Misc Nicotine - Are cigarettes or vapes healthier?

[BK38]

You could also consider nicotine pouches or tobacco chew. Depends on why you smoke I guess, is the addiction based off of nicotine or the action of smoking?

I haven’t done really any research on this so I could be wrong but; if nicotine is the reason, I would assume that nicotine pouches you put on your gum or nicotine patches or even nicotine gum could help you quit smoking.

If you're addicted to the action of smoking, definitely switch to vaping; and then I would consider getting a smoking cessation product. There are many products available, things you can smoke with no nicotine, as well as just flavored air sticks that don’t combust so it helps a lot with an oral fixation.

Good luck on quitting

Thanks for all the sage advice. I'm definitely addicted to nicotine and the action of smoking. I've got a fairly high end vape coming in the mail.

 

[sHR00m]

Hey all,

I smoke cigarettes in France and it's an expensive habit to have and obviously bad for me, but I've worked out the numbers and it would be way more economical to just switch to vaping. I don't really know the health risks associated with vaping...

What should I do?

There is a meta study of the british health ministry maintaining that vaping seems to be about 95% safer than smoking. Which seems to make sense when you think about it. You exclude 99.9x% of toxins you would inhale with cigarette smoke. The fluids being used in vaping have been evaluated for inhalation many decades ago. Glycerine is a common ingredient in disco nebular machines for example. The other potential source for dangers in vaping might be flavorings but there is not much evidence for them being a big problem either as long as they are water soluble. Not to mention cigarettes have flavorings too (as well as glycerine), which are getting not vaporized but combusted instead. Can't imagine that being healthier either.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Having just quit vaping - now on nicorette and zyns - I can say that the hardest part of vaping is the fact that you can do it anywhere, there's much less social stigma, and it can embed itself in every activity imaginable, which plays right into the type of addiction that nicotine embodies

Very much this. I was doing my degree around the time I quit smoking so I was sat at a desk for hours on end with my cape in my mouth. By the time I end of 2 years of vaping I was far more addicted to nicotine than I'd ever been in 12-15 years of smoking.

 

[sHR00m]

Very much this. I was doing my degree around the time I quit smoking so I was sat at a desk for hours on end with my cape in my mouth. By the time I end of 2 years of vaping I was far more addicted to nicotine than I'd ever been in 12-15 years of smoking.

I think the problem is this high power wattage sub ohming stuff that became prevalent. In the initial years vaping was considerably less compulsive than a cigarette habit. I would suggest to get a low powered device, like a vaporesso xros 4 and using that with mouth-to-lung instead of inhaling directly like a hookah.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

I think the problem is this high power wattage sub ohming stuff that became prevalent

Maybe. I only ever used one of those cheap pen ones you get in newsagents/convenience stores. The issue for me was I could do it indoors so I did, constantly.