The Truth About Vaping
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2024
- Is Vaping actually safe? What about the claims that it's 95% "less harmful" than smoking?
In this video, I uncover the truth behind these supposed stats and dive into the links between the vaping and tobacco industries...it's messy
Remember the argument isn't Smoking Vs Vaping...it's whether Vaping really is the best option we have as a smoking cessation tool and is the messaging around being "harmless" valid?
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"We know the effects of cigarettes because we have studied people who died from smoking. We don't know much about vaping yet because we are still waiting for them to die"
Hence why I said people being part of an experiment. We just don’t know but we have a strong hypothesis that it isn’t great ..
@@DrKaran People have been vaping for nearly 2 decades. In 2011 there were 7 million adult vapers. Where is the cascade of heart disease, lung cancer and stroke we'd see with cigarette use over that time? The reality is, we waited for them to die, and they didn't!
@@JamesJansson there are more variables to that as well. People who smoke cigarettes don't get lung cancer from cigarettes over night. It takes years.
@@carochan86But smokers get bad lungs very quickly. The damage is obvious from the start. Chronic damage leads to cancer. Vaping hasn't affected my lungs in 5 years of it. My lungs are healthy
Obviously I'd still be better off not vaping... But the danger is overblown
@@carochan86 It takes years of consuming the carcinogens in cigarettes, yes, but causes lung cancer within 10 years in many cases. Not to mention, those cancer causing chemical in cigarettes are not found in vapes at all in most cases, and when they are the concentrations are
For those who smoke and are considering quitting, or are interested in hearing about it:
I've quit smoking. It was the most challenging thing I've ever done. Even after overcoming the chemical addiction, the habitual addiction remains. The hardest habits to break are the cigarette with coffee, the post-meal smoke, the work break smoke, and of course, any social situation. Smokers understand that's just the beginning. Each of these moments felt like a separate addiction to conquer.
Two things helped me. Firstly, before sleeping, while lying in bed, I would repeat to myself, "Smoking is gross, smoking is vile, smoking is disgusting," but you can use whatever words resonate most with you. It's about creating a negative image of smoking in your mind.
Secondly, I bought some rolling papers, a box of tubes, and a bag of tobacco, and decided that would be all. I started with the tubes and tobacco, which were already less appealing than a name-brand pack, but eventually, I ran out of tubes.
Then came the cigarette butts... What does a smoker do when craving a smoke with nothing left? You scavenge the ashtray, tear up a butt, roll it in paper, and smoke it.
This part was genuinely vile. Once you convince yourself it's that or nothing, it doesn't take long to lose the desire completely. To this day, six years later, the smell of smoke repulses me.
I hope this helps even just one person. Take care.
not to discount your experience, but to supplement it with my own: there are some of us who are or were smokers out of habit more than any chemical dependence.
If i could go back years and years before my 0-day and tell myself to just try. I had psyched myself up something terrible only to learn I was one of the lucky few who could have just stopped any day. Now, your experience will statistically be different, but you won't know until you make the effort to at least dip your toe in the water and forsake it for some time. Tell yourself "it's only for a day, it's only for a few days, it's only for a week" and if you still find yourself feeling alright in that time, keep going.
If you can at least make it to the point where your nose recovers, you'll smell what others around you see as intrinsic to your presence and few enjoy it.
I didn't struggle stopping smoking, I smoked hand rolled tabbaco + filterless for 3 years. I've Never touched a cigarete.
First time was difficult and only lasted a few days at a time. I don't think I wanted to quit and was just forcing myself. It had also become a part of my normal routine like having 1 after a meal, or during a break. The second time I went for it I was able to quit quite easily. It was less I need to stop and more, I don't want to have any more. I found other things to do when I would normally had a cigarette. Cravings stayed minimal and I didn't think about cigarettes that often. I think the stress screwed me over the first time. Second time was no pressure.
Not smoking but I was addicted to instagram pretty badly, used something similar, deleted the app and started using it only on my phone browser which sucks so much that now I don't want to open at all fearing the web app that sucks so much. Maybe we are onto something, instead of stopping something making them shittier seems better.
I had a similar experience @@andrewhooper7603, I quit smoking rather easily once I had put my mind to it and really committed, but I took up vaping about half a year later because of social pressures and missing the feeling of deep calming breaths. I ended up vaping for twice as long as I ever smoked for, and found it so, so much harder to quit. Vaping is more enjoyable and more easily accessible, for example you can do it inside in some places and there's no point when the vape is "finished" like a cigarette unless it dies. It's so much more addictive and I would've been better off if I just quit smoking cold turkey
Teacher here. We have ten year olds who's parents buy vapes for their kids. One father even wanted to beat a teacher for confiscating his daughter's (12) vape when she openly smoked and shared it on the playground.
Edit: I am posting from Africa. There are no regulations agains vaping here. Authorities will not remove a child from parents unless the child is severely abused. Even then social workers will often leave the child with parents or expect relatives/communities to 'assist' and they just 'counsel'. The amount of kids who need help is too big for each to be removed
"We have ten year olds who's parents buy vapes for their kids."
Fucking disgusting.
Horrific situation
Bro what. That kid needs to be confiscated from the father!
I'm sorry whaaaa???
I'm a bartender in my late 30s....one day my coworkers were chatting about smoking and I told them I wish my partner would try to taper down the vaping....my 4 coworkers, all age 21-24 all were telling me how they (all) vaped in high school and how they (all) have quit by now. They were sharing their vaping/ quitting stories and it felt so strange. These young kids already went thru a whole addiction by college. Unreal
For 17 years, I was trapped in a cycle of smoking cigarettes. But in 2016, I discovered a game-changer: vaping. This switch has been a lifesaver, helping me quit smoking and transforming my health.
Gone are the days of chronic bronchitis, which used to strike at least once a year. Since vaping, I've enjoyed a chest infection-free life. My breathing has improved dramatically, and my sense of smell and taste have been revitalized.
I began jogging in February 2016, but was always winded. However, just a week after switching to vaping, my breathing improved significantly. Now, I exercise regularly - kettlebell swings, weight training, and boxing are my new passions. I can confidently say that my overall health has improved substantially since quitting smoking.
While I wouldn't encourage non-smokers to start vaping, I firmly believe that smokers deserve the opportunity to try vaping as a potential solution. It's not about advocating for vaping as a safer or less harmful option, but about sharing my personal experience and the research-backed findings of esteemed organizations like The Royal College of Physicians and Public Health England. Vaping has been a lifesaver for me, and I hope it can help others break free from the grip of smoking too.
I'm similar to you but I'm only 6 months cigarette free. I'm already vaping less than I ever smoked and gradually reducing nicotine levels. 6 months in my breathing is already better. Not lost much weight yet but I'm starting yo exercise more.
So I certainly agree it's good for smokers but it needs to be much more closely monitored for children. And I wouldn't recommend for non smokers.
Have a great weekend x
Me too... I decided to switch completely to vaping in december 2010: when i saw, after 2 months of vaping, that i didn't develop the annual bronchitis that caughted me every year around Christmas, i was sold. And when i stopped completely with smoking, i never had a tonsils infection anymore.
I've been vaping since before 2015. so almost a decade of vaping. my astigmatism in my left eye is gone. the doctor said it's because I quit smoking 2 packs of cigarettes per day and switched to vaping. caffeine and nicotine are similar in their addictiveness. i wonder why no one is attacking the coffee industry. i can breathe easier since i started vaping and no more breathlessness feeling.
I am 38 years old and quit smoking 8 years ago after 12+years of addiction (around a pack a day). It was only possible through vaping. I'm not free of my addiction to nicotine and the "act of smoking", but my breathing is great and lung exams don't show anything wrong.
That being said, I too believe it's better than smoking. Not only I can exercise and stay fit, I also got rid of the bad breath, bad smell on me, bad smell at home, the need to leave a premise for a cigarette break, the yellowed fingers.
My worry is in what ways it could be harming me instead of harming my lungs so much. What Dr Karan mentioned about cognitive decline worries me since I am noticing struggles with focus, memory, orientation. I can't say it's related to vaping but from today I will stop vaping carelessly and actually make a plan for reducing and quitting. I remember when I got my first vape pen that I said "I'll use this until I know I can stop smoking and it will be easier to quit vaping. It's been almost 10 years and I never even attempted to do it.
If you're in a similar situation I hope my experience gives you any insights.
my mom made the switch, but shes vaping more than she was smoking
24 years of smoking. Quit with Vaping. Now down to 3mg. Sleeping better, feeling better. Lost 15 lbs, able to jog 5 miles no breathing issues. Close to going zero then finally just air!
That's awesome, you should feel really proud of your progress! 😊
that’s it! vaping can be beneficial when used as a tool to get off cigarettes which are objectively more harmful than vapes.
That’s awesome! Congratulations
Yep, vaping is the reason I quit as well. You can instantly tell the different when you start vaping, and every time you smoke a cigarette, you just feel like shit. You get a cough, phlegm, headaches, so on and so forth, that you completely avoid while vaping. Is it perfectly healthy? Who knows, but it sure as fuck beats smoking.
Se here. Smoked for 17 years (and I'm 30) switched to vaping a few months ago after not breathing regularly. Now I can actually breathe, smell, taste
My biggest concern is the chemicals used for flavouring, and the quantities used.
I tried vaping out of interest, and aside from the instant nicotine addiction, it felt like I was huffing air freshener.
Yeah... I think any vape that's not 100% Vegetable Glycerin, is a gamble :(
Also, Hey bigclive :)
That’s why I use unflavoured goo! That, and you can get it in concentrations as high as 72mg, and you can buy a big bottle for £50 that’ll last you a year.
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated the nicotine ratings also aren't accurate, I believe they were banned in Australia because they were putting x3~5 the stated nicotine in the liquid.
@@MarKeMu125 the more nicotine the better! Lower nicotine means you have to vape more for the same effect, so higher nicotine reduces the risks of vaping.
Wouldnt recommend high nicotine unless youre already completely hooked.@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated
being a smoker for 40 yrs, this was right up my alley, started 24 mg to 12 mg now this vaping really helped me, soon nothing 0mg
I quit a 2 to 3 pack of John Player Special a day in 1997.
.... that's all there is. I quit. I got pneumonia, couldn't smoke for 3 days, and never started again.
W quitter
That's amazing! I'm happy for you.
quitting is winning.
