Electronic cigarettes mess with endothelial health

[Gabriel]

Hey guys,

As a former heavy smoker, and now former heavy vaper, I had made a lot of research about the influence of nicotine on inflammation pathways, blood pressure, overall vessel health... With contrasted results: nicotin was not only said to be bad for us (mostly with vasopresin which contracts small vessels), but was also said to be a very powerful anti-inflammatory.

Anyway, I managed to totally quit nicotine over the last months: I'm vaping only 0 mg/L liquids, and do feel better for it (I mean, regarding overall health, not Peyronies Disease... but I guess it has to help at some time)... So I thought I could go on like this, without preoccupating anymore about my addiction worsening my Peyronies Disease.

BUT yesterday I stumbled on this study, which suggests that e-cigs in general really mess with the blood vessel system: https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(16)31378-8/fulltext. I don't know if the effects they described are caused by the eventual presence of nicotine in ther e-liquid (they don't specify it, which is dramatically stupid), OR by other components like flavouring, alcool, etc...

Anyway, be warned if you're also a vaper: it might be a good idea to actually totally quit this habit, and not only nicotine (which I will try to do over the next weeks/months)!

Bye :-),

G

[NeoV]

Thanks for this. Trying to convince someone to quit e-cigs and I've been wanting to round up the research.