Vaping/Ecigs - Did it help improve your lung capacity?

I would also say I noticed a difference in my breathing but also I haven't had a cold or flu since quitting over a year ago . Now obviously I don't expect that to last as everyone gets colds but I found it strange that I would always get one or two a year but none in the last 12 months .

Along with that , after 30 odd years of smoking I had started to notice that little cuts and scrapes were taking longer and longer to heal but in the last 6 to 8 months these seem to clear up faster , I don't know , I might be going mad as well , but it definitely seems to me that my healing has improved . I don't think I have seen anyone else mention this actually so maybe we better put it down to me going mad .

I do a medical at work every 2 years, lung capacity is measured. I *%$*ing hate that test! :eek: So between the two tests, I was still smoking for the first 9ish months, switched to vaping and continued until the next test and beyond...so for the two year period, 9 months of smoking, 15 months of vaping..

Lung capacity increase measured at 5%. How I feel is alot more than 5% though, no shortness of breath anymore etc..

Be interested to see how the next one goes..

What i noticed is how long i can keep my breath for after taking a gulp.

Breathing = better
Snoring = better (though after drink just as bad apparently)
Fitness = better
Taste = better
Colds, sore throats, chest infections = Gone, completely gone.

Its obviously not the vaping that's helping you all its clearly the HSE's anti smoking campaign :pac:

Seriously though its great to hear so many positive experiences...

Sometimes painful smokers cough and tickly coughing spasms at night that were sometimes bad enough to cause pressure headaches stopped within days of taking up vaping. Lungs cleared of crap in a few weeks. I can't speak to lung capacity because a sedentary lifestyle over the vaping period caused by other health issue means I am so unfit that my legs would give out before my lungs would even if I were still smoking. I actually posted a thread a few months ago here after I posted about my 3 Cold/sorethroat free years in a Flu thread and the penny dropped that those were the same 3 years since I started vaping. Its seems this is quite common. Its probably a combination of the smoke irritated/damaged lungs when we were smokers were more susceptible to infection and aren't so much any more and the fact the Propylene Glycol in the e-liguid is a known anti-bacterial and anti-viral compound which probably affords our lungs some extra protection against airborne pathogens.

On the other hand vaping is not 100% pollutant free like the air at the top of Mt Everest and we don't know for certain whether is 100 times or 1000 times safer than cigarettes, so the regulatory bodies and governments are correct in trying to scare everyone away from vaping. :rolleyes:

Forgot to mention i dont wake up with pins and needles in my arm anymore.

And me,it was my hands...

Didihno wrote: »

And cramps in the feet/legs.
Smoking is fking terrible in general.

Another side effect is...erm... a morning visitor (like a teenager again!).

Same.... Started having them again a couple if months ago feck sake... Blood flow must be better now or something

Didihno wrote: »

The cramps or the other thing?

The other thing.... Annoying...