This is why vaping was very helpful to me and others I know. It’s easy to see your nic dose and dial it down, and it tastes better the less you have. I went from 9 to 6 to 3 to 0 to none. It needs more research but personally I feel very certain it’s far less damaging than combustion. Also should be noted there was a cottage industry of small manufacturers that was completely taken over by Big Tobacco via regulations that force e-cigs manufacturers to spend literally millions on testing PER device. It’s best not to vape or smoke, but millions more people will die of smoking before the research is in, and then Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds will profit. Sad situation.
Yes, there is actual data that shows vaping to be safer. It mainly relies on "in vitro" studies which compare carcinogens in cigarette smoke versus vapor from electronic cigarettes. What's true is that vapor doesn't contain carcinogenic products of burning found in tobacco smoke (which makes perfect sense, since nothing is actually burning in your e-mod or e-cigarette, VG turns to vapor at much lower temperatures). While e-vapor does inundate the lungs, in my own experience and in experience of a number of my friends and people I know, - it comes nowhere close to just how suffocating tobacco smoke is. It took me over 2 years after fully switching to vaping to get my endurance back, but my sense of smell returned fully only within a month. I can now run for much longer periods of time than I could when I smoked tobacco, and I no longer have chest pains or morning cough. About a year ago, out of the blue, at my friend's B-day party I smoked 2 cigarettes. And already the very next morning I woke up with characteristic smoker's cough, coughing up some nasty brown residue, and I felt sick. Just from 2 cigarettes. So I definitely don't regret my decision to switch to vaping. Unfortunately my country (Canada) desperately wants me and other ex-smokers to either go back to smoking cigarettes, or to inundate my lungs with intolerable amount of vapor from a high wattage device. My government made Nicotine percentage over 20mg/ml - illegal. Effectively this means that no heavy smoker would ever be able to successfully switch to a low wattage vaping device. Personally - I needed in excess of 40mg/ml to successfully switch to a low wattage device. If current laws existed back when I switched - I would likely still be smoking cigarettes. Another way for a heavy smoker to switch successfully is to vape much lower Nicotine percentage like 6mg/ml but out of a 80-90 Watt device that produces ridiculous amount of vapor. Such devices are more expensive to refill and maintain than cigarettes, so few heavy smokers could even afford one.
I used to make my own DIY vaping fluid with Vegetable Glycerin, all natural flavoring (like Vanilla) and Nicotine. But now they want to ban flavors too unless they are tobacco or mint, preserving the Classical Conditioning's association of Nicotine fix with cigarettes. This will definitely make it even less likely that a heavy smoker will switch to vaping as many vapers who successfully switch to smoking report that electing fruit flavored e-liquid helped them break the tobacco flavor - Nicotine fix association. So anyone who thinks that governments want you to stop smoking needs to have their head examined. Not at all! The governments are perfectly happy with taxes they get from tobacco companies and from smokers, the very last thing they want you to do is quit through switching to e-cigarettes. They damn well know that vaping is not as terrible for your health as smoking, but vaping doesn't fill their coffers as much, so they will do anything to make sure vaping gets worse rap than tobacco, and they'll even go as far as hire tons of UA-cam creators and all sorts of fake doctors to spread this same message. It's hardly surprising.
every smoker who switch to vape experience the massive improvement, yet health authority rather we go back to smoking. it is crazy and i think we are at that junction of tobacco in the 30s where medical folks are still endorsing what they do not know. i trust the science but i just have little faith in people who claim they are experts while ignoring all the feedbacks from actual people.
Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
a cig is 3mg of nic. where i live most vapes are 50 mg
@@wyxyr
150g salted butter, softened
80g light brown muscovado sugar
80g granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
225g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
¼ tsp salt
200g plain chocolate chips or chunks
STEP 1
Heat the oven to 190C/fan170C/gas 5 and line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.
STEP 2
Put 150g softened salted butter, 80g light brown muscovado sugar and 80g granulated sugar into a bowl and beat until creamy.
STEP 3
Beat in 2 tsp vanilla extract and 1 large egg.
STEP 4
Sift 225g plain flour, ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda and ¼ tsp salt into the bowl and mix it in with a wooden spoon.
STEP 5
Add 200g plain chocolate chips or chunks and stir well.
STEP 6
Use a teaspoon to make small scoops of the mixture, spacing them well apart on the baking trays. This mixture should make about 30 cookies.
STEP 7
Bake for 8-10 mins until they are light brown on the edges and still slightly soft in the centre if you press them.
STEP 8
Leave on the tray for a couple of mins to set and then lift onto a cooling rack.
@@wyxyr 💀
I love how just as we really make progress against cigarettes, we invent a whole new batch of chemicals to inhale and people just line right up. Brilliant.
Tobacco needed a new market to stay profitable
We're just in love with nicotine in all its forms
I smoke less tobacco now with vaping than I did before I was finally convinced to try it.
@curtisevans8413 Well done you! But if you had quit, you wouldn't buy any at all, which was Tobacco's concern. And now they can charge you for the electronics too!
@@sarasmr4278 I'm still in the process of quitting, and vapes are a lot cheaper than tobacco anyway. Especially in this country. A pack of 20 cigarettes costs £13, a vape that'll last me a week costs 10. I still go through a pack a day but I used to do 3.
15 years as smokers , try to quit few times and failed 😂 , try vaping , and still failed , but i got sick , ciggaret doesn't taste good , and now , almost 3 months ciggaretes free 😊
Congratulations!!! Not for the illness.. But for stopping smoking 🎉❤
Vaping help that what it does make the taste of tobacco horrible enjoy smoke free life
@@frankmcdermott836 i do enjoy it , everything taste better 😀
Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐
I also take a 3 month break every other week 😂
Honestly. As someone who vaped for 6+ years and worked in the industry. I'm so happy to be almost a year off the stuff. I still get cravings at times but its super easy to control now. I hope everyone reading this knows they can stop. It doesnt really matter if people tell you its healthy or not, breathing air is amazing and is necessary to live, please dont mess with it. It also fucks with your dopamine receptors and makes you feel like you always deserve an instant gratification without working for it, not healthy. Just my 2 cents
What kind of withdrawal symptoms do you get almost a year after quitting?
@@JackOLanternBobFor me, it was depression and cravings during stress. Im on the pouches now helos my ADHD a bit some days. Its a hard addiction to kick, I kicked a major opioid habit before and nicotine is harder cause its widely found and legal
@@JackOLanternBob she means urges
@@xijinping880 that would make more sense
@@JackOLanternBob its light and its more just sometimes missing that hit and flavour, very rare, but it still hits, its why most people who try it again start again fr
Psychedelics are just an amazing discovery. It's quite fascinating how effective they are for depression and stress..saved my life.
Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with health issues like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them but it's just hard to source out here.
I'm feeling the same way too. I put so much on my plate and it definitelv affects mv stress and anxietv levels
I was having this constant and unbearable anxiety because of university stress. Not until I came across Ted Winston, a very intelligent mycologist, He saved my life honestly.
Is he on insta ?
HE’S MOSTLY ON INSTAGRAM, USING THE USERNAME
I've never smoked and never will. My dad smoked all his life and he developed COPD Emphysema and lung cancer. He left us a few years ago now.
Trust me when i say, you don't ever want to see a loved one struggle to do something as simple as take a breath in, it's truly devastating and not a pleasant sight.
Health is the only valuable thing in this world.
You only have one life. Try to live it as best you can and take care of your body by not abusing it.
I'm sorry about your father. I had a friend who ended up in rehab for a coke addiction. He told me that quitting smoking was a million times harder than coke. That's why I think it's childish and rude when people say to smokers, "Just quit." The addiction always begins with casual use. Eventually that casual use grows larger and becomes an addiction. It's the same for alcoholics or those on narcotics.
Same. Just watched my mother in law die and prior to that, two of her sisters from Chronic Bronchitis, COPD and Emphysema - all due to smoking. She sounded like she was putting on a squeaky mouse voice at the end because her vocal chords siezed up. But no one wants to hear that...
What a fucking irony that people most affected by something are against the very tool to ease their suffering
Stopped smoking 2 days ago. I try to convince my mom to stop too, but i could convince her to smoke 6 cigs a day at max. 😊
@@sebastienbolduc5654 I've quit a variety of substances. Nicotine (pack a day) was much easier to quit than benzos, even easier for me to quit than high dose cannabis. I felt like garbage for a week... that was about it. Most of withdrawal was over with by day 4. I still have psychological cravings from time to time, but honestly, I rarely think of picking up nicotine again. It's a substance that only felt enjoyable once I was hopelessly addicted- the alleviation of withdrawal was always more enjoyable than the "high" itself. I can't say the same for amphetamines or coke. Those always felt great- especially so the more infrequently I used them.
I was a 40yr smoker and started getting a deep aching pain in my left leg which scared me...and the fact smoking was SO expensive, i moved on over time to vaping. The pains stopped and i generally felt much better health wise. I think vaping is a good aid for long term smokers but i can only comment on my own experience...thanks for another great pod Doc 😊
I smoked cigarettes for 20 years and was able to quit with vaping, then gradually reduced the nicotine to 0 and quit altogether
My experience ive smoked weed for almost a decade never got any bad effects except occasional throat irritation. sometimes smoked cigs but it never became a habit. Got a vape to reduce my weed smoking and From the first vape (disposable vape) i got was hooked and i was daily using. Now after maybe 5 years of pretty much daily use ive gotten some pretty bad chest pains and some other slightly less debilitating side effects. Ive tried quitting. When i stop for a few days the chest pain goes away and when i pick it back up it comes back. But i think by this point im pretty convinced the long term effects will not be great and so im ready to really take quitting seriously
@@gummybearvitamins1211 i know you will b able to quit no matter how long it takes. i think people underestimate addiction until they experience it and end up being really unsympathetic towards nicotine users. I've never been addicted so I cant imagine how hard it is, I've only seen the effects on the people close to me. i really wish you the best and hope that you will find the strength to get thru it
@@Fire-Rabbit87well done to you! It's bloody hard.
@@Fire-Rabbit87 I smoked for 2 decades and currently hovering between 3% and 0% nicotine vape .
Next step is moving to Fume (no vape simple scented air) for me .
While you're busy destroying your own health, other people are busy profiting from your misery
misery is a strong word. profiting on people's ignorance is a little more accurate.
@@7kortos7 no misery is right many people use these vices to deal with the problems in their life
@@Darkcamera45you can still smoke because of people influencing you. I'd day ignorance suits it more. Can be both.
