• joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    That’s true. Still, I feel just fine after all these years, and my lung capacity is way better than it used to be when I smoked cigs. That’s not to say that it’s perfectly safe, absolutely nobody should ever start vaping unless it’s for harm reduction.

    • hotspur [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      18 hours ago

      Yeah my experience with them mirrors yours. I wouldn’t claim they’re safe, or they won’t kill me, but there are multiple major ways they don’t affect me the way cigarettes did—sense of smell, lung capacity/congestion, awful smell leaching into clothes, etc.

      From a harm reduction standpoint, I think they have a good use case. I don’t like nicotine gum or pouches, I want the throat hit/nicotine feeling. Early vapes didn’t really do it for me, but I kept with em to make SO happy. Then I found Nov salts and that gave me what I was looking for.