This year may be the time where you study bachelor of medicine in Ireland, and chances are that you may see at least a bunch of gents and ladies in the campus smoking vapes as their typical routine. Despite the associated risks of vaping, many people still vape just as much as traditional smokers.
Some believe that e-cigarettes are less harmful than actual cigarettes, which is true, but it doesn’t make them any less unhealthy at all. In fact, the moment you start vaping, you are exposing yourself to their harmful side effects the longer you vape. Never trust anybody claiming that vaping is 100% safe. They do not know, or refuse to believe and continue on.
If you vape too, relax. You may feel that you are being called out in a negative light, but you should at least regulate your vaping or if you finally muster the will to do this, quit it entirely as it is not too late. Here are the exact side effects that you should expect at all times.
Addiction
Anyone telling you that vapes have no nicotine at all is a liar or genuinely have no knowledge of the fact that even when packages say that they are nicotine free, one of the ingredients of vape liquids always involve a small amount of nicotine.
People immediately get addicted to traditional and electronic cigarettes in the first place because of nicotine. Its properties will recalibrate your brain so you will crave more and more of itself, endangering your own health in return. It takes effort to actually quit smoking or vaping entirely because you are trying to resist the nicotine from nudging your brain to do it again.
So just saying that you will reduce or quit won’t do. If you feel like you need help in doing this, then seek so for your own good. Otherwise, you might get worse to the point where you will also smoke cigarettes, adding more fuel to the bonfire.
EVALI
If this is the first time you have heard of EVALI, then you better pay good attention, because this is serious business. EVALI, or e-cigarette or vaping associated lung injury, is a serious lung condition caused by Vitamin-E acetate, which is found in some e-liquids.
There was an outbreak of EVALI in late 2019 and early 2020 that put thousands of people into hospitals, and around 68 of them died. Although EVALI cases have declined, you can still get it if you vape long enough, just as you would get lung cancer if you smoke too much.
EVALI symptoms include coughing, shortness of breath, chest pain, fever, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain and fast heartbeats.
On another note, don’t believe any information that tells you to use THC-containing vapes instead of nicotine, because you will still be inflicted by EVALI regardless.
Asthma
If you have asthma, vaping in that condition is asking for further trouble on your lungs and worsen the disease. Even if you do not have the condition, vaping will still cause you to get this or other lung diseases anyway, so just throw away any thoughts of vaping at all and move on with your life.