100%
A tale as old as time
ppl when you smoke ciggaretes:😁😍🤩
ppl when you vape:😡😠🤬
ciggs are less harmful
@@ahski6 cigs literally have thousands of chemicals in them. but ik
@@JonnieWu817 ciggs are just mainly tobacco plants, yes still harmful but less harmful them vapes that have more chemicals, microplastics, artificial flavors, etc not healthy at all but smoking in general is just pointless breath air not hard..
@@ahski6 lmao you really don't know lol. dude, they add chemicals to them, it's a well known fact.
Around my area vapes are more accepted than cigarettes. Weird
Vaping saved my life. I was smoking over a pack a day. Now I’m down to the lowest level of nicotine and plan to be off completely in the next year.
So even if it’s not great for you.. I feel MUCH healthier than when I was smoking
Edit: can’t reply comment about how messed up it is that someone can take an oath to do no harm then discourages harm reduction makes you wonder… comments automatically getting ✂️
Not to mention bringing politics into it and obviously pushing an agenda for someone
As stated in the video, if used as a smoking cessation tool that’s fine. With the ultimate goal of stopping vaping too
@@DrKaranyou stated that in the last few seconds after bashing vaping for 13 minutes of your sensational video! And as you can see by the comments, many people just missed it. I had to watch it twice to actually catch it. I've even seen a comment from somebody who uses vape as an aid to quit is now rethinking it.
Are you aware how much damage you have done? Have you heard about primum non nocere? Are views that important? I used to be your fan and now I'm disappointed. When you become more of a UA-camr than a doctor?
All that was needed was starting video with "Vaping can be a good secession tool if you are trying to quit smoking and nothing else worked for you, but if you are not a smoker hear me out" and here you could continue with less sensational video.
Do you realise videos, articles and news like tat and based on really weak evidence and speculations lead to the ban of a great tool saving lives? There are countries that have already banned them. In the UK they banned single use ones taking away easy accessible cheap way of quitting smoking. How many lives that will cost we don't know. And you don't seem to care.
Disregards from ex smoker, ex vaper, ex fan of yours.
@@hofimastah I ended up turning it off honestly so I didn’t even get to the last part because this is just pandering to the governments trying to take away more of our freedom. Australia has basically completely banned it because the health minister is getting kick backs from big tobacco and because the govt make billions every year off cigarettes so they don’t want people to quit.
They don’t give af about health.
@@hofimastah he has over 2m subs you think he cares about losing you
Haram
I quit a year ago. Started when I was young and genuinely believed it was completely harmless. I hope it's not as bad as smoking because there's a whole generation vaping the equivalent of a pack a day.
dont worry. we’re are gonna see our “terry’s” in many years. may god rest her soul.
It's probably less ashy and acutely bad than regular cigarettes, but the nicotine addiction can still cause impulse control issues and emotional/learning problems if people start too young.
Don't worry. Cigs have over 4000 chemicals in them, going into your bloodstream aswell as carbon monoxide. Vaping doesn't have any carbon monoxide and it has only a few chemicals
I never believed vaping was harmless, just considerably less harmful than smoking. That's the reality here. For people who struggle to quit smoking, it is a lifesaver. For young people, it is just a path to addiction.
yea atleast with smoking you have "it's bad" in the back of your head, with vaping that seems to be replace with "it's not that bad" resulting in puff's of smoke that leave most smokers in awe at the volume, be you man or steam locomotive >.> at that point it might not be bad but your sure on the highway to finding the tipping point :P
like water it's not bad for you but down 2 gallons a day and you'll find out it sure can be ^^
I started smoking cigarettes at 16. I smoked for 8 years and had success stopping for two years with help of medication. After the two years I was going through a tough time and started smoking again. After two months I switched to vaping and have not smoked a cigarette since.
Nicotine addiction is super tough to kick, and vaping does not make it easier. It tastes super good. Its like vaping candy. I was never under the impression that it is not harmful. I think it makes it harder to quit because of how much easier it is to consume.
I do want to quit and wish that I never got hooked on tobacco products. To anyone who watched this and are vaping or starting to vape, all I can say is don't do it. It will be a lifelong journey of you trying to quit and failing.
Thank you Dr. Karan for a very insightful video.
Vaping helped me quit smoking and it made it easier to gradually reduce the nicotine levels to zero and finally quit altogether. This was after smoking for twenty years and trying every smoking cessation method out there including gum, lozenges, patches, medications and even got desperate enough to try hypnosis. None of it worked for me, but vaping did
This is why you have to make your own vape juice and gradually reduce the nicotine concentration so you don't even notice it. As an off-the-shelf product, vaping isn't very conducive to quitting a nicotine habit. Use natural flavors. Won't taste quite like candy. It is the artificial flavors that really worry me about commercially produced vape juice. They could be carcinogenic or cause disruption of your endocrine system.
As for the base, PG is used in medical injection preparation and glycerine is used in medical inhalers. If those were a huge risk, they wouldn't be used in a medical setting.
It is also important to make sure you're really vaping. A lot of sub-ohm vapers are cranking it up so much, they're actually burning the juice, and then all bets are off because they're still smoking.
@Lurch-Bot Cheeseburger hemoglobin chicken
Several co-workers, myself, and both of my parents who were lifelong smokers, have all quit as a result of vaping.
My own experience with vaping was that within 3 days, I was disgusted by the smell of smokers(something that NEVER happened in my prior attempts to quit). Within 3 weeks later, my smoker’s cough, constant stuffiness, and being winded from a few flights of stairs. During my vaping, I went from a yearly bout of pneumonia, to not even suffering a cold.
The key thing that I feel helps smokers quit with vaping is that it’s actually pleasant to do, the flavours get BETTER and are more enjoyable at lower levels, and the nicotine(at proper levels) doesn’t release as fast as a cigarette, and I do feel that that was a factor in my cigarette addiction. While smoking, I couldn’t go more than a few hours without a cigarette, and while vaping if wasn’t uncommon that on a lazy weekend I might forget to vape at all for a day or two.
Regarding the flavours and the idea that pleasant equals “marketed to kids”, no… pleasant is just pleasant, and it’s correlation, not causation to say that it’s “marketed to kids”. Adults like nice flavours like fruit, and pleasant flavours are something that helps people quit. But if you really feel strongly about it, then lets ban fruity alcoholic drinks as well.
I respect the need for fighting youth use of vaping, but just like how the marijuana madness videos of bygone eras didn’t work, neither will scare tactics towards vaping. Kids are too damn smart to fall for it, and when they find out they were lied to, it drives them TO the habit, not from it.
Alot of the vape deaths and evali cases that I've read about and looked into were actually due to pre filled THC dab/oil cartridge vapes and cheap manufacturers using a product called vitamin e acetate which was the cause of all the problems as it coated the lungs in an oily substance that wouldn't allow oxygen to pass through, but alot of the people who were affected lied about what type of vapes they were using cause they didn't want to say they were using illegal THC products, so instead nicotine vapes took the brunt of the blame.
As a side note you mention that it's being aimed at kids. Well by the metrics you mentioned if 96% of vape sales in the US are actually done by tobacco companies then again it would be the tobacco companies who are to blame. Clearly they don't want to loose so theyve just changed their game. They just gave in to the if you can't beat em join em game.
When I worked at a vape shop we were very strict with how we displayed our products and when we had young adults in the shop who never smoked but wanted to vape we were very clear with them we didn't support vaping for the sake of it and it was a tool for smoking cessation.
New research points to the flavor/fragrance compounds in vapes as a major cause of lung irritation and damage. The podcast Science Vs did a good episode on the most up-to-date research on vaping, I learned a ton and definitely recommend listening. I'm a former nicotine user and it definitely reinforced that I should never start smoking or vaping ever again.
You worked for a respectable shop 👍
I've been saying this to my friends when they've been thinking about getting THC pens. If you want to get high edibles are the safest way to do so.
I've worked for a vape shop as well as written papers about weed: both medical and recreational-and yeah, when it comes to cheap shit laced w vitamin e, that was what was killing people. With e-cigs, what is harmful is popcorn lung and the fact that trapped water vapor essentially sits in there and makes your lung collapse due to condensation build up, as well as the fact that you can feel a noticeable difference in your chest when you quit for even two days (like I did two days ago for example). I've smoked for nearly 6 years now and it's always easiest to quit the first time than it is to quit the 5 or 6th time like I'm currently on. A thing to note though is that some people like me can ONLY smoke weed/nicotine through cartridges since edibles and tinctures (drops) give us extremely fast heart rates and/or panic attacks (and nicotine too if a very high mg). Power and support to those who are also trying to quit. You need ppl around you who both don't smoke, and keep you distracted and talkative so you forget to smoke and drop the urge (if you cant afford patches, gum, oral tablets, etc).
Also before you start smoking as an adult, always get your mental health checked beforehand since some things can be activated by weed for example, like psychosis even if it's not in the family. Sorry for the text wall, weed was a BIG special interest even in high school and I researched HEAVY before i started smoking at 18 to weigh pros and cons for myself.
it breaks my heart seeing my friends and colleagues (most in their 20s) start vaping as it is trendy and then end up with a full blown addiction
If they didn't already smoke cigarettes, then it was pretty stupid of them to get vapes with nicotine in them instead of the countless nicotine free ones lol
I dont smoke anything and i get looked at as wierd bc i wont follow this trend
@@skree272🙄🙄🙄 no you don't
@@orionishi6737 i actually do, its minor compared to other things but its not the point,
@@skree272 I guarantee that's not why they are giving you that look.
Stopped a year ago and one stressful day a month ago, started again. Have so much fear of stopping again, not because vaping isnt making things better, its not, its because last year I went through hell to quit. I think it would be easier this time, I have just freaked myself out. Best of luck to all of us trying to stop ❤
Feel you brother!
I'm currently weaning myself off strength by strength, and keeping myself busy/supplementing with coffee/leaving it at home. I'm a bit emotional but having gone from one 20mg 600 dispo a day to now like. 100-200 5mg puffs a day. I think this is the way to do it. We're in this together man
hey look, everyone tumbles a few times when they learn to ride a bike. you've stumbled ones, nothing to say the next time you get back up won't be as hard
I believe in you. Godspeed
Lost my vape on vacation 2 weeks ago. I have vaped since 18 and I’m 22 now. Nothing bad happened, I felt irritated for 2 days and it was done. Cravings every now and then, but you actually feel better about yourself .
I started to smoke when I was 12. At 31, I moved toward vape to quit cigarette. It worked. I can't stand cigarette anymore. Now, 3 years into vaping, i'm hooked and have a hard time droping the vape. So in short, i've traded a bad habit for another. I'm a firefighter and i've realise that after I started vaping, I was tired way quicker doing exercises. SAT and Heart reading are text book perfect but it clearly does something to me.
