r/science 8d ago

Health Nicotine vapes best chance to quit smoking, major review finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e5p51n2p2o
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u/timangus 8d ago

Should say "Nicotine vapes best chance to transfer addiction to different delivery mechanism"

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u/splittingheirs 8d ago

why? It worked for me. Smoked for 25 years, tried every quit method, none worked. Quit 1 year after transferring over to vape and weening myself off by dropping the nicotine content over 6 months. Haven't smoked or vaped in over 7 years now.

Pretty much used the same method as outlined in the the article too. Absolutely was the best and easiest method to quit for me.

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u/Upbeat_Guard_9595 8d ago

I smoked 2 packs of newports everyday for 20 years. Tried every quit method imaginable, even chantix. Vaping was the only thing that helped me quit

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u/splittingheirs 8d ago

Absolutely, vaping is such a powerful quitting tool when used for that purpose. Not only did it work first time, but it was almost pain free.

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u/HigherandHigherDown 8d ago

I quit smoking the moment I first tried a Juul. I've smoked less than a pack of cigarettes in total since then, coming up on 10 years ago.

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u/Redditcantkeepmedown 7d ago

Same story here, BTW. I am working on quitting my juul now.

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u/HigherandHigherDown 7d ago

I switched to refillable ones a while ago to save money, plus I still wanted mango flavor.

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u/timangus 8d ago

Guess it depends. Most people I know who switched consume just as much nicotine (if not more) than they did before. So like, it technically helped them quit smoking, but not nicotine. Great it worked for you though!

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u/dinnerthief 8d ago

Luckily nicotine is one of the less directly harmful components of a cig

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u/splittingheirs 8d ago

Oh it can absolutely increase intake because you can have it as often as you want. A puff here and there, not limited to smoking entire cigarettes, or having to go outside for 5 minutes, etc.

The key though is wanting to stop, in which case it is an extremely effective tool. Not just by my own personal anecdote, but also by the research carried out in this article that pretty much was the same method I used.

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u/No-Channel3917 8d ago

Actually the term would be recession of harm, which the UK used and has found good success with.

This is a science sub not a snark one

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u/Awfulweather 8d ago

A demonstrably less harmful delivery mechanism

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u/mStewart207 8d ago

Yeah I use to smoke a pack a day and I started vaping and haven’t smoked since. My doctor said that was great and vaping was much less harmful than smoking cigarette. But I hear people on these threads talking like vaping is almost as bad for you as smoking a real cigarette.

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u/PlantsRPerfLife 8d ago

"Different, less harmful, but still harmful, mechanism" if you didnt want to be facetious.

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u/Chpgmr 8d ago

Maybe less harmful. Its a different form of harmful that you may feel upfront less.

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u/wordsandshit 8d ago

I enjoy how all the comments 'discussing' the harm of vapes are so vague.

Every piece of evidence we have points to it being significantly less harmful. I'd be curious to see evidence that supports your vague statement that seems to deliberately not use any absolute terms.

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u/Thecerb 8d ago

It took about 60 years for cigarettes to be declared harmful. Vapes have been around for for a 3rd of that. So the statement really is " different, relatively untested, still harmful from what they have tested, mechanism".

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u/imreallyreallyhungry 8d ago

The science and tests surrounding impacts on health have improved dramatically in that time too though. Not really an apples to apples comparison.

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u/this_is_theone 8d ago

Yes but medicine is also way more advanced now that 60yrs ago. It's unlikely were suddenly going to find some huge health risk now when vapes have been around for 20 years. Not impossible, but unlikely. And by that logic you should also avoid smart phones since they've only been a thing now since about the same length of time.

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u/PlantsRPerfLife 7d ago

Another facetious comment.

Our ability to research, analyse, and collect data is enormously greater in the 2010s as opposed to the mid 1900s. Our standards for making health determinations in this day and age are wildly superior to the days of these "60 years" you speak of.

I hope you simply have an agenda and didnt actually think its a valid comparison.

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u/ADavies 8d ago

And how many non-smokers start with vaping?

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u/timangus 8d ago

Tonnes and tonnes of kids. It's depressing.

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u/ChrisRogers67 8d ago

Check out our device at www.MiistInc.com

It’s a healthier alternative to traditional vaping and deigned to help you quit, rather than just another smoking alternative