I smoked cigarettes for 20 years. Up to 30-40 a day in 2014. My x-rays always showed that I was a heavy smoker, nothing terrible, but clearly visible. Switched to vaping completely in 2014. In 2019 I had an x-ray done because of an allergic reaction. I asked the doctor, if there is still something visible from my decades as a smoker. Doc stared at me "You were smoking cigarettes? No way!". So in 5 years my lung totally recovered from smoking. I don't need any more confirmation, that vaping is way less harmful. That's my personal experience. Ymmv.
I smoked for 29 years, I was at 2 packs a day when my voice started randomly going out, ENT found a lump on my vocal cord and I quit smoking cigarettes that day and switched to the vuse vape. I'm happy to say that after having the lump removed it came back as benign and I have switched to a refillable vape. Today is day 24 with no cigarettes
In Jesus name you will be ok ps I smoke cigarettes since I was a teen and I am 42 now thank God for ecigarettes and should be used as a tool for smoking cigarettes
Might i get cancer, we'll see, but my ability to properly breath, no wheezing, and can finally run again without running out of breath after a few steps speaks volumes to myself. My skin looks less bleh, i dont stink like a casino anymore, im also not as on edge or freak out mode at work needing a puff like i was on smokes, so mentally and physically i havent felt this good since high school (im 30) so yeah i cant verify vaping 100% safe but what is, and i dramatically feel the difference
There is a large percentage of regular people and doctors who still believe that nicotine is where you get cancer 🤦🏼♂️ education is key so keep these coming Nick GrimmGreen 👊😎
@@Po7ent nothing we ingest is good for us including 99% of food but from my own experience I feel better now vaping for the last 5+ years than I did any day I was smoking and that’s the whole point. Minimal side effects from nicotine is something I will take over the results of smoking and as an adult I choose to use whatever makes life manageable without flat out destroying myself.
My Dr is very glad I quit smoking and started vaping years ago. My last lung scan was clear, my heart tests came back perfect yes literally perfect with ZERO plaque build up in my arteries.
Adding this to my favorites so that anytime people start talking trash about my vaping I can show them a quick 5 min video on how wrong they are. Thank you.
I started vaping senior year of high school in 2013. I researched my first vapes with the help of you. Just this year I was able to quit, I am 10 weeks nicotine free and it feels great to be free.
This was a good one Grimm. I’ve been vaping instead of smoking since 2012..with the help of your channel, Phil Busardo, and Dimi Agrafiotis…a big 🍻🍻to the three of you..?
Here's a truth in 2008 I was HEAVY smoker after 6 year driving OTR coast to coast cigarette after cigarette I noticed something was wrong I could feel myself needing help went to the doctor after chest x-rays I was speechless I was killing myself tried gum it made my gums bleed tried a patch it left me with blisters my body rejected everything! But my heart was dependent on the nicotine!! My doctor asked to try vaping it helped but just wasn't enough then after following your channel along with others and exsplaing to my doctors that there were higher levels of nicotine than the 12 I was currently using I bumped upto 24ml and never needed a cigarette again ! With in a year was down to 18 ml 6monthes later I was @ 12 once again I have worked myself down to 3ml and I'm alive today because of it when I got hospitalized with covid and seen my new chest x-rays I was asked by the hospital why I told them I was a smoker ? They told me well you must have not been a heavy smoker I laughed they dug up my old x-rays and sent me down for more as they have never seen lungs clear up like mine has ! Bottom line I told them for the first year I coughed up brown crap all the time I will tell you the tar and chemicals got coughed up my lungs don't show the damage they once had bottom line is I agree vaping isn't healthy but it's not cigarette !!!!
you dont need to be a doctor or scientist to know you yourself feel million times better when vaping than you did when smoking in my opinion we know what harms our body and what not! but its always good to have scientists and doctors that are NOT paid by bloomberg tell us the facts
Been vaping since 2012 back when you built your own cartomizers but that’s besides the point I can’t stand the smell of a cigarette anymore I can only imagine how bad they taste actually don’t even want to imagine anyway vaping saved my life also saved my wallet thank you for continuing to spread the positive word about vaping MR. GrimmGreen! I love vaping I will say I only vape certain vape juice brands this is because I don’t like a ton of sweetener added to my juice if you layer the juice right you really don’t need much sweetener if any, anyway thank you GrimmGreen I’ve been watching you for years now and you have always done your best spreading a positive message about vaping thank you!!!