I hear the concern, but ive lived in a heavy agriculture area my whole life and dealt with pesticides,dust, and god knows what else. Im not as worried about the vapes as i am the alarming rates of lung cancer in there farmers here.
Don't forget Parkinson and dementia.....
use this as a “i breathe air” button
I do now! 2 years ago I made that choice!!
@@Joshinthetronkhappy birthday
Sorry, air is off the list, according to proposition 95 "known to the state of California to cause cancer"
I pressed ur comment as the button, what should I do next??
Thank you. My bday tomorrow@@AimlessSight
I quit smoking cigarettes about 7 or 8 years ago. Started vaping. Reduced nicotine down to 1 mg over time. Started using it less and less. Last November or thereabouts I sat at home and suddenly realized „Hey, I haven’t used my vape for a couple weeks now. Huh. Seems I don’t need this anymore after all. Cool!“
And I haven’t looked back. I don’t miss it at all. Is vaping „healthy“? No, course not. Is it less harmful than tobacco? Everything points to that being the case. But we don’t know yet. Anecdotally I was able to observe improvements in breathing and stamina. Not feeling winded anymore after climbing a flight of stairs was deffo a plus.
But I think it depends very heavily on what you put in your vape juice and what type of device you use. I always mixed my own juice.
But all this bubblegum type and sickeningly sweet flavor is of course more appealing to youngsters and they would probably rather go with a vape than tobacco. Which is equally silly. And nobody controls what goes into the damn things, both chemically and electrically. I am rather at home with my Ohm’s Law and reasonably apt at handling electronics. Bult my own coils and everything. Those disposables were never something I used. I like to think I used high quality components that were probably beyond what most kids would be able to afford (one of my battery boxes was around 150 bucks, plus name brand batteries, plus nickel free wire, tools, good and clean cotton wool etc - was really a bit of a geek about this).
And it’s also about the amount of nicotine. If you quit cigarettes from smoking a pack a day then good for you - but if you then start cloud chasing and guzzling 2 packs of ciggies worth of nicotine in your vape juice a day, you haven’t gained much.
Yep yep yep. I'm currently in a dual use phase where I'll vape when out and about or at work but when at home I allow myself one cig in the morning and one joint in the evening.
Recently I had some time off and smoked a lot more. The difference was terrifying. I had no energy, physically felt awful, my mood was all over the place. Since going back to work and cutting out around 10 cigs a day I've got that energy back.
When I eventually do quit cigs fully I can see that being even clearer. Until more evidence comes about I'm more than happy to replace the majority of my smoking with vaping.
Vaping and reducing nicotine is the best cigarette quitting hack invented so far. If you use it for quitting that's why the tobacco industry doesn't like it and we have propaganda like that video.
Vaping can be a helpful tool to stop smoking cigarettes and then stop smoking altogether. The trouble is that more and more youth are starting to vape, and they have bought the lie that vaping is totally safe. The vape companies are targeting youth with their marketing much like they used to with cigarettes. Use it to quit, but not to start. 👍
@@s.i.john16.33 ok let people die because some youngsters vape. Or maybe just don't sell it to them. How come cigarettes are still legal and vapes are so vilified? I got more sh*t from people when I was vaping to quit smoking than when I was smoking much more harmful and smelly cigarettes. People just love to hate vapes.
That seems to be the story of a lot of my friends and family who quit smoking and took up vaping, they all just seemed to accidently/unintentionally quit vaping at some point a few years in and now they don't smoke or vape.
This is not to say vaping isn't addictive, maybe even more so then cigarettes if the nicotine content is higher. Just that anecdotally vaping seems like an effective way for at least some people to quit smoking.
Im 23 years old. Been using box mod 200w vapes for the last 8 years. So far no side effects. I much rather be smoking a Cigar but don’t got the patience to do so, a vape is hit of a switch.
I've been vaping for about 15 years.
Started when the tech was still raw and buggy, because I heard about it and was desperate to quit smoking.
I almost immediately wanted nothing more to do with cigarettes.
I was smoking 2 packs a day, my health had been noticeably effected... lungs and throat... coughing fits and problems with my voice. The money I was spending had also become a problem.
After about a year of vaping instead of smoking, I didn't have any of those problems anymore.
I'm not confused or brainwashed, and I know that anything I put into my body that the body doesn't need is not a great idea...
But I can't honestly look at the majority of vape criticism and take it seriously.
I agree that children shouldn't use them, but I'm a grown man and I don't even drink anymore so please let me have my vapes and leave me alone.
Yes, you should vape more
I 100% back your comment!!
(I'm i a similar position myself, "swapped" a pack-a-day smoking habit for ONLY vaping).
@@OhSoddit Keep on vaping in the real world
Yeah, because children never get their hands on things that are only meant for adult consumption, do they?
I quit smoking and vaping cold turkey 2 years ago and I have never been more grateful and thankful to past me.
Cool story. What this has to do with vaping.
@hofimastah Oh I dunno, maybe, you know... NICOTINE.
@@wilczus222 interesting he was smoking and vaping at the same time lol
@@hofimastah Yeah. Almost like he was trying to supplant his addiction to nicotine, but ultimately chose to quit outright, huh?
@@hofimastah Did you read the comment? It has everything to do with vaping.
I've been vaping for about 8 years now since I stopped smoking. In my anecdotal opinion it's just as addictive as cigarettes, but not as physically harmful as cigarettes. They are not harmless though, in any way. It is extremely psychologically addictive and very hard to kick altogether.
Thanks for covering this topic Dr. Khan, hopefully we will be able to scientifically quantify the harmful effects of vaping soon enough.
I have been vaping for about 13 years. I have always used custom mods, rebuildable atomizers, and juice that comes from small companies. Never used any of the products pushed by big tobacco. I know that using nothing is obviously the best, but vaping just worked for me. I bought a little Ego, a Kanger Pro tank 2 mini, and a bottle of Mister E Liquid juice at a vape shop that had just opened in town. I got it to use in places where I couldn't smoke, but only 4 cigarettes later I quit smoking. I wasn't even trying to quit smoking but it was one of the easiest things I have ever done. I am still fully addicted to vaping. I got into it as a hobby for 5 or 6 years when I first started buying every new device and juice that hit the market. With that information I found what I liked and have for the most part stuck to it ever since.
I know vaping is probably causing some harm to me, but I feel that it is minimal. I definitely feel better vaping then I ever did smoking. I don't walk into a room and get looks for smelling like an ashtray. Overall I can't find 1 single thing about vaping that is worse than smoking. I actually just had back surgery yesterday and the doctor gave me this little breathing apparatus that keeps you from having complications after surgery. It is kind of a measure of lung capacity. I can completely fill it up and could go farther if it let me. My wife who has never smoked or vaped can barely get it to half way. I clearly still have plenty of lung capacity.
Vape bans are the complete wrong way to go. People are always talking about teens vaping, but the vape is not the problem in that situation. It is the kids. If those kids were not vaping they would be smoking cigarettes. Kids rebel, that is what they do. I did it and damn near ever friend I had did to. If vaping was around in when I was in high school I probably would have vaped instead of smoked, but I would still end up being addicted to one either way. Vaping is amazing for smokers who want to quit and a better alternative to cigarettes for people who want to start. These arguments are always framed in a perfect world scenario where people should just not start abusing any substance. That isn't the world we live in. People are going to find their vice either way and I would much rather they have a healthier, safer option.
I never smoked, I don't like Alcohol, I never vaped nor took any other of these kind of drugs. Yet people say I look stoned but that is because I don't sleep enough.
Literally me...
Same, even my drivers license pic looks like I’m high asf lol
😂😂
The eyes Chico, the eyes
Same
vaping helped me with many addictions, i only vape, i feel better and i don't cough anymore
Only because all that dirty stuff is stuck inside your lungs, my lungs developed over time to cough out all nusty, if your lungs don’t then teach them..
Vaping is your new addiction. Nothing has changed.
@@xenon6947 big difference he isnt inhaling cyanide and rat poison....
We also need to acknowledge that the Australian paper came out directly before they banned ecigs in Australia so they could legally sell them in pharmacies and get tobacco tax off it
@@cooltheory not legally tho, while the tobacconists do get fines from the health department, its ONLY fine. they just end up selling them again straight after.
@@cooltheoryit's got nothing to do with tax - they're doing that because selling nicotine vapes (outside of pharmacies) is illegal and has been for quite a while at this point.
And you can't see any correlation between the paper and the banning of vapes, Joshua? Not a critical thinker, are you?
I head Alzheimers and I immediately got up and threw my vape, juice, the lot in the garbage. I watched my grandmother fade away from that disease. It is one of my biggest fears to end up like her.
Thank you for the information. Information is power. And I've just taken mine back. No more.
I'm an ex smoker who gave up nearly 30 years ago. I look back now and consider taking up the habit as one of the biggest mistakes I made in my life. In fact I cringe when I think about it too deeply. Effectively ingesting toxins directly into your lungs whether by smoking or vaping is not a good idea.
buy an ad. Nobody over 50 years old uses cringe in a sentence
@@pidojaspdpaidipashdisao572
You got nothing better to do my friend?
@@pidojaspdpaidipashdisao572 You must be very young...
Same page as you - haven't smoked for almost 20 years and I also think starting smoking is one of the dumbest things I ever did. Do you still miss it? I do, but I will never start again! (@pidojaspdpaidipashdisao5 thank you for your illuminating comment, I'll be sure to stop using the word cringe the moment I turn 50 - because you said I shouldn't. You've certainly made a huge difference to the internet today. GFC.)
@@ajd8558
I do get an occasional strong urge from time to time especially if I'm drinking alcohol but the craving and desire fades away pretty quickly. For me I think it is an echo of what was a deeply ingrained habit and like all ingrained habits its roots are deep.
In the US vapes are seen as a substitute for smoking not a cessation device. Kids use them because they are more discreet. Many people use them to help them quit but they are mostly an entry to cigarettes. In the US if you can't smoke in a place, you can't vape either. Let us not forget that Juul introduced a device that looked like a flash drive and sold flavored liquid in packages that so closely resembled candy wrappers, I don't know why those companies did not sue for copyright and trademark infringement
no. they do not resemble candy wrappers. you people are delusional
@@CaffeinatedFrostbite Not the vape pens, the liquids came in containers with pictures designed to look like the same ones on candy wrappers. I revised my original post. I didn't think I had to spell it out.
