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Vapecon 2018: brefs retours sur les débats et des infos suisses sorties à l'occasion

Ce week-end s’est tenue la Vapecon au Palais des Congrès de Bienne. Le salon, plus petit que ses grands frères Vapexpo français ou Vapitaly, accueillait des conférenciers scientifiques de premier plan le samedi, tandis que le dimanche était réservé à une discussion sur la nouvelle situation post-prohibition en Suisse. Brefs retours malgré que j’y ai égaré mon bloc notes… Le Pr Riccardo Polosa,…

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Common sense strategies that help smokers quit superior to WHO’s failed strategies

Strategies that provide smokers with less harmful alternatives to cigarettes are far more likely to reduce smoking than the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendations to prohibit them while cigarettes remain widely available, public health experts said in a global forum. “To remain at the forefront of adopting effective strategies to reduce smoking, countries that have experience regulating these new products, including the Philippines, must continue to advocate at the global stage for science to guide policy response, not vice versa,” Dr. Lorenzo Mata, president of Quit For Good, a non-profit organization promoting harm reduction in the Philippines, said. Dr. Mata was one of the panelists who joined the hybrid 6th Summit on Tobacco Harm Reduction: Novel Products, Research & Policy organized by SCOHRE (the International Association on Smoking Control & Harm Reduction) on September 25 and 26, 2023 with physical presence in Athens, Greece. The summit was held as member countries of the WHO FCTC prepare for the 10th Conference of the Parties (C0P10) in Panama in November 2023 to discuss WHO’s recommendations to ban “novel and emerging tobacco and nicotine products” such as vapes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches or regulate them the same as cigarettes. Dr. Fernando Fernandez Bueno, a Spanish physician, agreed with Dr. Mata: “The debate on tobacco control must be based on scientific arguments and clinical data, moving away from mere opinions and emotional responses. This is the only way to make progress in the fight against tobacco.” In his keynote speech exploring the financial aspects of smoking, Professor Andrzej Fal, President, Polish Society of Public Health, Poland, warned that at an era when health expenditures keep growing, prevention is the most effective way of investing in future health: To stop the smoking pandemic and its financial and health effects, we need to raise funding for primordial prevention, as well as introduce a “less harm, less tax” regulation.” Prof. David Sweanor of the University of Ottawa said the FCTC and the WHO failed to acknowledge the merits of using less harmful tobacco and nicotine products to displace cigarettes: “Failure to do it is this continued carnage—unnecessary death and disease. We also see government bodies, UN bodies destroying their credibility. When we lose the trust of the public, it affects us on a far broader range of issues than just tobacco and nicotine.” “People are buying cigarettes every day, every day we have a chance to intervene by offering a product that is massively less hazardous, doesn’t harm the people around you, and is less addictive; and we can make sure that it is available more widely than cigarettes, at a lower price than cigarettes, with more accurate information about relative risk,” Prof. Sweanor added. Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos, a Greek physician and researcher, said countries that support less harmful products now have the lowest smoking rates in the world. “We can see data from places like Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Japan. Look at Japan, one of the largest cigarette markets in the world. Half of the market for cigarettes in Japan disappeared in the last seven years, with the rise of a single viable alternative,” he said, referring to heated tobacco products (HTP). Dr. Mata highlighted that the FCTC’s tobacco control strategies are failing as the number of smokers globally is not decreasing. In response, different countries have embraced policies to make less harmful products available to smokers to replace cigarettes. “Using safer nicotine products offers new choices to millions of people worldwide who want to move away from smoking or other dangerous forms of tobacco use,” he said. “The Philippine’s response has been to enact Republic Act 11900, known as the Vape Law. At the heart of the Vape Law is the objective to regulate vapor products and heated tobacco products in order to promote a healthy environment, protect its citizens and reduce the harm caused by smoking,” Dr. Mata said, adding that “by offering safer avenues, we have given smokers a chance to make better choices for themselves, which is exactly what the WHO and the FCTC should do.” Read the full article

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Is formaldehyde available in vapes?

What does formaldehyde mean? Formaldehyde is described as a colorless, flammable gas at room temperature which has a strong odour by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Formaldehyde exposure can cause adverse health effects."

In 2015 researchers at Portland State University found that steam products emitted high formaldehyde levels—even more than cigarettes. They didn't clarify why their tests used higher voltage settings and smoking devices unrealistically to generate vapor, which everyone could not handle.

