What We DO and DON'T Know About Vaping
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What We Do and Don't Know About Vaping
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In this video, Jonathan from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses what vaping does to the body. He covers e-cigarette or vaping-use associated lung injury (EVALI), certain ingredients found in vaping products that may be harmful, long term risks associated with vaping, and if it is a viable tool for quitting traditional cigarette smoking.
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Video Timeline
00:00 - 00:53 Intro
00:54 - 01:43 Is Vaping Bad? What the Healthcare Professionals say...
01:44 - 03:05 Lung Injury Due to Vaping (EVALI)
03:06 - 05:02 Is THC and Vitamin E to Blame For Lung Injury (EVALI)
05:03 - 05:44 Concerning Places People Get Their Vaping Products
05:45 - 06:43 Why Vaping in Young People is Worrisome
06:44 - 09:00 Vaping vs Smoking: Can Vaping Help People Quit Smoking?
09:01 - 11:38 Still Going to Vape? More On THC & Vitamin E
11:39 - 13:04 Risks? Should Vaping Be Avoided? Optimizing Health
13:05 - 14:58 Problem Solving Brilliantly!
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I vaped to quit smoking. I smoked for 20 years. Then I vaped for about 8 years. I finally quit vaping Jan 2022.
Wow Congrats 🚭 ❤
Same here smoked for a long time tried everything, vaping was the only real way to taper the nicotine... Got to zero and put the vape away. Whether or not it was the best way to quit is besides the point... It was the only one that worked for me. Now I run four miles on a regular basis and train jiu jitsu.
I need to quit. Nicotine is a devil 😭
Nice job! Hope more people open their eyes!
@@Oladavol Nicotine is NOT a devil, it's a chemical with both positives and negatives, like all chemicals we consume.
Heavy smoker for about 15 years here. Tried vaping to quit during covid times, at first it was working, but I ended up vaping non stop. Then, I was consuming both for a short period of time. One day I decided that the less garbage I put in my lungs, the better, and threw everything. First weeks was tough, after a month I had no need to smoke or vape. Many months later my brain tricked me into smoking one, and I ended up smoking for a week, and finally I realized that I can no longer even taste a cig. It is a constant war against the addicted brain, but it gets easier as you win every single battle saying No. Hopefully someone reads this and decide to do the same and it works for him/her. Every single time, no matter what tricky thing your brain says, the answer is No. Good luck.
I was doing the same. Vaped to give up smoking, and ended up smoking about the same and just vaping otherwise. I was thinking, "What on earth am I doing? Lol
I ended up using nicotine patches, and they worked wonders for me. I needed to use something that I wouldn't be over using and that I could use at work
Same here, tried vaping but I end up vaping more or going back to cigs. Went cold turkey 10 years ago and never looked back. And for me, it’s the best method. Tough at first but it gets easier to the point that you don’t look for a cig or vape anymore. Now I’ve switched nicotine to exercise, I run, bike and light weights, activities that would be difficult if I still put nicotine and tar into my lungs.
I remember my last cigarette craving being about 3 years after I quit. Never looked back
Its been 23 years since i gave up smoking. I still have addiction flashbacks sometimes. Disgusting stuff. Producers should be held to account
who is we are wrong? i knew from the start that anyone who thought vaping was safe was wrong. i knew it was bad as ciggs from the start. the exact effects cant be know in our lifetime cause you need to see what happens to people who use it for a whole lifetime first. so yea i already knew from day 1 that its not a alternative. i knew it was just as bad. anyone who didnt know this isnt too smart. i quit ciggs and weed after smoking for 15 years of my life awhile back.
I started smoking cigarettes when I was 12. During my 20 years of smoking cigarettes, I tried many times to quit using patches, gum, pills and even failed attempts at vaping. I'd usually quit for a week or two, a month or 2, the longest was a year and a half. By the time I was 32 I was smoking 2 packs a day. It was that year that I decided to go 100% into vaping. I basically turned it into a hobby, making my own coils, making my own juice, etc. This time I was never smoking cigarettes again. Since I was making my juice I had absolute control over the nicotine levels. I slowly decreased the amount of nicotine until I was vaping zero nic. I was completely off nicotine after about 4 years of vaping and I quit in 2019. Never even had the slightest craving since. The way I look at it, vaping saved my life.
I used to have lung tests every 6 months at my old job. Two months after a test I switched to a big cloud vape from 20 a day. Then on my next lung test 4 months later, I'd regained almost a litre of lung capacity I couldn't believe it. Back on the cigs now though cos my vape is always full of sawdust and cleaning it got annoying 😅
That's how I quit as well. From smoking to vaping to further and further reducing nicotine content, until I vaped without nicotine for a few weeks.
Hardest part was getting rid of the behavioural part of vaping. For instance, I vaped everywhere I could non-stop (like while driving or gaming). Made it just a little bit more inconvenient for myself to access my vape and it worked wonder, although it felt weird at the first couple of days.
You will notice major improvements regarding breathing and mucus even after quitting vaping.
Love this. While I didnt get into it like a hobby, I was similar in that for 9 years, I had many failed attempts, but weened myself off nicotine throgh vaping and havent had nicotine/cigarettes since May of 2017.
Congrats to you for quitting.
That’s honestly an amazing story damn bro I will spread the word to help others in ur shoes!
vaping is the absolute best way to quit smoking without any withdrawals or negative symptoms, period
Quit vaping December 2nd 2023! It really wasn’t that hard after chain vaping for 3 years. It’s a mental game! YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I will say, I was a smoker for 20+ years of my life. I went to vaping, and quit smoking. It took a bit, but I was completely off of cigarettes. Then it came time to wean off of vaping, which I found hitting much more than cigarettes at the time. So I started to cut my nic juice with non nic juice, and then was on purely non nic juice after a few months. I really liked the motion of smoking, which is why it worked for me. I've been completely nicotine and vape free for 2+ years now. I have no desire to go back. Be safe everyone! Do what is best for you!
Same. Been about seven years nic free now
After smoking cigarettes for roughly 7 years, I was able to quit smoking & vaping altogether in little less than 3 years by using this method. Started with the highest nicotine vape juice and gradually reduced the nicotine content, when I tried the non-nicotine it was so boring I just unconsciously started to leave my vape at home and that was that.
Yeah, well I quit meth. Beat that.
@@rgriffith6476 lmaooo thats good shit
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It took me a long time to finally face it, but now I'm convinced that we're not supposed to put anything in our lungs but air.
well DUH your lungs were made to process air not smoke and vape or anything else for that matter
Common sense took you years to understand.
Or gas & air for pain relief and inhalers for asthmatics.
Underrated comment
@@Molotov82common sense isn’t really all that common 😂😂😂 it’s either taught or learned by making mistakes ❤❤
You did a great job with this segment!
I have to thank this amazing human being /doctor for this wonderful review, whenever I feel persuaded to buy vape products and begin my own smoking phase this video gives me all the reminders why I shouldn't.
My 82 year old father started smoking when he was 12. After 70 years he’ll never quit. Three years ago he switched to vaping (juul) because it was cheaper. His smokers cough is gone and his pulmonary test was the best it’s been in years. I don’t recommend any type of smoking but I’m glad he’s doing a little better by switching from cigarettes to a vape.
Average business man
Lungs of steel
Need this pinned
I -feel- the tar when I smoke. I can breathe when I vape
Yep it's true. Smoked pot for decades, lung capacity was bad. Had smokers cough etc, switched to vaping and all that cleared up
In 2010, age 65, I developed lung cancer after 50 years of smoking. I put the cigarettes down and never smoked again. But only a smoker can understand what I’m about to say. When I quit, it was like I lost my best friend. I had lost my husband in 2003 and was very lonely. I craved a cigarette constantly. At trigger times: after eating, talking on the phone, driving. I became very depressed and really craved my old friend nicotine. I discovered vaping online. They had nicotine but not the carcinogens in cigarettes. I ordered them and they were a lifesaver. I came out of my depression, was really happy. I know if I hadn’t started vaping I would have went back to cigarettes. I feel at my age it’s the lesser of 2 evils. I always laughingly say, “I’ve given up sex, gave up alcohol and never did drugs.” If the vaping makes me happy, at my age I deserve it. I feel if I had went back to cigarettes I’d be dead. I definitely think our children should not be allowed to purchase them. I only wish someone had prevented me from buying cigarettes at age 15.
Aside from this I'm surprised a 78 year old can make such a well put together paragraph online
@@delaweare_deadman do you think old people are stupid or something? assistive technology, voice to text, the fact that many 78 year old's are in good health because of modern medicine, etc
Congratulations on quitting!
Well said.
@@delaweare_deadman She paid attention in school! Lol
It would be nice to see one of this videos addressing the other ingredients commonly found in tobacco vape juice (propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavors, etc) and how vape users can educate themselves and make the best choices when purchasing products. If people are going to use these products regardless of the risks, it would be great to get the facts on how to do it with the greatest level of harm reduction :)
Tobacco vape juice? The whole point of vaping is that it is tobacco free
@@VeigarEUW It doesn't contain actual tobacco, just aromas to mimic the tobacco taste. (Tobacco taste/smell when it's not burning.)
Maybe in the US people use vapes to get their THC dosage, but for most other parts of the world it's just for nicotine dosage.
@@pitecusH My vapes taste like fruit and stuff, still with nicotine
@@VeigarEUW So, imagine your vape doesnt taste like fruit or cotton candy, but has the taste that a cigarette smells like if you don't light it on fire. It's really just a different aroma, otherwise identical to what you're using.
@@pitecusH Oh I had one of those, didnt like it and I used to smoke normal cigarettes
You are a GIFT to humanity for running this channel and explicitly explaining, I love you man
This video is disingenuous. He is not addressing vaping at all; only THC
No one has ever been hurt by vape juice made with pharmaceutical ingredients.
Vaping helped me quit nearly 35 years of smoking. The damage is already done, but I feel like my lungs have improved. I no longer have a nasty smoker's cough, can taste and smell in a way that I didn't know was possible prior, save money, feel better, etc. I looked at it as harm reduction. I think it's obvious that anything but oxygen is bad to inhale, but the air quality overall... that should be a focus on making optimal - the world's environment.
Yes, you have it correct here, this is the right mindset that society broadly should adopt. Not just with cigarettes, but with all addiction.
The only irreversible damage to lungs after smoking is emphysema (and terminal cancer, obviously) hence you're lungs feeling better. Keep smashing it!
I live by a main road. The intake from carbon monoxide and heavy metals from cars is worse than smoking. When people say "that's not true" I say "ok suck on a cigarette for 10 minutes. Now suck on an exhaust pipe for 10 minutes. I'll wait". Sometimes the air that you breathe is worse than cigarettes. I quit smoking in 2018 and have vaped since. I'd like to quit that too. But most of all, I'd like to quit the automotive air.
