the average cigarette has some 4,000 chemical compounds, including dozens of confirmed carcinogens, while my e-cig cartridges contained just five: distilled water, nicotine, glycerin, propylene glycol, and some flavoring.That’s a flimsy argument: “something with lots of scary chemicals is less dangerous than something with just a few scary chemicals.”

Is vaping bad for your lungs?

Vaping also seems to trigger potentially harmful immune responses in the lungs. It's not just tasty air. “As time passes, the evidence that these are a lot more dangerous than people thought keeps piling up,” says Dr. Stanton Glantz, Director of UCSF’s Center for Tobacco Research, Control & Education.

Do e-cigarettes stop smoking?

As encouraging as the data was a few years ago, it’s starting to look like that’s not the case. The FDA is yet to approve them as a smoking cessation aid and a recent CDC study found that most adult e-cigarette users — 58.8 percent of them — don't stop smoking cigarettes and instead wind up using both products.

Is vaping safe for food?

It’s actually FDA-approved for use in food (believe it or not it’s common in pre-made cake mix) but when heated to vaping temperature it can produce the carcinogen formaldehyde. In other words, just because something is safe to eat doesn’t mean it’s safe to be inhaled. (Duh.)

Is vaping better than smoking?

If you’re going to smoke it’s clearly better to go with e-cigarettes. In fact, the U.K.’s Public Health England had published a review concluding vaping was 95 percent less harmful than smoking. A Greek study had found 81 percent of people in a group of over 19,000 had successfully used e-cigs to quit. I’d heard (and inhaled) enough.

Is smoking bad for you?

Cigarettes might be the least controversial enemies of your health. They cause cancer, emphysema, heart disease, even impotence. While saturated fat and alcohol still have their supporters, nobody is rushing to cigarettes’ defense. Enter e-cigarettes, which were new, high-tech, and came with no proven health risks.

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