You may also perform a similar experiment by sticking bread in a toaster and holding it before the toaster smoke and the bread becomes carbon black. Is the result cancerous? Yeah, but because nobody can eat it the risk is hypothesis. Do you think of black toast as you think of toast? Similarly, the poisonous aldehys created by a burning wick and an atomizer are not a real danger because they cannot be inhaled again and again. The vapers call this a dry strike or a dry puff, and they try to stop it.

In a 2017 report, Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos repeated the Portland State experiment and found that the vapor created when an atomizer was intentionally overheated was not friendly to human users. 'The high levels of formaldehyde emissions recorded in a previous study have been caused by unrealistic conditions of use which cause e-cigarette users to taste dry puffs and are therefore avoided,' the author wrote about the experiments carried out by Portland state.

In 2018, Farsalinos and Gene Gillman provided a systematic analysis to explore data from the 32 carbonyl compounds research, e-cigarette vapor, such as formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and acrolein. The authors found that almost every high carbonyl level such as formaldehyde developed in this study was created with a weak technique leading to "dry puff conditions," and suggested guidelines for future studies that specify acceptable criteria for vapor experimentation, including a consistent pumping regime, using atomizers in current generations, and practical power settings, and proper PG/VG.

The writers have clarified that every day in our homes we inhale 1 mg of formaldehyde from the air. The average vapor of current atomizers of 5 mL e-liquid a day only raises their formaldehyde consumption by 0.083 mg. That is less than 9% higher than the average amount of exposure, which probably is not major.

The end of the line

Cigarettes inflict mayhem on the body, which virtually damages the user from top to bottom. The damage was definitely proven. But there is no proof that vapor can induce similar health effects – or other health issues, unless you are reliant on nicotine. However, nicotine is not explicitly responsible for any of the horrible smoking impacts. For more information, visit www.310.gr.

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Vaping Helps Quit Smoking And It's Proven Now

As soon as you make the change to ehookah bowl, you will not only clean yourself from the chaos of smoke and ash which destroys your insides, you will also spare yourself in the costly market of traditional smoking and the broke feeling that comes with it. However vaping gets you really high and that is the general purpose associated with smoking, isn't it? What may come as a real treat now could be that you have a whole scope of flavors open to you in the market like Cran Mellon Floss, Chocolate Caramel Fudge, Nutty Banana Scone, Blueberry Munchkins, New York Cheese Cake, Strawberry Mousse, Vanilla Kappa, Watermelon Slurpee, Kahlua Iced Coffee, or even Smooth or Voluptuous Cuban.

Vaping performs two functions that patches and gums can never do. To begin with, it satisfies and satiates the mechanical activity of inhaling a cloud of something from a little stick like object. By one means or another, this is very important due to the habits to many people. Secondly, additionally, it keeps from getting bored and extremely plainly unsocial. It is extremely hard to not smoke when everybody who are around you and you start to run away from those situations and vaping involves your rescue and guarantees that you simply need to stop the smoke rather than the friends who smoke from coming close to you. Besides, you may not possess the disgusting smell coming from smoke and it would be totally fine as well as attractive to individuals surrounding you. How about we have seen what Authorities and analysts around the world are saying about vaping: ? Prof. Igor Burstyn of Drexel University School of Public Health conducted a review to comprehend when the chemicals utilized to conjure e-liquids were risky for health. He found themselves with the conclusion that Vaping liquids are totally safe and no toxic chemicals were found. ? Researchers from your Boston University of Public Health analyzed the effect of Vaping on mortality dangers as contrasted with tobacco. They found that vape devices/e cigarettes really are a far more secure option than smoking. ? A study by Dr. Konstantino Farsalinos investigated the outcome of enhanced e-liquids available for sale on the achievement rate of smokers attempting continuously to avoid. He learned that e-liquid seasoning is a vital factor in chopping down cigarette usage quantity, or getting rid of it, totally. ? Several autonomous college specialists/professors necessary to know the aftereffect of vaping whenever a smoker switches on the body and mind simultaneously. They gathered in their study that 91% of smokers who changed to vaping after stopping smoking have enhanced sense of sense, a feeling of taste, response time, focus, physical efficiency and vitality levels and boast of better mental and physical health. With evidences pouring in from all of around the globe in regards to the effectiveness of Vape devices and E cigs with respect to giving up smoking, it is a fast catching trend that is all set to control the world in the coming future.

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Is Vaping Bad for You?