A lot of damage is reversed
@@tehf00n You are spot on!
My husband had been smoking for over 20ish years and had tried to quit many times (patches, prescription medications, etc) and was a constant struggle. At work at one point I met a guy who was in the process of quitting smoking by using vaping. He switched to vaping since you can modify your nicotine intake, and once he reaches 0 he could stop. Took him less than a year (6 months I think actually) and he quit. Worked with him for a few years and he never went back. Told my husband, so he made the switch and did the same.
No, vaping isn't the best thing in the world and should be avoided, but could be an essential step to quitting for those who truly want to quit considering they can lower the nicotine levels over time.
I quit smoking that way
could you specify his mg intake and timeline, im really trying to quit
@@DSCO54321 You need to start higher than you think, the main issue is that people highly underestimate their total nicotine consumption with cigarettes, then switch to vaping e liquid with not enough nicotine, and thus end up going back to smoking. 1 pack of cigs contains around 20mg of nicotine. So I would recommend people start with like 12-16mg per ml liquid, at least. It is important to try to get yourself addicted to vaping, so it overpowers your addiction to cigarettes to start off. I personally started with 20mg per ml nicotine liquid. (Some cigarette smokers smoke upwards of 2 or even 3 packs a day, so they need to start even higher, likely customizing their own nicotine content or buying in bulk from suppliers)
I know someone that did that but continues to vape no nicotine cartridges. She thinks she would eat more if she stops.
From my observation it is rather the other way, the kids start vaping and later switch to smoking...
Thank you man for the knowledge that you have and giving us at the same time we all can learn from each other
Good job on the video and your articulation . Thanks for sharing.
I was a smoker for 25 years. I started vaping about 3 years ago and I've never looked back. Immediately I noticed a difference. I could smell and taste things a lot better.
Same story here. I hate seeing kids just vape without ever having smoked. I needed to switch out and feel so much better
Facts homie that’s something I’ve just realized recently. I’ve been trying to dial back the vaping as well recently.
@jacobe9187 I hear that one. Eventually, I plan to quit vaping as well.
That's straight faxs homie g now I just gotta work on not talking like a imbecile homie if only I could get my live scrate main man homie g dawg the THC is live broskie main
vaping is just a great way to reduce the harm by a lot, without getting rid of your inhaling habits... but throwaway vapes are a big concern for the environment, hopefully they will get banned and only conventional vapes will be helping smokers in the future
I’m a huge advocate for vaping as a harm reduction strategy. I smoked for 23 years. As soon as I found the right vape device & liquid, I never turned back. I then vaped for a few years and then slowly came down by decreasing my nicotine levels from 9 mg to 0 mg. I stopped and it was actually easier than I thought. I never looked back 😊 so yes, I’m a huge advocate for it.
Name checks out.
I use to smoke cannabis a lot with my ex girlfriend for a few years. Before I met her I never touched it. After I broke up with her I went to vaping and then went to edibles and then I started micro dosing edibles. Now completely off maybe eat a tiny micro dose every couple weeks if I'm stressed and can't sleep or can't get myself motivated to work out
Problem is they market it towards children and it’s not deemed to be unhealthy in the same way that smoking is. It’s packaged in a colourful attractive way and available in a multitude of flavours. It also is on the shop floor rather than hidden away like tobacco. This is wrong imo. It also stinks. People who vape think it’s ok to do it among non smokers which really annoys me. It’s another stinking habit. Personally I’d rather people just smoked at least you look cool doing it!
The key is finding the right device and liquid. I tried one of the early, cheap, mass-produced things and it sucked. I got a better, more powerful mod, though, and didn't even finish the single pack of cigarettes I had when I bought the thing. Over the years, I've stepped down to about 1.5mg, mixing my own juice. I don't really want to cut the nic completely (yes, I'm an addict), but I don't freak out or anything if I can't vape for a few hours, unlike when I was smoking.
@@KOL630 Nice. How much does Lorillard pay? Perhaps it's Phillip Morris?
Thank you for your great work brother you are greatly appreciated
I smoked cigarettes for 25yrs, I was introduced to vaping by my older brother (50) who had used it successfully to quit. I have now been smoke free for 7yrs thanks to vaping and I like thousands of other former smokers know and feel the difference it has made in our lives.
Your not smoke free if your vaping
I quit smoking cigarettes the day before my daughter was born. I smoked for almost 20 years. I tried to quit a few times but always kept saying, "I'm not an actually heavy smoker, so I can have one more."
But that day in the hospital, waiting for my wife to give birth to our daughter, made me think about many different things. One of them was to quit smoking. I think I forced myself to not go out to the hospital and have a smoke break, rather to keep thinking what kind of father I wanted to be....
I guess that was all the motivation I really needed to quit.
My daughter is almost 4, and I don't miss cigarettes at all.
Good work.
w bro my dad the same
Good father 💪
This is similar to the story for my father, only it was just after my older sister was born. She turned out to have an allergy to cigarette smoke, and the doctors told him that he was going to kill his baby if he kept smoking. So he quit cold turkey that day. I turned out to have the same allergy, but because my father had already quit, I grew up in a smoke free household.
You're a good dad.
Thank you for being a great father. Your kid will appreciate you being around longer!
I was a heavy smoker since I was a kid. Started when I was 12 years old. 2 years ago after almost 3 decades of smoking I decided to try vaping as a replacement for cigarettes and it was the best decision I ever made, within a month I felt better than I ever did. The wheezing, coughing out of breath norm I had always known had disappeared, as a professional singer and musician my vocal range has improved to a level I never had as a younger man and singing has become such a pleasure now when before it would become a chore as a gig went on. The scariest revelation from all this for me was how absolutely evil and insidious a smoking addiction is. I can now see smokers making every ridiculous excuse and rationalising their "reasons" for why smoking won't get them. And it scares me that I was one of those people for many years, it also makes me sad that my big brother was one too but unfortunately his smoking led to a heart attack that ultimately ended his precious life at only 59 years old. This was the catalyst that made me quit, so without even knowing it my big brother was still being the best type of big brother and protecting me.
IMO the craziest part is that governments just allow it because there is money involved. they wont let you swim in an old sand-mine thats filled with water because sometimes they have holes that sink in and suck you down when it happens- veeery rarely. but all they could cope with was putting some off-turning pictures on cigarettes and call it a day while SOOO MANY people have died from (not just that but it contributes largely) cancer and etc. because of cigarettes, alcohol, etc.
only reason they think about legalizing weed is because they have their eyes on the taxes they can put on that shit. any argument of the likes as "if we supply clean product, drug dealers and gangs will come out of business and people wont get mixed products etc." are just legitimization for their cause. like hell they care how many people have bad living conditions or die in higher age (not getting pansion, very nice for the state btw.) as long as there are enough people born to sustain the economy.
the disgusting air you breath in ? ask the big asian cities. do they care? no. the lead in other toxic stuff in the water? do they care? no.
recently found out there is a mention worthy amount of arsen in rice lol. thats a neuro-toxin deadly at quite low doses. cant trust shit. you think they would tell you? gotta google for that and who knows how much that hides.
My condolences. The key is to not over vape as that will contribute to negative outcomes where instant serotonin reward will get in the way of healthy productive habits and ideas.
My father smoked for ~30 years, a two-pack a day habit until he had his first heart attack at age 46. He quit cold turkey consuming only a couple of cigs after this cardiac event. He succumbed to his third (and final) heart attack at age 72. Too young in my book. However, he had been diagnosed with lung cancer 12 months earlier so it was going to kill him eventually. My advice is that if you smoke...quit. Congrats to you for kicking cigarettes!
@@Chickenlegs41 365 days of smoking 2 packs a day each 5€
thats 3650€ a year just for cigarettes.
smoke for 20 years and you have payed 73000€. thats as much as my fathers (a bit run down :P but nothing he couldnt fix) house cost.
imagine you smoke through an entire house and get cancer for it while your entire life quality is down for 20 years (bad air, bad breath, often bad teeth, less stamina, etc.)
so yeah, im all with you, peops, stop smoking and get another addiction that doesent ruin your health as much and cost less :P (gaming, porn, etc.)
or settle with non of you can :P
I tried to quit smoking for about 10 years and eventually succeeded 25 years ago. Best and most difficult thing I ever did. I actually still miss it from time to time but I know the feeling passes quickly. I too regret ever having smoked and I just wanted to say well done - I know first hand how difficult it was to quit.
To add some points. England put out a study that said vaping compared to smoking cigarettes is about 95% safer than smoking cigarettes, that study was posted around 2019 . The reason for people coming down with EVALI, like you said, was and is because of vitamin E acetate being mixed into THC cartridges that mainly in the US were being sold onto the black market to cut product and promote profit at the expense of innocent people. That being said i have been vaping since 2016 and am now 30, with only one stay at the hospital due to covid-19. Now i do believe vaping had something to my respiratory system was compromised, but i believe it was because the propylene glycol has anti bacterial properties and was making my natural immune system nullified. Making that point, all nicotine carrying vape liquid is water soluble compared to THC liquids which are mostly fat soluble cause lipid induced pneumonia, or EVALI, which is the immediate effect of inhaling fat soluble vapors entering the lungs. And yes i not only did i quit smoking by vaping as well as continue vaping because i enjoy nicotine, doesnt mean someone cant ditch the habit entirely. I know people that quit cigarettes because of vapes and i know people that took up cigarettes to quit vaping all the time. Everyone is subjective, with their own pains, growths, and problems. For me i was a two pack a day smoker, living out of my car and in my childhood room as well as dealing with anxiety and depression. Vaping pulled me out of a hole that was only digging itself deeper and got me to a point of light that let me be who i am today. Now i may not be the most successful person, but i am able to support myself and family today as well as grow instead of be stuck smoking combustible tobacco everyday. Now when it gets to flavors, they aren't directly aimed at children. My favorite flavors to vape are mainly fruit and candy flavors. Some people prefer dessert or even soda flavored liquids. But thats getting beyond the point of the video. In my humble opinion, yes kids will experiment with what they will, but i stand my opinion that if someone is a smoker, vaping is a MUCH safer smoking alternative than still smoking or even patches or gum. Ive heard gum and patches send too much nicotine to the body and cause nightmares during sleep, but thats a whole other video. Please respect us as vapers, the true vapers dont want to impose on others rights. Much love, me
Can't be bothered to read your essay
@@PhoenixTubez Someone wants to feel special.
