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Since its introduction to Europe in 2006, the concept of vaping has taken off, with the smell of cigarette smoke on the streets replaced or at least drowned out by the various sweet and comforting smells of flavoured vape pens. People all over the UK have already quit smoking with the help of a vape pen. 31% of smokers in 2019, to be exact. If you are a smoker, take a look at our reasons for why vaping is better for you and why you should switch.
Why switch from smoking?
If you decide to quit smoking, you should see results right away. 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your blood pressure and pulse will return to normal. Within eight hours your carbon monoxide levels will reduce to a normal level, which replaces oxygen so your oxygen levels will go up.
24 hours into your quitting, you’ve already decreased your risk of a heart attack. After 48 hours your damaged nerve endings will start to regrow, meaning your fingers will be less numb and you might notice smell and taste more.
72 hours in and you will start to breathe easier because the lungs have started to relax and open more.
If you make it a week, congratulations! You’ve hit the hardest milestone and you’re nine times more likely to quit for good. You’ll walk easier, have more energy, handle stress better and be less at risk for cancer, strokes, heart attacks and coronary heart disease.
Vaping is less harmful
Although there is warning label with every utterance of “vaping is better than smoking” informing you that we don’t yet know the full effect of vaping, it is true that vaping is far better for your health than smoking.
Vaping will deliver a dose of nicotine, set by you, without the harmful cigarette smoke alongside it. You can buy e-liquids in a variety of strengths of nicotine and can therefore ease off of your usual dose gradually.
Vaping will also use less chemicals, with Johns Hopkins Medicine noting that smoking cigarettes inhales about 7,000 chemicals whereas typically vaping uses about 80 chemicals. Vaping eliminates the need for combustion, instead a coil in the e-pen heats the juice inside, so the chemical by-products that are in tobacco smoke are also eliminated, like ammonia, benzene, formaldehyde, and lead.
The primary ingredients of e-liquid are vegetable glycerine and propylene glycol along with nicotine and flavourings. These two bases are safe enough when compared to the 20 or more carcinogens found in tobacco.
You can quit and avoid cravings
Cravings to smoke can come in a variety of forms, not all of them symptom-like in nature. They can manifest in psychological symptoms like a need to keep your hands and mouth busy or feeling like missing out on the social aspect of smoking.
A vape pen will satisfy your fingers and mouth by tricking them into thinking you’re using a cigarette. If your eyes need a little help to turn your brain off, there are even pens that look like cigarettes. To even appease your sense of smell, try Bo Vaping caps for a tobacco-flavoured e-juice that should satisfy the need to smoke. With all these you can join your mates outside the pub or workmates outside the office doors and feel like nothing has changed.
If you are looking to quit entirely, it need not be a cold turkey experience full of withdrawal and cravings. Gradually lower the dose of nicotine you’re buying in your e-liquids and find that your body is eased into quitting.
It costs less
Vaping’s initial cost may put smokers off at first, but it is a lot cheaper in the long term. The average pack of cigarettes cost £8-13. Being generous, half a pack a day will build up to £120-£182 a month.
The initial vape pen can cost as little as £9 and as much as £65, with e-liquids typically costing £3-5 which will run out in a fortnight for light to moderate users. There are also a lot of deals for multipacks of e-liquids and starter kits for vape on the market, which include a vape device of your choice, one or more atomizers, a vaping tank, charging cable and vape parts.
The people around you
Society at large will thank you for quitting smoking. We’ve heard enough about how overwhelmed the NHS to last a lifetime this year. A lowered chance of cancer or bronchitis will open up one bed.
Seeing cigarette butts float on the wind or clutter the streets doesn’t suit the romanticism of walking through town, so community members and council officials will thank you for the lack of littering that comes with vape pens.
One less aspect of contributing to climate change will be eliminated. Someone dreamed a dream, perhaps Greta Thunberg, that enough people quit smoking to shut down the tobacco factories emitting harmful chemicals into the lungs of Mother Earth.
Those closest to you will appreciate the smell of say mint or citrus rather than the bad breath and lingering stench of tobacco smoke. As well as the harmful results of second-hand smoke.