If you are thinking about switching to vaping as a way of quitting cigarettes, you are probably wondering about the safety of using a vapor device due to some negative posts on media sites.

Everyone, especially the new vapers, asks “is vaping bad for you?” and “is vaping bad for your lungs?” Well, we're going to answer these questions here to end some of the misconceptions about vaping being as bad as smoking. To answer these questions, we’ll look at the effects of smoking and vaping together.

How Does Smoking Affect the Heart, Lungs, and Blood Pressure?

It is already well known that smoking cigarettes contributes to lung cancer, heart disease, and a host of other respiratory conditions. Your lungs have tiny, hair-like receptors called cilia which help clean the lungs and keep germs out. When you smoke, you damage the cilia, rendering them lifeless and unable to do the job. The result is an increase in mucus production (phlegm), frequent infections (bronchitis, pneumonia), shortness of breath (pulmonary hypertension), and smoker’s cough.

The reason smokers develop conditions like COPD, (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) emphysema and shortness of breath are because when you inhale smoke, even though you exhale it, small amounts of smoke and matter from the cigarette deposit into the lungs.

Smoke is heavier than air or vapor so some of it stays in the lower half of the lungs and attaches to the tissue. This, combined with reduced lung function (from long-term smoking), leads to infections and that feeling of not be able to take a full breath (shortness of breath, or breathlessness).

Blood pressure and heart rate increases and stays at an elevated rate for approximately 15 minutes after smoking a cigarette. So, it is safe to say that a person who is a heavy smoker may also have an increased risk of high blood pressure now and in the future.

Note: Blood pressure and heart rate are back to normal levels within 2 hours of the last cigarette smoked. This process goes on all day long depending on how much the individual smokes.

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Does Vaping Affect the Heart, Lungs and Blood Pressure?

There is no change in blood pressure before or after vaping.

Vaping does not increase heart rate.

There is no change in lung function from vaping. In fact, many vapers report that they breathe better since quitting cigarettes and starting vaping.

Studies done since 2015 on the effects of vaping only make the headlines if they have something negative to say.

One prominent cardiac surgeon, Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Greece, has published several papers on how the effects of vaping are minimal compared to smoking cigarettes.

This segment from Vape Team Media highlights a study performed by Dr. Farsalinos and Dr. Giorgio Romagna in 2013 on the effects of vapor on myocardial (heart) cells. Please watch all the way through as they show the process of their evaluation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clGmu7jeSuY

Dr. Riccardo Polosa, researcher and director of the Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at the University of Catania, Italy was interviewed for a segment on Regulatorwatch.com. He has performed studies on vapers who have never smoked (to eliminate errors in results from prior smoking habits) and very clearly states that his results indicated no harm to the heart or lungs from vaping. His interview can be seen here, please watch all the way to the end for his statements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hcp6EEC4TM

While we cannot say that vaping is 100% safe, we can say that vaping produces fewer chemicals than traditional cigarettes and test results show no effect on the heart, lungs, and blood pressure, unlike smoking cigarettes.

Aside from exploding batteries, vaping has never been shown to be the cause of health problems or death. No one has ever died from vaping, but people die every day from conditions caused by smoking.

So the answer to the question, “Is vaping bad for you?” (is it bad for your lungs?) is no. There is no scientific evidence to show that it is harmful to the lungs.

The reports in the media generate fear to deter people away from vaping because smoking and tobacco generate revenue. If people quit smoking, then states lose money and government loses financial backing.

An interesting point made by Dr. Polosa in the interview above, is that if his study had shown any evidence of harm to the heart or lungs he would be famous. Why? Because negativity and scare tactics make headlines. If he would have found any negative evidence, the media would have been all over it like it is with everything vaping-related. But since he found nothing harmful in vaping, hardly anyone noticed. License to Vape provides you some of the best information and tips on vaping to help you make the switch from smoking to vaping.

Anti-vaping proponents profess concerned over what harm e-cigarettes could pose to the public in the future. What is more harmful to the public is all the negative and misleading information posted on the Internet about e-cigarettes every day. Let’s continue the fight to get the truth out there. Support vaping and the vaping community.

