I Quit Vaping after Nine Years

[mightymen]

Very amusing thread, I really enjoyed reading every single post. Unlike the OP I actually give vaping some credit.

Any comments made on vaping were my personal opinion not based on any science at all!

Other than I reached 77 years old seriously doubting that would have been possible if I was still breathing in the smoke/poisons from cigs for the last 12 or so years.

Yes I have noticed some shortness of breath and lost of youth more recently than in my first sixty years though in my opinion due to a accumulation of bad habits since the age of 10 when I noticed girls were different. After that in my opinion everything went down hill.

On a side note Doctors have never said I have a lung problem in fact I've been told my lungs are in good shape for my age.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

On a side note Doctors have never said I have a lung problem in fact I've been told my lungs are in good shape for my age.

I said this before, but the last time I went to see my PCP, which i believe was 5 months ago, when he listened to my lungs, he said, "WOW! That sounds great!" (or something to that effect). He doesn't know that I vape but he knows I was a heavy smoker for 20+ years, which is why he was astonished. Does that mean anything? Probably not, but it was an interesting moment.

 

[mightymen]

Don't know if nicotine has an effect on Covid-19 or not, not willing to find out...

 

[MLEJ]

Don't know if nicotine has an effect on Covid-19 or not

According to Chinese & American researchers, nic appears to make one less likely to be infected by the virus that causes COVID.

 

[englishmick]

According to Chinese & American researchers, nic appears to make one less likely to be infected by the virus that causes COVID.

Soon after covid got started that was reported in France. Supposedly the % of smokers among infected people was way lower than the % in the general population. There was a run on patches and lozenges and so forth, so the government issued a rule limiting how many could be bought in a single purchase.

After that first report I never heard any more about it.

 

[mcduffy]

From what I've gathered it was some other constituent of cigaret smoke than nicotine that might account for the lower rate of covid infection of smokers. One possibility being carbon monoxide, if memory serves. I did see one study that showed no difference in infection rates either way for vapers.

 

[MLEJ]

After that first report I never heard any more about it.

Didn't suit the narrative.

 

[MLEJ]

From what I've gathered it was some other constituent of cigaret smoke than nicotine that might account for the lower rate of covid infection of smokers. One possibility being carbon monoxide, if memory serves. I did see one study that showed no difference in infection rates either way for vapers.

Yeah, there was never anything conclusive, far as i know. Wonder if anyone is even still investigating it...?

 

[AvaOrchid]

Ah, here's the over-defensive vaper. Was wondering when he/she would show up. Just sharing my honest experience with the group to maybe help some people. You don't like it that's not my issue. If you think all that glycol is just being absorbed into your bloodstream I don't know what to tell you. It's in your lungs just like it's in mine.

There's no evidence of that. It's very clear that vaping is not as good for you as not vaping anyone that would claim to the contrary would be deceiving people. However if glycol was collecting in the lungs as you state it has we would be seeing universal reports of tens of millions of people drowning from vaping and no such thing has happened. And I'm saying this not defensively I'm saying this to suggest you should see a doctor. Because it sounds like you are suffering from fairly advanced pneumonia. Could there be a residue perhaps but what you're describing is extremely unlikely to be propylene glycol. As propylene glycol has been used in medicines for decades inhalation medicine which have been held to a much higher standard than tobacco products as far as testing and all of those scientists who have done peer reviewed studies have found no such phenomenon.

It's also strange that what you're describing didn't prompt you to see a doctor in the first place because I know if I was coughing up gobs of an unidentified substance I wouldn't just assume I would be in the hospital getting it verified.

And to your repeated asking where is all the glycol going... Answer me this where is all the water going when you breathe the air in any location that doesn't have zero percent humidity? Because it's going the same place as the glycol again a residue is possible but what you're describing is something that needs to be seen by a physician immediately unless of course you're trolling.

No reasonable person describing what you are describing would not have sought medical attention by now that is patently insane. There have been numerous studies done by numerous different groups with many different motivations. And not a single one of them has found anything similar to what you're describing