I smoked for more then 25 years and started vaping 5+ years ago. I felt much better when i was vaping and lowered my nicotine bit by bit. This year ( January) i did quit completely and that is thanks to vaping. I think i would have failed if i had to quit from regular smoking.
Well done, man. I remember finding you way back when a large portion of vaping culture was tearing apart 510's and sticking the connectors in flashlights with camera batteries. Your content went a long way toward helping me understand the alternatives that were available, and I did eventually use vaping to quit nicotine entirely. Keep up the good work. You have definitely made a positive impact.
I agree 💯% with everyone here. Education is the key. With truthful education all the lies and misinformation spread by those who intend on eradicating vaping will fall on deaf ears. I hope I live to see the day when the lie's and misinformation stop. Thanks Nick as usual you are the man.
Thank you for putting this information out there. These anti vaping commercials are getting ridiculous, vaping ruining lives, people losing everything, etc.
Brother, I do appreciate what you do for us! I'm coming on 28 months without smoking constantly. I've hit some very stressful moments this year and reached out for a cigarette. Maybe 10 cancer sticks in the 28 months. All I know is you all out here doing these videos,has helped me quit. I thank you all for that brother.
Currently sharing knowledge and information to any cigarette smoker that’s open to it because of you. Just spoke to someone today about higher nicotine vape to start, and lowering after you kick the death sticks etc. God bless
Thank you so much for a quick simple video that I can show my family who listens to the news and needs to hear our side of it with proven studies. I went on here looking for a video to show them and boom you posted exactly what I needed at the exact time because of what the news been saying lately. So thank you very much for putting this in a simple quick video. Highly appreciate you man and will continue to support!
@@GrimmGreen🙏🙏🙏 I'm with you on that one! Enough of this bogus "For the sake of the innocent children bs!" Everyone knows it only has to do with lost tobacco revenue, health safety is a distant last compared to $$$
My doctor told me "vaping has proven worse than smoking, as it contains plastics among other things" I told him "my vape juice has PG, VG, and a bit of synthetic nicotine... No plastic" lol, I also said I refuse to stop, because it helped me quit smoking and breathe better, and my e-juice is delicious lol. Grimm, you truly are a help man, you're the reason I was able to quit cigarettes. Much love man.
Definitely look for another primary care doctor, seriously that why i liked the doctor i landed, she was such a nice person and knew smoking was bad for me but she didnt push an agenda on me, she knew i knew the risks and just took care of me as a normal person. She knew that talking down to someone who isnt ready to quit doesnt work. When i told her i finally switched to vaping she was proud i quit tobacco and thankfully didnt go turn that into a "vaping is bad" rant.
My doctor is fine, he stopped pestering me after I gave him a look. I was being treated for blood pressure is the only reason It got brought up. After he learned I quit smoking back in February he dropped the subject. It's very likely my stage 2 hypertension is due to quitting smoking, I think my body is still trying to find its equilibrium. However, I am on blood pressure pills now and my blood pressure is better. Still vaping those buttery blends though! So tasty
I was more pointing toward the fact that drs are more prone to leading with the trends or topics of the day. Someone screams "oh lawd my 12 year old is vaping" and all of a sudden, vaping is the problem. I remember from school when I was younger, smoking used to be a cure all in society as well, and now look at it. Vaping is just the victim of bullying right now, just like weed was back when lol. Now you can go down the street with a proper ID where I live and buy a tote of the shit.
GRIM! Good to see you. I have not been here for a while. I'm so glad that your journey and channel continues. I remember watching your review videos back in the day before many of your visible tats. I have been vaping for over 13 years. That means I have not been smoking for 13 years! As a matter of fact, if it wasnt for me replacing my car, there would still be a pack of cigarettes in my glove compartment with 17 cigarettes in it from the day I got my first e-cig in the mail (way before there was a vape shop every couple of miles). Keep up the great work!
