Juul Is Fighting to Keep Its E-Cigarettes on the U.S. Market

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Vaping is a pretty effective way to stop smoking. I smoked for decades, after one week vaping I quit smoking.

How, then, to quit the vaping? I only managed to escape it by taking a severe enough injury last year which prevented me from smoking or vaping anything for 6 weeks. I could tell when I switched from cigs to juul that my nicotine requirements increased substantially, and quitting the juul would likely be harder than smokes.

Quitting smoking is already a big step for your health. Smoking requires all kind of complicated chemical reactions that result in things like free radicals and airborne particulates that certainly will damage your health.

Vaping is mainly a physical process that changes fluids to gases. It is very generally assumed that it is a lot safer than smoking. Apart from one exception my e-liquids are officially approved for human consumption. The one exception of course is nicotine, but that is pretty easily metabolized. So while you definitely should not consume to much of it, it either kills you very fast or it won't kill you at all.

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