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Nicotine

by | Sep ,Mon, 2020 | basic info, education, shareables, youth

Nicotine

A mild stimulant, much like caffeine

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Nicotine myth

Like any substance, too much can cause adverse effects. For instance 4000mg of Tylenol can cause severe liver damage.

Medications that are  available on the shelves in a drug store are called over-the-counter (OTC) medications. They available without a prescription and used safely by the public.

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More on nicotine

Nicotine treats neurological disorders

Nicotine is a mild stimulant and can form a dependance, much like caffeine. Nicotine in eliquid helps smokers transition to a source of nicotine that doesn’t kill them.

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Nicotine is in your body

Nightshade plants naturally have nicotine in them to protect them from insects. So if you eat tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and eggplants, you have nicotine in your body.

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Fraction of the harm

Vaping offers the smoker an alternative that allows them to continue inhaling nicotine without all the disease causing chemicals found in cigarette smoke.

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Nicotine is not the problem

Dr. John Britton of the U.K. Center for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies explains that nicotine addiction isn’t a big deal because “…nicotine itself isn’t particularly hazardous.”

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It’s not the nicotine which causes harm

Burning something causes toxins to form whether it is tobacco, or wood, or fabric. Vaping heats a liquid into a gasseous state like water into steam.

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An extensive and facinating investigation

This documentary was motivated by the pervasive fear-provoking narratives on nicotine. It’s surprising what they discovered!

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It’s not the nicotine which causes harm

Burning something causes toxins to form whether it is tobacco, or wood, or fabric. Vaping heats a liquid into a gasseous state like water into steam.

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An extensive and facinating investigation

This documentary was motivated by the pervasive fear-provoking narratives on nicotine. It’s surprising what they discovered!

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Nicotine and fear

Nicotine alters rat brains

It would be unethical to give nicotine to teens and then test their brains. In this referenced study used by Health Canada to scare smokers away from harm reduction, rats were given nicotine all day through an IV (2mg/kg/d).

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Tobacco smoke causes damage

Tobacco smoke has 7000 chemicals in it, many of which cause damage to the body. This fear-provoking message from Health Canada suggests that all smokers have some kind of brain damage. How is it that they can identify nicotine as the cause and not the 7000 toxins found in cigarette smoke?

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Claims without evidence

Health Canada claims vaping “can” cause lung damage. They provide no evidence to support this speculation. Health Canada “can” deceive the public about harm reduction. They “can” have a motive to promote disease and serve the pharmaceutical industry.

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Quitting smoking

Quitting smoking

by | Sep ,Mon, 2020 | basic info, education, shareables, youth

Quitting smoking

Vaping makes it easier

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Using vaping to quit smoking

Vaping triples the quit rate of the patch

Controlled clinical trials are the gold standard of science. In 2014, a group of smokers who didn’t want to quit smoking were given eliquid and simple vapes (the vapes today are even more effective). 21% of the smokers quit smoking; compare that to 6% success with patches.

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Long term vaping increased quitting smoking by 300%

Smokers that bought a vape and used it while still smoking were compared to smokers that didn’t buy a vape. After 2 years,  42% of smokers who also vaped quit smoking, while those that didn’t vape, only 15% quit smoking.

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Smokers finally quit with vaping

Vaping satisfies the nicotine addiction & smoking behaviour PLUS vaping offers thousands of flavours to help the smoker replace the taste of smoke with something better. That is why it is more effective than sticking a patch to your arm or chewing gum.

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Half of successful quit attempts was with vaping

The 5.7 million Canadian and 34 million American smokers demand for a safer alternative has driven the vaping industry’s growth. If vaping didn’t help smokers quit smoking then there would be no vaping industry.

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Vaping triples the quit rate of the patch

Controlled clinical trials are the gold standard of science. In 2014, a group of smokers who didn’t want to quit smoking were given eliquid and simple vapes (the vapes today are even more effective). 21% of the smokers quit smoking; compare that to 6% success with patches.

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Long term vaping increased quitting smoking by 300%

Smokers that bought a vape and used it while still smoking were compared to smokers that didn’t buy a vape. After 2 years,  42% of smokers who also vaped quit smoking, while those that didn’t vape, only 15% quit smoking.

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Smokers finally quit with vaping

Vaping satisfies the nicotine addiction & smoking behaviour PLUS vaping offers thousands of flavours to help the smoker replace the taste of smoke with something better. That is why it is more effective than sticking a patch to your arm or chewing gum.

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Half of successful quit attempts was with vaping

The 5.7 million Canadian and 34 million American smokers demand for a safer alternative has driven the vaping industry’s growth. If vaping didn’t help smokers quit smoking then there would be no vaping industry.

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How vaping works

Vaping uniquely satisfies the ritualistic behaviour

The ritual: bringing the smoke to the mouth; tasting the drag; sensations in the throat & lungs on a big inhale; a visible exhale and nicotine enters the blood through the lungs. A pack-a-day smoker does this 87,600 times a year. Vaping uniquely satisfies this ritual.