@@anonnymowse so pictures of the flavors inside the bottle are for children? Some of them were yes. But through all my journeys of stores and online retailers the amount of those are small and getting smaller. Most packaging is fairly simple. some packages have been entirely de-candified. Most show pictures of whatever fruit is in them. stuff like that.
Most of the candy-based ones that legit ripped off candy companies have been redone or dont exist.
@@CaffeinatedFrostbite he did say "sold" in the past tense. They may have changed it, but never faced reprecussions
@@CaffeinatedFrostbite Change in the law. Make no mistake, Juuls were for children.
Quit vaping last year after 18 months, then picked it up for a short period again (1 disposable vape) in March and stopped again after that because of the subtle cough I picked up. The hardest part in my experience was not the nicotine addiction (it took 3 sucky days to get over that - pun not intended), but the oral fixation. Replaced it with a 20L tank of water in my room and a cup, I take a sip of water every time I get the oral fixation urge, or a stick of gum if I want flavour. It's still hard because a lot of my good friends vape, but I don't see them in person that often.
Great video!
Try sunflower seeds. They help me a lot with the fixation.
Peanuts or just do what my friend did, carry a toothpick or one of those coffee stirrer.
It definitely gives me an insight into my own Life... I am a Pilot but I usually fly from remote places , the people around me were quite young and Introduced me to vaping...i never even touched a cigarette before but the vaping experience was delightful... But due to the remote location I worked from... For long duration of time the vapes weren't easily available to buy for months and as I was unknowingly addicted to vapes i started sharing cigarettes with my Mates, whenever I am Smoking vape I won't smoke and when the vapes are gone I started to look for cigarettes....
I came home and bought a vape for myself and I used to take hits like 20-30 times a day.
I even noticed a few Issues with my brain.... I felt less energized and was demotivated... I felt a Major loss in memory functions and Basically always had a Low mood.
I 100% agree with our Doc
We don't know the long term or even short term effects of Vaping on the human body.
As I have felt the effects myself (I'm 24).
I must say that Vaping is an excellent alternative for people addicted to smoking.... But it also attracts people with its range of Accessibility as you can smoke anywhere without a hint or telltale and The flavours.... You can have anything from an energy drink to a Brownie to icecream and there's no end to it.
So I suggest if you don't smoke don't vape
If you do smoke try to stop with different alternatives like nicotine patches or gum.
If you still can't stop i suggest come up with an Active plan to lower your Count of cigs per day and reduce it even if just by one cig a day..
Make small strides not big.
Don't Vape period.
I agree with most of this, however, nicotine is included in vapes because it is the main point of vaping.. asking why nicotine would be included in vapes is like asking why a company would include beef in a hamburger.
Yeah that was a bit silly, if they didn't put nic in it I'd still be smoking cigs and while I'm under no illusions that it's good for me, it's pretty obviously better than tobacco.
my boyfriend just vape weed oil. not everyone seeks vape for nicotine, so it's important that there's the option that isn't as addictive as nicotine.
@@furious_melons674 oh no 😭😭😭
@@kejow. THC is definitely much less addictive than nicotine, but it's sometimes more dangerous. It's actually the shady unregulated THC distillate cartridges that were causing the vaping deaths in the news years ago. And for me, even a lot of the regulated oil vapes in legal dispensaries where harder on the lungs compared to smoking regular flower
@@kejow.yeah but this means nothing. Nicotine is nicotine and thc is thc. Two completely different markets that require different hardware. There’s only two options for nicotine vapes, no nicotine or some nicotine. And two for weed, thc or cbd. People “not everyone seeks vape for nicotine” because some people want to get high without smoking weed and the other wants to get nicotine without cigarette
The truth about vaping is a much broader topic than can be spoken about in a 14 min video. My fear is that smokers who keep hearing about the (possible) dangers of vaping will not consider this an option. I'm no scientist but my own observations on the subject tells me that this is the most effective smoking cessation product, hands down. Almost all of my friends who have tried to quit over the years switched to vaping and most of those friends have gone on to quit vaping completely.
Anytime I see a kid with a vape, I disapprove and wish it weren't so. I also think to myself that there is a parallel universe where vaping wasn't invented, that kid is smoking a cigarette and I'm dead.
i have a friend that was a chain rollie, smoker, he moved to a vape and slowly lowered the nicotine content, when he got down to zero nicotine, it took a year to quit the habit, even though he had reduced to a few times a day- hes been free about 8yrs now
A "friend", yeah..
@@RigelVision cynicism much, when i quit, it was a decision i made and stuck to, i had one more fag and never felt so strong a sense of failure in my life, that was 22yrs ago. though i did inspire that friend and several others to quit, but that one was the only one that used vapes
Why nicotine on vapes?
Vaping at the moment is the best step you can take to quit smoking and stop the deadly combustion byproducts from entering your system.
Do people quit Smoking with vapes? yes, and it works really well.
Do people quit vaping afterwards? no, not always.
This is because most of us do dont engage vaping as a way to quit nicotine but as a way to just quit smoking.
I really have been looking for this exact video from a rather unbiased doctor, I'm so grateful you were able to make this! I'll be doubling down that if DH wants to quit smoking that he's better off with the cessation aides, not the rebranded cigarettes of the future.
It was still pretty biased.... But he did try
@@orionishi6737 Yup of course and I don't think it's possible to be fully unbiased because we're all human and we all have an opinion, but he was able to link these vape companies to cigarette companies and reminded everyone about how "healthy" cigarettes were toted as, and the "our brand is better for you than their brand" crap that has been ongoing. Since there's very conflicting information on vapes I appreciate the video nonetheless. 😊
I don’t do it because I think it’s safe, it’s because I’m addicted to nicotine - plain and simple. Anyone who thinks vaping isn’t slowly scaring their lungs is lying to themselves. I’m getting help with it, but I’ve got a long way to go.
Feels
My lung collapsed off vaping I was only gaping about a year to try to stop smoking
Agreed. I was up to nearly 40 cigarettes a day before I replaced it with vaping some years back. If you are concerned about the effects of the vape liquid itself, I can recommend you a 2021 study on the byproducts produced fromm PG and VG during vaping. You might wanna skip to section "3.5: Health risks" as it gets a little technical. Best of luck to you.
And the article:
Impact of e-Liquid Composition, Coil Temperature, and Puff Topography
on the Aerosol Chemistry of Electronic Cigarettes
Yichen Li, Amanda E. Burns, Lillian N. Tran, Karizza A. Abellar,
Morgan Poindexter, Xiaohan Li, Amy K. Madl, Kent E. Pinkerton, and
Tran B. Nguyen
Publication Date (Web): May 5, 2021 (Article)
It's probably not scaring their lungs. The temperature is not high enough to cause such damage.
I quit smoking 7 years ago and gained 60 pounds and found my attitude has gotten worse. Snapping on the smallest things. I started vaping 3 months ago and my attitude has changed and I've lost weight. I know it ain't healthy but this is all I got 😬
As a tool for smoking cessation - it’s fine as mentioned in
The video
Im lucky I snapped back to normal after a couple very long years of quitting. I’d love to vape but I just can’t do nicotine in moderation. I was 2 packs a day and used snus
Maybe you have ADHD and treating that would help
Make sure you monitor and regulate your nicotine intake. It's a lot easier to do this if you stay away from disposable devices.
Anti-depressant/ anti-anxiety meds affect basically the same neurotransmitters that nicotine does. Dopamine, serotonin, GABA, norepinephrine, etc. Maybe you should try some medications to help your mood? You would get a consistent dose instead of the crazy fluctuations vaping gives and there would be zero lung damage.
Smoked for 30 years and quit because of vaping. Had my lungs checked recently and dr said my lungs looked like a non smokers lungs. I felt like my health greatly improved when i quit smoking. Started biking and hiking again and not getting worn out. I can go hours to a a few days without the urge to vape, where when i was smoking i could feel the need for a cigarette after an hour.
Interesting. I used to be a heavy smoker, but the Difference with me i knew the risks when i started vaping. Ive been vaping since the day vapes came out.
Before vaping i couldnt sleep properly, was trying for a baby to find out i had low sperm count, my stamina and breathing wasnt great.
Since vaping ive had 4 kids due to sperm count going up, my stamina is better, i can sleep and breath better. And i feel more energetic.
Now like everything and yes there are down falls. But in my case it was better for me to go to vapes. My life changed for good.
Im still vaping but nicotine strength is getting lower and lower, until im off nicotine vapes then i will quit vaping. This takes time for me as i crave the nicotine and can easily tell if a vape has nicotine or not.
the problem with this doctor is that he lumps together prpackaged vapes with self made mods. I dont know if its because of ignorance or intentional thing driven by undisclosed... motivations, but these two categories of products are not the same
I guess, quite literally... Whatever makes you sleep at night. Honestly, I'm extremely doubtful it has any positive impact on sperm count if not harmful. But, consequence of quitting from a heavy smoker and being able to sleep at night? Now that sounds like you removed your issue and lead to 'improvement' or rather restoration.
@antoniolum1506 all of what you said would only happen if i was not previously a smoker. From being a heavy smoker, with issues due to smoking. To vaping and those issues improving says it all. And im not saying if a perfectly healthy person did it they wouldnt get a reduction in sperm count or have a different sleep pattern. Im stating for me Vaping to quit smoking improved my health. My opinion vapes should only ever be sold to those who have a doctors certificate for vapes. A medicinal license for vapes. Where the seller needs to see certificate and your ID. Non smokers should not have access to them. And this will also reduce childrens chances of getting them.
@zawarudo1041 maybe because a MAJORITY of people that vape aren't making their own e juice? Out of every person I know who vapes every single one uses disposables. Not a single one makes their own e juice or does mods or any of that.
@seidokage23 100% ive been making my Own ejuice since day one. 1 its cheaper and 2 i know whats going in it.
“What possible reason can there be for including nicotine in vapes, other than to make them addictive”
I don’t know, maybe it’s the fact that they were created as a means for people to transition away from tobacco, in a way that remains familiar for them (something you conveniently forgot to mention). Wild thought, I know
Yeah, that felt quite disingenuous to say the least.
A lot of smokers enjoy the 'throat hit' that naturally comes from smoking tobacco... It's a mild tingling sensation at the back of your throat that happens right at the start of pulling on a cigarette. Juice with no nicotine will not produce that same effect, so for the smokers (turned vapers) that want a similar feeling, there needs to be nicotine in the juice. Or else it doesn't feel like your inhaling anything at all. THAT'S the reason why nicotine is in there.