@@PhoenixTubezit’s not an essay it’s a detailed comment on the misconceptions of vaping.
Yeah I get it. Iv always had a negative opinion towards vapers but you kinda turned that around. As long as you dont die or get sick asf, stay safe.
@@CajunReaper95 Well, it is an essay. His comment says a lot more about him than it does about you, though. Keep on keeping on.
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
Yes, that's right. I researched and found out that shrooms are very helpful, it has really helps to reduce anxiety and depression. I would love to try magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase one?
The trips I've been having have really helped me a lot, I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
Tripping is not really bad but find a good mycologist who will teach you the right things you need to know
@@DellyAlavaI feel the same too. I once got my shroom from him and he's a genius. I'm glad to be part of his community.
Does Sporeville ship?
I started smoking when I was 13 in 1995. In 2010, I tried gums, patches, replacement therapy, anti depressants (I was already on one, still am) and I was about to go to hypnotherapy in 2013 to try and quit. A week before my appointment, I found out about vaping. Someone took me to a vape store and not only did I get taught about vaping, I learned how much more control over nicotine that I had and could step down on. I learned about (augmented by my previous experience an knowledge in electronics) resistance and the mechanism behind turning a liquid into a vapor. I learned about food grade inhalants with flavors, I understood that VG and PG really are not toxic on their own. I learned how to make my own juices, further controlling what is going into my lungs and minimizing further the possibility of injury. I canceled my appointment and visited my GP who looked me over and was happy I was quitting and was actively interested in seeing me every month or two to track my progress and gather data. He set me up with an ENT and we had imaging of my lungs every three months. Did that for 7 years. My lungs improved to their previous efficiency before I started smoking. I could "run the mile" again. Cloudy parts where my lungs were clogged with tar from the cigarettes was gone by year 6. Scoping my airways showed no more scaring and most of it, if not all was repaired. In the last 2 years, I stopped vaping as much AND stepped my nicotine down to 3g/ml.
I still vape today, off and on with 0 or 3g/ml nicotine as it really is the habit of filling empty time. I don't spend monthly the same amount I did on cigarettes as well. What I gather from all this research into the lung injuries is really centered around 1) THC and Vitamin E. 2) Things that are not in good quality vaping equipment, still centered around THC. I am not a prude and I don't care if someone smokes weed. But I wish there would be a different term or classification to differentiate between vaping nicotine vs vaping THC. After 15 years of information, people discussing their experiences on various vaping forums and chat groups, I am still supportive of vaping. Harm reduction is very important. Glamorizing it was a big mistake, that was what got kids smoking cigarettes and now they are vaping nicotine. It is better, but from my experience and knowledge of what happened to my heart, nicotine in a young body is bad news. Are there people who purely vape nicotine experiencing injury or ER visits? Sure. Something is still being put into the lungs that really is not supposed to be there. People have allergic reactions or cannot tolerate some of the chemicals used in vape juice. My ex girlfriend was unable to go to a couple concerts or leave mid show because of fog machines. It is still better than cigarettes AND I really think the government should back off from it. The community made several changes to what was being used BEFORE they started regulating it. Now it just legitimizes it and allows cigarette companies to get into the market and make their own "disposables", "pods", or closed tanks and cartridges. Who knows what they are putting into those things. I won't name the company, but one of the Big Ones was caught putting high levels of nicotine and improperly displaying t ton packaging AND extra "preservatives", the same ones found in cigarettes to keep up the addiction.
Why didn't you just stop smoking? I quit 40 cigarettes per day, from one day to the other. So then you can do that too.
@@davidsvarrer8942 good question. One I have asked of myself before. I quit other much more harmful drugs cold turkey, but it helped that there isn't a safe, open market or legal way to get them. THAT helps. And my shrink seems to think that since I started smoking at 13, it just became "part of me" making it even more difficult to quit. It certainly doesn't help that I can go to the corner store and legally purchase them. By the time I had my last cigarette, I had basically been smoking longer than I had been alive, or at least more than the 13 I had already lived before having my first cancer stock ;)
Wow
Thank you for this well thought out response. I couldn’t agree with you more! I quit cigarettes many years ago and vape 3-6mg instead. Tobacco only not fruits for me. Remove the THC and VIT E from normal vaping and you will have a different outcome.
Why not name the company that was adding the extra addictive "preservatives" and nicotine? Could you at least give a hint?
After nearly 50 years of smoking tobacco, and countless attempts to give up smoking, it was vaping that finally worked. I vaped without nicotine in my vape for around 3 months, and each day was vaping less and less, till finally I had stopped vaping as well. Giving up smoking was not my goal when I started vaping!
My aunt did the same in her late 60s after smoking for her entire life. She continues to vape, but at least it isn't smoking anymore.
I smoked cigarettes for 20 years, finally quit by vaping. Vaped for 2 years and felt great. Stopped vaping as well and felt amazing.
I can safely say that vaping has had me off the cigarettes for about 6/7 years now but can also safely say I'm probably more addicted to nicotine as a vape than I was as a smoker due to the ease of consistent use.
Well, since nicotine (without the tar from cigarettes) has similar effects on the body as caffeine, I'd say you're in a much better place than you were.
At least by all means we know of, it's a healthier alternative
@@TheCharleseye There's also new studies to show that nicotine helps prevent dementia or Alzheimers. Only negative seems to be if you have high blood pressure really. So hard to find unbiased sources for the information. This video did pretty well on this but never really talked about how nearly all of these lung injuries arent nicotine vaping related. ChatGPT does really well on providing and explaining sources from the most recent studies and the effects of different chemicals on the body
I have smoked 60+ per day since I was 12. Im 58 now. I tried everything to stop but i couldn't. I started vaping about 8 years ago and while im still chronically addicted to nicotine my lungs are so much better and my health has dramatically improved.
So while vaping may not be 100% safe it is at least 95% safer than what i was doing.
This is my practical experience.
Wow, 3+ packs a day for more than 40 years! That's really something. I smoked from 15 to about 32, stopped for 5 years, then smoked again another 10 years to about 47. I'm 52 now.
When I told my doctor I had switched to the vape he was very happy. He told me the same as we heard in this video about not knowing the long term effects, but he said even several years ago that the consensus was, whatever gets you off cigs is better than continuing as a smoker. The way I feel today as a non-smoker I think confirms that. So far I've been lucky, no issues with my lungs or heart related to smoking after about 5 years. I hope it continues, and best of luck to you as a recovered smoker.
I envy you, I quit smoking 20 years ago, still miss it tho sometimes..might try vaping, at least I won't be as boring as I am now 🤷
@@livelongandprosper70 I'd stay away from vaping if you're not using it to get off the cigs, there are still unknowns that the medical community haven't figured out yet.
The last thing you want is to find out in a few years that long term use is worse than smoking.
I used vaping to get off the cigs and I put it down as soon as I was able to afterward. About that time the term "popcorn lung" was making the news, related to vaping.
@@livelongandprosper70I wouldn’t, it’s better than smoking yes, but naw, as someone who’s a nicotine feind I wouldn’t, the addiction is aweful
@@addisonpage1Literally just PG, VG, PG flavorings and nicotine. Way better than a cig. You can take in lower nics like 9mg, 6mg or 3 or even 0.
There's already a lot of stories on here so I won't share mine, but one thing i will say is quitting smoking / vaping was one of the best decisions of my life. Feel so much better after the initial withdrawal symptoms. I'm not going to lie I still crave it sometimes, but its been getting easier and easier. You can quit too if you really put your mind to it. Best of luck to anyone quitting. :)
How long ago did you quit?
Thank you
@Gio Asdeer it's been a couple years now, I started by using patches and it worked wonders for me.
Don't just stop, do it gradually not at once beacuse my older brother did it all at once an believe me he darn near lost his mind an he's still messed up from it mentally speaking. Man's is a literal hobo in a 80mil dollar house, we live in Jamaica so you know it's bad my g🇯🇲
i get awful withdrawals even with replacement therapy. my bones ache, any clothes/any pose seem extremely uncomfortable, anhedonia, drowsiness, irritability, insomnia… i don’t know how to quit. i’ll try this summer again, after finishing all exams, but i don’t really believe i will be able to
Great information👍
this is a perfect video and follow up before the first one. ill talk about it for a long time.
I think the biggest difference between vaping and smoking is the frequency which will probably make a big difference in health outcomes for long-term vape users. Where smoking is often more ritualistic leading to a set number of cigarettes smoked per day, most vape users will be using it constantly throughout the day since it's generally more accessible indoors and comes with less social stigma.
I'd love to see a wide study on people's vaping habits.
I've been vaping for years and personally, it really varies quite a lot, but generally I tend not to have 'sessions.' It just doesn't make sense, because unlike a cig, a vape isn't a one-time item, 'done' after one use. I'm a 2-3 toots at a time guy. I use a high-volume vape with very low nicotine. I'm pretty satisfied by it. And honestly, it's hard to just go at it for more than a couple of minutes because my mouth gets too dry and the flavor is so rich. Typically, I would say I pick it up every 45 minutes to an hour for a handful of 2-3 toot spurts.
There was a time when I was using disposable vapes in the car. My usual setup requires you to incrementally drip juice into it (which you can easily spill and make a terrible sticky and gooey mess with,) makes huge clouds of vapor that block my vision, is a heavy chunk of metal, and requires a certain grip/button press to use. Not the safest while driving. Something small I could pick up for a little hit would be nice in the car, I thought. Problem is, I found myself just going ham on em while driving. Because my main focus is on the road, and it's so easy to hit with no prep, I don't notice that I'm basically hitting it constantly. I would hit it like Popeye, parked on one side of my mouth with my hands on the wheel, puffin away. Had to put a stop to that.
Point is, I can see there being a lot of factors worth exploring, that might yield some seriously important insights.
@@differentbutsimilar7893very good points. Obviously, when someone light up a cigarette, they're smoking the whole thing, they're not lighting it up only for a couple toots and then wasting the rest of it. So in way, one may not use a cigarette as often but will smoke more at once, while with a vape, you can pretty much use it whenever you want, but you're not forced to use it constantly for the next 5-10 minutes.
It's however, a lot easier to vape in places where it's not allowed compared to cigarette, because vaping typically don't smell nearly as much as cigarette, most people use flavored liquids so the smell is much les obnoxious, worst case it can be mistaken for a perfume, essential oils etc.. If you smoke a cigarette in a public toilet stall, everybody around will know you're doing it. Not so with a vape. You can also hide your vape in your jacket while you take a toot and most likely people around won't notice. Can't really do that with cigarette as you'll likely light up your clothes.
