Did switching from smoking to vaping improve your health?

Question

I find both the vape things and cigarettes disgusting, personally. I was just amazed at how many people I saw doing it on spring break.

Maybe they never smoked cigarettes, but it got me thinking. Are there health advantages for all these people that switched?

Kaneki05 · Accepted Answer

Vaping is way better for overall health and if you look into many smokers do gain several benefits from switching and feeling better.
I'd say it's around 90% possible more better for you compared to smoking.
The most annoying thing is those who try to say both just as bad, all that does is propaganda a smoker to keep on smoking cigs when they should switch.
Which is about equal to saying well you should be taking shots of vodka instead of drinking a low alcohol cider. The difference is very clear.

Personally, I vape cause I like it. Not addicted in anyway. And I smoke if I am drinking really or some other social moment. I really don't think vaping will be what ends me, meanwhile if I smoked cigs all the time I'd be pretty certain that's what will kill me and if it didn't I was lucky.

Massageman · Accepted Answer

I have never smoked a cigarette or vaped in 70+ years and I don't intend to. When loading food into guests' cars at our weekly Food Pantry, there is this one car in particular - - - we have learned that before we open the door, we take a deep breath of outside air and hold our breath- put in the food box- and close the door- THEN exhale and take a deep breath. The car just totally REEKS from something that has been burning, a we are NOT about to inhale it and find out what in tarnation it could be.

ElenaSeluna · Accepted Answer

I never smoke or vape and I don’t like them at all

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Simslover92 · Accepted Answer

I will be honest in saying I've tried both during my experimental phase in life and find both to be quite disgusting and wish I never tried it. And switching from smoking to vaping doesn't make it better or healthier I don't think. Vaping still carries risks, including nicotine addiction and lung irritation.

Friendlybro79 · Answer

When I grew up I watched my grandparents cough up their lungs every morning and watched commercials on TV about what your brain looked like on drugs lol. They used scare tactics with my Gen and I'm glad they did. My school has pictures in the halls of clean lungs and lungs with cancer. It was brutal.

All in all that was enough to get me to say no. It's ridiculous that anyone smokes now knowing what we know and how expensive it is.

I convinced a kid to stop smoking a pack a day and he'd be able to afford it his car he wanted lol. It worked haha.

Purpleronnie · Answer

I’m my personal opinion many people who choose to vape do so because of they are either reformed smokers who ‘see’ it as a cleaner alternative. The other ‘sheeple’ see it so if for social reasons initially then continue because of addition.

A small per engage of people do both or either S coping mechanisms to attempt to control anxiety and or stress.

Just like in the beginning it was though of as “cool” to smoke , now like history repeating itself it’s become “cool” to vape.

Personally I see both to have no appeal to whatsoever , especially the smell of those who would smoke , I mean that alone is actually repulsive. I have a tad more sympathy for those that choose to start vaping as I feel the barriers are lesser with greater appeal but both seem like a hugely irrational and logical choice based on the long term effects.

ohsheeT · Answer

It blows me away that the way Vape came out and they were trying to project that it was safer than cigarette smokes and anything liquid nicotine is pure 100% poisoned and can kill you just by touching your skin if it goes to the right areas but you are so right there's so many especially the younger generation I see everybody with Vapes nowadays and I don't get it and then when they take a hit off of it it's they're trying to just get all that smoke they possibly can so they can blow a big puff of smoke out I don't really understand it

Tarifa · Answer

I think it's actually worse. They add all kinds of flavors based on chemical substances.

The aim of the companies producing both e-cigarettes and tobacco-based cigarettes or cigars is to get you hooked. The longer and the more you smoke, the more money those companies are going to make. It's plain simple.

Health problems are something of concern in the long run. Let the public and private health care worry about that, while these companies thrive on a business that borders immorality.

Master_Debator · Answer

I was a heavy smoker and probably would be dead by now if I didn't switch to vape. If you can't just quit outright... it's a choice that will get rid of the smell, the tar on your fingers, and so on. Don't do either if you can... I'm beyond that though.

7Phoenix7 · Answer

It’s funny you posted this. One of my friends used to smoke cigarettes and he switched to vaping. But he’s well aware that it’s still bad lol

I don't know why some people are thinking it’s magically okay if it’s coming from a vape. It’s better if they were like a long term cigarette smoker and then switched… only because the cigarette has a lot more toxic chemicals but it is still bad for your health overall.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

Yup, I felt a difference, better breathing and less fatigue. Though I didn't switch for health related reasons even though it is usually praised for that (in comparison to tobacco). I did it for money because smoking cost me 250€/month whereas vaping costs me 20€/month

Rangers · Answer

I never did vaping as most shops were very expensive and my mother was already disappointed enough in me that I used cigars when I have CF.

