Glad I Quit Smoking and Didn’t Take Up Vaping!
For all the reasons you discuss here and then some.
“In the last 24 to 36 months, I’ve seen an explosive uptick of patients who vape,” reports Broderick. “With tobacco, we have six decades of rigorous studies to show which of the 7,000 chemicals inhaled during smoking impact the lungs. But with vaping, we simply don’t know the short- or long-term effects yet and which e-cigarette components are to blame.”
Anything that potentially causes lung damage puts us at higher risk, if not of contracting COVID-19, of having more severe and life-threatening symptoms when we do.
Odds are, we all will, at some point. I cannot imagine smoking or vaping being worth the risk. That’s not me, being judgmental — that’s me, the former smoker, being extremely glad that I quit over a decade ago so that my body has had a chance to heal some of the damage I did to it.
