Advantages of Vaping over Smoking

1. Health

The obvious advantage is the lower health risk. For someone who likes to consume nicotine or engage in the physical act of smoking, smoking might be preferable to abstinence, even with its great costs. But vaping or use of other smoke-free products is probably better still, all costs and benefits considered, providing most of the benefits with very little of the health cost. The evidence that smoke-free tobacco products are low-risk is based primarily on decades of research on smokeless tobacco use. Despite the popular myths, extensive epidemiology shows that smokeless tobacco causes no detectable risk for any disease.

This does not mean it is completely harmless (though that possibility is consistent with the evidence), but it does mean that any risks must be very small.

2. Lower Risk of Lung Cancer

Vaping doesn’t damage your lungs the way smoking does. Once you’ve quit smoking for about a decade, your chances of getting lung cancer to become dramatically lower. It will be about a half of what it was while you were puffing away on those coffin nails.

3. Hacking, Coughing, and Wheezing Will Be Gone

As mentioned, people who have been smoking regularly for extended periods of time will tend to have mucus and other junk build up in their lungs. Their lungs will also be less efficient at cleaning it all out, and this often results in an unattractive cough. How else are you lungs supposed to clean themselves, after all?

After a few months tobacco-free, though, most of this crud will have been cleared out and your lungs will be in better working order. This means you’ll be much less prone to coughing fits and you’ll be able to take in more air with each breath.

4. Removes Crud

Within just a few days, your lungs will begin to clean themselves. There are little brush-like structures in your lungs called cilia. In healthy lungs, these help clean mucus and other debris. When you smoke, though, the cilia become less mobile and can’t do their job as effectively. It doesn’t take long for them to recover after your last cigarette, though.

Unlike smoking tobacco, vaping won’t clog up your lungs like this. Pretty soon after switching to a vape, you’ll probably find it a lot easier to breathe.

5. Smell and Taste

If you’ve been smoking for a long time, you may not have realized how much your sense of smell and taste have been affected. Because smoking can dull these senses, you might quickly find yourself enjoying food more when you quit. You can stop and smell the roses again…and not just figuratively. This increase in your nose’s sensitivity will begin just a day or two after your last smoke and will improve from there.

6. Increase in Blood Oxygen 

That’s right, in merely 8 hours, your body will already begin to rid itself of oxygen-robbing carbon monoxide. This is a poison that enters your body whenever you inhale tobacco smoke (and basically anything else that burns). It tends to lower your blood oxygen level, which is partly what causes smokers to be less fit than non-smokers.
When you quit, though, your body immediately begins to recover, and before long you’ll find that you can run up a flight of stairs without getting so winded. Since vaping doesn’t increase the levels of carbon monoxide in your body, your blood’s ability to carry oxygen will improve rapidly even if you’ve swapped your cigarettes for a vape.

7.Addiction

While there is more to be learned about this, it appears that vaping is far less captivating than smoking. Many ex-smokers who thought they would never manage to quit smoking have switched to vaping and then discovered, after a few months, that they could take it or leave it, or at least abstain for long periods. They often choose to keep vaping because they like it and know it is lower risk but feel they could stop at any time they wanted. Most experienced vapers report that they have substantially reduced their total nicotine intake, starting out high while quitting smoking, but preferring less after a period of exclusive vaping.

8. Convenience

Thanks to the minimal aesthetic impact and lack of health impact on bystanders, vaping is socially acceptable in many places where smoking is not. Not having to step outside of one’s office or a bar to vape is a big advantage over smoking and is an important motivation for many smokers deciding to try e-cigarettes. In addition, the option of quickly pulling out an e-cigarette and taking one or two puffs – delivering only as much nicotine as is desired at the moment, rather than having to light and smoke a whole cigarette – offers substantial advantages for many people.

9. Flavors

The availability of interesting e-liquid flavors makes vaping more enjoyable, which is welfare improving in itself. But beyond that, many vapers find that interesting flavors are critical for quitting smoking. E-cigarettes that try to imitate the taste of smoking, which includes a large portion of cigar likes, seldom do a convincing job of it. It leaves many smokers feeling that e-cigarettes are an altogether inferior substitute, so why bother? We might like to think that the health benefits alone would overcome that, but people often do not act on that basis. Ex-smokers who tried to switch to e-cigarettes but kept returning to smoking often report that finding an alternative flavor that they liked was what made vaping better than smoking, resulting in their complete switch. Moreover, after using flavors that do not resemble tobacco smoke for a few months, most vapers who try a cigarette report that it tastes terrible and so never consider switching back.

10. No More Second-Hand Smoke

Finally, people might push you to quit for your own sake, but you have to remember that nobody lives on an isolated planet (currently). Cigarette smoke can be extremely harmful to the people around you who don’t smoke and can even increase the risk of lung cancer in your pets.

Vape clouds don’t pose this kind of threat to your animals and other loved ones. The longer you stay away from cigarettes, the safer those around you will be. As you can see, there are many benefits of vaping vs smoking. Illuminant is here to provide you with the highest quality vaping products to make the switch to a healthier way of life. Get started by viewing our full line of premium e-liquids and vaping hardware.