What vaping really does to your body | BBC News

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• AB

  @ABagala1 · 2 months ago

  For the first time ever I agreed with everything said in this video on vaping. Well done. I was expecting a distorted doom and gloom story. The UK is a world leader on thinking and attitude about vaping.

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• AN

  @andraszoltan2 · 2 months ago

  I'm 47 and was a habitual 0mg nicotine vaper (every minute or so) until 9 months ago - having previously been a smoker and using vapes to get off that (started with a 2 week cruise that I didn't want to ruin by nipping off for a cigarette all the time - much easier to vape). I never thought I'd give up vaping, but became driven to do so when I started taking my fitness a bit more seriously. In the end, I found it easy to stop vaping once I started going to the gym and realising my lung capacity and O2 saturation was awful. I found I got to a point where I could feel I should be able to breathe 'more', but physically I just couldn't get any more into the lungs. Within a couple of weeks of stopping, I was no longer coughing up clear phlegm every morning, and my breathing began improving noticeably. 9 months on, I genuinely can't believe I used to spend so much time - and so much money - doing something so completely pointless.

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• MD

  @mdh290772 · 2 months ago

  It's not about public health, It's about taxing if it was about public health they would of banned cigarettes and tobacco years ago.

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• GA

  @gatallica_ · 2 months ago

  The problem with disposables (and now refillable) is they use salt nic which works quicker and is seriously addictive. I use freebase so I can control how much I use

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• AR

  @arranmc182 · 2 months ago

  I vape but never used disposables or pre filed pod systems as its harder to know what juice is in them.

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• AR

  @arranmc182 · 2 months ago

  General rule of thumb is if a place says no smoking that automatically apply to vaping, dont be the dick that vapes then says there is no sign to say they cant.

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• HA

  @Harry-WHU · 2 months ago (edited)

  I vape on and off but the one thing about vape is that it’s at the ready always unlike a cigarette that needs sparking, rolling and eventually goes out. So you end up vaping a lot more so you take a lot more nicotine so is more addictive in my opinion

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• DA

  @DavidAlsh · 2 months ago (edited)

  I started vaping for no good reason at all. After about a year, I ran the numbers on the equivalent number of cigarettes I was consuming per day. It was 60 - 80 per day. I didn&apos;t even feel it. Horrified by that realisation, I&apos;ve since been diluting my nicotine juice down and over the last 3 months, I&apos;ve gone from ~70 cigarettes/d to about 5/d. Now that I&apos;ve adjusted to this low dose, I&apos;m about ready for the final boss - dropping it entirely. Horrible habit.<br><br>The crazy thing is, in Australia, the materials to dilute vape juice are illegal and buying premixed low strength vape juice is just as expensive as buying the highest strength available. Originally that&apos;s what got me, I bought the high strength stuff, expecting to dilute it, but couldn&apos;t get the PG/VG/flavours so I just used the high strength juice thinking &quot;yeah I&apos;ll get around to it&quot;.

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• MA

  @matblac19 · 2 months ago

  This would have been nice if it was tied to research papers, if you really wanted to educate the people

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• BO

  @Bodybybodyy · 2 months ago

  Vaping helped me quits cigarettes and now I don’t even vape 🎉

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• JO

  @JohnR-q7k · 2 months ago

  Please get rid of that annoying &quot;chat bubble&quot; sound effect

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• SE

  @SeraphXS · 2 months ago (edited)

  been vaping since 2009, had no issues, no battery explosions, no poisonings, nothing, I don&apos;t think it has calories, as it&apos;s a vapour, that you inhale, I do love the loaded language, is it harmless, LOL Alcohol isn&apos;t harmless, how many people does that kill? but sure, vaping needs to be warned against....

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