{"id":1450,"date":"2018-01-18T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaporgalleriapittsburgh.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2018-01-25T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:04:10","slug":"older-switching-to-vaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaporgalleria.com\/pittsburgh\/older-switching-to-vaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Demographics Switching to Vaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of individuals in the higher age brackets are turning to vaping to quit smoking. Older citizens, those 65 and up, usually have lower percentages of smokers than other demographics. Partially because of the mortality rate of traditional cigarettes\u2014many people simply don\u2019t make it to those ages.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>But there is a growing wave of older smokers taking up vaping to kick the habit for good.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-60s, the number of older adult smokers hovered around 18.3%. Twenty years later it fell to just under 15%, and for the last few years, the number has been sitting steadily around 8-9% coupled with rising numbers of older adult vapers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaping is clearly less harmful than regular cigarettes,\u201d said Dr. Steven Schroeder, Director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at UC San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Schroeder is not alone. In fact, many doctors agree that e-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes despite federal reluctance to say as much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vaping opponents love to point fingers at nicotine, stating that e-cigarettes still contain this harmful chemical. While it\u2019s true nicotine is the hook that keeps smokers coming back, it\u2019s actually the toxic preservatives and additives in combustible cigarettes that cause all the problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you could get nicotine in a safer form, like an FDA-approved medication, even for the rest of your life, you\u2019d be in far better shape,\u201d said David Abrams, a clinical psychologist at New York University. \u201cAny smoker, especially an older smoker, who isn\u2019t thinking about switching is doing himself a major disservice,\u201d Abrams said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One such woman who\u2019s recently taken up vaping had this to say, \u201cThree days later, I realized I hadn\u2019t smoked a cigarette in three days. I thought, \u2018This is working out kind of nice. Quitting is not supposed to be this easy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of individuals in the higher age brackets are turning to vaping to quit smoking. Older citizens, those 65 and up, usually have lower percentages of smokers than other demographics. Partially because of the mortality rate of traditional cigarettes\u2014many people simply don\u2019t make it to those ages. 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