Everything that happens to your body when you quit vaping

It might be considered smoking's less bad cousin, but vaping can still be highly addictive.

By now, it's pretty common knowledge that smoking is very bad for you. As a general rule, if you name a health condition, then there is probably a way that smoking either increases your chances of getting it, makes it worse if you do get it, or both.

But while vaping is still considered to be less harmful than smoking tobacco, many vapers don't realise just how much nicotine is actually in the average vape.

Combine that with fruity flavours and it not smelling as bad as smoking, and you have a recipe for someone taking in a huge amount of addictive nicotine.

And that's before we get into those horrific images of 'popcorn lung' in people who vape excessively.

It's just not good for you I'm afraid (Getty Stock Images)

So, it's probably a good idea to cut down or stop vaping if you are vaping, but what impact could this have on your body?

Nicotine addiction support service Truth Initiative shared that the first thing, particularly if you vape a lot, is that your body will start to go through nicotine withdrawal.

Like with getting off the cigs, this could result in irritability, not being able to sleep, anxiety, and cravings.

Cigarettes have a lot of other things in them as well, and quitting can immediately help your body start to heal, with reduced risk of cancer and heart disease almost straight away, which only compounds the longer you go without smoking.

20 mins in to kicking the habit, the body's blood pressure decreases.

Within two weeks of quitting vaping, the body's circulation and lung functionality improve, while the risk of a heart attack is reduced after one year of ditching e-cigs.

Vaping is a much more recent phenomenon, however, and while quitting vaping could have a similar impact to cigs, more research is currently needed to figure out exactly how your health could improve afterwards.

Vaping might be an aid to quitting smoking, but it's still very bad for you (Anastassiya Bezhekeneva/Getty)

However, like cigarettes, vapes also contain a whole chemistry set full of other chemicals, which are really not very good to put in your body.

These include formaldehyde, famous for its use in preserving corpses, and acrolein, a compound the other uses of which include as a 'biocide', from 'bio' meaning life, and '-cide' meaning killing or killer.

As far as 'bad for you' goes, it doesn't really get much clearer than a chemical one use of which literally means 'life killer'.

These chemicals can cause damage to DNA, as well as mutagenesis, changing genetic information, which can both be a cause of cancer.

Long-term use, or exposure though passive smoke, can increase risk of cancer and be a fertility risk, though the precise risk can depend on several factors.

For example, the flavour could be a factor as flavours use different chemicals to create that scent.

There's also the voltage and the amount of nicotine in a particular capsule.

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