Vaping or use of e-cigarettes is tobacco use through battery-operated devices where the use inhales and exhales the vapourised aerosols. The health impacts of nicotine do not change unless if the amount is reduced in the liquid. Most people who smoke practice vaping and cigarette smoking at the same time. However, vaping has more benefits than cigarette smoking depending on how it is done, and the quality of products used.

Here are reasons why people choose vaping to cigarette smoking in modern times.

1. Less Harmful Than Smoking

The user inhales the aerosols produced from heating the nicotine extracted from tobacco. By vapourising the nicotine, the user does not consume all substances and chemicals in the tobacco. This makes it a little bit safer than smoking because the user avoids all the smoke. However, it does not make it completely safe because most negative effects still remain.

Nevertheless, one of the causatives for lung diseases attached to smoking is smoke. It harms the lungs and respiratory system when the smoke is deposited on the linings. In fact, to be specific, they do not produce tar or carbon monoxide found in cigarettes and which are the two most harmful in tobacco smoke. Although the cigarette has over 7000 chemicals, most of which are harmful comes from the smoke. Vapourising, therefore, has some benefits because it helps avoid smoke.

The quality of the vaping product, however, matters. People using black market modified e-liquids end up with more lung injuries and diseases than those using quality vapers. Make sure to avoid those vaping products containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Those also using vitamin E acetate as a thickening agent should be avoided, especially if the user is a patient of EVALI.

2. Can Help Quit Smoking

The UK’s NHS records that many people have stopped smoking after shifting to e-cigarettes or vaping. This proves that it may help individuals who are on their way to stopping smoking. It helps to manage the withdrawal effects. First, vaping helps you to manage your craving for nicotine. This is so when ensuring the right amount of nicotine is in the e-liquid.

Clinical evidence from the UK also suggests that combining vaping with other interventions like face-to-face support helped people quit smoking. 2019 studies found that these people stand a better chance to quit smoking, twice as much compared to those using patches or gum.

Patches or gums are used as nicotine replacement products. However, it is important to consider that these benefits are achieved if you stopped smoking cigarettes completely.

3. Safe for use during pregnancy

For smoking mothers, using a cigarette is highly associated with baby development problems. These include weight problems, preterm birth, and mouth and lip defects on the baby. When a mother smokes during pregnancy, the baby has a higher risk of dying (known as sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS).

In comparison, vaping is less harmful to pregnant mothers and the baby carried. Many believe that it is less harmful, but the truth is it only exposes the baby and the mother to less harmful effects since there is no smoke. Besides, the benefits are increased if the level of nicotine in the liquid is reduced. This is because nicotine still exposes the mother and baby to harm. The benefits are only achieved if the vapourisers do not contain lead and other heavy metals, Benzene, Diacetyl, and other harmful compounds. 

Smoking mothers are recommended to use patches and gum when pregnant. Vaping can also help them withdraw from smoking.

4. More socially acceptable than smoking

The response of people when you start smoking in public tells how much people hate smoking. Smoking cigarettes expose other people to the health risk of tobacco use. This is one reason it is not acceptable socially. The second reason is the smell it leaves on clothes and their breath. In comparison, vaping helps avoid smoke and the related smell. Hence you can safely and comfortably do it in crowds, in buses, classrooms, and other areas without anyone ever raising a concern.

You can also carry the e-cigarettes in public without causing any health or other concerns. They are easier and more acceptable to handle than cigarettes. They are easier to carry and transport. Compared to cigarettes, you do not have to get concerned about damaging them by excessive squeezing while in pockets. This is a big reason why people are leaning towards purchasing e-liquid.

5. Tastes better

The vapourisers contain sweet and flavoured chemicals that people find better compared to the ones on a cigarette. Although this may increase addiction, it makes e-cigarettes more comfortable to use.

E-cigarettes also come in multiple flavour options. You can go with the best flavour that suits your taste preference.

6. Cheaper than cigarettes

Vaping is 93% cheaper than smoking cigarettes. The benefit depends on the number of cigarettes you can smoke per day. If you smoke 20 cigarettes, it will be 93% cheaper for you to use e-cigarettes than smoking. If you use 10 cigarettes per day, it becomes 88% cheaper to use e-cigarettes than smoking. Further, it is 76% cheaper to vape than using 5 cigarettes per day.

7. Less harmful to the environment

Repeated use of cigarettes exposes our environment to harm. Smoking releases toxic substances into the environment. The toxic chemicals can also end up being deposited into the soils and waterways. Hence, they can affect plants, soil organisms, sea animals, and other organisms that rely on water and soil systems. Vaping products contain fewer toxins and therefore have a lesser related impact than cigarette usage.

Cigarettes produce smoke which increases global warming. The smoke also affects plant transpiration and other plant chemical processes when it is deposited on leaves. This affects food production. Cigarettes also release more carbon monoxides than e-cigarettes because the latter contain fewer tobacco chemicals. They also do not contain the particulate matter found in cigarettes and which causes lung diseases, bronchitis, lung cancer, and emphysema.

Cigarette butts also litter the environment when thrown away. In comparison, e-cigarettes are recyclable and can be used several times. All a person is concerned about is charging the batteries that power the device. The vaping liquid is also refilled.

In Conclusion

Ultimately, it is very important that people understand the pros of giving up smoking in order to enhance their chances of long-term health. However, it is also interesting to read about why people are beginning to take up vaping and lean towards e-liquids. The times are changing, and the population is moving with the times. Technology is becoming more advanced, and vaping will become safer and more accepted as it continues to get better.

For many, is it the environmental factor alongside long-term health which is why many people are encouraging others to make the switch? Vaping and e-liquids also allow people to switch it up a bit with the flavours, meaning there is never too much of the same. All-in-all, although there are many reasons as to why people are choosing to vape over smoking in modern times but these three are right up there.