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Comparing the Carcinogenicity of Heated Tobacco Products Vs Cigarettes Titled, “Method for Comparing the Impact on Carcinogenicity of Tobacco Products: A Case Study on Heated Tobacco Versus Cigarettes,” the study looked at eight carcinogens which are known to occur in the emissions of both heated tobacco products (HTPs) and tobacco smoke. A study comparing the amount of carcinogens between regular cigarettes and heated tobacco products, found that the latter contain about 10- to 25-fold lower carcinogens than cigarettes. Meanwhile, a 2018 study conducted by renowned anti-smoking expert Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos had analyzed and compared carbonyl emissions from an HnB device, an e-cigarette and a regular cigarette. Compared with the tobacco cigarettes, levels for HnB devices were found to be 91.6% lower for formaldehyde, 84.9% lower for acetaldehyde, 90.6% lower for acrolein, 89.0% lower for propionaldehyde and 95.3% lower for crotonaldehyde. With regards to e-cigarettes, no levels of propionaldehyde and crotonaldehyde, and very low levels of the other carbonyls were detected. When using 5g of e-cigarette liquid, in comparison to 20 cigarettes a 92.2 to 99.8% reduced level of carbonyls was noted. Whilst when comparing 20 heets sticks with the same amount of cigarettes, an 81.7 to 97.9% level of reduced emissions was measured. By Diane Caruana- June 26, 2020 #QOQ #QOQMALAYSIA #QOQHONOR #QOQPLUS #QOQMAX #QOQSMART #Cigarettes #ELECTRONICCIGARETTE #ECCIGARETTE https://www.instagram.com/p/CDVeRkCnVgb/?igshid=1ozkw7wm12ja5

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95% menos nocivo que el cigarro.

Estudio: https://bit.ly/2wpVL7a

La Nicotina no da cáncer.

Estudio Konstantinos Farsalinos & Riccardo Polosa https://bit.ly/2XaYUDO

El Vapeador Pasivo no existe.

Estudio John Grimalt https://bit.ly/2VZFdlX

Los E-Juices no tienen grasas.

Enlace nota aclaratoria de Dr. Farsalinos https://bit.ly/1lE8ohy

No existen los riesgos de metales pesados en el vapeo.

Enlace estudio Konstantinos Farsalinos https://bit.ly/2M4TA43

Reversión de daños en pacientes con EPOC.

Enlace al artículo completo https://bit.ly/2YKqwjA

Vapeadores tienen 95% más de probabilidades de reportar el éxito que aquellas que intentan dejar de fumar sin ninguna ayuda.

Estudio https://bit.ly/2JZeEpQ

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Conférences de K. Farsalinos, R. Polosa et R. Auer le 19 mai à la VapeCon de Bienne

Les professeurs Konstantinos Farsalinos et Riccardo Polosa, deux des scientifiques spécialistes du vapotage les plus renommés mondialement seront à Bienne le samedi 19 mai après-midi à la VapeCon. Dans la salle de conférence du Palais des congrès de Bienne, le Dr Reto Auer, chercheur à l’Université de Lausanne et de Berne, les accompagnera pour présenter sa prochaine étude de cohorte qui doit se…

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Increasing abuse against THR advocates revealed

Increasing abuse against THR advocates revealed

/New Zealand/ A full and frank international panel discussion revealed public attacks on Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) advocates are increasingly personal, derogatory and defamatory. ‘Headlined ‘the battle between innovation and bully tactics’, the seventh episode of The Advocates Voice (TAV 7) led with public health expert, Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos. Hosted by Asia Pacific’s CAPHRA (Coalition of…

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Survei menggunakan Flavor dan Perhentian menggunakan rokok

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Penelitian dari Dr Konstantinos E. Farsalinos dan kelompoknya mengevaluasi akibat variabilitas rasa pada empiris e-rokok dalam vapers khusus, melewati survei online.

Dari 4618 peserta, lebih dari 90% ialah mantan perokok, sementara sisanya ialah pemakai ganda. Rata-rata, 3 jenis rasa bertolak belakang secara teratur dipakai oleh peserta, dengan mantan perokok berpindah di antara rasa lebih sering dikomparasikan dengan pemakai ganda.

Pada mula pemakaian e-rokok, rasa tembakau lebih populer, sementara lantas ada berpindah ke buah dan rasa manis. Peserta menilai varian rasa sebagai "sangat penting" (skor 4 dari 5) dalam upaya mereka untuk meminimalisir atau mengubah sepenuhnya merokok.

Hampir separuh dari populasi mengadukan bahwa memberi batas variabilitas bakal meningkatkan kemauan untuk cerutu dan akan menciptakan upaya guna menggantikan mengisap rokok menjadi lebih sulit. Akhirnya, jumlah rasa yang digunakan ialah prediktor independen guna berhenti merokok.

