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nulliusansverba t1_ixc6eyt wrote

Reply to comment by MisterEChops in The latest Cochrane Review finds high certainty evidence that nicotine e-cigarettes are more effective than traditional nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) in helping people quit smoking. by checkmak01

As a vaper,

Pros:

  • breathe easier, not normal though
  • smell and taste return to basically normal
  • extremely low tar
  • no smoke smell, which is great because now cigarettes smell bad, really quite bad, which you don't notice if you smoke

Possible cons:

  • heavy metals
  • low quality juices
  • low quality vape parts
  • contamination

That I can take a puff anytime is a bit of a double edged sword. It means I can take one puff or just continuously puff. I'd be interesting in how vaping relates to chain smoking.

To help me quit I leave my vape at home. Stopped vaping in the afternoons. Then stopped vaping in the morning. Now it's just in the evenings after dinner as a kind of dessert.

It's kind of like smoking weed. You can smoke once a day and you'll get really high and it's a blast. But if you smoke multiple times a day it usually becomes quite dull.

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omghooker t1_ixl9dyh wrote

Let me just interject real quick in your possible cons list-

Heavy metal. The studies where metals were found were from studies that had no way to test vaping devices the way vaping devices are used. A cigarette testing is done by lighting it and having a machine suck it down the butt and inspecting a filter that caught all the smoke.

To do the vaping test, they literally went into the devices internals and removed the safety precautions and bypassed over fire protection so they could hold down the button and make their machine pull an entire tank of eliquid straight through.

A coil gets hot. A coil heated nonstop for <insert however long it took to vape through a tank(probably like 20mins)> will shed metals.

But that is not how people vape. Even people who compete in cloud competitions aren't taking pulls of their vape that last longer than fifteen seconds.

Heavy metals are not going in your lungs from vaping. This is another fear mongering tactic from anti vape propagandists.

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