MisterEChops t1_ixbq98m wrote
Is it really that much better for you than smoking cigs?
Seems like this kind of misses the problem.
omghooker t1_ixbrm3r wrote
It is at least 95pct less harmful than combustion cigarettes
The problem isn't missed, the presentation to the public -at least in the usa- has been, despite 16 million people here who vape.
dr_lm t1_ixcas1l wrote
The 95% figure comes from public health England: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5429
omghooker t1_ixcubbv wrote
Who are the ones who told us cigarettes were gonna kill us in the 60s and we refused to acknowledge it till many years later
Shitbag76 t1_ixbqu82 wrote
Yes it's probably much better
MisterEChops t1_ixbqv4t wrote
I love me a ‘probably’
Shitbag76 t1_ixbwvhl wrote
There's plenty of evidence that it's not nearly as harmful. There's always a possibility that something will come up later.
dr_lm t1_ixcatru wrote
I posted this elsewhere, but here's the source behind the claim that vaping is 95% safer than smoking https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5429
[deleted] t1_ixbr11t wrote
I switched to vaping and then stopped vaping nicotine all together. I haven't smoked in about 3 years. Was a smoker 12 years. Vaped for about a year. The urge to smoke just wasn't as strong after I switched to vaping.
MisterEChops t1_ixbr6qm wrote
Nicely done. I’m sure you feel better and have more disposable income after that!
I made the incredibly stupid decision to stop drinking, smoking weed daily, and cigs all cold turkey at the same time at the start of 2021…
Would not recommend. Literally wishing for death for a while there. Things are way better now though
[deleted] t1_ixbrec8 wrote
I'm glad to hear things are better now.
nulliusansverba t1_ixc6eyt wrote
As a vaper,
Pros:
- breathe easier, not normal though
- smell and taste return to basically normal
- extremely low tar
- no smoke smell, which is great because now cigarettes smell bad, really quite bad, which you don't notice if you smoke
Possible cons:
- heavy metals
- low quality juices
- low quality vape parts
- contamination
That I can take a puff anytime is a bit of a double edged sword. It means I can take one puff or just continuously puff. I'd be interesting in how vaping relates to chain smoking.
To help me quit I leave my vape at home. Stopped vaping in the afternoons. Then stopped vaping in the morning. Now it's just in the evenings after dinner as a kind of dessert.
It's kind of like smoking weed. You can smoke once a day and you'll get really high and it's a blast. But if you smoke multiple times a day it usually becomes quite dull.
omghooker t1_ixl9dyh wrote
Let me just interject real quick in your possible cons list-
Heavy metal. The studies where metals were found were from studies that had no way to test vaping devices the way vaping devices are used. A cigarette testing is done by lighting it and having a machine suck it down the butt and inspecting a filter that caught all the smoke.
To do the vaping test, they literally went into the devices internals and removed the safety precautions and bypassed over fire protection so they could hold down the button and make their machine pull an entire tank of eliquid straight through.
A coil gets hot. A coil heated nonstop for <insert however long it took to vape through a tank(probably like 20mins)> will shed metals.
But that is not how people vape. Even people who compete in cloud competitions aren't taking pulls of their vape that last longer than fifteen seconds.
Heavy metals are not going in your lungs from vaping. This is another fear mongering tactic from anti vape propagandists.
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