Penelitian ini (yang dapat didownload secara cuma-cuma di sini) ialah penting sebab ini ialah publikasi yang ditelaah oleh teman sejawat mengenai apa yang diketahui oleh semua vapers: rasa ialah bagian urgen dari kesuksesan dan kesukaan e-rokok yang dialami oleh vapers. Orang dewasa pun menyukai rasa, dan riset ini mengindikasikan bahwa rasa dijual karena terdapat permintaan dari pemakai biasa. Mereka penting untuk upaya vapers guna menghindari cerutu dan mereka tidak menargetkan anak-anak muda (seperti yang dituduhkan oleh media berita dan sejumlah kelompok politik).

Mempertimbangkan kenyataan bahwa adopsi e-rokok oleh anak-anak ialah minimal (dan beberapa besar dicermati pada perokok), setiap ketentuan yang akan memberi batas variasi rasa bakal menjadi tidak pantas. Ini akan mengakibatkan bahaya untuk vapers sedangkan tidak ada guna kesehatan masyarakat yang akan dicermati pada kumpulan populasi lainnya. Sebagai gantinya, pembatasan pemakaian rokok elektronik oleh anak-anak mesti diberlakukan, sedangkan variabilitas rasa mesti dijaga baik guna pemakai ketika ini maupun untuk perokok yang mesti tergoda untuk memakai rokok elektronik sebagai kelaziman alternatif.

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Proper regulation of e-cigs seen to prevent sickness, deaths

Proper regulation of e-cigs seen to prevent sickness, deaths

(Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Appropriate regulation of electronic cigarettes or “vapes” can help prevent serious sickness and the premature death of millions of cigarette smokers in the Philippines, according to a leading expert on tobacco harm reduction and e-cigarettes.

Dr. Konstantinos E. Farsalinos, research fellow at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center and University of Patras in Greece, urged…

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Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos is a widely-known, outspoken advocate for e-cigarette research. He is a research fellow at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens. To date he has published nearly 40 studies and articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals covering topics of smoking, tobacco harm reduction, and vaping.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Salt E-Liquids

Nicotine salts or Salt E-liquids. It’s the new thing on the square and smokers and vapers are rushing to it to stop cigarettes for good.

In case you have been living under a rock and haven’t heard about it yet, nicotine salt essentially permits you to vape at higher nicotine levels without getting the harsh throat hit you’re regularly used to. This additionally implies you get all the more value for your money! You wind up vaping less since you get significantly more nicotine. Thus, in the event that you love that woozy feeling, yet scorn having to vape every minute of every day, nic salts might be directly for you.

What are nicotine salts e-liquids?

Nicotine Salts, or salt nicotine e-liquids, is made when nicotine base is joined with a corrosive or various acids. This cycle makes a salt nicotine arrangement and lessens the throat hit on higher quality nicotine vape juice.

Confused as to how you would be able to vape on salts? Try not to let the name befuddle you. The expression “Nicotine salt” otherwise called nic salt just alludes to the logical definition. It doesn’t mean it’s imbued with the scrumptious mineral you sprinkle on your deli. In compound terms, salt outcomes when a corrosive responds with a base. Basically, nicotine salts are made by blending unadulterated nicotine (base) with particular sorts of acids. I realize what you’re thinking directly about now, Acids? That sounds more regrettable? In reality, nicotine salts exist in tobacco, organically. So if you have ever smoked a cigarette you have encountered nicotine salt.

In nicotine salts, a concoction (generally benzoic acid) neutralizes the nicotine (base) molecules and makes a more steady compound that results in a nicotine that is smoother to devour. JUUL Labs, which was the first to develop nicotine salt as a retail item, says that its definition is like nicotine in leaf tobacco before it’s stripped out during the extraction cycle.

What makes nicotine salts better than nicotine?

Changing from a standard freebase nicotine blend, you’ll notice the distinction right away. Nicotine salts aren’t brutal on the throat like freebase nicotine.

Another contrast between the two nicotine varieties is that salt nicotine seems to disintegrate well at lower temperatures. That makes it ideal for small vape devices like pod vapes that have less force.

Numerous clients report that nicotine salts give a sensation like smoking, more than customary e-liquid. That’s not enchantment! It’s because many of the products contain up to 60 mg/mL of nicotine. More nicotine-per-puff adds a more satisfying experience for smokers and ex-smokers.

