What you need to know about vaping vitamins and other supplements
Aaron Scott, Associate Professor of Respiratory Sciences at the University of Birmingham, spoke with John Maytham about vaping.
- Vitamin B12 is added to e-cigarettes
- “The colder the gadget, the more people it will attract along the way”
Wellness vapes promise great health benefits. Researchers say these vapes haven’t been around long enough to know what the substantial long-term consequences of using them are.
A wide range of products aims to use the e-cigarette system for nicotine-free products, including vitamins B12 and C.
Instead of nicotine they want to put things like the popular vitamin B12, vitamin C, even caffeine and melatonin – deliver that to the lungs and the theory is that it’s a better mechanism of delivery that enters your body faster for greater benefits. That’s how they market these things. Unfortunately, there is no evidence to support this.
Aaron Scott – Associate Professor of Respiratory Sciences at the University of Birmingham
Researchers believe it may be more harmful than vape producers advertise.
If you use it to quit smoking in the form of e-cigarettes with nicotine, there’s a reduction in harm – but it’s a massive increase in harm from vitamin intake, breathing it in your lungs.
Aaron Scott – Associate Professor of Respiratory Sciences at the University of Birmingham
Vitamins, multi-vitamins – things like that are quite inexpensive now. In most countries they are quite inexpensive and so there is not much profit to be made.
Aaron Scott – Associate Professor of Respiratory Sciences at the University of Birmingham
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