Smokers who swap their cigarettes for an electronic one have less trouble with their respiratory tract. But if they occasionally light a normal e-cigarette in addition to the e-cigarette, the effect will be canceled out.
Many adults see vaping as a less harmful alternative to regular smoking. It is also a tool to help you stop it. E-cigarettes contain no tobacco and nothing is burned. The device heats a liquid, after which the user inhales the smoke. Therefore, there are no toxic combustion products of tobacco in e-cigarettes, but the smoke releases harmful substances, such as nicotine and propylene glycol. However, vaping reduces exposure to toxic substances, but it was not clear for a long time whether this would also lead to a reduction in the respiratory problems that many smokers experience.
Four groups
To find out, the researchers used data from the large PATH study in the United States. Thousands of smokers were followed between 2013 and 2019, who indicated at the beginning that they only smoked real cigarettes and suffered from respiratory complaints. The researchers then divided them into four groups: people who quit smoking completely, people who switched completely to vaping, people who continued to smoke and people who decided to combine smoking and vaping .
Switching from smoking to vaping alone resulted in a significant improvement in respiratory symptoms compared to those who continued smoking. But the results in the combination group were behind. Of the 5,210 participants with a developing cough, 65 percent saw their complaints disappear, and the condition of the 5,367 people with mild limitation improved in 53 percent. Participants who both smoked and vaped – known as dual users – showed no improvement, even when smoking fewer cigarettes. In fact, in this group the wheezing and coughing became even worse. In dual users who continued to smoke the same amount or more, the chance of wheezing complaints disappearing was 15 percent lower, and the chance of coughing complaints disappearing was 14 percent more lower than in the group that switched completely to vaping. Smokers who started vaping, while continuing to smoke the same amount of tobacco, suffered much more from wheezing and coughing.
Stopping completely works best
It’s no surprise that cutting out nicotine gives the best results for breath. This research once again confirms that saying goodbye to both cigarettes and e-cigarettes brings the greatest health benefits, but otherwise switching to vaping is also a big step forward .
Smoking is so dangerous
Smoking dealing with damage in almost every organ in the body. In the Netherlands, around 19,000 people die every year from the effects of smoking. Smoking is the main reason why more than four out of five people die from lung cancer. For COPD this is 76 percent.
Smoking increases the risk of all types of cancer, such as lung cancer, cancer of the oral cavity (throat, esophagus, larynx, oral cavity, lips), and cancer of the breast, stomach, bladder, kidney, cervix and pancreas. In addition, smokers are also at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack and heart failure.
Latest list of complaints and conditions
Smoking is the main cause of lung diseases, such as COPD, and worsens respiratory problems, such as shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing and asthma attacks. Smoking can cause or worsen a number of oral diseases, such as gingivitis, reduced sense of smell and taste, and deposits on the teeth. Eye diseases are also more common in smokers than in non-smokers. Smoking also increases the risk of diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, infertility and complications from surgery.
Usage is decreasing
The number of people who smoke is decreasing in the Netherlands. In 2023, less than one in five Dutch people aged 18 and over smoked. 13.5 percent smoke every day. In 2014, 25.7 percent of adults still smoked. People with higher education smoke less often than people with secondary or practical education. In 2023, only 2.7 percent of Dutch adults smoked twenty or more cigarettes per day.
2024-11-12 07:32:00
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