Doctor warns anyone who vapes that 'you've been lied to'
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A doctor has warned people who vape could be unaware of what they're really putting into their bodies. It comes as one viral video shows a woman discovering the true contents of her vape pod. In the video, Dr Karan Rajan said: "If you think vaping is the best way to quit smoking, you've been lied to. A single vape pod can contain around 60mg of nicotine, depending on the brand and strength. For comparison, one cigarette can deliver around 2mg of nicotine to the body.
"So, one vape pod is easily a pack of cigarettes or more. Because vaping is smoother and comes in fun flavours, people can puff away and chain vape through multiple pods. They're unknowingly super dosing nicotine, charging their addiction and frying their dopamine pathways faster than you can say blue raspberry cloud.".
The medic claimed that bright packaging and sweet flavours are "hooking kids that have never touched nicotine" into a life of vaping. He went on to suggest there is little evidence that vaping actually helps people cut smoking out of their lives altogether.
He added: "According to research, vaping is only moderately better than trying to quit smoking cold turkey. Vaping has a quit-smoking success rate of around 7-10%". Dr Rajan compared this to other methods, including behavioural therapy (10-15%), nicotine replacement therapy (15-20%) and a combination approach (25-30%). This year is set to be a major year of change when it comes to vaping in the UK, with Government plans already in motion to ban disposable vapes from the summer.
