If you’re a woman who still smokes cigarettes, you know how difficult it is to maintain an untenable position. How many times has your BFF, your significant other, your parents, maybe even your kids begged you to stop smoking? How many really scary articles have you read about the health dangers of smoking? How many TV news reports have you watched on the same subject?
And yet you still smoke. For what it’s worth, you’re not alone. Despite America’s anti-smoking campaign that began way back in the 1960s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that over 38 million American adults still smoke.
Often you hate yourself for it, but for whatever reason, you just can’t quit. Well, have you considered vaping instead of cigarette smoking?
What is Vaping?
If you’re new to the word vaping, you need to know that it means using e-cigarettes and/or a vaporized nicotine delivery system such as a vape mod, juul, vape pen, etc. instead of traditional cigarettes. Yes, you heard right. When you vape, you do not inhale any smoke. And studies bear out the fact that it’s not the nicotine itself that damages your health; it’s all that other stuff contained in the smoke you’re inhaling. That’s why second-hand smoke is such a raging health issue that has resulted in virtually all cities and towns banning smoking in restaurants, bars, offices, and everywhere else open to the public – including many sidewalk cafes and open-air sports stadiums.
Not surprisingly, vaping represents a considerably more healthy practice than cigarette smoking. For one thing, you can choose the tiny nicotine level you prefer in your vape juice, the most popular being 25 mg and 50 mg. For another, you can choose how you want to experience your vaping. You have the following three options:
- Direct lung approach: You inhale the vapor basically the same way you inhale when you smoke; generally this is the preferred approach when using a low-nicotine vape juice.
- Cigar puff approach: Rather than inhaling the vapor, you puff on it the same way as one puffs on a cigar; the nicotine goes into your mouth, but not directly into your lungs since you blow out the vapor before inhaling it.
- Mouth-to-lung approach: With this approach you sort of suck on your e-cigarette as though you were sucking coffee through a narrow straw; this gives you the experience most similar to traditional cigarette smoking.
Vaping’s History
Again not surprisingly, America’s all-out anti-smoking crusade quickly resulted in evaporation nicotine delivery systems and vaping was born.
You can rest assured that over the past 50-some years, both e-cigarettes themselves and the various vaping systems have all been thoroughly tested as to their safety and health benefits. That is why you can have complete confidence that your vape juice will contain only the following:
- Water
- Vegetable glycerin (VG)
- Propylene glycol (PG)
- Your choice of nicotine level (25 mg, 50 mg, or none at all)
- Food grade flavoring
Vape Juice
Wait a minute. Vape juice? What’s that? That’s the liquid in your e-cigarette or other delivery system that produces the vapor. You will also be glad to know that vape juice tastes much better than cigarettes do. Why? Because it comes in a myriad of flavors ranging almost from A to Z, including the following:
- Blue Raspberry Lemonade
- Carrot Cake
- Fresh Pineapple
- Fruit Punch
- Georgia Peach
- Green Apple
- Iced Green Apple
- Iced Honey Dew
- Iced Juicy Watermelon
- Iced Red Mango
- Iced Winter Green
- Oatmeal Cream Pie Cookie
- Strawberry Acai
- Strawberry Kiwi
- Sweet Caramel Tobacco
All in all, vaping gives you a real choice to cigarette smoking – a choice that’s far healthier for you. So what are you waiting for? Think of how proud your friends and family will be of you when you become a vaper instead of a cigarette smoker.