Cigarettes had their claws in me for years, but the vapes have helped. How bad are they?
What about if you vape indoors? Does it damage stuff like cigs do?
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Vaping is much better for you than smoking. Vapes are probably the best smoking cessation device ever made. Which is why Big Tobacco and Big Pharma are coming out so strongly against vaping. My father smoked two packs a day for twenty years and basically quit cigarettes cold-turkey for vaping. I smoked cigarettes for 7 years and quit in favor of vaping 3 years ago. I generally feel better and don’t have a cough anymore.
Put some tissue in a cup , take a puff on a cigarette and blow the cigarette smoke into that cup with the tissue. The cigarette smoke will turn the tissue a harsh black color. Now try that with vapors from an eCig. Nothing. When a building catches fire, one of the big risks is smoke inhalation, which is very deadly and will kill you quickly. Well, I’ve never heard of anyone dying from inhaling too much water vapor in a confined space.
The ingredients in eJuice are food-grade and edible. And it’s common sense that vapor is more healthy than smoke. Another form of vaping is dry-herb vaping. This is especially popular with marijuana, where the herb is ground up and placed into a tiny convection oven that heats the herb just enough to cause it to vaporize, but without the smoke and combustion, and without all the tar and carcinogens. The process basically extracts the THC into a vapor that can be inhaled to achieve a high similar to smoking. Dry herb vaping is a million times healthier than smoking, and nobody even disputes it, but it’s not super popular among stoners and is more known about among medicinal marijuana patients. Granted, dry herb vaping is a bit different to vaping eJuice, so that was just an off-topic aside.
The propaganda against vapes and the eCigs largely boil down to things like “heavy metals” and “popcorn lung”. The popcorn lung thing has largely been debunked, and the cases of “heavy metal poisoning” and so forth have a strong correlation to black market vape carts, cheap disposable eCigs, sketchy product from China like cheap coils, etc etc. If you buy yourself a decent box mod, and buy eJuice from reputable vendors you should more or less be fine.
Not vaping at all is probably better than either vaping or smoking , but to suggest that vaping is just as bad as smoking is a big fat lie. They’re not even comparable. Plus, you can even use vaping to wean off your nicotine addiction altogether. You can start with 18% nicotine juice, drop down to 12%, then 6%, then 3%, then 0…