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@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t like nicotine gum or pouches

Same, it's the possibility of replacing the smoke break ritual that did it for me.

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah forgot that one—that’s a huge one also.