Re: Giving up smoking..how long should you chew-it-over? Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on May 4, 2019, 9:20 am, in reply to "Re: Giving up smoking..how long should you chew-it-over?"
From my anecdotal experience, vaping really works to help reduce smoking, much better than gum or anything like that - as well as nicotine, it provides a replacement for the act of inhaling and blowing out, and generally doing something with my hands, which i found is a major part of my addiction. The actual amount of nicotine involved didn't seem that important (i started with high nicotine vape and found no issue with reducing it). I have to vape a lot more than i would naturally to get enough nicotine to feel it physically like i would a fag, and yet it still satisfies the craving (i think the absence of Harmine which is naturally present in tobacco and potentiates the nictoine makes a difference). Despite efforts on scare stories by (i guess) the baccy industry (or the medical nicotine replacement industry), it's pretty clear that the effects of nictoine when vaped are negligible compared to the effects of incomplete combustion in smoking (polyaromatic hydrocarbons) - hence the '95% less harmful' statement by the NHS I haven't given up smoking, but have reduced it a lot - and i really noticed an improvement in my breathing and in my sense of smell from that (and money saving) As for propylene glycol, it's medically safe (whatever that means), and is used in many ways already (eg in some asthma pumps, fog machines). There's also VG too (vegetable glycerin) for people who don't like PG (i know someone who reacts to PG so only uses VG - often posher flavours are a PG/VG mix). Not to sound like a vaping advert - obviously better to give up properly, but tricky.
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