On the other hand, the fact that you don't have to smoke the whole vape liquid bottle at once might in some case reduce the overall usage. Typically, it's a matter of nicotine addiction. You feel you need it, so you either smoke or vape. With cigarette, again, you need to smoke the whole thing or you're otherwise wasting it. While you with vape, just one or two toot might be enough satisfy the addiction and then you may not use it for the next hour or so. You might also become less addicted because you're not forced to take so much at once.
Overall, the total usage is probably similar in a day, but with very different patterns of usage. Cigarette may be used less often but a lot more at once, while vape is used more often but very little at once.
@@HCkevI understand where your coming from completely but I know alot of cigarette smokers and people who smoke vapes (me being one of both) and in all honesty, the majority of vapers i see cant even let the vape out of their hand, just puffing every 2 minutes whereas smokers, tending to smoke more ritualistic, tend to be smoking a hell of a lot less and with the premise of thinking your going to waste the rest, I know people who sometimes have a couple puffs of a cigarette then put it out to smoke the rest later. Being a smoker of both however, I do see myself to smoke alot less with cigarettes, smoking one within 5-10 minutes then not having another for hours wheres with a vape, I cant stop. I could literally be puffing away for a solid 20 minutes without realising then just feeling horrible within my body, just feeling grungy. In conclusion I'd say smoking depends on the person, not the device the person uses and that further studies need to be done on vaping as I believe it is, if not more dangerous than cigarettes (in my opinion), within not just a short time use but possibly a long time one aswell.
The biggest plus to vaping is the elimination of second and third hand smoke
Actually some states are starting to treat vaping like cigs to prevent “indoor smoking”
In my own humbling experience, ive had more instances with rude vapers than cig smokers but i guess thats cause most vapers Ive met are younger and dont use smoking etiquette
Nearly the entire video is dedicated to the effects and risks of vaping e-juice containing Vitamin E-Acetate and THC. However, Vitamin E-Acetate containing e-juice is primarily sold from street dealers (like you mentioned) to cut down on cost. The issue is, vaporization of THC e-juices (typically known as cartridges) is quite niche compared to the overwhelming majority of people who vape standard nicotine containing juice, which does NOT contain Vitamin E-Acetate or THC. You are correct in saying that the long term effects of general vape products are unknown and therefore its wise to refrain from vaping completely, but, it doesn't take a 15 minute video to say that. This title is misleading as you are not addressing the wider spectrum of vaping, rather just a small percentage of those who vape and consume THC products.
unfortunately, its the same source from ages ago that media has been throwing around under umbrella term "vaping". nicotine vapes are the only vapes seen in the hands of teens and young adults worldwide rn
Very well said. I'd Like to see a video of just the effects of nicotine base vapes.
@@markgibson629 Same here, as ten of millions in my country (France), I quit smoking for vaping, and we are all very interested to know what normal, legal vaping can do to the lungs.
THC and vitamin (?!?!) vaping looks like some black american crime micro phenomenon utterly irrelevant.
@@moodymud no the channel is great, it is just this video's title that is misleading
Standard nicotine by itself has more than enough negative health effects and can be considered harmful all on its own bro
Been vaping since 2015, quit a week ago. I feel clear headed, motivated and free from being tied down to my device. It’s pretty amazing 😊
Lol a week? That doesn’t count as quitting
@@cargoraygaming9274 Now it’s two weeks. When I say I quit, I quit.
Im proud of you
@@cargoraygaming9274 you need to leave
Come back when or if you make it 6 months. Iol, a week ain't shiiiit
This summer I quit smoking cigarettes for the first time in 14 years, since I started smoking at the age of 18. 2 months ago I did it with the help of nicotine patches and I was able to go a full month cold turkey, but the cravings haven't subsided. It caused me to avoid the people I volunteer to help in the addiction community. I've decided to take up vaping as a less harmful alternative to my lungs, and allow me to get back to helping the people whose lives often depend on the guidance I give them in the time sensitive, critical moments that come in their lives and allow them to make the same changes I was guided to make 2 years ago by someone who did what I do now.
I live in a small city of 80K people but we lose around 2 people every day, and in a city this size, I know almost every single one of them.
I am counting the switch from 2 packs of cigarettes a day to a vape with 20mg of nicotine per ml as a WIN for now. I will lower the nicotine as I go and then set a date eventually to quit this as well.
Thanks for your interesting video. I'm MD, was a heavy smoker (up to 60 p.d) in the past, and started vaping around 2006, when the first eCigarette came out in China - a friend of mine was a long distance pilot and he brought them over to Europe. Since then, I never ever touched a cigarette again. What perfectly convinced me was the fact, that after vaping for one week, I was 2 minutes faster on my usual 10 km (6.2 miles) jogging track.
I'm 62 now and still do my jogging rounds - so at least in my case vaping did not do considerable harm to my lungs as opposed to what continuing smoking would have done. So at least it is recommendable for heavy smokers as a replacement. A possible downside is that you tend to vape continuously without any break.
I'm quite sure that oily ingredients like THC or vitamin E are to blame for EVALI - inhaling oil products are known to cause severe atypical pneumonias, and EVALI appears to be one.
Correct, yeah this "EVALI" only came when they were making it hard to get our regulated juices from stores and people were resorting to black market liquids. This is why they gotta stop fuckin with our shit man and let us adults vape and have flavors if we want to. Ban vaping/disposables in gas stations (thats where most of the kids get them from) and strictly let only vape stores carry. People who work in the community are always careful to I.D. because they know how important it is to not sell to kids and screw it up for everyone. Gas stations, etc dont care at all. EVALI would have never existed because there wouldn't have been a need to buy black market products if they weren't making it difficult to get their stuff.
I never smoked cigarettes, started vaping about 5 years ago. I was vaping so much 24/7 and every second i can get a puff in. Until one day i decided to just throw it away and never looked back. Felt better ever since and it was the first step to get my life in order. Started a diet, the gym, got a promotion at work etc. You got to really want to
I've had a similar experience. I quit cold turkey about 16 months ago and I've been able to get a job, start exercising, and I've learned to be more present and as a result become a better partner/friend/family member.
@@corvideer1738 i dont know if my life has gotten better specifically because of it, but it really was the first step in a domino effect where my life has gotten significantly better. Glad to hear you’re on the same pace, keep it up brother 💪🏻
You do realize consume nicotine through digestion is a more potent way of getting nicotine into your brain, than vaping? Just ask cannibus user the difference between edibles and vaping.
I totally dont believe this
@Spyrit2011 idk about nicotine but I know with thc it gets turned into something that affects you entirely differently after going through the liver.
Thank you for the information ❤
I have to say, you are far more fair than most and clearly your not in the pocket of big tobacco! That is refreshing!! I could counter many of the things that you are saying, but quite frankly I am just happy to see some ungreased advice coming from research and not agenda! Thanks for your effort!
Smoked for 30+ years, quit and used vape, felt so much better, took up cycling which I could never had done while smoking. Quit vaping in February this year after 10 years. Wasn't even much of a struggle. Just felt like it was time to quit and not looked back. I would be nowhere near as healthy as I am now without vape, and probably still be addicted to tobacco.
100%, same with me….smoked for 23 years, vaped 5 years and slowly tapered down. Incredibly easy to quit. It was weird once I got to 0 nicotine & quit. I didn’t crave the nicotine but I found myself looking for my vape device but only out of habit, not cravings. That routine/habit slowly disappeared.
@@trudycolborne2371 Thamk you. Thats very nice of you 👍
Same,, smoked for about 20 yrs and switched to vape for about 8, then just quit out of the blue. Thank God. I believe God put it into my heart to quit.
I was a heavy smoker for decades, had terrible cardio, coughed all the time and had all the usual problems associated with nicotine addiction.
I had a dental operation scheduled and I was told point blank by my dentist "You cannot smoke for six months or this procedure will most likely fail". I had no choice so I started vaping.
It was the biggest single improvement to my quality of life I have ever made. I go hiking now, my clothes smell nice, I am still reliant on nicotine but vaping is more gentle and you dont get withdrawals for hours and hours. I can take a two hour train and not even think about nicotine.
My cautionary information would be this:
Only buy your gear from a reputable Vape Store (not Amazon and not the street)
Keep your kit clean
Nearly every bad outcome is linked to some kind of weird THC or drug related substance like cannabis oil.
Popcorn lung is a lie. The incident it refers to involved several barrels of pure acetyl leaking into the ventilation system of a factory and literally poisoning everyone.
Do not believe anti-vape propaganda. The tobacco companies pay US state governments money every year as compensation. The Master Settlement Agreement payment is calculated based on the number of smokers in the state. The moment that vaping impacted these payments, the news was flooded with anti vaping stories and horror tales about how vapes can kill. Its bs, they are just trying to scare people back to smoking so they can get their juicy free money.
As a wise man once said ... anything that goes into to your lungs that is not fresh air, involves risk.
Vapes no doubt involve risk.
Smoking is a guaranteed disaster for your body.
Do the maths.
I used to smoke for 8 years and ive been vaping for one. I can totally agree with your statement here. Vaping changed my life, and its way cheaper.
I 100% agree with all of this.
I have done a lot of REAL research and yes you are absolutely correct.
Vaping is not good for you but it's is not what the mainstream tells us (for obvious reasons).
Thank you for sharing.
Everyone should do what they want but always try to improve their health.
Cheers to all, do the research yourself.
Well said!
My wife smoked for years before I met her. I introduced her to vaping and now we both enjoy a better quality of life.
I've quit smoking by changing to vaping. I was smoking since ~2003, tried my 1st vaping device around 2012 (it was a cigarette like device with a purse with built-in battery) but that didn't give the same feeling as smoking so I was using both of them for a few months. After talking to persons who had high end devices I've invested in my 1st more expensive device (that was the release of Joyetech eGrip) next to that I didn't feel the need to smoke. Also I've increased the liquid's nicotine from ~6mg to 18mg (commercial liquid, not homemade). Later on I've read about the coils and that you can make your own liquid with just VG, PG and aroma's so I've bought a Joyetech mod with some huge tank and started making my first sub-ohm coils for big clouds and I've loved that. By time I was feeling the need to reduce nicotine to have more vibrant tastes for the liquid and in 2-3 yrs I was already in 1-3mg nicotine. Once I've purchased a month's pack of liquid base but accidentally it was with 0 nicotine. I was like "okey, it barely had nicotine anyway so let's try to consume it..." and by my surprise I didn't felt the need for nicotine, so I've purchased 0 nicotine for the next month too, and by time I've realized (to be accurate my girlfriend realized) that I wasn't vaping for a few days. Then it was a week, then more and more... I've "accidentally" stopped vaping in a year after purchasing 0 nicotine base liquid. :D I still miss blowing huge clouds sometimes and those great tastes but... at least I'm saving that money now.
