I just read that article and I literally cannot believe it. Vaping nicotine is as safe as breathing air? Well, I guess I am addicted to breathing air. lol

I understand that people feel that vaping saved their life but this is simply not 100% true. The job of cessation is not finished. I successfully quit smoking cigarettes this year and I used NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) and I thought the same as you did about vaping, that NRT had saved my life, and I was thinking I would just use NRT for the rest of my life. But I then found out that my process of cessation was not finished.

I started to read the reports about long-term use of NRT. People with mouth cancer, hair falling out, teeth falling out, lowered immunity, and CANCERS OF ALL TYPES. I stopped NRT (patches and gum) and sure enough went through nicotine withdrawal although not as bad as from cigarettes. After that I started to feel progressively better. I couldn't believe it until I experienced it. The nicotine (sans all the other 6,000+ chemicals) had been keeping me ill. I am now nicotine free, and craving free. I feel healthy and cannot imagine putting anything but oxygen into my lungs. I cannot imagine ingesting nicotine in any form. It is nasty, and cannot be 100% harmless, or why why why would it be sooooooooooooo hard to stop????

My reply on this thread was to someone trying to decide whether or not to smoke cigarettes which I think is nuts. This is also a person who doesn't need to start vaping.

I don't want to dismiss vaping because I know people are very attached to it. All I am saying is that is it probably not as harmless as people think.

Saying that vaping nicotine is as safe as breathing air is like saying drinking alcohol is as safe as drinking water. It's....journalism. Not facts.

All the other chemicals added to cigarettes are to boost the addictive quality of nicotine by making it easier to metabolize etc. That is why people who have smoked for a long time find it harder to quit now than decades ago. The other chemicals are nicotine boosters.

I am really only addressing someone who has not started smoking and vaping. I am just saying...don't start.