@@2K8Si Nicotine content is a factor, but so is the temperature, or, indirectly, the wattage, at which you vaporize your e-liquid. Lower results in less "cloud" and more throat hit. Might be useful to know for some, a vaporizer with power settings doesn't need to cost much, and maybe you can get away without nicotine if you can find your sweet spot setting!
Only a fool would think they are made addictive for the purpose of breaking addiction. There are far less addictive alkaloids that would work as a placeholder stimulant rather than nicotine. You are blinded by bias
It's a phenomenon we see a lot these days: people talking with authority about things that they don't understand because it isn't their world, yet here they are.
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, alcoholism, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
Congrats on your recovery. Most people don't realize that psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. It is very hard to get a reliable source here in Romania. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
Shrooms saved me from meth addiction too. Psychedelics could really help addicts a lot!
So here is what I know. I was a pack a day smoker for 8 years and I quit via vaping. I used to not be able to go up a flight of stairs without feeling like I was going to absolutely die. I'm currently up to running 7 miles a day now 4 times a week and I go the gym 3 hours a day 4 times a week. It's been 8 years since I began vaping now and I've never been in better shape. Everyone is different granted. There is a point where switching from cigarettes to vapes is dangerous and that's where copd is concerned. If you don't have it though it can only improve your health if you find it hard to quit. It's the simple reality of the situation.
i can only speak specifically for myself based on my own experience. i'm 33 and i was a heavy smoker since 15. i consumed up to 5 packs a day for the last couple of years before i finally switched to vape (pods). the switching process wasn't so easy for me either.
personally-after 4 years of completely switching to vape-i feel a lot better (physically and mentally), and my nicotine expenses are down from $200-300/month (cigarettes) to $50/month (vape)-(note; where i live, cigarettes are extremely cheap).
in my case, switching to vape has helped me physically, mentally, and financially. i'm at the stage where i'm not interested in touching any cigarette ever again.
BUT, this may not apply to everyone.
for those of you who are a HEAVY smoker, you may try vape as a mean of transition before quitting nicotine completely. but for non-smokers, i STRONGLY discourage you from trying vape at all. don't start nicotine addiction if you haven't already (either cigs or vapes). you'll go down a deep deep rabbit hole before you know it.
and lastly; any nicotine products should NOT be targeted towards children & teens. that one is pretty obvious isn't it?
Can you elaborate on what effects vaping and smoking had on your body over those years
But you're still addicted. Time to come off the vape and feel even better again. Vape is your comfort blanket.
@@JL-nk1pc that's exactly the point. if it's so easy to get off nicotine, this conversation would never happen.
I was ciggerete addict for 15 years. vaping helped me quit ciggeretes to the point that now I don't even like the smell of cig if someone smoke next of me. we don't have studies over long time for vaping but it is for sure much much safer than tobacco. 2 components of e-liquid that I mix for my self is VG and PG both found in food and vegetables we eat daily. chemical flavouring also exist in other foods we eat. I don't say its 100% safe but no doubt it is way safer than tobacco. you can also vape without adding chemical flavours. in the other hand tobacco smoke is just direct poison for your body. I already developed COPD from that 15 years of tobacco smoking!
Conclusion, if you never smoke, don't even try vaping
But if you are a smoker, you should use vape
It's my 4th day of using vape, after 6 years of smoking cigarettes, I felt my smoking habit getting worse. Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. So I try vape, my appetite is increases. My throat doesnt feel burning after a few hours
I still smoke like a couple of cigarettes a day, I plan on stopping both on the future.
I know transitioning from smoking to vaping seems like a useless and small step to stop smoking, but I wish I can conquer this addiction. People won't know how hard it is, if they never feel it themselves
I’d encourage smokers looking to quit to explore other alternatives to vaping too.
@@DrKaran Because... No evidence
@@DrKaranwhy?
What evidence do you have that supports quitting smoking to move to vaping is a less healthy alternative for smokers?
@@gabre19Because moving from one bad to a lesser bad doesnt fix the damn problem XD
@@gabre19I can tell you the evidence, I quit without a vape so that's the healthier alternative.
I've stopped smoking and vaping too. There's loads of stuff to help now. well done
I switched from smoking to vaping about 6 years ago when vapes were just starting to become readily available. I felt significantly healthier overall after switching to vaping. I had continued to vape up until just this last year. Over time I had started to notice that something had changed with the vapes. I began to have regular lung congestion that would result in coughing. I also started to have concerning head aches whenever I was vaping.
The last straw was when I started to see that most, if not all, of the popular brands had added Prop 65 warnings for neurotoxic chemicals such as formaldehyde and carcinogens like acetaldehyde. I had begun to feel what I can only describe as nerve damage in my head. I started getting brain fog and had muscle spasms and other electrical disturbances around my brain and head. I felt like I was actively giving myself brain damage. I switched back to smoking organic cigarettes and I actually feel better smoking now than I did while vaping.
I have no confidence in the purity or quality of any vaping product anymore. They are all made in labs in China where corrupt practices are much more commonplace. I currently believe that the supply chain of cheap and unregulated Chinese manufactured vapes are at least as harmful as smoking, but likely more harmful.
I noticed the headache lately too!
Early this year around January I stopped. I had vaped for 3 years due to not being able to comfotably smoke my cigarettes in Alaska.(was trembling outside. couldnt enjoy my cigarette in my hotel room. Then I got hooked on vapes Hehe)
But ya that headache wasnt there the first 2 years. Actually the opposite. Then I started to notice I was gettint gastritis(stomach pains, theyd go away if I didny vape.) every single time I'd vape.
Like you said. I feel so much better smoking cigarettes now. But I also still get gastritis from the cigarettes after 2 weeks of smoking.
I really get off the nicotine... x_x
So I said "I am done"
I think the sweeteners inside vapes are actually the heavily dangerous part. I have sensitivities to sugars and sweeteners alike and vapes used to set off my insulin like crazy and make me crave sugars instantly.
I've been on and off vaping, and when vaping I do tend to have more cravings for shit food
I vape and have done for about a year and a half. I would rather not vape. Saying that I would rather vape than smoke. As a result of me swapping to vaping over smoking. I have had no chest infections. I no longer get out of breath walking up stairs and my hair has grown back. Obviously I would be even better if I didn’t vape at all but right now, it’s the lesser of 2 evils.
Please leave us a lone, seems like people only bother us vapers. There are much worse things in life like world hunger, political agendas and wars. Spend your energy in trying to sort that out instead of trying to remove the pleasures some people have in our short human lifes.
vaping is amazing! its funny to me that we're going after vapes when cigarettes get a pass. you cant do shit about it and you never will. the best thing to happen is that people started vaping because from my experience i feel so much better when i quit cigarettes and started vaping. its not even comparable. i even know many people that we're on the verge of death that saved their OWN lives by switching to vape. just look at all the "vaping illnesses" that the media STILL tries to throw off on vaping! why arent people dying anymore when the amount of people vaping has only increased? oh thats right its because it was tainted thc carts. honestly i feel like vaping doesnt get enough credit because if you would actually ask the people who were sdmoking cigarettes they would all tell you that vaping is much healthier. nobody wants to ask for testimonials because it wouldn't fit the narrative. id rather trust people who have changed their life then i would trust the pharmaceutical industry and the scientist that both get something out of spinning the narrative. i feel so much better now its insane. for the people who never vape or smoked before it can be more harmful considering they never been addicted to nicotine nor have they experienced the harm that actual cigarettes' cause so its more harmful then not vaping anything at all. but for me it changed my life and i feel so much better. yeah i vape pretty much all day but i also smoked all day.
Couldnt agree more. Smoking is 100 times worse. I feel much better when I vape instead of smoking.
Everyone reading this should stop when they get to the words "when cigarettes get a pass". They don't, your whole argument is based on something that's not true.
I smoked from the age of 14-47yrs, causing a massive decline in my health, since switching to vaping my health as improved massively, I’m a psychiatric nurse of 25yrs +working with people with drug, alcohol addiction, & have a good understanding of addiction!!!
You are the intended customer, the guy who wants an alternative to cigarettes. Problem is there's an entire generation of kids using these things, most of whom would NEVER have smoked a cigarette. I am the same as you, I started vaping because I was a heavy smoker -- we get it, they do not.
I guess you were reffering to why put nicotine in the vapes aimed towards a younger audience, but it's quite obvious that nicotine, for me, is put in the juice to help with the addiction I have to it, if I was to vape with no nicotine, I wouldn't be vaping and would be smoking still.
The nicotine is in the vape to replace cigarettes. That’s what it first was invented for.
The nicotine is the whole point of smoking lol
Seriously, what kind of point was that?
@@xjasm0 the point is that vaping is now a "more cool" way to get kids onto the nicotine addiction compared to cigarettes.
So its one case where you use vaping as a replacement for cigarettes and gradually reduce the nicotine intake, and its another thing when its a new way for more young people to get a nicotine addiction - when cigarettes aren't producing the same results and not getting as many new users addicted, tobacco companies are pivoting to a new, more marketable product to keep the addiction cycle going.
@@Shajirr_ here is why the point is stupid as demonstrated by your faulty assumptions:
1. Everyone who vapes is doing so to quit smoking.
2. People who vape want to stop/taper off nicotine.
3. Vaping is "cooler to kids" therefore we should restrict nicotine access to adults.
The whole point of vaping is as an alternative nicotine delivery method. That's why they have nicotine in them.
As a young adult smoker this is a highly relevant subject to me. Not only have I had experiences with vaping myself, I also see it in both older generations, including one of my parents, as well as the younger generation still in secondary education.
Personally, I think all generalized questions, whether "Is it really safer than smoking tobacco?" or "Is vaping harmful at all?" are really poisoning the well, more than anything.
While yes, anecdotal, this comment section, similar to the ones in many other posts about this issue indicate at least a perceived, yet significant improvement in people's individual health. While this is clearly not empirical evidence, assuming most of these anecdotes are genuine, it at least indicates an improvement of quality of life and a potential for less significant health risks compared to smoking.
While, if proven within reasonable scientific standards, this sounds great. I also acknowledge the immediate concern, as well as the big question about the future: The immediate concern is of course the addictiveness and prevalence of it in minors, and the future naturally refers to the question regarding long-term implications. So how do we answer this?
In my opinion, not by outright banning it like many western governments have been doing in recent years. Rather, I'd say that I hope they learned from their history with the tobacco industry and began encouraging and funding research, especially in university or other non-commercial organisations to prevent a monetary-incentivized bias.