In 2014, preceding JUUL had hit the market with the principal salt nicotine retail item, Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos studied the adequacy of nicotine conveyance in various fume products and established that “nicotine levels in EC [e-cigarette] liquids ought to be near 50 mg/mL for it to inexact nicotine conveyance from smoking.” But because of the cruelty of standard nicotine, it would’ve been hard to make an item that was charming to use at those levels; nicotine salts made it conceivable. Dr. Farsalinos also noticed that a high nicotine fixation would likewise lessen the number of fluid vapers devoured, which would diminish any obscure dangers from vaping.

Counting Pros & Cons

Pros:

Satisfaction: Many vapers who attempt traditional nicotine eliquids for the first time, find that they don’t get a similar fulfillment or “punch” from their nicotine compared to a cigarette. Likewise, it may not be sufficient to fulfill their longings.

Smoother nicotine hit: A colossal mood killer for some “would-be” vapers is that regular e-juice are excessively brutal, and nicotine is at fault. Cigarette organizations use sedatives like menthol or eugenol to conceal and veil the harshness. Vape juices don’t, so the smoother sentiment of nicotine salt fluids leaves an enormous effect.

Less flavor sway: Those of us who kicked the addiction to the curb and incline toward nicotine-free e-fluids may see a stamped distinction in flavor, regardless of smoking a similar item. This is on the grounds that freebase nicotine influences the fluid’s general flavor. Nic salt juice has close with no impact around there, prompting a more extravagant, delightful, and more pleasant vaping experience.

Less expensive: Let’s face it—an effective sub-ohm tank or box mod is fundamentally more costly than a small vape pen, just as the numerous superior e-fluids that go into the vape pen. In the event that all you need is an economical and tactful vaping experience that causes you to get the perfect measure of nicotine, then salts are for you.

Cons:

A lot for a few: While heavy smokers need a substantial portion of nicotine, lighter smokers can manage in the 3-12mg nicotine extend. This likewise happens to be a definitive sweet spot for sub-ohm gadgets. Therefore, individuals can utilize smooth, high-VG e-juices in their sub-ohm tank and feel totally content with the experience they get.

Fewer alternatives: Nicotine salts are restricting in light of the fact that you’ll by and large need to adhere to vape pens and units like JUUL Replacement Pods. The more conventional mods and sub-ohm tanks take into consideration almost perpetual tank/mod mixes—each pair considering their own one of a kind cloud creation and flavor encounters. Also the curl blends and styles of the further developed rebuildable atomizers – you get the thought.

Lower fun factor: An incredible method to depict freebase juices contrasted with nicotine salts is “design over capacity” (once more, think iPhone versus smartphone). Nicotine salts are the ideal decision in the event that you need a solid portion of nicotine and incline toward a more cigarette-like understanding.

Is Nicotine Salt More Addictive?

Since the qualities are commonly a lot higher in nicotine salt, this is a genuine question. One of the reasons tobacco smoke is addictive is the speed with which it conveys nicotine to the mind. There are inquiries concerning whether nicotine salts convey the medication more quickly than freebase nicotine — yet the issue hasn’t been concentrated on much at this point.

Nicotine expert Jacques Le Houezec, a neuroscientist and pharmacologist, thinks the main contrast between the freebase nicotine and nicotine salt is that the vaper can consume more nicotine in each puff due to the diminished harshness. Due to having the option to devour more nicotine probably will expand its potential for dependence, however, it’s because of the sum expended, not because it’s particularly nicotine salt.

Is switching to nicotine salts safe?

The main residual inquiry is whether nicotine salt e-fluid merits switching for you. This is actually a choice no one but you can make, but, you can work out whether it’s advantageous for you. The fundamental motivations to attempt nicotine salt e-juice are:

If common e-juice simply isn’t fulfilling for you. The higher quality from nicotine salt e-juice could truly help.

If you need to utilize a prudent and versatile gadget yet at the same time need considerable measures of nicotine.

If customary e-juice is excessively harsh for you to vape. Indeed, even lower-quality salt e-liquid will be smoother to vape than the proportional in freebase nicotine e-fluid.

If you aren’t keen on enormous vape clouds. Cloud-pursuing and nicotine salt e-fluids don’t blend too well on account of the gadgets you’ll have to utilize.

If you don’t mind a decrease in flavor alternatives. Most e-liquids are freebase nicotine, so you won’t have as much decision with nicotine salts.

