Since the start of the pandemic increasing evidence has mounted suggesting that smokers are at a higher risk of developing a more severe case of COVID-19 than those who don’t smoke, making it a particularly good time for heavy users to try and quit or cut down on their habits. Nevertheless, if the headline wasn’t enough to convince you to test out a Logic vape pen as your nicotine replacing substitute, perhaps learning about how coronavirus has worsened the viral infection for smokers will prove to be persuading.
Smokers are over-represented in critical COVID-19 cases
Data published in The New England Journal of Medicine groups together several patients that contracted the virus residing in the epicenter of the outbreak, Wuhan China. It was discovered that among those patients, those who experienced less-severe symptoms were non-smokers, whereas that severity more than doubled among those who were current or former combustible cigarette smokers.
Out of 1,099 patients that contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan, 173 of them developed severe, life-threatening symptoms — 16.9% of the people were current smokers, 5.2% had recently smoked, and 1.3% were former smokers.
“Smokers seem to be over-represented in groups of people who have severe or critical COVID-19, said J. Taylor Hays, M.D. Director of the Nicotine Dependence Center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
More than 25% of current smokers required ventilators, ICU care
While it’s well-known that tobacco smoke harms one’s respiratory system, including irritation of the trachea and larynx, as well as the development of excess mucus and the swelling of lung airways, more worryingly, the above data showed that 25.5% of patients that required mechanical ventilation, admission to an intensive care unit, or ultimately died, were current smokers.
Quitting combustible cigarettes, even for the right reasons, can be difficult to overcome, and reaching ground zero by giving up tobacco and nicotine in the same go-around can prove even more challenging. So, if you want to make it your mission to quit for your health and well-being, set yourself up for success by using a Logic vape pen as your nicotine stand-in!
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In reply to Evelyn Baron.
That’s really interesting, Evelyn. We didn’t happen to come across that study. Please feel free to drop it in the comments section to give us readers some more references.
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For 5 years I use e cigs find them enjoyable but hard to squire as I live in Brasil depending totally family and friends for supplies😢😢
Interesting.
But note that in France, a study showed that of the total covid population, there was a lower percentage of smokers than in the population at large.
I would still recommend not smoking, because when a smoker is affected, the smoker i affected much more seriously than the non-smoker.