Prohibiting any drug that a large enough group of people crave has never really worked out for any government. And right now, vapes are incredibly easy to come by, at least here. Often made in Chinese factories with potentially undisclosed harmful or addictive chemical and of course, much easier for minors to buy as most illegal vendors don't ask for ID. If we can at least get a more clear indication of what presents immediate risk, what is likely to cause long-term problems and what is reasonably expected to only have 'minor' consequences, we can start allowing the regulated production of vapes here. At least assuring their quality is inline with the latest scientific consensus, and discourage dealers by having them compete with actual, well-established and regulated vendors, which also may help against the distribution to minors. Once this is legal path to obtain it has been established, I'd even be very much in favor of seeing legislation that would consider the illegal sale of these vapes to minors an offense of a similar scale of selling small quantities of hard-drugs to even further discourage this.
I realize this would still be far from protect, but considering how there is at least a realistic chance of vaping being a "healthier" alternative to tobacco, and seeing how many people it already helped to stay clear from cigarettes. I truly feel that we at least need to look significantly more into this cultural development, to understand it better, and to see if there is any way we might use it for good.
I started vaping back around 2014, initially used flavoured vape juice. After a while, I switched to making my own coil for the vape tank, putting my own cotton and at the latest stage all I used was Vegetable Glycerin. I gradually reduced the amount of Nicotine in the vape juice I used to the point that before I quit, all I would be vaping was the 100% Vegetable Glycerin.
Sadly, due to the stressful time I was going through and the fact that I wasn't getting any nicotine from the vape, I switched back to smoking.
During the time I was vaping, I was adamantly against tobacco companies getting involved with vaping and my way of protesting was buying my own Glycerin from the pharmacy, building my own coil for the tank and discouraging my friends from using trash like iQos or other cigarette alternatives brought by tobacco companies.
Looks like they won.
Vaping could've been a proper solution if the right people were to have been involved.
Instead we have this now.
This will happen to legalized cannabis too. The tobacco and pharma companies will almost certainly take over the low end of the market, and will not give a damn about pesticides etc.
I fell for this crap a couple years ago when I used to smoke and thought hey these vapes sound amazing from what I heard. After vaping for a couple of months I felt awful. Constantly out of breath and just feeling terrible. Then I switched to snus and now I'm in the process of quitting nicotine altogether.
Tobacco companies shouldn't be able to come to their own conclusions about nicotine products or anything of the sorts. Research should be always done out of curiosity of learning and providing the public with the most accurate information and NOT to make money by publishing half-assed research for companies to use as marketing material.
Thank you Dr. Karan for this amazing video❤
There are a number of very common foods we consume every day that contain nicotine. Tomato for instance.
Nicotine is not the problem. I suggest the demonisation of vaping is the distraction and the real focus is on the battle for control of the industry. It always comes down to greed for power and money
For every pack of cigarettes, 22-36 mg of nicotine will be inhaled. In tomatoes, the amount of nicotine is in 7.1 µg/gram.
22000-36000 milligrams for every pack..versus 7 MICROgrams per gram.
Sorry but this comparison simply doesn't work. I can say that eating rat poison isn't a problem - but I'll leave out the disclaimer that as long as one eats a microscopic tiny sliver of it.
I mean sure I agree that nicotine alone isn't the problem...it's nicotine AND the hundreds of other chemicals in cigarettes. Vaping _probably_ is much safer than cigarettes but that doesn't make nicotine safe.
Just blatantly ignoring the concept of dosage...
The state of California has a bunch of money locked up in Tobacco bonds. Vaping is a threat to that. Regardless of if vaping or smoking is healthier than the other - any mainstream anti-vaping stuff you see (TVs, Ads, articles) is coming from a position of corpo-government greed, not wellbeing for people.
@@laurensa.1803 I tried but I cannot work out what you mean by this. Can you explain to my small brain please
It's good that this topic finally is being brought up. I always thought the whole vaping thing being "much better than cigarettes" would turn out to be bs.
I had a family member try and convince me to vape instead of vaping saying it was healthier. I argued that there wasn't enough independent evidence to say that. He had didn't understand what i meant no matter how many times i explained about the need for research over decades. Aside from the fact that cigarette companies lied for so long about the their health benefits & owning the vape companies. He stopped touting vapes when he saw how some vape companies seemed to target young people. I thought my point was proved by popcorn lung deaths.
Now go and look at the Reality of the popcorn lung cases. Do some actual Research that you're pretending to lean on as ammunition in a debate you shouldnt be in.
Vaping is being purposefully demonized in the eyes of the general public.
Big Tobacco wins this, they JUST passed new laws in Australia that you need a script to get a vape from a pharmacist...
Guess who makes those vapes..
Big Tobacco wins. And they managed to trick everyone who doesnt even smoke in the first place to rally against vaping xD
Good job lads. You just communally FORCED millions of people back onto tobacco for shit that YOU have not even researched or interfaced with properly, basically out of spite... How utterly typical of humanity, Truly.
Vapes are still better than cigarettes. Yes vapes target young people, that’s pretty common. Teens smoke and drink. Popcorn lung happened because of poorly regulated vapes, and chemicals that were known to cause issues in popcorn factories.
to vape instead of vaping? i think you mistyped
popcorn lung was mostly from illegal thc vapes
@@ava4689also lots of the bad stuff was weed vapes which are even less regulated
In response to when you said "Can you imagine nicotine being added to any other consumer product? It would be a public scandal."
Caffeine exists, and is added to almost every drink now.
Addiction to anything is bad, but nicotine itself isn't that different compared to caffeine.
Caffeine doesn't provide instant euphoric gratification like nicotine can
Nicotine is a shorter acting stimulant compared to caffeine. It has greater binding affinity to your brain's dopamine receptors than caffeine. That, along with how short the buzz is, makes it much more addicting.
Nicotine causes high blood pressure and stroke. Erectile dysfunction in young adults.
it's not even close, though caffeine everywhere ain't good either
Nicotine on it's own is addictive but doesn't cause cancer. Linking the two is part of why a lot of people don't trust anti-vape disinformation.
School kids vaping OH the horror !!! back when I was in school we were all sniffing glue.
Well not all of us but sure 😂
Such a braindead answer. Because people did something bad doesnt mean its beter to do something less bad. We now know the dangers. Then you didn't. For example: asbestos, dangerous but used so much.
@@jasperboer9854 it's not better to do something better?
@@NawtApp yeah it is i just formulated my sentence incorrectly.
I smoked for 12 years from 15 to 29 and i smoked 20 per day. Vaping stopped me smoking and i vaped with nicotine for 1 year and 1 year reducing the muscle habit of vaping and smoking.
I haven't smoked in 5 years I'm a huge advocate for vaping as a way to stop smoking cigarettes
As it was intended
Not a single person is smoking because they think its healthy 😅
I think plenty of people vape because they think it's MORE healthy than tobacco..
@@mattmuzzy3720 not really, I've changed to vapeing strictly because of the smell and taste of smoke. Vaped for few years and quitted smoking at all last year. Also the change helped me a lot in quitting.
You would be surprised
@@mattmuzzy3720 It is less harmfull than tobacco
@@mattmuzzy3720 But chances are for most of those people the alternative isn't no smoking at all, it's cigarette smoking.
Great video Karan, we need to as a society raise awareness of the effects of vaping to our younger members of the society, great work.
Thanks for watching !
Exactly what effects? Any evidence?
People cant get over the fact its about harm reduction. Theres lots of research so far that proves its far less damaging. But then it goes to where its coming from and whats in the juice. If you make your own juice its a non issue. Also guess what? They make several lines of normal items injected with nicotine to avoid smoking, specifically on things like planes.
Smoked cigarettes for 10 years and managed to quit last year. Picked up vaping half a year later 🙃 actually annoys me a lot what this video tells me. Genuinely believed this 95% thing
One of the scariest trends I've seen is people arguing that smoking grass is not unhealthy... Like... It's literally SMOKING.
Smoking weed is completely different from smoking tobacco. Pretty much the only similarity is the smoking of dry plants
@@BLET_55artem55 Ah, yes. Inhaling smoke from one dry plant is definitely different from inhaling smoke from another dry plant. Good thing the one type of smoke isn't as bad as the other type of smoke.
Although, you are kinda right. The tar (and other ingredients) in cigs is very bad when inhaled. The best way to enjoy tobacco is to chew it.
Still, thinking that smoking weed won't increase the chance of getting lung cancer in the long run is a delusion.
0.001% of marijuana users drag down a full 20 joints a day. Scale matters.
@@iGame3D Smoking cigs is also fine, as long as people don't smoke more than a few cigs per day, so you're right. Same with vaping. Same with consuming alcohol. Same with sugar and salt intake. Scale matters, indeed.
@@BLET_55artem55yeah, and the smoking of dry plants is what causes lung damage
The reason vapes have nicotine is not because they want to make it addictive. Vapes were created as an alternative to smoking. One main reason smoking is hard to quit is nicotine, so vapes need to provide the user with nicotine so they can quit smoking. After they quit smoking they can lower the nicotine intake step by step since you can buy eliquids with different nicotine volumes or even with zero.
How do you know that’s the real reason, wouldn’t they then only sell vapes to smokers. Yet tons of non smokers are picking up these “anti addiction” things
@@FishSticker the original creator made it because he wanted to quit smoking, before even putting nicotine in. That came later.
wiki:
Han Li or Hon Lik (Chinese: 韓力; pinyin: Hán Lì; Cantonese Yale: Hon Lik) is a Chinese pharmacist who invented the modern electronic cigarette.
Hon's original goal was to help himself quit smoking cigarettes. Ultimately, this did not work. He is now a dual user, both smoking and vaping.[5][6]
He filed patents on his invention in China, the United States and the European Union based on his 2003 priority application in China. The first electronic cigarette was manufactured in 2004 in Shenyang, China, and was called "Ruyan."[7] The Ruyan had the same system used today: aerosolized liquid through a heating element powered by an electric battery.[8]
He is now working on another product, the "e-hookah", to be sold in the Middle Eastern and North African markets.[9]
I quit smoking by replacing it with vaping and with time slowly reduced vaping 'mg' power. Now been 2 years since i quit vaping 😊 happy to breathe again
Can you list the sources you mentioned in the description. Would be helpful.
