One year after putting down that pack of cigarettes, your risk of developing coronary artery disease falls by 50% and continues to improve over time the longer you don’t smoke. After five years have passed, almost all of the toxins present in cigarettes have left your body, which allows your blood vessels and arteries (which have been constricted by the effects of smoking) to expand again, further improving blood flow and circulation in the body.
This leads to a variety of health benefits, including drastically reducing the risk of having a stroke or a heart attack. Switching from smoking to vaping gives you all these benefits too, as the vapour produced by e-cigarettes and e liquids don’t cause damage to your heart in the way that a pack of cigarettes would.
But overall, the advice in the UK is that vaping is 95% safer than smoking and that smokers should switch and non-smokers should not take up vaping. The British Heart Foundation said 50 people every day die as a result of heart problems caused by smoking.
“Stopping smoking is the single best thing you can do for your heart health,” the charity said.
Prof John Britton, director of the UK centre for tobacco and alcohol studies at the University of Nottingham, said: “This randomized trial provides clear evidence of a reduction in a marker of cardiovascular disease risk in people who switch from smoking to vaping.
Different people take to vaping in different ways and timelines. Some take one puff, and that’s it, they toss the cigarettes and vape from then on and never look back. Others take a while to get used to it, as it is not as simple as smoking a tobacco cigarette. The tobacco cigarette is the ultimate in simple design, all brands look the same and it is a case of light up and smokes.
Vaping requires a little more maintenance. There is e-liquid to use and refill, there may be coils to change and there is a slightly different technique when inhaling. You need to make sure that you get the right strength of nicotine for you, depending upon how much you smoke, and you need to get the flavor right. Tobacco or menthol e-liquid are often the first flavor of choice, but once you get used to vaping, you may go for something more exotic. Vaping Fan? Check this online vape shop they have a huge stock of e-liquids and vaping kits at competitive prices.
Some people deliberately avoid tobacco flavors as they want to move away from smoking as quickly as possible. Vaping is more involved than smoking, but almost everyone gets used to it extremely quickly. As already mentioned, we would advise that for your first purchase you either visit a vape store, where staff can guide you to the right e-cigarette and e-liquid for you. Plus show you how to care for your e-cig. Also, while buying choose perfect wax pens batteries if you are planning for vape sessions that would long last.
Side effects of switching to vaping
- Dry mouth – E-liquid contains Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerin, which are hygroscopic. This means that they absorb water. They will take the water from your mouth and add it to the vapor you breathe out. As a result, you may experience a dry mouth. This sounds dramatic, but simply increasing the amount of water you drink until you are used to vaping usually helps.
- Coughing – Almost all smokers cough when they first make the switch to vaping. Vapour can feel ‘thicker’ when you first start vaping, this slight change in sensation can trigger a cough. Also some smokers can take a day or two getting used to the change in inhalation technique. But don’t worry; any cough will pass for most people within a day or two.
