There is a big misconception that vaping is as harmful as smoking traditional cigarettes. But have you ever asked yourself that, “What vaping really is?”. We bet you’re still unaware of the difference between smoking cigarettes and vaping.
This is why we’re here to guide you about every single detail that the beginners need to know about vaping.
Contents:
- Types of vaping devices
- Is vaping safe?
- Is vaping addictive?
- Is nicotine harmful?
- Vaping – Smoking Cessation Tool?
- Can vaping save your money?
Vaping generally refers to process of inhaling vapors or steam produced by any king of electronic smoking device/e-cigarettes. These vapors not just contain nicotine but it contains other substances, flavors and various chemicals.
Vaping is the best way to fulfill your nicotine cravings. It is often promoted as a harm reduction or smoking cessation tool for smoking cigarettes. However, there is a high chance that smokers who started vaping eventually quit smoking traditional cigarettes.
TYPES OF VAPING DEVICES:
- MTL (Mouth-to-lung)
This type of vaping devices is considered to be the ideal way to quit smoking. The inhaling process in these devices is almost similar to smoking. These vaping devices produces small clouds and they can deliver high nicotine to fulfill your nicotine cravings. There are two options of MTL devices, pod devices and pen devices.
- DTL (Direct-to-lung)
These vaping devices are also known as direct inhale, mod boxes or tanks. They can produce gigantic clouds. These devices are mostly used by the ones who are experienced to vaping. DTL devices are clearly not recommended as a smoking cessation tool because they use a different inhaling technique and use a lower level of nicotine liquid that is not ideal to quit smoking.
IS VAPING SAFE?
According to research, Vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking cigarettes. But it’s still not considered to be safe. Vaping also produces various chemicals as soon as the E-liquids that contains nicotine gets heated which is not good for your health.
According to Blaha, “There’s almost no doubt that vaping exposes you to fewer toxic chemicals than
smoking traditional cigarettes.”
Smoking cigarettes leads you to various harmful diseases and disabilities, and it will harm almost every organ of your body. According to research, more than 16 million Americans are dying with diseases caused by smoking cigarettes, as it can cause cancer, various heart and lung diseases, stroke, diabetes, multiple eye diseases, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and it will also increase the risk of tuberculosis. Smoking will surely weaken your immune system to the extent where you can barely breathe.
When e-cigarettes are heated, they create aerosol that contains different chemicals which you inhale and those chemicals are somehow harmful but not more than puffing traditional cigarettes. As, cigarettes contains 7000 toxic chemicals because it burns tobacco or tar and produces smoke that contains various toxic plant particles and other substances which highly affects your lungs. While vape produces only vapors that only contains water and oil0. Therefore, vaping is better for your lungs than smoking.
Smokers who want to quit smoking are afraid of their addiction to nicotine. But mostly, vape juices made it easy for them to stop smoking cigarettes. Gradually, if they want to quit their habit of having nicotine, they can use e-juices that does not contains nicotine.
IS VAPING ADDICTIVE?
Somehow vaping is addictive. Since most of the e-juices contains nicotine which is a highly addictive substance, vaping can be as much addictive as smoking but not that much harmful as smoking is.
Some of the smokers are psychologically addicted to smoking cigarettes. They are so used to smoking that even if they want to stop, they can’t. In that case, vaping is less addictive than smoking as it breaks the habit of smoking cigarettes while still fulfilling the level of nicotine your addicted body needs.
Do you ever think that why it is so hard to stop puffing cigarettes? As, we already know that, smoking is physiologically addictive, because it contains an active ingredient, nicotine, that can be so hard to break. But it is not impossible to quit smoking permanently.
Unlike traditional cigarettes, you can also control the amount of nicotine in your e-juice. Smokers who want to quit smoking permanently, can gradually decreases the level of nicotine they’re consuming and by time they can use e-juices that does not contain nicotine.
Most of the vape juices usually contains the same amount of nicotine present in cigarettes. The level of nicotine clearly written on e-juices. If you want to take more nicotine than cigarettes, you can also choose e-juice that contains more nicotine than normal tobacco cigarettes.
Overtime, you can eliminate the nicotine concentration in vape juice by even blowing clouds of vapors that are 100% nicotine free.
IS NICOTINE HARMFUL?
In vaping, there’s no tar, tobacco or smoke but just vapors of e-liquid with an optional amount of nicotine. Nicotine is totally optional for you to decide whether you want it or not.
Nicotine is a highly addictive element, but when it comes to the harmful effects of smoking, it’s not only the nicotine which affects your health by causing cancer and other fatal diseases tar, tobacco, CO and other 40,000+ carcinogens.
Whether, nicotine is in the form of cigarettes, chewing tobacco, nicotine gums, vape juices or cigars, it can always cause health problems. It will impact your cardiovascular health and can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Therefore, if you’re a beginner and wants to enjoy making gigantic clouds, you should choose vape juices
without nicotine and that will not affect your health.
VAPING – SMOKING CESSATION TOOL:
Vapes devices are usually considered as a smoking cessation tool as it helps the smokers to quit smoking gradually. These devices now generated much publicity among the smoking cessation community.
According to research, vapes devices may hold promise as a smoking-cessation method as it focuses on only one component of smoking; nicotine addiction. However, there are so many other ways or medicines which may help smokers to quit smoking, but their success rate of quitting remains very low.
Based on the study of Cochrane that measured the smoking cessation by using NRT (nicotine replacement therapy), only 17.8% quit smoking.
Smokers usually gets addicted to just holding a cigarette in their hands beside the addiction of nicotine. E-cigarettes can overcome both of these cravings or addiction. That’s why, vaping is referred as a smoking cessation tool.
CAN VAPING SAVE YOUR MONEY?
Vaping is generally inexpensive as compared to traditional cigarettes. You just have to buy a vapes device once and an e-juice flavor of your choice. A single cartridge can last up to one week or more, depending on how much you vape.
However, vape juices that contain high amount of nicotine usually cost more. In general, most smokers who switch from smoking to vaping report that they can save more money now. For the same concentration of nicotine in cigarettes, it might cost you the half price to make vape juices than cigarettes.
Many smokers/non-smokers who started vaping report that they can now gradually reduces their nicotine intake, which is now helping them to lessen the cost of vaping over time.
Vaping is also less wasteful than smoking, because sometime smokers have to throw their cigarettes before puffing the whole cigarette due to some personal reasons. But with vaping, they can easily enjoy clouds whenever they want to or if somebody is around, they don’t have to just throw it away like the cigarettes.
Traditional cigarettes are causing so much pollution and are as harmful for the public as it is for the smoker. But on the other side vaping is nor affecting our pollution in any way neither it causes the discomfort to the other person.