I found you on tiktok months/a year ago, and to ow see you on youtube with 2 milly subs makes me smile!
well done Dr you done well 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
As a teacher, we have preventions, but kids are obsessed with these. They were told the negative effects and the consequences of instant death or health conditions but the problem is that these are so addictive and cool
Nice, thanks for the effort and upload 👍
vaping for 13 years now. the only way i could get off cigarettes that were certainly causing more harm.
it's not really the nicotine itself that is so addictive, it's all the other chemical additives and the products derived from combustion in combination that make it so addictive. by itself nicotine has about the same effects and addictiveness as caffeine.
every time a study was done to try and prove vaping was bad it would backfire spectacularly. my favorite was the study that tried to prove quitting cold-turkey was better than transitioning to vaping before quitting, any vaper would say "yes, it's better to quit cold turkey if you can." however the study showed that vaping will clear the lungs out 3 times faster than going cold turkey and i can attest myself it is far less painful and hardly any hacking up globs of crap out of your lungs.
the idea that people who take up vaping first are 30% more likely to start smoking is about the most "no-shit sherlock" statement i've ever heard.
big tobacco had to get on with the vaping trend because their profits, for the first time ever, started going down. they are also the biggest proponents of costly regulations because they force out the competition from smaller groups as they are the only ones who can afford the millions of dollars paid to governments to clear the regulations. it's a very cooperative arrangement.
i don't trust anything from big-tobacco. i've been making my own juice for over 10 years, it's very easy.
and it's absolute horseshit to say they are targeted towards kids, they are targeted towards the generations who are big on nostalgia. they are mostly targeted towards people trying to get off combustible cigarettes. that's why they have nicotine you baffoon.
How is that greasy shit going to clean your lungs faster lmao tobacco all natural id take a smoke any day
@@JonJon-mp1qx when you breath in the water vapor some of the built up tar attaches to it and you exhale it.
Breath air.
Great video, Dr Karan. A well-researched, delivered and edited presentation.
Thank you! This took some time!
@@DrKaran It shows!
20 seconds in and he states vaping isn't regulated? Maybe not in the UK, but in the US you have to be 21. Some states restrict the level of nicotine sold so... sounds pretty regulated to me. In your description you state "the argument isn't Smoking Vs Vaping...it's whether Vaping really is the best option we have as a smoking cessation tool"... ok, would you rather be shot with a 22 or a 44 magnum? Sure, both options you take a bulet, but I'll take the 22 over the 44 magnum ANY time. Better option: don't get shot at all, right? Same with smoking & vaping. I once asked a dentist if chewing mint leaves would be better than chewing tobacco. He said, 'You're better off just not putting stuff in your mouth.' Sound advice, but what if I'm gonna do it anyways? Definitely mint leaves over tobacco just like better vaping over smoking. But you're statement at the very beginning is very true: this is all a big experiment since the one thing we do not know is long term effects vaping has on the lungs. I'm going to watch the rest of the video now, but I REALLY hope that THC vapes purchased on the street don't get lumped into the mix cuz that is something COMPLETELY different.
By regulation I think he means the product details (i.e medical studies, patents, etc) itself, not necessarily which consumers are allowed to purchase said product.
If you don´t smoke, please do not try e cigs. No need to get addicted to nicotine. I´ve been vaping for 12 years, 10 years of smoking before that. E cigs helped me to get rid of cigarettes but I´m still addicted.
I gave up smoking with the help of vaping.
When I vaped, it was relatively new, we made our own juice and made up our own vapes.
And nicotine free.
I found I wasn't addicted to nicotine, as I gave up smoking straight away. And didn't crave.
I think we all have various degrees of addiction to different things.
Speak for yourself. Some of us have never smoked or vaped, and never will. I'm speaking for me and my whole family
@slbarbieri1725 your point?
@@seamanarts is that you should be a lot more concerned with your health
@@slbarbieri1725 and you need to mind your own!
@@seamanarts well aren't you just a little respectful human being? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I started vaping last year when a friend introduced me to it. I did it for like 6 weeks and I then started having intense pain in my right intercostal muscles after chopping wood. Around a month later it got so bad that I had an X-Ray at the doctors and was then immediately taken to the hospital.
It turned out that I ended up getting pleural effusion and empyema on my right lung and I was hospitalised for a month because of that.
I definitely do not recommend vaping at all. No better than smoking.
It was clearly gonna happen regardless of if you'd vaped lol.
Damn maybe u were just not built for that kind of stuff ...hope u get better
That's more of a 'be careful what you vape' cautionary tale.
@@Urmak85 Thanks. I was smoking pot before and admittedly overdid it a little but I wasn’t really having any notable issues with my health until after I started vaping.
Plus I’ve nearly recovered now. I still have a large scar on the right side of my chest next to the nipple and sensations from a surgery I had last September to remove the remaining liquid and pus. Plus a few chest drains which is probably the most painful experience I ever had…
But yeah I’m all good now, never touching vapes ever again.
@@Lurch-Bot even if that’s the case, it’s still a great idea not to vape at all.
200 chemicals the news said? but my bottle shows 4 ?
That’s also what I’m saying. What are these studies looking at when all bottles just say “pg, vg, flavourings, nicotine.”
They may look at the most weird chinese off brand crazy iced pre mixed liquids. @@slambobambo4152
There's a lot of misinfo out there regarding vapes. Even though this dude is a doctor I'm not sure if I would trust him on everything. He cites the truth initiative here to show that 96% of e-cigarettes are made by big tobacco, but the truth initiative is known for overexaggerating their claims against vaping by simply making stuff up. He also seems confused on why vaping contains nicotine, which is pretty surprising since the answer is so obvious. Nic in vaping is used to help smokers taper off their nic dose and quit eventually, and nic also gives you a "buzz" and enhances your focus which is the entire reason why people want to vape in the first place. Nobody wants to spend money on flavored air for no reason.
Also, the vast majority of serious injuries from "vaping", aren't actually from vaping. People vape illegal THC cartridges, then go to the hospital from injuries but say that they were just vaping nicotine not to get in trouble. This is the reason why pretty much nobody is getting EVALI anymore
Wasn't expecting this Dr Karan. But thanks for doing it.
The Royal College of Physicians have released a study on vaping. Easily found online. It has 5% of the harm of cigarettes.
6:10 7:50 This study was both possibly biased, and possibly based on improper methodology. You would know that if you watched the video instead of parroting what you hear.
Regardless if vaping is supposedly 5% as dangerous, that just means if you vape 20 times you're doing the same amount of damage as smoking. This is more likely than you think considering how convenient vaping is compared to smoking. You see people vaping in class, at work, just generally indoors, whereas smokers were generally restricted to smoking rooms and outdoors by right.
That's not how science works.
Are there any studies that somehow separate nicotine from smoking and direct tobacco products? Would love to see the merits and harms independently. Would make a great follow up. Haven't gotten a chance to watch the video yet but I will within the hour.
It’s my very limited understanding that nicotine imitates acetyl choline in the body/brain and can serve some sorts of healthy functioning for humans. It is an MAOI. Tobacco when used nasally with snuffs has very little health impacts from what I also understand. Smoking is a problem, larger part of the carcinogens in smoking tobacco are formed in its drying and curing processes.
I am glad i never started smoking or vaping growing up.. and all it took was a doctor telling me that if i were to start smoking i'd die within 5 years due to my chronic asthmatic bronchitis which made my lungs pretty weak and it helped that my mom said that if i were to start smoking she'd not only break my fingers but my hands arms and legs as well as throw me out of the house
I think we should be looking into psychedelics for the treatment of addiction. Psilocin (the psychoactive compound that gives magic mushrooms its effects, metabolised from psilocybin in the liver) has shown genuine promise in the treatment of addiction, both statistically and anecdotally. Our society has an infantile attitude when it comes to drugs, and the war on drugs is mostly to blame for that. Clearly, not all drugs are created equal, and we need to have the maturity and objectivity to understand drugs for what they are rather than blindly demonizing all recreational substances that aren't nicotine and ethanol. We also need to accept that people are going to use drugs no matter what and the only sensible way to deal with that is A. Not criminalising addicts, pushing them to the fringes of society where they can't get any help. B. Legalise and regulate the drug market, in order to eliminate the risks that relegating the drug market to the criminal underworld inherently has (adulterated and contaminated products, the use of gang violence to consolidate territory for distribution, etc).
One of your best vids yet!!
Thanks, spent a lot of
Time researching and working on it!
If you are hopelessly addicted to nicotine, which I was, switching to vaping would be a better alternative. Some people have little hope of quitting, having an alternative that is 95% less harmful is definitely a step in the right direction. Also nicotine is thought to have neuro-protective qualities that are thought to help prevent the development of alzeheimers. Also it just makes sense that the lack of tar in the vapor would be surely be preferred. Also vaping is a broad term, simply heating up tobacco without burning it is considered to be a form of vaping. Doesn't need flavours or pg vg.
I've got 2 in the mail. Don't plan to order any more but need to ween off. And i kept hitting 'empty' ones and I'm sure that's even worse
You got this, I believe in you! Don’t let those billion dollar corporations exploit you! When the long term effects of vaping are uncovered in the next decades, I don’t want you to be a subject in those studies
Try 4%, 3%, 2% vapes and go to 0%
Homie you're literally combusting cotton and metals. Enjoy vaping those empty pods mannnnn. Just go smoke a cig if you really can't get new ones, don't hit an empty pod..... Inhaling metals and cotton smoke
@@Styphoryte way ahead of you bud. That's pretty much what my comment said 😅
@Styphoryte it's not even cotton, just a plastic foam, that's the worst bit.
Well, Dr. Karan has made it clear to me... I am going to stop vaping and go back to my pack a day habit, he makes it sound like I'm better off smoking cigarettes so it must be the case.
I used to smoke, have done on and off for most of my life. I can easily quit smoking cuz I can’t actually stand the smell, flavour, or how it makes me feel. The last time I went to quit smoking tho, I started smoking vapes. It worked immediately. However, I’ve now been addicted to vapes for around 4 years. I desperately want to quit but it’s so difficult! I like the taste of them, they are my coping mechanism for my highly stressful life, they’re convenient, and they last ages. But I can see and feel the damage they’ve already done in these years. One time I was able to quit - when I gave it up the moment before I got on a plane to hike the Spanish mountains for a whole month, day after day after day. This was great cuz I forgot about it after a while since I was hiking constantly and enjoying myself; I don’t vape while I hike. But within a week of returning home, back to my very stressful and toxic life, I started again. I don’t know what it is about them but I just can’t give them up like I have many times with cigs. The patches, inhalers, and gum just don’t work. I hate this tho. I just want to breathe in the freshness of air and feel healthy again!!
try one of them Fum things