Excellent video Nick! This information, basic and undisputed as we vapers know it is, appears to be forgotten and buried down for the general population. As long as "They" keep triyng to forbid and destroy this life saving products is very important to keep this information out there for the smokers, all the time.
Grimm, just can't thank you enough for all pro vape advocacy in regards to harm reduction you have done through the many years. You have done the work to bring us the information from uncorrupted professional people of medical science on nicotine vaping and harm reduction , so I am very thankful to them also for their efforts. Grimm, your advocacy and commitment is unwavering. You have stood the ground for all vapers and for the truth. Thank you again, brother.
I know I could breathe 95% better 2 weeks after switching to vaping and I had been smoking for 35 years. I vaped hard for 7 years after quitting cigarettes and my lungs still cleared up. You would think going straight from damaged lungs (3 pk/day habit by the end of it) to vaping, according to those trying to outlaw it, I would never have recovered. Now I don't smoke or vape and have no reoccurring urges to ever smoke again. Still, I am surprised on how fast I recovered from smoking at 50 years of age. All I can say is, those trying to stop this life saving tactic are nothing short of evil. Especially considering how most of them, like everything else these days, are basing it on contrarian, left vs. right politics. They need to stop letting non-smokers drive policy for this. I should thank you while I am here, I suppose. Your show was paramount in helping me quit and all of that fiddling with vapes and winding my own coils kept me interested enough to stick with it.
I usually watch mike vapes videos and used to watch other tubers back in the day before youtube ran them off. Grimm can sometimes have a smug attitude towards some of my fav vape brands, but never the less he doesn't trick or use his viewers. Grimm you've played a part in my beginning journey to quitting cigs. I bought the v1 twister around the same time that you did a review on it. I dont always dig your views but you have kept it real and have given me some peace of mind about if i should continue vaping or not. Hell even if ut turns out we were all wrong about vaping being better. At least we were trying to help each other quit.
I converted all of my friends to vaping and our lungs have never been in a better state - no more coughing, no more ungodly amounts of phlegm and shortness of breath.
yes! Then why the flavor bans? We're getting new TAX laws in south africa that are "i can live with as a MTL user", but the bigger bottle guys are almost 3x the price increases coming their way. Thanks for the info Nic !
I smoked for 20 years, vaped for about 6 years. The only downside i can think of to vaping is that i always felt like there was a "film" in my throat and was always violently clearing my throught. Like when you have a cold and you have phlegm to spit up. Now that i stopped vaping i dont have that annoying feeling. Cigarettes made me feel crappy all the time. Couldn't breath well, wheezing, etc.
The cardiologist I’m currently seeing told me to keep vaping because he hasn’t seen enough information from studies to have a negative opinion. The doctor told that if vaping keeps me from smoking cigarettes then so be it.
Showed this to my mother, she just wants to continue to smoke herself to death. I am in England, you can literally go into the hospital and buy a vape like a packet of crisps or bottle/can of fizzy drink. In my opinion, can of Fanta or other sugar filled sodas is more harmful than vapour from nic juice.
Excellent video -- concise, referenced, & necessary (tho' it really shouldn't be, given the overwhelming weight of the evidence available). I do take issue w/ the common refrain, used in your video, that giving up smoking will "stop people from dying." No, it won't. What it will do is reduce one's risk of contracting certain potentially fatal illnesses. i know: That's essentially what you meant -- dying prematurely from smoking-caused illness -- and you wanted to be brief. I get it but feel that, given how vaping is under relentless attack by well-funded interests, we who advocate for it need to be extra careful & precise in our advocacy so as not to give those interests any ammunition. Thanks, again. i love your work!
I got weird side effects from vaping heavily for 2 years, yes my lungs felt better, my eyes & teeth looked better , but my skin went pale & my ears would ring loudly & my veins were constricted, then my left leg started swelling up & also got weird lumps growing under my nail’s causing my nails to grow funny, I quit vapes & went back to smoking cigarettes & the bad health stuff got better but still there. The bad side effects could be from covid as that’s why I quit smoking & started vaping ( couldn’t breathe, needed nicotine) . ✌️🇦🇺
Very sad that after so many decades of incredibly safe vaping, something like this STILL needs to be repeated. And yes it does, and Mr. Green here has done it very well. Once again. Nice vid to link to for the uninitiated.
