DISCLAIMER: You should not vape if you are a non smoker or are under 18! Nicotine is highly addictive and unhealthy!
This is my personal opinion only and meant to solely to motivate smokers to think about switching from the very dangerous smoking to less dangerous vaping. You'll have to make up your own mind about this!
This is my personal opinion only and meant to solely to motivate smokers to think about switching from the very dangerous smoking to less dangerous vaping. You'll have to make up your own mind about this!
For some reason, I started smoking cigarettes a few years back. It's a disgusting habit and very unhealthy, yet somehow it's very hard to quit.
Fortunately I got inspired by a post from Riedquat to google about vaping. I heard about e-cigarettes before but something about the "flair" didn't click with me.
Today I vaporize delicious raspberry eliquid in my Nautilus Clearomizer at 8.5 watts and run 3.5 ampere through it from the 300 grams of solid stainless steel of my VTR akku pack. Even though I blow thick vapour plumes at my monitor I will never have to wipe thick stinking tar off it again. I already know I will never ever smoke cigarettes again and I won't miss them. Puff. Gone.
Vapour is just steam from elquid and since it isn't burning, it only contains the things that are in the liquid. Normally that is propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, distilled water and aroma. All of these are generally save, they don't cause cancer and are used in a lot of things like food, inhalers or creams. From about 1000 different cancerogenous chemicals that are created by the burning of tobacco at 700 C you only have the nicotine left to worry about. While it's highly addictive, bad for your blood pressure, technically a neurotoxin it generally won't kill you. Nicotine won't cause cancer. I would recommend any smoker to switch to vaping because it's easy to do and reduces harm to you and others immediately. Then start to reduce your nicotine dosage slowly until you are nicotine free. Switching to vaping leaves you with no cravings and a lot of new interesting flavours to try out.
While there haven't been any long term studies on the effect of vaping there have been studies that show that the content of vapour itself is about 100-1000 times less harmful than cigarette smoke. Here are some studies. The current medical opinion is that it's far less harmful than cigarette smoks, and works better than nicotine patches because vaping gives you a very similar kind of experience as smoking.
You'll have to make up your own mind. There is currently some sensationalist fear mongering going around, but if you smoke already you won't care about that since you like to live dangerously anyway... But please do your own research.
An important part for stopping smoking and switching completely is that you get a good starter kit for a satisfying vaping experience. Even though you might think that steam has been around for awhile and should be fairly easy to generate, the technology is rapidly evolving. If you smoked a pack a day like me you can easily afford to invest about 200 € a month into cool shiny new toys, that will end up looking far better on your desktop than buckets full of ash trays. Theoretically you can save a lof of money with this. There is a vortex full of information and if you're a geek like me, you'll get sucked right into it.
For a good start, I would recommend getting an akku "iTaste MVP 2.0" and a clearomizer "Aspire Nautilus" and a selection of eLiquid. It will cost you around 100 € but it will last you longer, and it's better than getting something crappy and spending more and more trying cheap stuff or in the worst case giving up. You can't go wrong with this and you'll already save 100 € the first month!
Flavours are highly subjective and there are thousands of variations, but I recon that things like vanilla or fruit will be ok for most. Try to find a reputable source. Please don't drink the eliquid. And if you have children, for god's sake keep it out of reach or locked, since most of it smells tempting. The PG / VG mixture determines how hard / smooth the liquid hits your throat when vaping. Try to get 50/50 for a start.
Well that's all. I hope I managed to convey some of my excitement to you if you are a smoker. If you are not a smoker, then you shouldn't start! If you know a smoker, I recommend to tell him about vaping (Only If you would like him to live longer, that is). I hope this won't offend anyone and will be left here under off topic discussions. Vaping has a good chance to stop the health epidemic that is smoking and could save many lives.