Truly, nicotine salts are certifiably not a monstrous game-evolving development, yet for some vapers and a few kinds of gadgets, they do offer advantages. If these advantages coordinate well with what you’re searching for from your vaping experience, they’re unquestionably worth testing. In any case, on the off chance that you have a normal vape mod and get enough nicotine from your gadget, there is little inspiration to change to a salt-accommodating arrangement.

In Conclusion

Nicotine Salts are one of the best kinds of nicotine to help cigarette smokers in dumping the addiction. Because of the higher nicotine content, Nicotine Salts all the more intently look like the impacts of smoking a cigarette and consequently help control the hankering.

Another purpose behind utilizing Nicotine Salts would be the way that they’re intended for use in lower wattage gadgets. In this way, if you need a very convenient gadget for when you’re in commute, or you would prefer not to be blowing enormous mists openly, Nicotine Salts will assist with fulfilling your cravings for cigarettes.

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Como a ciência enganosa se torna propaganda anti-vaping

Creio que a grande maioria já viu essa situação acontecer antes. 

Aparece um estudo. Esse estudo apresenta uma conclusão especulativa e frágil. Mas, antes que todos os comentaristas sensatos tenham a chance de colocá-lo em contexto, ele se transforma em manchetes assustadoras publicadas em jornais de todo o mundo. 

Sem uma dose sequer de equilíbrio, esse tipo de estudo serve apenas para criar e aprofundar o medo do vaping.

Claro, as correções e os esclarecimentos vêm depois, mas quando eles ganham força, já é tarde demais. Nesse momento, o "fato" já penetrou na consciência pública e se tornou mais uma razão que faz com que as pessoas pensem que o vaping é "tão ruim quanto fumar" - isso é feito por um número assustador de pessoas.

Toda essa sequência de eventos que acabei de mencionar aconteceu novamente com um estudo recente sobre supostos danos no DNA causados ​​pelo vapor do cigarro eletrônico. 

Esse absurdo rapidamente ofuscou os relatórios do Reino Unido e dos EUA que declaram que o vaping é muito mais seguro do que fumar.

“Novo estudo alerta que vapores levam ao câncer”. Essa foi a manchete sensacionalista.

O papel e o furor da mídia que se seguiram são um ótimo exemplo de como esse carrossel funciona, e analisá-lo em detalhes oferece algumas dicas sobre o que exatamente dá errado com tanta freqüência e por que tantas pessoas estão terrivelmente confusas sobre vaping .

Do que se trata realmente esse estudo 

Os pesquisadores analisaram os efeitos do vapor do cigarro eletrônico nos ratos, e também testaram o impacto da nicotina e da nitrosamina (parte de um grupo de agentes cancerígenos encontrados no tabaco e em quantidades muito menores no vapor e outros produtos de nicotina) no ser humano.

O artigo se concentrou especificamente nos danos que o vaping causa ao DNA, levando em conta uma comparação com o ar filtrado, mas não houve comparação com o fumo. Como é sabido que os danos no DNA estão ligados ao câncer, isso não é nada razoável de se estudar.

Existem limitações decisivas para essa abordagem. 

Há uma grande diferença entre um rato e um ser humano - o que não deve surpreender você. Embora os ratos sejam um bom ponto de partida para a pesquisa, os resultados deles estão longe de serem conclusivos. 

O mesmo vale para as células em uma placa de Petri. Ora, é claro que você encontra os mesmos tipos de células em seu corpo; porém, você tem um número muito maior do que isso em seu corpo, então você não pode simplesmente assumir que as reações que você vê em uma placa de Petri lhe dirão exatamente o que acontecerá no corpo de um ser humano vivo.

Apresentação dos resultados: uma apresentação enganosa

Os resultados mostraram que os ratos expostos ao vapor de cigarros eletrônicos tiveram mais danos ao DNA em suas bexigas, pulmões e corações do que os ratos que não foram expostos ao vapor. 

O mecanismo do corpo para reparar os danos nos pulmões também foi menos eficaz. Os resultados nas células humanas foram semelhantes: a nicotina e a nitrosamina causaram danos ao DNA nas células do pulmão e da bexiga. Assim como nos ratos, a combinação também afetou o mecanismo do corpo para reparar os danos.

Os pesquisadores apresentaram os resultados juntamente com a teoria de que a nicotina, quando consumida, é convertida em nitrosaminas no corpo. Logo, tentaram direcionar a culpa para a própria nicotina. 