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Vaping is NRT only better

Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) such as patches and gums aren’t that effective because they don’t replace the behaviour. Smokers are experts at self dosing nicotine through inhalation. Eliquid is nicotine in a rather benign base & allows the smoker to continue getting nicotine through inhalation.

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Weaning off nicotine with vaping

After dual use for a while, a large percent of vapers quit smoking. Because eliquid comes in a variety of nicotine strengths (mg/ml), the vast majority of those that switch to vaping, lower their nicotine strengths; some all the way down to zero.

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Dual users have a 60-80% decrease in smoking

The anti-harm reduction zealots claim that vaping is ineffective for quitting smoking because many dual use for a while. Dual users observed in controlled clinical trials reduce the number of cigarettes they smoke by 60-80%. This significantly reduces the toxins they inhale.

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Why are people vaping?

People vape to quit smoking

This bar graph illustrates that the MAIN reason for vaping is smokers seeking to quit. Flavours are not the main reason but vaping wouldn’t work if it didn’t offer smokers a more pleasurable and novel experience than smoking because cigarette smoke is more addictive than nicotine on its own.

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Types of people that vape

Surveys and reports show that less than half a percent of people that never smoked are vaping. However, 15% of smokers and 13% of ex-smokers vape. This shows that SMOKERS are vaping to either quit smoking or stay quit. They deserve to continue to have access to harm reduction.

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Medical smoking cessation

Dying to quit

Smoking is so bad for health and so hard to quit that doctors prescribe psychoactive medications to help their patients quit. Side effects include killing yourself.

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What does your doctor recommend?

Health professionals that understand tobacco harm reduction understand the difference of nicotine dependence and addiction. Dependence is when the body has a tolerance to a substance and experiences withdrawal without it. Addiction is the same except there are negative consequences for the dependence such as smoking-related diseases.

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Youth and smoking uptake

Smoke vs vapour and addiction

Eliquid contains 4 ingredients and only the nicotine can cause dependence. The chances of a youth becoming a smoker is 20 times higher if they start their experimentation with smoking verses with vaping. Vaping is interrupting the historical process of creating smokers.

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Preventing the next generation of smokers

A common fear tactic is to suggest that vaping leads youth to smoking. If that was the case then the increase in youth vaping would mean an increase in youth smoking. This graph clearly shows that youth smoking continues to decline.

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Youth smoking is plummeting

This quote proposes vaping’s harm reduction potential not only for current smokers but for preventing the next generation of smokers. The graph illustrates the significant drop in American youth smoking rates since vaping has been introduced in the USA.

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The next generation of nonsmokers

This graph shows the trend in current smoking rates of  Canadian 15-19 year olds over 18 years. Within 5 years of vaping being introduced, the youth smoking rate decreased at double the highest previous decrease! Is vaping preventing youth smoking uptake?

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Vaping

Vaping

by | Sep ,Mon, 2020 | basic info, education, shareables, youth

Vaping

Less than 5% the risk of smoking

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The UK benefits their citizens with harm reduction

Unlike Canada and the USA, the United Kingdom bases their vaping policies on the thousands of published scientific articles that consistently show that vaping is the best option to help smokers quit.

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Harm reduction

Harm reduction reduces risk

Most of us are familiar with and support harm reduction such as seat belts or bike helmets. Smoking is the most preventable cause of disease and death in North America! It’s very hard to quit smoking, so harm reduction is the solution for many smokers to reduce the harm of their nicotine dependance.

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Relative risk of nicotine sources

The standard scientific tool for measuring the harm from drug use is the MCDA (multi-criteria decision analysis). Experts compared 12 different sources of nicotine using the MCDA. The most harmful source were cigarettes so they were given the value of 100%. The other 11 sources show the relative risk of harm compared to smoking.

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Vaping is a fraction the risk

Citizens have a right to life which means they have a right to all the information to make informed decisions about preserving health. They also should have access to and be able to effectively utilize harm reduction to protect health such as condoms, seat belts and vaping.

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Elimination of disease causing toxins

“People smoke for nicotine but they die from tar.” -M. Russell

WHO prioritized the 9 most toxic chemicals found in tobacco smoke for reduction. Vaping significantly reduces or eliminates these toxic chemicals! As to formaldehyde, it is naturally occurring in exhaled breath.

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Government oversight

Ingredients in eliquid & vapour

Over 7000 harmful chemicals are produced when the chemically laden cigarette is burned including: carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, hydrocarbons, nitrous oxide, free radicals, radioactive compounds, arsenic, phenols & 69 carcinogens These aren’t found in vapour.

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Government regulations

“If you are a smoker, vaping is a less harmful option than smoking.” Health Canada. Vaping nicotine is less than 5% the risk of smoking and the government limits what can be put into the eliquids to keep it that way.