But that's over, I don't even use flavored non-tobacco alternatives to chewing tobacco. My body doesn't need it and girls don't like it either. My whole smoking situation started and ended in less than 6 months, so like most ridiculously stupid decisions I've made in the past 5 years, it was a phase

WindAtMyBack · Answer

I switched from smoking to not smoking. Switching to vaping isn't quitting. It would be very dangerous for anyone to think so. It's a huge health concern, and I expect the same kind of anti-vaping campaign as there was/is with smoking cigarettes. I expect warnings, more strict age limits, huge taxes and a strong public service campaign to get people to realize it's REALLY bad for your health. When vapers get treated like lepers the same as smokers, maybe they will quit.

nolabels · Answer

I smoked cigarettes for many years, but I quit about 35 years ago.
I can't stand to be around cigarettes ever since.

I've never tried a vape.
I've heard that they have a lot of nasty things in them, heavy metals among the other nasties.
No thanks.

Cheers!

ProbablyClueless · Answer

Vaping reduces your exposure to the carcinogens in tobacco smoke. So, it is healthier in that sense. I can’t stand the smell of vape though. I’ll take the smell of cig smoke over vape any day.

My attitude is that if you want to smoke, just fucking smoke. If you aren’t willing to accept all the other stuff that comes with smoking, then it’s just not for you. It’s not a lifestyle choice you should make then. Vaping just makes people look like tools.

Danny_dan92 · Answer

I got hooked to vaping from my boys in the marine corps.

Honestly the feeling from the nicotine hitting your bloodstream is what got me hooked. However regardless I know smoking anything in general is bad, our lungs are designed to only inhale oxygen. So I have tried multiple times to quit, but have gone back to vaping whenever succumbing to immense amounts of stress

queenofcardio · Answer

I can't breathe around that. I don't do either.

Account · Answer

I haven't switched, I smoke tobacco.  I agree with you it is a terrible habit and I don't recommend anyone to start smoking.

Nikki1989 · Answer

There is evidence to suggest vapes may be even worse than cigarettes.

Caughtulookin · Answer

there's a woman at the local grocery store that thinks i dont like her because she smokes. It wasn't really my thought but smoke breathe is pretty bad.

lilBigPotato · Answer

Never have done either and never will start with it.

whosnumber_1 · Answer

The argument is such bullshit. I love it when people preach about how vaping is healthier and then blow that industrial revolution out of their lungs.

MidnightRivers · Answer

I've watched countless documentries saying that they'e just as bad lol, the only yhing I could really think of is a better smell? lol

Jennz6 · Answer

@abbycado  it’s not good for you and I agree it’s gross

Unycorn · Answer

Even stop smoking does not seem to have an effect. Or I don't realize.

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

I see no difference, just from one addiction to the next.

Anonymous · Answer

Both are terrible 🤢🤮  And just because everyone else is cliff diving off a cliff into the water 🌊 😧 doesn't mean we must also - ahahaha 🤷‍♂️🙅‍♂️🛟🛟

blondfrog · Answer

There's plenty of new sources now showing how vape is actually killing people and giving them lung cancer and all these other weird diseases

loveslongnails · Answer

Vaping gives you a different set of problems to be concerned with, that's all.

Paige2006 · Answer

Both look nasty and are done by people with low IQs

Xawyx-2 · Answer

As you know, I don't smoke, I agree with you on this too, both are gross.

douride2 · Answer

I never smoked & have no interest in vaping.

888theGreat · Answer

no, both have nicotine and smoke. Cooking on a WOK can lead to lung cancer

DarKnight36 · Answer

It causes lung failure 5 times faster. Never a recommendation.

Agape93 · Answer

There's no difference.

Finchie40 · Answer

Apparently caping is worse than cigarettes

Jeff51 · Answer

No. Still bad.

Randomguy28 · Answer

No difference i njoy both.. Wanna joined?

abc3643 · Answer

Vaping is WORSE for your health!

RCONFIGURATION1 · Answer

No their both bad for you

WhitneySnow · Answer

I don’t like either one

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Im shocked people still smoke at all

jamesgoldman · Answer

I don't like either *Lights cigar*

jahaims · Answer

Both are disgusting poison

LC75LC71 · Answer

Vaping only improves the douche level.

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

Both are completely disgusting

MasterKS · Answer

Its as worse as smoke.

Smf1989 · Answer

I don't do either

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