Isso é muito questionável, porque a nicotina em si não é conhecida como cancerígena, e outros estudos com usuários de nicotina não mostram ligação com o câncer. Mas, além disso, não há grandes problemas com os resultados obtidos no estudo, como apresentado até agora.

Os autores dizem: "Portanto, é possível que a fumaça do cigarro eletrônico possa contribuir para o câncer de pulmão e bexiga, além de doenças cardíacas, em humanos".

É aqui que as coisas ficam ruins. 

Em primeiro lugar, eles dizem "fumaça de cigarro eletrônico" em todo o jornal, o que é flagrantemente incorreto e claramente enganoso. A fumaça é produzida a partir da combustão, e o vaping não envolve combustão. A pista está no nome: vapor (ou tecnicamente aerossol) não é fumaça.

Mesmo sem prestar atenção a esse fato,  mesmo se fosse chamada corretamente de aerossol ou vapor, a declaração ainda seria enganosa. 

Dr. Farsalinos se pronunciou sobre os resultados do estudo, e, em seu comentário, apontou para a questão principal de como a pesquisa foi apresentada e relatada:

Os autores mencionam que a nitrosação da nicotina ocorre em humanos, transformando a nicotina em nitrosaminas. Se fosse esse o caso, teríamos observado altos níveis de biomarcadores de nitrosamina na urina dos vapers. Em vez disso, os estudos mostram uma redução de 97,5% nos biomarcadores de nitrosamina nos artigos em comparação aos fumantes. Reduções semelhantes são observadas em ex-fumantes que usam NRTs. Portanto, mesmo se assumirmos que a nitrosação da nicotina está acontecendo (o que está sendo discutido), os níveis de nitrosaminas nos papéis ainda são tão baixos que não tenho certeza se eles conferem algum risco.

Portanto, a grande causa de preocupação - quando apresentada sem comparação - é na verdade uma demonstração tranquilizadora de que é provável que o vaping seja substancialmente mais seguro do que fumar. Sem dúvida, o pior da apresentação dos resultados é que os autores reconhecem essa redução no próprio artigo.

É por isso que uma comparação com os efeitos da fumaça teria sido útil, mas pelo menos a esse número de nitrosamina deveria ter sido dada maior ênfase. A esmagadora maioria dos trabalhos regulares são feitos com fumantes ou ex-fumantes, e precisam de informações comparativas sobre riscos, em vez de informações absolutas.

Os autores apresentam os dados como se a escolha fosse entre vaping e nada, e não a escolha que a maioria dos estudos faz: entre vaping e tabagismo.

Embora reconheçam que a questão principal é como interpretar o estudo, alegam que os níveis de nitrosaminas encontradas no sangue dos vapers "são significativamente mais altos do que nos não-fumantes". Dr. Farsalinos também aponta um enorme problema com esta afirmação:

“Eles dizem que a redução nos biomarcadores de nitrosamina é menor nos vapers do que nos não fumantes e citam um estudo de Shahab et al. publicado em Annals of Internal Medicine. Esse estudo NÃO incluiu não fumantes que não usavam nicotina. Eles incluíram não fumantes usuários de cigarro eletrônico e não fumantes usuários de TRN. De fato, os vapers apresentaram níveis mais baixos de biomarcadores de nitrosamina em comparação aos usuários de TRN.”

Em outras palavras, a referência deles não diz o que eles afirmam. Na realidade, as evidências afirmam que os níveis de nitrosamina nos vapers são realmente mais baixos do que nas pessoas que usam apenas adesivos ou gomas de nicotina. Qualquer preocupação levantada sobre o efeito das nitrosaminas nos vapers com base neste estudo se aplicaria ainda mais às pessoas que usam produtos farmacêuticos que contêm nicotina, se houver algum motivo de preocupação. Mesmo isso não captura completamente os problemas com sua interpretação. Como dito antes, não se pode presumir cegamente que os resultados de estudos em camundongos e células em placas de petri se aplicam cegamente a seres humanos.

A Cancer Research UK em seu excelente post sobre o estudo fez uma excelente observação: "É um pequeno pedaço do quebra-cabeça e deve ser visto juntamente com outros estudos,  porque essas conclusões não podem ser feitas apenas a partir de células e camundongos cultivados em laboratório. ”

E, claro, vocês sabem que existem vários outros estudos que mostram que o vaping é muito, muito mais seguro do que fumar.