If you are going to address the hams of vaping - the only real harm from vaping comes from the sucralose - which turns into components of formaldehyde at about a rate of 2/3rds that of cigarettes - even diyordie acknowledges this. Now if they banned sucralose(which they should ban entirely from human consumption - from food eliquids and drinks because it is harmful in ALL of these things), imo opinion it would be practically harmless except for the effect of nicotine when looked at as a type of drug, but on its own nicotine (particularly when as low as 3 to 6 %) is relatively harmless, just technically a "substance" of a sort.
Great Video! Great to have a whole lot of information on one narrow question collected together. Do you have more planned? For example, how about one on “Does. Aping help smokers quit?”
i wanna ask a kind of an offtopic question. ive been vaping high nicotine content liquids for years. like last year i was doing 20mg salt nic all the time (from the time i started vaping...that was around eGo devices..i never went lower than 12mg.). i tried buying 3mg regular nic the other day and realised that i dont feel that much of a difference. what does this mean? i thought i was supposed to explode and feel crazy withdrawal but i dont
It comes down to something Nick says quite often. You're bidy knows how much nicotine it needs/likes. We often start out at higher levels and then reduce from there. You're still getting your nicotine. I'm no expert myself but I did the same as you with no issues also.
Nicotine isn't nearly as addictive, by itself w/o tobacco, as most people think. Cigarettes are viciously addictive but it's not the nic alone that makes them so. i know many folks who've reduced then eliminated the nic in their vapes.
Freebase nicotine acts slower and lasts longer than salts. That may be partially why the lower % worked for you. If you taper down, you may find that very small amounts are still satisfying. Usually I mix my salts at 4-8mg, and it's plenty.
I needed a video like this, I wish everyone in the community who is capable could make a video like this so we can flood all social media’s with them to try and take back all the damage the msm created against us.
I just recently switched to a vape from smoking 3 packs a day and it was tough the little ones didn't cut it so i ended up buying a geek vape mod with the tank and all that fancy stuff now i smoke a real cigarette when i wake up but that's it i go the rest of the day with my vape i can already breathe better the initial cost of the vape kind of sucked but i am already saving money over buying cigarettes only thing i regret is not switching sooner. For anyone that was a heavy smoker like me give the vape a try you will not regret it.
Here in the Netherlands the flavour ban, which should be active per the first of july, is postponed to januari 1 2024, because with the only allowed list of 16 e-liquid ingredients you can't make a decent tobacco flavour. 😂 It still needs some work. So at least the government is helpfull with creating a decent tobacco flavour.
Hi, I have smoked cannabis and tobacco for 20+ years. Over past year I started gagging and choking whenever I smoked a joint or cigarette. I ended up with a chest infection and couldn't smoke at all. I literally quit cold turkey within the month it was that bad. Recently I opted to vape. I bought an innokin 22 with 10mg nicotine. Once again I started gagging and choking. Assuming the liquid was too high and the vape tank had no power changer. I bought a new tank with power changer and lower nicotine 5mg juice. Still gagging and choking to point where I vomit. What's causing this ?? Is it nicotine ?? If so am I allergic? And why all of a sudden.
Today I saw another "Anti Vaping" commercial. I paused the commercial so I could read the fine print along the bottom. Guess who paid for the commercial, R.J. Reynolds...Hmmm, seems kinda fishy. Sure RJR owns Vuse. If Vuse is outlawed don't you think they'll just change the name and continue to sell it? They want you to buy Cigarettes. That is their base business.
lets take a step even further and remove tobacco from the equation too. does combusting the chemical nicotine on its own produce carcinogens? if so how many? we already know the 95% number comes from combusting the plant, but do we know anything about strictly combusting nicotine?
Dang… is it possible to combust just nicotine and be able to measure it in any meaningful way? The world needs to know. Nicotine isn’t a carcinogen on its own. I don’t know if it becomes one through combustion.
This is so relevant in the UK currently, where the government are pushing through an act of parliament which will require music festivals to gain licenses for drugs testing. Currently festivals will test drugs free of charge to ensure they aren't laced with anything really nasty, but the government view it as an incentive to take drugs. The nicotine argument feels much the same, at some point you have to accept that you need to find a middle ground. If people will consume nicotine, MDMA or opiates, common sense dictates that we reduce the potential of these products to kill people.