I'm curious on the differences between vaping with juice/oil and dry herb vaping. I was smoking cannabis everyday and wanted something easier on my lungs, but the whole vape lung thing really got me worried about the vape juice itself. But recently I bought a dry herb tabletop vape and it's been amazing! It's basically just a heating coil you pull the air through, which goes over a bowl into a standard water bubbler. The hits are smooth and the amount of coughing fits have reduced dramatically. The only thing that gets vaporized is the cannabis itself, there's no carrier oil to wonder about. But everything I hear about vaping in a health context talks about the vape juice like that's the main problem. So I'm curious what the effects of dry herb vaping cannabis is compared to standard thc vape juice and smoking it.
I'm a daily S&B Mighty user at around 1 capsule per night over the past few years. I have not experienced any pulmonary effects but I can't confirm what's going on internally either. If I had to guess I would say it's obviously not ideal compared to normal air but not overtly bad either depending on your usage patterns. I'm able to sleep extremely well and for that I'll accept a slight unknown risk. Over time, studies will likely mention dry herb vaporization and we'll know more. Lifestyle choices like your diet (avoiding processed foods and sugars) and activity are probably much more impactful long term than the negative concerns about dry herb vaporization. So for now, I'm going to enjoy my nighttime sessions. If there's a sudden health event or concern, I would switch to edible products but I would hate to give up the dosage control and timing that dry herb vaporizing gives. That's my take anyway.
About 14 years ago just in a week I switched from 35years of smoking to vaping. I started with 18mg liquids, but gradually reduced it to about 4mg of nicotine per ml and stay at this level. I got used to the process of "smoking" (or vaping) and mechanics of this is much more difficult to quit than nicotine adiction itself. Anyway, in the past 14 years of vaping I saw significan improvements in breathing and sense of smell within about 3 months of switching from smoking to vaping, and then my level of comfort stayed the same. I regularly check my lungs and, thus far, they work fine - actually, much better than they did when I did smoke.
I have a very similar story and I continued beyond 4 mg/ml. I am at 0.3 mg/ml now (after 8+ years of slowly tapering off) and it happens once in a while now that I unconsciously forget to vape for a few hours. I've become somewhat convinced that even the habitual routine/mechanics are anchored by nicotine dependence.
I've been vaping 16 years in Sept.
Just had a CT scan. Lungs were unremarkable.
@@MrDeamon1 What a terrible way of getting your point across. lol
I just wrote basically the same thing!
Same! Smoked for over 20 years, switched to a vape cold turkey and never loooked back. Vaped over 2 years reduced to 0% nicotine, no flavor, just the base vape liquid. I’m using it less and on my way to being done, but I’ll always hold onto a 0% vape in case I DO get a craving, I will NOT reach for a cig
I would like to see a study on the risks with regular nicotine vaping, I feel like the past drama with sketchy THC vape products a few years ago gave vaping a bad reputation.
There rarely seems to be a distinction between nicotine vaping and THC vaping, all of it being put under the same umbrella.
Dude, your lungs are meant to breathe air. You don’t need to fill them with poison, I can assure you there’s already plenty of pollution in the air. People are always sabotaging themselves.
we still got some sketchy weed vapes here where im at, they try so hard to get people who dont got a card to waste $40 on a 1g cbd vape pen when i can go get a $7 1g dab cart that is lab tested and has like 70-80% THC i dont trust them 99% thc dab carts seems too good to be true how can u get that high purity? i mean distillate i guess but still not natural
guess i should have mentioned the taste cause cbd is great but the carts always taste of chemicals unless u get a real cart from a dispo that is state regulated and not some hippie shop
Also there is no mention of herbal vaporizers, no vaping liquid. I asume they are included in thc vapes, but they are so different. We need studies for every case and it is going to take a long time, sadly.
There was a study back in 2015 by Public Health England, a federal agency in the United Kingdom. The study conclusion is that vaping is 95% safer than smoking cigarettes. This is regular vape juice. Not the stuff with THC.
I would love to hear your thoughts on different methods of THC consumption. ex: smoking flower (bong vs. joint), vaporizing dabs, and edibles
Great job!
I too quit smoking and nicotine all together by using vaping. The ability to control the level of nicotine to diminish the addiction was a game changer. By the time i was at 1%/ml the whole process became more of a nuisance and i found myself forgetting my vape. Eventually i just didn’t care for it. The whole process took about a year and a half because it was my goal to begin with.
congrats man 👍👍
I also quit in a very similar way, it was a choice, a goal, it took a bit over 2 years but like you I titrated the nicotine down until I was at such a low level I basically didn't notice when I stopped. For me it was the best way to give up smoking and nicotine. I hate to think that young people start vaping bc they think it's cool. I spent a long time trying to find a vape that 'felt' right. So, they could be destroying their throats and lungs without knowing any better...
I start with 50mg vape liquid and now it's been 6 years since I quit smoking thanks to that. I wont touch that dirty cigarette again. And the good thing is Its much easier to quit vaping than smoking depends on your dosage
Same
Congrats with sticking to the plan man!! Got same goals here!
I work in a vape shop (UK). I vaped to quit smoking and then quit vaping during the pandemic, but got hooked on the bloody disposables for another year or two. I’ve been off it all since November 🎉
I’m always trying to encourage my customers to go down in their nicotine and work their way off vaping, and often times they do, but the stubbornness of most of them is the type you can only find in The Silent Generation, but honestly at their age I’m just like, you smoked for 60 years, Carroll, well done for quitting, you keep on vaping if you wanna.
I’m a bit more unrelenting with younger folk 😂
People who don't know they're unwell will never accept a cure.
As someone who smoked heavily for 40 years, I don't believe anyone should just take up vaping out of the blue any more than I think they should start smoking. But vaping is undeniably an effective tool to quit, in my case the ONLY one, and FAR less damaging than smoking or some of the shady pharmaceutical interventions!
They're trying to buy shit. Why hassle them? Let them buy it and leave. Kinda weird tbh.
I started smoking crack to quit vaping, it was a very effective way to do it.
Yeah, those high nicotine disposables are crap. They were way more addicting than something like a mod. I'm glad I'm done smoking and vaping.
It helped me quit smoking!!!!
Worst Shortness of breath 5 days ago from vape. Vaping for 12 years since their debut. Today is day 5 no vape. Withdrawal hard but loving my deep breaths so much ❤
Did the same to me. Smoking Mary Jane is def. Better than vaping
I'm an ex-smoker, I used to chain smoke like Hunter Thompson. I never went down the vaping rout, it was either smoke or no smoke for me. I remember really enjoying my cigarettes, I'd have one every morning with my coffee and slowly take drags, Marlboro Reds were the smoothest...
But over time, they started to make me feel sick and I was always short of breath and didn't like feeling that way, so I started to ween down. I started to only smoke 3 cigarettes a day, and then I started using tar catchers like Hunter Thompson and to be honest, that really made a big difference. Then I only smoked 2 ciggies a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Then I skipped days and noticed I felt better, but would eventually have a ciggie soon after.
Then one day I went on a family trip and left my ciggies behind. On the 3rd day of no smoke, I already started to feel so healthy and life felt vibrant again! When I got back home a week later, I never lit another ciggie for 9 years now! In fact, I still have the very last cigarette I saved from that day! It's still in its pack, it's an L&M, it's a historical piece now...
I used to call em ciggies and read Thompson too haha
Inspiring.
@@philanders3705 always a pleasure to meet Thompson fans out in the wild o7
I'd never even considered tar catchers before, though in fairness I've only just now learned what they are called. I wonder if I should do a Hunter S Thompson costume for halloween before quitting for good...
@@no.7893 Likewise, brother! Go for it, that's a great costume idea especially if you can stay in character the whole night
I thought you were going to mention a hunter that is the son of mcgoo, and his crack habit😂
I really like how you’re nonjudgmental. You’re right. All of us could do things that are better for us. I love my sweets and don’t have the most consistent workout schedule (working on it lol). I also love my caffeine. I binge watch tv shows undoubtedly frying my brain a bit. I don’t really shy away from McDonalds. I could list many more things that most of us do despite knowing they aren’t good for or mental/physical health. So are we automatically better than smokers purely cause the unhealthy things we choose to do don’t include vapes?
I definitely don’t advocate for smoking. I wish it wasn’t a thing in the slightest. However, Im not gonna call someone a bad person especially when I don’t know the path that led them to smoking.
It’s especially important for medical professionals to have this mindset. Y’all’s job is to present the facts and offer reasonable and compassionate advice. Not call smokers/vapers bad people who are stupid and irresponsible. I love how the medical field has adopted a good mix of facts and empathy. Completely achievable and better for everyone.
Thank you for the video
Great info.
This has nothing to do with vaping. He's talking about THC; which is not an ingredient in vape juice. Prop glycol, vegetable glycerine, pharmaceutical nicotine, and artificial flavor. Thassit.
(This video is brought to you by big tobacco USA)
Just my opinion, of course if you've never smoked DO NOT vape! But, as an ex-smoker I started at 12! I switched to vaping over 10 years ago, I'm asthmatic so smoking was a poor peer pressure thing being young and dumb which I carried over into adulthood, I always had the dreaded smokers cough, I had almost constant chest infections and had to use three inhalers just to get by day-to-day. Since, I've switched to vaping I haven't had a single chest infection, I'm down to just one inhaler that I've been using less and less over the years since switching to vaping. The biggest problem with vaping is the "won't someone please think of the children" (insert The Simpsons meme) argument, well I started smoking at 12! TWELVE! But, according to the worlds governments, cigarettes and tobacco are still readily available, where are the campaigns to ban tobacco? What about the teen drinking epidemics? I know I drank alcohol at a young age too (15ish) why is it that vaping has been taking a battering and not the other way more harmful things? One word...M O N E Y! Where are the; Mums against Alcohol/tobacco groups? How many lives and families have been lost and ruined by alcohol, that loved one that died from cancer brought on by two packs a day for 40 years!? How many lives and families have been decimated by vaping? It's so easy for the people on the outside (non-smokers/vapers) to scoff and just about VAPE = BAD! Whilst having absolutely zero personal experience with it and all the lives they help save, look in any vape group and read the countless success stories of people being able to give up smoking even after 30-40 years of heavy smoking, and people that have cut their nicotine intake down drastically and who eventually quit vaping too, if that's not something you wish existed years ago while your grandparents were still alive then that's a sad state of affairs. Just think something like vaping could have extended their lives and not coughing up tar and other nasty things found in tobacco etc. I'm glad I live in the UK where we have taken a sensible and medically scientific approach to vaping, where vaping is promoted via the NHS and you can even buy vapes in most hospitals in the UK, I pray it stays that way. I haven't heard of a single case of this "EVALI" in the UK and the original scaremongering tactics in the US where based around lies, it wasn't anything to do with normal nicotine vaping at all, it was to do with people buying black market THC carts cut with Vit C acetate and god knows what. But the media labelled it as vaping was the cause and people believed it, of course the MSM never lie or bend the truth for a good story ever... Sorry this has been long-winded but I saw the original vaping video and I just had to comment on my experience and opinions. As I said at the start I've been vaping for a very long time and not once have I had to go to my doctor or hospital for anything related to vaping, I'm healthier now than when I was in my 20's I don't need to constantly use multiple inhalers just to breathe anymore and it's all thanks to vaping! Again, I will reiterate, vaping is only for adults who want to quit smoking 🚭 but just like a 12 year old me all the horror stories about smoking didn't stop me but tobacco isn't being attacked like vaping is and it's all down to money and taxation. If the US government had found a way to tax it properly you'd bet your last dollar there would be stores all across the states selling them. Isn't it funny the only "approved" vaping company JULL are still around? It couldn't be to do with the fact Philip Morris owns them would it? 🤦😂 Anyway, I'll leave it there and well done if you managed to read all this, have an awesome day 😁
First thing first, you need to learn to put spaces between blocks of text. Reading all of this will give anyone a headache. From what i understand this is somthing about people not going after cigarettes and alcohol as hard as vaping because of lobbying?
