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| E-cigarette users say vaping makes them feel better and stop smelling of smoke | E-cigarette users say vaping makes them feel better and stop smelling of smoke |
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| “It helps more with the social aspect of life than anything,” said Elijah Williams, manager of House of Vapes, a dimly lit east London cafe full of small flavour phials with names ranging from Grape to OMG. | |
| “You don’t realise until you start using it around friends and they’re not bothered because it smells like strawberry.” | “You don’t realise until you start using it around friends and they’re not bothered because it smells like strawberry.” |
| Users of e-cigarettes or vaping devices often talk about the change in habit like a conversion story. Devotees say there is a culture of cool around vaping but that there’s more to the habit than style. They feel a real change to their lives and their health as well as a release from cigarette addiction. | Users of e-cigarettes or vaping devices often talk about the change in habit like a conversion story. Devotees say there is a culture of cool around vaping but that there’s more to the habit than style. They feel a real change to their lives and their health as well as a release from cigarette addiction. |
| Related: Public health agency backs e-cigarettes as safer than smoking | Related: Public health agency backs e-cigarettes as safer than smoking |
| “I used to be quite against it because a lot of my friends were trying to get me on to it and I didn’t really see the point,” said Williams. | |
| “It was only when my friend got an upgrade and he gave me his old device and said: ‘Listen, you’ve not paid for it, it’s got some liquid in it, give it a go.’ Two weeks later, I was outside on my lunch break having a cigarette. I started using the two of them together and I just didn’t like the smell of smoke on my clothes any more.” | “It was only when my friend got an upgrade and he gave me his old device and said: ‘Listen, you’ve not paid for it, it’s got some liquid in it, give it a go.’ Two weeks later, I was outside on my lunch break having a cigarette. I started using the two of them together and I just didn’t like the smell of smoke on my clothes any more.” |
| Williams went on to see if vaping had affected his health, a concern shared by many when e-cigarettes first hit the shops. His doctor confirmed that his lungs had improved since the switch. Williams added: “I think it’s more beneficial than harmful to be honest.” | Williams went on to see if vaping had affected his health, a concern shared by many when e-cigarettes first hit the shops. His doctor confirmed that his lungs had improved since the switch. Williams added: “I think it’s more beneficial than harmful to be honest.” |
| Related: E-cigarettes: is vaping any safer than old-fashioned smoke? | Related: E-cigarettes: is vaping any safer than old-fashioned smoke? |
| “As well as that, using it at home became a lot more pleasurable because I could use it in the front room. I didn’t have to go to the garden any more to have a cigarette so I could just sit there and watch EastEnders with my mum which I’d never really been able to do – so it’s helped me socially and it’s helped me give up cigarettes as well.” | “As well as that, using it at home became a lot more pleasurable because I could use it in the front room. I didn’t have to go to the garden any more to have a cigarette so I could just sit there and watch EastEnders with my mum which I’d never really been able to do – so it’s helped me socially and it’s helped me give up cigarettes as well.” |
| Chadia Aboutaka, a customer, said: “I haven’t done much research on it, but I know that I feel better than I did smoking, so for me that’s evidence enough. And I know I don’t want to vape for the rest of my life anyway. It’s something that I’m doing that’s transitionary. | Chadia Aboutaka, a customer, said: “I haven’t done much research on it, but I know that I feel better than I did smoking, so for me that’s evidence enough. And I know I don’t want to vape for the rest of my life anyway. It’s something that I’m doing that’s transitionary. |
| Jack Paul, a young East Midlands Trains employee from Newcastle who has recently switched from smoking cigarettes to using a vaping device, added: “I’m sure it’s not 100% healthy because there’s always chemicals in them, but I can say I definitely feel better than I did having cigarettes – I think they’re probably healthier.” | Jack Paul, a young East Midlands Trains employee from Newcastle who has recently switched from smoking cigarettes to using a vaping device, added: “I’m sure it’s not 100% healthy because there’s always chemicals in them, but I can say I definitely feel better than I did having cigarettes – I think they’re probably healthier.” |
| • This article was amended on 19 August 2015. An earlier version described Elijah Williams as the owner of House of Vapes; he is the shop manager. |
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