Just to chime in. If you have concerns because you've heard that "vaping is bad", do some research into it. While there are billboards and other advertisements against vaping in the USA, Public Health England says that vaping is at least 95% healthier [1].
Just because it's better doesn't mean it's good. Inhaling large amounts of steam or smoke is bad for your lungs, even if it doesn't contain any carcinogens. Also, nicotine is addictive, so taking it "just because" is a bad idea (taking it to treat something is a different story, obviously). Of course, if you're looking to intake nicotine for some reason, vaping is vastly superior to smoking.
"5 people killed in riot" is still a 95% improvement over "100 people killed in riot" but that doesn't make it a good thing.
I actually don't think vaping is good because it allows the nicotine user to never realise it's possible to get over their addiction instead requiring constant replacement of smoking. This is not needed if they accept fully the difficulty of giving up but realise that every exertion of will power promotes their escape and weakens smokings hold on the user.
True, but being healthier than smoking is not exactly a high bar.
If you must take nicotine as a nootropic, take it orally. Vaping is much more addictive than letting a 2mg lozenge slowly dissolve. Relative addictiveness of different ROAs is directly correlated with how quickly the drug takes effect, and when you vape the nicotine hits your bloodstream within seconds.
Also I can't mention enough that if you take an MAOI you should stay far away from nicotine.
You can vape with no nicotine at all, or you can vape from 0.1mg/ml all the way past 50mg/ml if you wanted to. "Vaping is much more addictive" is like saying sugar is more addicting from a glass of chocolate milk than than it is from a bag of gummy worms.
And I'd say 95% healthier is a pretty good margin.
I would tend to agree that lozenges might be a better option, unfortunately for myself I get hiccups from the lozenges and nightmares from patches so I have made the choice to vape over smoking. I am a bit concerned with the glycerin and glycol that is enentering my bloodstream may be causing me to gain weight but that might just be me self medicating with food aswell. Hands down vaping is better than smoking as a nicotine delivery method..imho
part of the problem with this is that, from what i've heard, the actual action of putting the cigarette to your mouth is addictive as well. in many cases, people will advise smokers to do the action with a pen or some such to help with that. i can only imagine that vaping would be even closer, and help even more
"Currently available evidence indicates that electronic cigarettes are by far a less harmful alternative to smoking and significant health benefits are expected in smokers who switch from tobacco to electronic cigarettes."
SparkyMcUnicorn|9 years ago
http://notblowingsmoke.org/
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...
chipperyman573|9 years ago
"5 people killed in riot" is still a 95% improvement over "100 people killed in riot" but that doesn't make it a good thing.
andy_ppp|9 years ago
brianpgordon|9 years ago
If you must take nicotine as a nootropic, take it orally. Vaping is much more addictive than letting a 2mg lozenge slowly dissolve. Relative addictiveness of different ROAs is directly correlated with how quickly the drug takes effect, and when you vape the nicotine hits your bloodstream within seconds.
Also I can't mention enough that if you take an MAOI you should stay far away from nicotine.
SparkyMcUnicorn|9 years ago
And I'd say 95% healthier is a pretty good margin.
sigmaprimus|9 years ago
martinald|9 years ago
Can you explain more? You mean in addiction terms (I'd agree) or something else?
rickycook|9 years ago
hondo77|9 years ago
flubert|9 years ago
"Currently available evidence indicates that electronic cigarettes are by far a less harmful alternative to smoking and significant health benefits are expected in smokers who switch from tobacco to electronic cigarettes."
drcross|9 years ago
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