The link between smoking and heart disease is no secret, but did you know that people who smoke are two to four times more likely to get heart disease? Long-term it can reduce the amount of oxygen going to your heart, raise your blood pressure, speed up your heart rate, harm the inside of your blood vessels and even increase your chances of blood clots. So, if you’re looking to make a happy, healthy change in 2020, consider an e-cig starter kit to help offset tobacco cigarettes’ effect on the heart. In fact, according to a new study, smokers are seeing heart health improvements in as little as a month after making the switch to vaping.
The study
After a month-long, randomized control trial, scientists have concluded that chronic smokers who switch from tobacco cigarettes to e-cig starter kits are significantly lowering their risk of cardiovascular disease.
The study followed a group of 114 long-term cigarette smokers who had smoked at least 15 combustible cigarettes daily for two years or more. An assembly of research participates were placed into one of three controlled groups throughout the study and had vascular testing completed both before and after its completion. The first group only smoked tobacco cigarettes, the second switched to vaping e-cigarettes that contained nicotine, and the third used zero nicotine e-cigs. The results of the analysis showed that participants who vaped, regardless of whether their e-liquid contained nicotine or not, showed significant improvement to their endothelial function — an action that measures how easily blood flows around the body — over those that continued to smoke tobacco cigarettes.
The research was conducted out of Britain’s Dundee University, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and funded by the British Heart Foundation charity.
What was the result
Ex-smokers who had successfully transitioned to vaping saw a marked boost to their vascular function, which significantly lowers their risk of developing cardiovascular disease and having a heart attack or stroke.
While they emphasized that long-term effects of e-cig starter kits are still unknown, they are far “less harmful than tobacco cigarettes when it comes to vascular health”.
British addiction and toxicology experts also noted that while the U.S.-specific phenomenon of injuries linked to vaping vitamin E acetate and THC have taken over recent media headlines, there’s still no evidence of a similar outbreak in the UK or elsewhere where vaping products are widely used.
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