How often have you had cold/flu since you started vaping?

[Anjaffm]

Well, I work in the central office of a large sales company - the place where all the field salesmen come at least once a week and drag in every cold / stomach / flu bug that is going around in their respective areas

What bothered me most when I was a smoker was that I had about 3 serious bouts of bronchitis a year. The kind where every breath hurts. And the kind that stays with you forever.
Combine that with the fact that every sore throat immediately descended into my larynx and gave me laryingitis. Up to the point of losing my voice completely.

Well, I have been vaping for over 2 years now - and not one case of laryingitis (no sore throat either, as a matter of fact).
I had one little pitiful wanna-be bronchitis ( ) - it was gone within one day, and coughing up itty bitty droplets of absolutely clear liquid just made me smile. Oh, I remember what I used to cough up during my bouts of bronchitis when I was a smoker... ewwww....
I did have one case of the flu - getting into a train with wet hair and then sitting in the train for 5 hours will do that to me - but that was nothing that 2 days in bed and a lot of hot ginger water with honey could not cure. And no bacterial infection followed. None whatsoever.

I agree with patkin:

I think that's because my immune system isn't additionally taxed from smoking.

And I think that - in my case (I had a nasty morning smokers cough already) - it also makes a difference whether my bronchi are irritated and full of nasty stuff or clean and healthy and thus better able to fight off germs.

Thumbs up for vaping

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@Shaunieboy:
I am sorry to hear this, dear.
A lot of the symptoms you experience / experienced may be symptoms of smoking cessation.
We all put tar and nasty stuff into our bodies for so long, that it may take a little time for it all to go away and for our bodies to fully recover.
I was lucky in that respect: My morning smokers cough remained for 3 weeks (as I had been told it would), the stuff I coughed up got lighter and lighter, and then the smokers cough disappeared and has not been back. And the nasty stuff is definitely gone. - But not everybody is that lucky Stay with it, dear, it can only get better.

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

Never sick since vaping! Some sniffles but they went away soon enough.

Now... let's talk about hemorrhoids folks.

 

[ncolwell]

I posted last week about having a cold, and I still have it. I've been free from cigs for 17 days, and after doing some research, I've seen that having a cold after you quit smoking is pretty typical.

I'm thinking of it as my body getting rid of all of that junk that's been building up for almost seven years. I know this will pass soon enough, and I'll be feeling a whole lot better.

 

[baseballmom]

1 mild cold, I have kids, they bring home a lot of viruses-vaping 8 months, allergies aren't bad anymore either

 

[Purplepeeps]

I was sick all the time with allergies, sinus infections and chronic bronchitis as a smoker. I'm happy to report, all of this has stopped since vaping.

 

[The Ministry]

Yeah I figured it may be my body getting rid of all the toxins and I'm hoping it clears up soon. On good days I feel great though, and running up and down the three flights of stairs at work is certainly easier now (I used to run up them 10 years ago, in the last five not a chance - so in that respect I feel 10 years younger!)

I smoked loose tobacco from almost the start - to save money if memory serves, I grew to prefer the taste of loose tobacco after a while. I never used filters, so I blame that for my lungs still not being fully recovered even after all the time I've been vaping exclusively (which is creeping towards the five month mark, if not passed already)

I don't attribute any ailments to vaping, it's either bad luck, smoking cessation, or a combination of the two. Got no intention of quitting vaping though. I'm down to alternating between zero nicotine liquid and 6mg liquids - even when I dump the nicotine completely, I will still vape.

I'm keeping the 6mg for stressful days and/or when alcohol is being consumed

 

[mostlyclassics]

Before I vaped, I could count on coming down with several colds per year, and usually one of those turned into bronchitis. I religiously get a flu shot every year and the pneumonia shot every five years.

Once my respiratory system had cleared out via "quitter's flu," I've had not one cold! And I'm quite ecumenical about letting interested strangers toke off my hardware. Some of those strangers were clearly coming down with or had respiratory infections.

I've been vaping for a little over three years.

 

[Anjaffm]

Now... let's talk about hemorrhoids folks.

Yaaah!
You mean, vaping causes hemorrhoids?
Don't let the ANTZ hear that! They are already a pain in the .......

 

[vjc0628]

colds yes but not as often and does not last nearly as long

the constant coughing flu or bronchitis all gone 100%

 

[vikassi]

I rarely got sick until I had a kid. Damn kids.


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[Zach904]

I used to feel like crap once every month or two when I smoked. I would either feel like I was sick, had a cough, sore throat etc etc.. I have not even felt a hint of these symptoms since I started vaping. I no longer think it is a coincidence.. I think there is a direct correlation between vaping and the strong, healthy immune system I seem to have now.

 

[ScottP]

OMG people stop posting this stuff...immediately!!!!! If Big-Pharma learns that ecigs are also going to impact their multi-billion dollar cold/flu/allergy medicine business on top of their smoking cessation and chemotherapy businesses, they are going to pull out all the stops, trying to shut us down.

Oh and I haven't had any sort of illness in over a year (since I started vaping) either.

 

[Mutescream]

I rarely got sick until I had a kid. Damn kids.


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When I was in the military, I used to go places that still get polio/tb/plague... Never got sick. Then I became a parent, and spent the first 2 months of every school year sick as hell. the advantage of FL, is that the flu/colds here seem to be weaker than what I was catching in MA.

 

[Linden]

I'm actually suffering from a cold right now. It is the first one in over 3 years (since I began vaping). I probably would have been able to fight it off quickly like usual, but mom is currently in hospice in her home and has only days left here with us. Stress! Still, its nothing compared to what I used to experience when I came down with something. A head cold, prior to vaping, would have moved on to becoming a nasty lower respiratory infection. No signs of that happening.

 

[Jugband]

Almost a year and a half of vapeing, one cold that I can remember.

 

[chargin]

Can't remember the last time I coughed.
A brief cold in 2012 and nothing since.

. I probably would have been able to fight it off quickly like usual, but mom is currently in hospice in her home and has only days left here with us. Stress! Still, its nothing compared to what I used to experience when I came down with something. A head cold, prior to vaping, would have moved on to becoming a nasty lower respiratory infection. No signs of that happening.

Very sad news.
I am sorry to hear it.
Hang in there.

 

[Absintheur]

None in 3 years till now...I think someone at Vape Bash gave me a doozy...I feel like 5 miles of bad road today with a runny nose nothing will dry up.

 

[D. Waterhouse]

I still get the occasional cold and my allergies act up every early spring/ late fall (leaf mold) but my 4-6 month annual bout of bronchitis hasn't happened since I started vaping.

 

[Mark Anthony]

In the now 202 days that I have been vaping exclusively, I have not had any colds, flu's or allergies of any kind.

 

[OBDave]

I still got my obligatory cold this season. But I work in a physical rehab center where all sorts of cold/flu's make their way through. And I have a daughter in middle school and a son in elementary school that bring home various bugs. Have fared better since vaping though. Nothing some airborne, cough drops, pseudo, and puffs with aloe couldn't handle. Honest to god....I think the cold meds make me feel more out of it than the colds themselves.

This. And everything else too - I just really hate cold meds.

After the initial couple weeks of coughing all the crap out of my lungs, I've had a couple mild colds, both gone in a day or two. Usually, between the chronic bronchitis and the stuff my daughter picks up at school I'd have been sick three or four times in the span I've been vaping, and at least one of those bouts would have been bad enough to put me out of commission for a couple days, with full recovery taking a week or so.