• TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    PLEASE stop using disposable vapes.

    I quit cigarettes 10 yrs ago and had been exclusively using the old school refillable box mods. The kinds with big clouds, not the nic salts. I was doing fine, great even, for the last ten.

    But this past year, after picking up those disposables, I kept having breathing problems. I would stop using them for like two weeks before I picked them up again. The cycle finally led to me going into atrial fibrillation, a cardiac emergency. Had to have my heart shocked. in my 30s!

    I ended up quitting nicotine entirely now. it was surprisingly easy to quit! once you wanna do it, it’s already done. as long as you don’t mope about it and celebrate it instead. it’s easier than the whiners would have you believe!

    • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      My grandfather wakes up in the hospital after his third heart attack. The Doc comes over and says “you’ll need to stop smoking or else” and my grandad asked “or else what?” The Doc leaned forward and stared him dead in the eyes “Sudden death”

      Apparently it worked. He said he never smoked after that

    • owl@infosec.pub
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      7 hours ago

      Wow, congratulations for quitting. And thank you for spreading the message.
      Can I ask: What caused you to go from refillable box to disposable? And what is the draw to them?