Has anyone seen these ads on FB about mushroom powder that will help you quit vaping and get people off adderall? I asked what mushrooms had to do with vaping and I got crucified lol!
Sir! I am the only vape reviewer from India! RU-vid is AGE RESTRICTING my videos but others are fine with same content! Will you please help me, what should I do!! I am probably fighting INDIAN VAPE BANNED a lonely battle with THESE VIDEOS! Help 🙏🏻
People tell me smoking is safer man. Like, I got looked down upon for vaping, more than smoking. Last one was a neighbour was at a doctors, he smokes and he aske about vapes, and the doc said vapes were prob worse. So he still smokes, and I got a scolding for vaping. I haven't had any nicotine in months now, but ill prob go back to vapes, I miss them.
Well I just ordered voopoo Argus pro and a couple of liquids and coils, I had in the past a provari and a nice tank (don’t remember the name anymore) I hope to get the same experience.
Well, for lazy ones, yes. But I really enjoyed cold smoke, which does not stink. Too bad that you need a big company of atlest 4. Can`t switch off that coal :( it was like a ritual for me. @@GrimmGreen
40 years of smoking cigs been trying to quit for years tried freebase and recently tried dispos all i do is cough sore throat raspy voice for days and always clearing my throat any suggestions thanks
the throat clearing is a thing that happens when you're stopping cigarettes in my experience. Have you only tried mouth to lung? or have you given a direct lung sub tank a try?
BRO, NEED YOU TO ANSWER WITH PRIORITY. A STUDY SHOWING THAT VAPING LIQUIDS WITH SWEETNESS MAY CAUSE DIABETES!!!!!! PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ON THIS. DID YOU FIND ANY INFORMATION ON THIS? EAGERLY WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY.
Thanks, Grimm. It just sucks that this video is not necessarily very likely to be seen by anyone who doesn't vape or is provaping for harm reduction. I wish everyone who is antivaping would watch this and your other vape science related videos. Instead we have idiots listening to an awful example and poor source of information like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BwChT6aqDck.html I didn't finish the video so I have no clue what the recommendations are for staying safe, but the comments on the video significantly reduce my faith in humanity.
Thanks to vaping and the many channels out there, plus all of the research I've done, I can happily say I've been smoke-free for 4 years now. I did take a couple of puffs on a cigar one time recently but never inhaled. I obviously know you shouldn't anyways, but still. No more smoke in my lungs. 😁
Nearly every single smoking coworker I meet has coughed after a drag and told me how e-cigarettes are more harmful than cigarettes... Can someone explain to me who is telling them this garbage?? 🤔😮💨
The FDA, the CDC, The WHO, Mike Bloomberg, American Heart Association, American Cancer Association, dozens of congress people and governors. I've never seen so many people and organizations simultaneously spring into action to protect cigarette sales.
If you want to hear a scientist talk about nicotine, then I would suggest listening to the Huberman Lab podcast by Andrew Huberman. He does a fantastic job breaking down many of the studies around nicotine! #YoyoyCrew #GrimmArmy
I quit smoking yesterday and even just one day of vaping i dont eant a cig, my throat feels way better, im not going back to cigarettes. Heres to 24 hours cig free 🎉🎉
I don't know how there is still an argument about ecigarettes being harmful, i started vaping over a decade ago and my lungs have been better ever since, haven't had a single cough in over half a decade and coughed up all sorts regularly when smoking, and i don't vape 3mg like most people, i mtl 24mg freebase and dtl 12mg freebase because it's the only way to get the throat hit i like, so nicotine vaping is FAR safer and healthier than smoking. There's millions of people like me who are walking talking proof of that. Using the excuse "but kids who never smoked are vaping" is nonsense, kids who never smoked also started smoking too.. i was one of those kids, there was literally hundreds of us in my school alone sneaking off to the field or in the toilets between lessons for a smoke.. just because those kids are now vaping instead of smoking doesn't change the fact that if they weren't vaping for the first time, they would most likely be smoking for the first time instead..