All i will say to that is what are you talking about, have you been in a coma since the 1920's? Compared to vaping, cigarettes and alcohol are hit considerably harder than vapes ever had.
I would argue vaping has taken the same route cigarettes had where people tout it as a positive this, or a positive that, without any studies done to show you won't regret it 40 years down the line.
@@zachdew9gaming985 firstly I'm sorry to upset your sensibilities by not using proper paragraphs, I was short on time when I typed all that out on my phone and haven't had a chance to add them, but I'll leave it as is if that's ok with you? It's CZcams not an English exam 🤦
If cigarettes and alcohol are so vehemently targeted, why haven't they been banned like vaping has in the US and a few other countries like Australia etc? Why can kids still readily access tobacco and alcohol products if they are being attacked like vaping has? The answer is simple and one I've already stated and it's money! And you'll never convince me otherwise and no amount of condescending comments from you or anyone else will change that.
I watched testimonials from people in court rooms in America break down and cry telling their stories on how vaping saved them and still they banned it! And you can't use kids as the deciding factor because kids before vaping and to this day still smoke and drink underage, all they have done is create a stronger black market which is where they started in the first place with the THC carts! So now kids and people in general now have to rely on sourcing their vapes/juice from unknown sources, well done America, truly the land of the free! Woohoo!
There have been multiple studies done on vaping from some of the greatest science backed research facilities known to man for instance The Royal College of Physicians that deem vaping to be at least 90-95% safer, key word SAFER than smoking. Now that's not to say it's harmless of course it's not, but would you rather someone smoke themselves into an early grave or hand them something that will help them?
I fail to see what your counter argument is here? (Aside from bashing grammar on CZcams comments) Do you want more people to smoke or do you want people to have alternatives? Alternatives that can and have saved lives? Because where are people that vape going to go when they are banned? Yep, back to buying tobacco products and big pharma and tobacco wins again!
I'm happy to enjoy my vaping for as long as I want to and that's backed by our government and health authorities here in the UK. Vaping has been around for a long time, where are the piles of bodies through vaping? How long do we need to wait 20/30/50 years for people like you to be happy? You're more likely to die from eating today's ultra processed foods and caffeine overdoses with the spike in coffee and energy drink consumption these days than vaping. In fact a friend of mine lost her husband recently due to excessive caffeine consumption, he suffered a massive heart attack in his sleep aged 50!
@@Addixxtion Thankfully here in the US...they haven't banned vaping...I used it to quit smoking as well...and I'm in total agreement with you on why arent they hitting alcohol like vaping...and your correct it's the money.
Spot on , some need a reality check ✅️ , nothing is said about alcohol and tobacco and widely available all over
@@zachdew9gaming985 the only difference is that vaping products had a questionable reputation from their inception, while cigarettes or tabaco products studies took literally decades. And even more decades to come to the general consensus that smoking is BAD. I'm not trying to be devil's advocate here, but it is pretty obvious that vaping was bombarded from both sides, early medical studies and tabaco companies alike.
Ask any medic in the UK what normal vaping is all about, none of that CBD stuff.
I feel like one thing people forget to cover with vaping is people with eating disorders using it as meal replacement. I used to just use no-nic because of the flavors but I know of other people with eds that use the nic, having switched from smoking, because its an appetite suppression.
Y'all must be vaping a ton....because I'm still hungry when I vape.
That’s why so many dancers smoked back in the day, so that they wouldn’t gain weight. Quite a few have switched to vaping
I used to do that but I wasn't eating cuz I was depressed and it felt like less of a chore to just inhale than go make food or get food
So, the best route would be dealing directly w the disorder as, I'm sure you're more educated topically then I. I'd guess not really worth mentioning. Only ppl who find that info valuable would be the users & health care workers who likely have better sources, or, more age appropriate CE's. Dude could be my kid & I still got that preachy twinge at the end.
Gnight & good luck!
Thank you, for sharing👏
I always learn from this channel.
I started vaping about 2 years ago. It almost completely replaced cigarettes for me within a few weeks but when I went back to work (I’m in the food industry) I smoked regular cigarettes on my breaks but exclusively vapes at home. That lasted about 2 years. I finally smoked my last cigarette about 2 or 3 months ago. I’m still vaping currently, but the goal is to quit that also once I feel ready.
I smoked for 20 years. Had a nasty smoker's cough, phlegmy and wheezy chest especially in the morning and evening.
Since I started vaping in 2016, all of those symptoms have disappeared, so I can attest to the fact that vaping is without a doubt far safer and better for your health than smoking.
That said, if you've never smoked or vaped, rather avoid both indefinitely. But if you must, definitely choose vaping instead of smoking.
totally agree, i feel healthy and have no issues at all from vaping.
Very informative your video , I would like to recommend checking the effects of vaping vs smoking on liver and pancreas. You will be amazed of the findings. Thank you.
I started smoking in 2021 as a recommendation from a girlfriend who was concerned about levels of stress I had those days. It helped me to relax, then I became addicted and I hated it, because of the smell, a sense of chronic fatigue and throat problems. Vaping has made a huge difference in terms of all that, but I'm aware that nothing you inhale to your lungs may be a good thing, so I know I have to quit vaping as well. But, I can't do it right away.
Wait ? Your girlfriend recommended you to smoke? 😮😮I’m sorry but what kind of advice is that from a girlfriend ? that’s horrible
@@smauglord8117 haha yep, but WAS my girlfriend, thank God I'm single and happy now 😂😂😂
Yo girlfriend evil
Great video. As someone who grew up with second hand smoke and now has exertional asthma it never ceases to amaze me that people are still sucking stuff into their lungs. I wish I could run without wheezing and getting so winded I have to stop and walk. I wish I could go back to my childhood and tell my parents to quit smoking. I have several siblings that are smokers and all I have to say is “there, but the grace of God go I.” They now have COPD and it’s so awful. I truly feel so bad for them. I really appreciate this topic. If everyone could just understand how important healthy lungs are and how they shouldn’t be taken for granted most people would avoid breathing anything other than good clean air into their lungs.
its so hard dealing with addiction, especially if its not yourself whos addicted but someone in your life who claims they aren't hurting anyone. if anything, it hurts to watch.
Being short of breath is a terrible condition, and you only know how awful it trully is once you have it.
@@elih9700 Now imagine that people are PAYING to GET IT!
Why feel bad for someone with self inflicted copd?
Do some cardio
I been vaping for about 5 years. Smoked cigarettes maybe 15 years before that. After immediately switching to vaping, I gradually felt incredibly better. That’s all I know for sure.
same, i started getting mad chest pains because I was smoking roll ups all the time while working from home, back in 2010 or something (very early days when there was only a few available) i found out about ecigs. there were no tanks, it was joyetech catridges etc. i immediately felt so much better and have been vaping all this time, since before it was called vaping. i have no health issues and i vape constantly. i just use decent tobacco eliquid at 9%.
i'm not gonna give up vaping because i want something to do while i'm designing. yeah, anything you breathe that isn't air is going to be bad, but you got to enjoy your life.
i wish people would stop this nonsense about doing nothing at all. of course it's bad, but anything can happen at any time. enjoy your life as beast you can before the bus knocks you down. governments should not get involved, it's basically the tobacco co's lobbying them
Imagine how you'd feel not vaping either lmao
@@JGirDesu I’m imagining now.. I’d feel the exact same lol
@@JGirDesu imagine how you would feel not drinking alcohol at all and replacing pop drinks with water and working out 3 times a week 😉😉
I swear my cough became absolutely dreadful when I switched to vaping, maybe there were additives in my brand or sth
Thank you sir for your reasonable explanations
all you vapers, especially those of you who have been rescued from cigarettes by vaping. I myself indulged in cigarettes for 46 years and long term smokers will understand when I say that I had reached the point of giving up on trying to quit. During this time of accepting that I would be a smoker until something, perhaps related to smoking takes me out, that would be the end of my nicotine indulgence story if not for the fact that while searching online for a canabis vaping pen that I had heard of, I found out about the fairly new world of nicotine vaping. I am now in my 16th year of nic-vaping and for the first couple of years I vaped straight lung hits until I found and preferred the mouth to lung atomizers and technique which I did for several years until I realized that since nicotine is so absorbing that mouth to nasal was giving me my nic-hit without involving my lungs. I have been happy and satisfied with MTN vaping for several years now. You all should try it! ... 👁
@Institute of Human Anatomy I started vaping after 30+ yrs of being a smoker. Ironically I started vaping on the 18th April 21 and on the 4th June 21 I had a massive stroke due to a massive pulmonary embolism. Well over 50% of both lungs were a massive blood clot. According to the multiple specialists I had in ICU the stroke was caused from a piece of clot shot into the brain. Before I go on I need to emphasize that being a smoker wasn't the cause of the embolism nor the stroke though it quite possibly could have contributed and sure as heck didn't help. I was diagnosed with Factor V Leiden. What I can state with certainty is that the specialists had told me that if I hadn't ceased smoking then the likelihood of my having survived the stroke was minimal as, due to the embolism my SpO2 was so dangerously low that if I was still smoking the carbon monoxide would've surely shut down vital organs. 2 years on and I can tell you, I am still vaping and tho I suffer from sleep apnea with no added oxygen to my cpap therapy, my average SpO2 is 95-69% and the normal SpO2 for a healthy person is 96-99%. How do I know my own SpO2, I wear an oximeter and have confirmed and calibrated it with multiple sleep studies and less than a week ago with a hospital monitoring system when I was in for a hernia operation. I wear a Wellue O2 ring and honestly it's a game changer. As a side note, after my massive stroke I have suffered no ill effects which is a god send considering the severity of the stroke.
