Are my lungs really really healing or just not getting worse.

[javed_alam786]

Hi All,

I switched to vaping on 17th Jan 2014. Haven’t smoked a analog cigarette. since then. I started out with 18mg nicotine, slowly reduced to 6mg. I'd like to give-up vaping as well but I don’t see that happening any time soon.

My question is regarding health aspect.

Way back in 2012 I stopped smoking for about 4 weeks cold turkey. In the 3rd week I noticed myself coughing out black/brown flecks in phlegm. I did bit of research and found that this is basically due to "regrowth of the cilia. Also, the cilia will start to perform its main job of bringing up tar and mucus from the lungs and into the throat". This finding made me feel good that my heart and lungs have started to recover from years of smoking. Unfortunately, I relapsed and smoking again and have struggled to quit smoking our right.

It’s been over 3 months since I started vaping. I was expecting to see those flecks in phlegm but nothing. I keep thinking that my lungs are not getting worse because I have stopped smoking but they are not healing either, any thoughts on that?

Secondly, I understand that glycerine is not harmful for human consumption. I also know glycol is used in asthma inhalers but is it safe to inhale in large quantity (I vape two Kanger Mini ProTank v2 in a day)? Human body can digest it but how does it get rid of it from lungs?

Hope I am making sense.

Kind Regards,
Javed

 

[Dampmaskin]

I am not a doctor, but I'll share my notions anyway:

Glycerine is probably absorbed into the bloodstream from the lungs pretty easily, and metabolized.

I have no idea how the cilia react to vapor. It would be interesting to know.

 

[Deeo]

I was the opposite. I had way more brown specks and grey stuff coughing up then I did when I quit cold turkey. There are people on here that never had anything cough up but some had other ways of getting rid of it such as the bowels. Myself I got the coughing up yuck for weeks and acne , which is finally clearing up.

 

[Beretta]

Nicotine affects the Cilia hairs in your lungs. It paralyzes them to where they become non-functional. This allows debris you inhale on a day to day basis to invade your lugs. Nicotine is why you are not getting the same effect from quitting smoking. You're still applying nicotine to the Cilia, via vapor form, which paralyzes them.

If you switch to 0mg nicotine liquid, I'd be willing to bet your cilia would come alive again, and you would start clearing out your lungs if you have any buildups left.

Hi All,

I switched to vaping on 17th Jan 2014. Haven’t smoked a analog cigarette. since then. I started out with 18mg nicotine, slowly reduced to 6mg. I'd like to give-up vaping as well but I don’t see that happening any time soon.

My question is regarding health aspect.

Way back in 2012 I stopped smoking for about 4 weeks cold turkey. In the 3rd week I noticed myself coughing out black/brown flecks in phlegm. I did bit of research and found that this is basically due to "regrowth of the cilia. Also, the cilia will start to perform its main job of bringing up tar and mucus from the lungs and into the throat". This finding made me feel good that my heart and lungs have started to recover from years of smoking. Unfortunately, I relapsed and smoking again and have struggled to quit smoking our right.

It’s been over 3 months since I started vaping. I was expecting to see those flecks in phlegm but nothing. I keep thinking that my lungs are not getting worse because I have stopped smoking but they are not healing either, any thoughts on that?

Secondly, I understand that glycerine is not harmful for human consumption. I also know glycol is used in asthma inhalers but is it safe to inhale in large quantity (I vape two Kanger Mini ProTank v2 in a day)? Human body can digest it but how does it get rid of it from lungs?

Hope I am making sense.

Kind Regards,
Javed

 

[Nermal]

I agree with Beretta in the main, but with all the different levels of nicotine available, the cilia should be in better shape. Once the backlog of crud has been removed, it should be an ongoing maintenance process without much further improvement in that respect. Still, the lungs can sustain permanent damage resulting in the several forms of COPD.