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Indoor vaping

Rigorous analysis of vapour

Unlike 100 years ago when smoking came around, science has analyzed thousands of chemicals. All of those chemicals have been tested for safety to establish Threshold Limit Values (TLV). Vapour was compared to TLV and passed with flying colours.

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Second hand vapour

Top health agencies in the US tested for hazardous chemicals in the air in a vape shop with active vaping. The vast majority of chemicals were not even detected! Friends and family of vapers can feel comfortable around vaping and support smokers making the switch.

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Youth and vaping

Helping smokers doesn’t harm children

In Great Britain, vaping is recognized as a significant harm reduction strategy and is promoted by their public health. Yet, less than 2% of 11-18 year olds vape more than once a week. WHERE is the youth vaping epidemic in Great Britain?

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The concept of harm reduction is ignored

Young people have been recruited to distract from the harm reduction aspect of vaping and replace it with fear of youth becoming addicted to nicotine. The problem with this focus is it denies the millions of smokers in North America from learning about an effective harm reduction option.

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Devloping a dependance

Health authorities and media claim that youth are becoming dependent on nicotine because of vaping. Dependence to nicotine means daily use. Youth that have never smoked are not daily vapers. But youth that would have becomes smokers are vaping instead.

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Government confirmation bias

To compare statistical data from year to year, the parameters of that data must remain the same. The Government of Canada changed the parameters of youth vaping data which falsely inflates the numbers and perpetuates the fear-provoking narrative.

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It’s smokers that are vaping

The next generation of smokers is being interrupted by vaping. 99.9% of those that vape everyday, and therefore are dependant, consists of people with a smoking history.

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This documentary investigated vaping during the height of the media frenzy to demonize vaping. It offers a comprehensive, indepth look at tobacco harm reduction.

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It’s smokers that are vaping

The next generation of smokers is being interrupted by vaping. 99.9% of those that vape everyday, and therefore are dependant, consists of people with a smoking history.

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This documentary investigated vaping during the height of the media frenzy to demonize vaping. It offers a comprehensive, indepth look at tobacco harm reduction.

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Educate health professionals

Educate health professionals

by | Jan ,Mon, 2020 | education, health professionals

Call to Action

Teach health professionals

about vaping-related lung injuries

CNA Harm Reduction

Jan. 2020, Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs releases:

 

“Miscommunication about the causes of the US outbreak of lung diseases in vapers by public health authorities and the media”.

EVERY health professional who reads this will have full comprehension on the truth about what is causing vaping related lung injuries, how the CDC has deceived the public about it and that they have been getting a false narrative.

This credible paper is a short read consisting of only 2 pages yet cites 32 references.

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Here is the paper, just print it off.

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Now, write VAEPworld.com on the back.

All you have to do now is give it to the receptionist or practitioner at health professional offices.

Because vaping is a hot topic right now and this is a short, credible paper, it will probably get passed around the staff room. Since you wrote VAEPworld.com on the back, you have helped them learn more PLUS given them somewhere to send their patients for infomation on tobacco harm reduction! This means YOU have made all the difference in the world!

 

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  • hospital admissions

  • walk in clinics

  • dentist offices

  • community/public health clinics

  • doctor’s offices

  • mental health centers

  • harm reduction clinics

  • optomatrist offices

  • labs

  • physiotherapy offices

  • chiropracter offices

  • naturopathy offices

 

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EVALI

EVALI

by | Dec ,Sat, 2019 | education, shareables

Vaping & Lung Injuries

EVALI (E-cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury)

In 2019, a sudden outbreak of severe lung injuries, some causing death, occurred in North America, mainly the USA. Vitamin E acetate was identified as the additive in illegal THC cartridges that caused the injuries.

Health-related nonprofits and authorities, as well as mainstream media, conflated two distinctively different activities: vaping THC cartridges and vaping nicotine eliquid.

The result is a misinformed public and health community.

Two travesties occurred.

First, failing to adequately warn cannabis (THC) users caused unnecessary injury.

Second, implying that eliquid was causing the lung injuries drove thousands of vapers back to the most lethal form of nicotine: tobacco cigarettes.

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Explore the events of the outbreak, the investigation to identify the cause, the actions that were taken and how it was resolved.

What happend

Health-related nonprofits and authorities utilized media to spread fear about vaping. Their narrative omitted that EVALI was not caused from nicotine eliquid.

What went wrong in Canada
What went wrong in the USA

Health Canada approved the sale of THC cartridges during the outbreak and EVALI could spread a fearful light on this new product. In the USA, payments to state governments through the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement are proportional to the cigarette sales.

Canada gov't THC cartridges
State governments & the MSA

The UK reviewed the science on vaping around 2014: before the narratives were formulated and distributed to sovereign nations. They stand alone in being fully informed on and benefiting their citizens with tobacco harm reduction.

Expert warnings from the UK

Start here:

What happened