Dirty guide to quit smoking

[vorrange]

Hello everyone!

I'm a little away from the forum lately and i haven't posted in a while. Other things have stolen my time and i'm quite happy with my Lotus + Vapcap combo to search for alternatives.

Still, i come by every now and then for a quick catch up!

Meanwhile, i have come across a lot more people still combusting but having heard of vaporizing and wanting to try it. But, they don't often don't make the right choice of vaporizer and end up disappointed, or they find it too expensive without realizing that what they'll save will cover the investment in little time.

Nontheless, the biggest obstacle still remains to be the smoking habit.

So, i'm offering a new way of doing things. Separate the two. Just stop mixing them together, and vaporize cannabis while smoking tobacco. In time, my experience is that it is easier to taper off and by separating the two you'll realize which is which. You'll most likely not even notice at first, but you'll find a lesser need to smoke and end up doing it less often until you can just stop.

It is as simple as that. Share this with friends who are on the fence or are having difficulties to make vaporizing the main habit.

Hope all is well with you all! Happy vaping!

 

[Rebelistic]

IMO it might be better to quit the tobacco smoking first (use a liquid vape) and still smoke herb. At least I think it's a healthier intermediate step. ie to vape eliquid and smoke the odd J (herb only no tobacco) isn't that bad but to still smoke cigs all day is very bad.
I think it's tobacco smoking that's most dangerous and best to eliminate that as a priority.

I'm probably not the best person to comment though as I haven't smoked tobacco in may years, still smoke some herb on occasion but vape 99% of the time.

 

[vorrange]

I agree. It is even better to first stop smoking altogether.

I'm offering a different way of curbing the smoking habit for those who have it more ingrained or have more difficulty in controling themselves.

Just a suggestion for other smoking friends.

 

[pulpF]

I agree! I always used to mix tobacco in with my herbs and I only every so often smoked cigarettes. I realised that when I was hankering a spliff, it was really the whole nicotine and herbal fix in one, neither a raw herbal joint nor a cigarette would cure the hankering, it was the combination.

When I transitioned to vaping I decided to get an ecig along with my Solo. I used to use both side by side, I lowered the nicotine over a year, and then stopped with nicotine altogether. Now just a herbalist!

 

[GreenHopper]

HEALTH NEWS | Thu Nov 3, 2016 | 3:17pm EDT
Smoking a pack a day causes 150 mutations in every lung cell, research shows

By Kate Kelland | LONDON

Scientists have found that smoking a pack a day of cigarettes can cause 150 damaging changes to a smoker's lung cells each year.

The findings come from a study of the devastating genetic damage, or mutations, caused by smoking in various organs in the body.

Publishing in the journal Science on Thursday, the researchers said the findings show a direct link between the number of cigarettes smoked in a lifetime and the number of mutations in the DNA of cancerous tumors.

The highest mutation rates were seen in lung cancers, but tumors in other parts of the body - including the bladder, liver and throat - also had smoking-associated mutations, they said. This explains why smoking also causes many other types of cancer beside lung cancer.

Smoking kills six million people a year worldwide and, if current trends continue, the World Health Organization predicts more than 1 billion tobacco-related deaths this century.

Cancer is caused by mutations in the DNA of a cell. Smoking has been linked with at least 17 types of cancer, but until now scientists were not clear on the mechanisms behind many of them.

Ludmil Alexandrov of Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, one of those who carried out the research, explained that in particular, it had until now been difficult to explain how smoking increases the risk of cancer in parts of the body that don't come into direct contact with smoke.

"Before now, we had a large body of epidemiological evidence linking smoking with cancer, but now we can actually observe and quantify the molecular changes in the DNA," he said.

This study analyzed over 5,000 tumors, comparing cancers from smokers with those from people who had never smoked.

It found certain molecular fingerprints of DNA damage – called mutational signatures – in the smokers' DNA, and the scientists counted how many of these were in different tumors.

In lung cells, they found that on average, smoking a pack of cigarettes a day led to 150 mutations in each cell every year. Each mutation is a potential start point for a "cascade of genetic damage" that can eventually lead to cancer, they said.

The results also showed that a smoking a pack of cigarettes a day led to an average 97 mutations in each cell in the larynx, 39 mutations for the pharynx, 23 for the mouth, 18 for the bladder, and six mutations in every cell of the liver each year.

Mike Stratton, who co-led the work at Britain's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said it was a bit like digging in to the archaeology of each tumor

"The genome of every cancer provides a kind of archaeological record, written in the DNA code itself, of the exposures that caused the mutations," he said. "Looking in the DNA of cancers can provide provocative new clues to how (they) develop and thus, potentially, how they can be prevented."

I don't know about you but this article is a little terrifying.

I smoked for 15 years, terrifying doesn't even begin to cover it.

IMO it might be better to quit the tobacco smoking first (use a liquid vape)

I tried this.

Just stop mixing them together, and vaporize cannabis while smoking tobacco

I tried this too.

In the end I just gave up.

Got fed up of getting high and then spending several hours stressing in a high state of mind over the concept of my lungs mutating into tumors.

Now I vape and when I'm high I don't have that collapsing lung feeling I did when I was smoking. I do think that after a week of not smoking but still vaping herb I was able to get high without the heavy chest feeling and it really relaxed my high.

Not saying the other methods don't work, just offering my story as well.

Peace and highness to all!