Now on a lighter note, I completely disapprove with the title of this vid as it pertains, or gives people the opinion that this is in relation to how vaping is terrible and evil, granted tho you did give plenty of indication to the contrary. You did make the major topic about Evali but you failed to emphasize that out of all the patients suffering from the condition, all were consumers of THC products(whether vaping THC juice or the plant itself) irrespective of the fact that they do or don't vape e-cigarettes. The irony of the so-called traces of heavy metals found within lung samples, I have not yet found a definite source/studies or papers that proves beyond a doubt that these heavy metals are directly caused due to vaping. We as humans, who live in suburbia/cities all breath in heavy metals and toxins on a daily basis, one of the haphazard of being surrounded by motor vehicles and industry. It is a complete fallacy and misinformation to suggest that heavy metals in the lungs are due to vaping. All documents that I have read to date say 'may contain' and others that mention heavy metals and toxins state that they are way lower levels than combustible tobacco. There are way too many studies that could be done to eliminate or prove that vaping is the sole cause of lung disease. One for example could be examining people who vape and those who don't that live in a densely populated area with the same amount of road traffic and industry. Seeing as though coils for vaping are primarily made from either Kanthal, Nichrome, Stainless steel, Nickel, and Titanium it would be absolutely interesting to see what the different levels are between a non vapor and a vapor.
A final note I wish to add is that, anything in our lungs that is not pure air (the type that one would find in the middle of a rain forest) is not good for anyone's health, having said that, many studies in the UK have shown that vaping from reputable and regulated sources ( and not the unknown Chinese disposable vapes ) is 90-95% safer than combustible tobacco. Also because of the embolism, I have had to have multiple Mri's every 6 months of my lungs and within the first 18 mths since starting to vape, my lungs had nearly no traces of the dreaded TAR, the damage due to 30+ yrs of smoking is evident but the tar is nearly all gone and we know that the build up of tar can cause cancer.
Literally finished my last cart last night. Been telling myself to get completely clean for years now. Now’s the time to do it. What timing of this video. I’ll take it as a sign. This is going to be so challenging. But I have to do it.
good luck bro
I smoked for 25 years and quit cold turkey 10 years ago. I decided that if I'm not going to be a smoker, I have to think like a non-smoker. One thing non-smokers don't do is sit around thinking about smoking. Every time my mind wandered to it, I would try to find something to occupy it or, if all else failed, I would drop and do sets of push ups to exhaustion or go for a jog. Exercise reduces cravings and as you build up to getting a runner's high, it will knock the craving out. I never told anyone I quit, because non-smokers don't think about not smoking either. Its all about reprogramming you mind and interrupting the addictive/habitual thought processes.
@@murrayshekelberg9754 🎯 Fully agree, and have also come to this realization over time. Gotta begin reprograming my mind and healing my brain chemistry/overall well being.
Just take it one day at a time, and be thankful each day that you made it through :)
You got this man it's worth your health
I smoked for 49 yrs. By the end I was smoking 2.5 packs a day. No one that knew me thought I would ever quit. I started vaping in 2006 and drastically cut my smoking to 1/4-1/2 pack a day. It just wasn't doing the job to quit completely until the development of the Juul e-cigarette and salt-nic. The Juul design emulated a cigarette far better than its predecessors. The salt-nic delivered a much more satisfying hit. Within 3 weeks I had given up cigarettes completely and never gone back. I also discovered that as long as I vaped tobacco flavors, there was always a tendency to go back to the real thing. I searched for a non-tobacco flavoring that I could live with and settled on a food flavor that I ended up preferring over tobacco. For me, that was The major component for me quitting cigarettes. That was 6 yrs ago and I have no urge to go back to cigarettes and I find the them disgusting at this point. I started vaping 35 mg/ml salt-nic but am presently at 24-28 range. My lungs are clear and my circulation great! IMO e-cigs is the best option for heavy, long term smokers to quit (just ask the British Health Dept.).
Thank you for the information! I’m really curious what’s the difference between traditional smoking and dry herbal vaporizers, as opposed to e-liquid vapes. I feel like this alternative does not get talked about enough, and I’d be great to learn more about them as well.
As long as your settings are good it is much safer. If you are heating it to the vaporizing point and not burning it. AKA you don't end up w/ ashe, but instead end up with dried out brown stuff then you are doing it right. It's very difficult. If you are burning it then it's really no different.
I used vaping as a crutch to quit smoking. Weened off by lowering nicotine content. It was very effective and now do neither. More than 1 year later I'm very happy with how my cardiovascular health has improved.
Well done 👏 keep it up. I'm trying to get off vaping but can't currently
our lungs are magnificent organs. and everyone who has struggled with a covid cough knows how valuable they in fact are. Our lungs have many defenses so when someone puts stuff into their lungs everyday that is not normal those defenses start to break down. I don't believe any thing put into those lungs like cigs and vapers is harmless.
My mother had emphaysma and died at 46 with it, she smoked, and i wouldn't wish that on anybody what a horrible disease.
Society is fkd up, we're just trying to cope
@@einsibongo How will vaping help that then?
@@pam164 same way drinking and other drugs give you relief from existing in your shitty situation.
I had COVID, and thank god I have a strong immune system, I got out of the hospital a few hours later. The first few hours at home it felt the worst. My body took care of it like it was nothing.
I had asthema for 16 years. After getting recovered I started smoking for 26 years and now I have shifted to vape. Its good bro. I feel great while using an RDA setup with dual coils.
He is an amazing speaker and so informative plus so handsome
I smoked for nine years and switched to vaping when I quit smoking. It’s been almost a year of vaping now and hoping that in the next year I’ll be free of both 🖤
One thing not enough people talk about when discussing using vapes to quit smoking is the fact that vapes offer lower nicotine levels that you can slowly drop as you continue to vape so your nicotine dependence is not as bad. That’s what I was able to do and eventually quit vaping entirely.
What about when you've never used high dosage nicotine tho? I've always vaped 5% and want to quit because it's just not meaningful, but I have withdrawals after about 2 years of it. So what do you do when you can't go any lower than zero?
@@GinGouki mix it 5% with 0% 50/50 for a 2.5% mixture, seems simple enough?
@@thp4983 you know that's actually not a bad idea, like interchange zero with five until I can just transition to zero until hopefully quitting.
@@GinGouki or just straight up mix one cart of 5% with one cart of 0% and then pour them back to have two carts of 2.5%
Then you can mix two 0%s with one 5% into three carts for three carts at 1.66%.
On and on until you don't need the nicotine at all.
@@thp4983 I mainly smoke from disposables with pre determined 5%, I used to smoke mods but I didn't enjoy them as much as disposable when it comes to flavor and strength. So if I were to do that I'd have to buy a mod which is also why I wanna quit to save more money 😂
I started smoking in 1966 and after trying tapering down, nicotine gums and patches I finally tried vaping in 2012. At the time I was smoking 2+ packs a day, within 6 weeks I had quit smoking and my health started rapidly improving until I was in better condition than I had been in for at least 20 years.
In the last 12 years I have reduced the nicotione strength of my e-liquid from 24 mg/ml to 1 mg/ml and will probably continue vaping for the rest of my life. I am 72 now.
I was a 2 pack / day smoker for over a decade. I tried everything to quit, and have only had success by switching to vaping. I have been cigarette-free now for nearly 5 years. The British health institute (NHS) DOES recommend vaping as a smoking cessation strategy. While it's not known what the long term effects of vaping are, it's generally believed to be less harmful than smoking, and the NHS follows a strategy called "harm reduction" which is basically a practical view - if vaping is better than smoking and it helps you quit smoking, then vape. The Americans take another view - basically we won't recommend anything that might be even a little bad for you (unless it's corn starch and cheetos), full stop. I'm American. When I was trying to quit smoking, my doctor had me take a drug called chantix and use the nicotine patches.... but that strategy failed. I switched to Juul vapes on my own, and that made quitting smoking easy. So I don't know.... you draw your own conclusions. But for me, vaping is the reason I no longer smoke. I think our US health services are a bit impractical when it comes to smoking cessation.
Hell yah. Yeah i quit tabacco too with dry herb vape
I smoked for 23 years and switched to vaping 4 years ago. I'm not kidding myself that it's necessarily "safer" - I've seen the buildup on my windows in the winter, and I'm pretty sure that ain't supposed to be in your lungs either, lol.
What I do know is that we accidentally found fibromuscular dysplasia on both my carotid arteries via a brain MRI, and I had the ultrasound to confirm it two weeks after I quit smoking. They not only had the classic "string of pearls", but I could see how the interior of the arteries were all raggedy.
Nine months later we checked again, and the fibromuscular dysplasia was gone and the interiors were smooth as silk.
Obviously that's the result of not smoking cigarettes, but the vaping wasn't impeding their healing. And actually seeing the change inspires me to not pick up cigarettes again. Well, that and it costs $10/pack now, lol.
BTW, this is after trying to quit cold turkey, via the patch and the gum. Vaping just happens to be the most successful in keeping me from cigarettes. But honestly, not even vaping is a replacement. They definitely put something extra in cigarettes to boost the effect, which makes it so much harder to quit them than just plain ole nicotine. But for now, I'm down with this form of harm reduction.
In 2008, I quit smoking "traditional cigarettes" cold turkey. In 2018, I had a "stemi" heart attack that required aortic valve replacement and quintuple bypass surgery. I started smoking when I was about 12 years old, I'm 52 now. If you want to quit anything you're ingesting in any manner you'll eventually quit. Maybe after admitting that you know what's causing you to feel like crap all of the time because you're putting crap into your body. "You reap what you sow." You put crap in you'll get crap as a result! There's nothing good about any of it. Stop trying to bargain with it!
Im 23 right now started smoking when i was 17. Started out with just weed and then later got into vapes 2 years ago, due to my new boss owning a vape store and giving me a convenient discount. started noticing a lot of problems regarding my throat and headaches that seem like they last forever. I've been trying to quit for the last 6 months now but I always seem to go back. The beautiful thing is though, my dependance isn't as strong and I can feel in my gut that my time with vaping WILL be over soon. And I can't wait, I want my health back again.
@@ryanramlogan6512 I sort of want to suggest forcing yourself to go through the withdrawal symptoms, thinking of it like going through Navy Seal training or something; a challenge, but in the end it'll be worth it. In your mind put a stigma on vaping, put it on the same level as crack cocaine, and the mostly true stereotypes that go with smoking crack cocaine and reminding yourself that you're better than the substance. Yet, on the other hand, I wouldn't want you to injure yourself somehow because that could also happen. Best wishes. You already want to beat that demon, one way or another you'll beat it.
@@charleswoods2996 Definitely gonna do this. I have been trying as I tried quitting col turkey about 7 times. Each time got longer than the last. Last week I managed to quit for 4 days. But the part I keep getting caught in is what's everything does get better I think to myself okay maybe I can go back and just do one, to kind of satisfy whatever craving I was having. But I 100 percent will quit this month, tomorrow even as the vape I have is running out thankfully. Getting a new job too so I won't be in the environment of having a vape shop next to me. I will quit and do so much better, I promise it.
@@charleswoods2996 Also thank you for replying and giving sound advice, I really do appreciate the kind words.
@@ryanramlogan6512 Hey, you're welcome! And thank you for your initial response as well.
I wish I could explain the weak-minded person I used to be; so I'll use a stereotype or two; rock-n-roll rebel as well as county music I heard in my early years compliments of my parents; blue-collar Teamster member hating every boss I ever worked for, and thought that I had a God-given constitutional right to smoke cigarettes as well as drink like hell since they were both legal. I could easily call my younger, more ignorant self an "a$$hole". Initially, that's why I started smoking; every hero/idol I was introduced to did it and everybody was fine with it, (back then). I used to be one of those who "..needs a kick in the ass in order to get anything through his apparently thick scull!" Interesting how a heart attack and almost dying on the surgical table will make someone change their ways. And that's I can't help to try to tell others and try to be some sort of inspiration whereas somebody (older than me) was trying to inspire me but I was too young (immature) and dumb to see it. I was lucky. I was given a second chance. this is what I do with it.
After many years of smoking, vaping was what finally worked for me to quit. I always bought quality juice from reputable stores, and used standard devices with no crazy mods. I vaped for 3 years. The first two weeks were the toughest and I used 18mg juice to help get by that. Then stepped down to 12mg for about 6 months. Went to 6mg for a while, then 3mg for a while. Then spent nearly the last year and a half with 0mg nicotine. It was simply the hand to mouth habit. The last 6 months I got to where I barely used it, and finally I just started forgetting to take it with me anywhere, and stopped using it entirely.
You must quit smoking fully if you intend to use it as cessation device. This is true with any cessation tool. It also helped that I quit with a friend. It helped that we had someone to be held accountable to. I am happy to say we are both well over 7 years since quitting smoking and both stopped vaping at about 3 years into it.
I quit cigs and vape now, trying to quit. I think smoking anything isn't great. But I have noticed that being picky about the type of juice you smoke is important. I only smoke vermilion river, they are very selective on ingredients. But as a result their selection isn't great, for flavors. But that's a trade off im willing to accept until I finally stop. Anytime I smoke anything else I get a very heavy cough and nausea sometimes. I get no symptoms at all from vermilion.
Ive been vaping for over 10 years and Ive yet to see the distinction of thc vs nicotine vaping. I do believe they should be separated and not used to mean the same things. We know the ingredients and the amount of power used to heat the ingredients is different.
he explains it, there isn't in terms of health effects, but Vitamin E acetate was occasionally used by seedy retailers and that is used with THC vapes only. Good THC carts and good nicotine juice, there is no distinction health wise.
Now there’s also delta-8 and the whole hemp market. Those are the worst imo. They’re so harsh and irritating. Been vaping nicotine and thc for years but nothings been worse for my health than d8.
@@JunkBondTrader possibly, the catch is that vaping nicotine is older than THC. THC does not always include PV or PG, this should be included in the study and be a notable difference.
Yes! Especially dry herb vapes that don’t use cartridges but just vaporize the plant itself. Would love to see studies specifically on these kinds because it’s all I use!
@@benhernandez You're right. The studies are incredibly disingenuous, with incredibly flawed methodology that is evident to anyone with even a small amount of vaping experience. One of them, I remember, ran a device until it was dry, burning the dry wick, then proceeded to claim that vaporizers produced carbon monoxide and other products of combustion. And, of course, there was the infamous "popcorn lung" propaganda, despite there being absolutely no one that had gotten "popcorn lung" from vaping.
I smoked cigarettes from the age of 15 until I was 62. I developed a constant cough so bad that I was worried that I had lung cancer. I switched to vaping and over about a week my cough disappeared. The vaping definitely made quitting smoking relatively easy. I am 71 now and still vaping and my cough never returned. I mix my own vape liquid from ingredients I buy from a reputable English supplier - I don't use THC or vitamin E acetate.
switch cigs 53 years to JUUL 7 years ago & got the same results you have. Doctors on a whole want no one doing anything other than px medications with to many dangerous side effects. I study up on any px med & then tell myself bit taking that px. I will have it filled & never take the crap. I know px medications in the past told my doctors, "that one to many side effects or that one not safe & this is the one that I will take. Ya have to be up on anything ya swallow. They want their free vacations from the drug companies they call medical conventions where the alcohol🥃🍺🍹🍸🍷drug flows free🤮!
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@@himanshurao8668 Why?
Bad as this world is People fussing about vaping quit worrying about it mind your own business
@@stumccabeur making it seem like a good thing💀
I was a 20 year cigarette smoker. My dad suggested I try vaping. Never heard of it and strongly denied it would help curve my smoking. I tried it appease his wishes, and ended up quitting cigarettes cold turkey. About 10 years later I decided to quit vaping, cold turkey. Stopped for almost a year. I gained alot of weight. I started vaping again and lost 20lbs. Gonna quit again when I lose another 20 lbs. And try to do better with my snacking.
This made me realize that I think back in December when I thought I got pneumonia I actually had Evali… luckily I don’t vape as much anymore but back then I was smoking daily for 7 months
Would be interested in seeing a video on dry herb vaping cannabis, convection/conduction vaping the herb directly, not out of an oil.
Even just cannabis smokers who don't smoke tobacco. In Europe most cannabis smokers mix it with tobacco so it is harder to get good data.
I've smoked for 33 years.
I've tried quitting 4 times, last time using nicotine patches and tablets.
Each time I rapidly gained in weight some 5-6-10 kg and it was quite hard to get rid of them since I used no medication or dedicated diets for that.
I started vaping some 4 years ago, after a solid on-line research about the subject. At that time I smoked some 20-25 cigarettes / day.
It took me 2-3 months of vaping to figure out what kind of device I should use.
During this time I've spend the same amount of money / month, by purchasing devices and e-liquid, as when I was smoking cigarettes.
At the beginning I used factory made e-liquids with tobacco flavor and 18 mg / ml nicotine content.
After a few months I learned how to prepare my own liquids so I've started to reduce the active ingredients - flavor and nicotine.
In 2 months I was vaping flavorless.
After that, I start reducing gradually the nicotine content, 1 mg every 2 months until I've reached to zero. It took me 3 years.
This year, in March I've stopped vaping.
I now only vape occasionally, at parties where a lot of people take part and there are a lot of smokers as well, but I only vape disposables (puff bar) with minty flavor and zero nicotine.
During those 3 years the average sum of money, spend monthly on vaping, was what I've spend before in 1 week of smoking.
Some 6-7 months after I've started vaping, my effort capacity has improved substantially. I breathed much easier when running or hard-working on something and that specific cough of smokers has completely disappeared.
Also catching colds during the year reduced significantly and I have no knowledge to ever had COVID.
What I consider to have been in my advantage is that I live in Europe, where the vaping market is strictly regulated from all points of view.
If you are a DIY vaper, you can buy what you need from authorized shops, proof genuine products, made by authorized manufacturers.
From what I know, in the UK the Public Health Authority subsidizes nation-wide programs to persuade smokers to switch to vaping, in order to help them quit smoking.
In one such program, they even offered to smokers, for free, 1 million vaping disposables.
Concluding, in my opinion, vaping is a good way to quit smoking without inducing to much stress on yourself.
I smoked for 18 years its been a week that I've quit smoking and strated vaping i dont know if its better than smoking or not but im glad i smell good again!
After 45 years of smoking I used a vape for around 14 months to quit. Now 5 years on still not smoking or vaping. Never thought I could or would give up.
We appreciate your videos. They contain information we all need to know about.
I’m 19 y/o and smoked half a pack a day for four years long. I bought my vape two months ago and haven’t smoked a sigarette since. The part about vaping that I like the most is the positive social impact it haves. My friends and classmates used hate the smell of cigarettes and would tell me to go away when I smoked. But now they actually enjoy the smell of my vape! I started with 9mg nicotine e-liquid, now I’m on my last bottle with 3mg nicotine. In a month I’ll be nicotine free!
this actually just made my morning
That's a massive victory.
Thanks man!
I used vaping to quit smoking. Vaped for about 6 - 7 months, until I started coughing. I put this down to putting vapour into my lungs, so I just quit... Tried quitting smoking many times, over many years... I enjoyed vaping as much, if not more than smoking, so I moved to the lowest nicotine level, which made it less pleasurable.... Vaping worked for me and once I stopped, the coughing eventually stopped... Glad I stopped when I did (both)...
I love your videos! ❤ I vaped for a few months after I quit smoking! I had been smoking cigarettes for 25 years and only a few months of vaping worked for me. Everyone is different so I hope you find something that works for you. 😎👍
I'm a 23 year smoker. I'm only 39 years old.
I quit cigarettes cold turkey, 2 years ago, for vaping.
I used 12mg and huffed it 4 or 5 times, heavy deep lung drags...anytime the first few days that I got a craving. I would get sick from the nicotine, and I didn't want the vape or a cigarette virtually all day.
I woke up on the 4th day, and wanted the vape. I switched evils, cuz vaping still keeps the infection going in the lungs. I cough flem all day.
But I'm a step closer to quitting the addiction.
Either one will kill me. But I'll take the lesser of the two evils.
I can breath better.
I have more energy.
I can think better.
Just quit vaping today omg ive got the shakes so bad but im not going to let it defy me 💪💪
My wife smoked for 45 years and I constantly harassed her to quit that nasty expensive smelly habit , finally when I recorded her breathing g at night and she could hear herself struggling to breath she agreed to try vaping so here we are 15 months later and here's the difference, she stopped snorring, stopped wheezing, stopped waking up during the night to hack up a luger, her allergies are no longer prominent, she doesn't stink, and and she has way more energy than when she smoked and ita half the cost!