Your experiences with e-cigarettes ?

I used to be a smoker for 14 years (started by 15 and quit by 29). I never was a heavy smoker, on average I smoked 20-30 cigarettes a week which makes 4-5 packs a month. I still was addicted to it though, especially on weekends.

I always tried to quit completely as I saw it as a huge waste of money and the chances of 50% suffering an early, agonizing death seemed just outright stupid to continue with it. I successfully quit smoking 1 year ago with the help of e-cigarettes. I never touched any cigarettes since then, but I'm a heavy vaper now.

I vape 5 ml of liquid daily with 6 mg nicotine and 50/50 liquid (VG/PG). Not a really high number, but sometimes I feel physically bad from it. I have to sneeze a lot, sometimes I cough and the main problem is: sometimes I even feel like I can't breathe properly. I feel like I have this obstacle in my lungs and my entire chest is completely cramped. When I breathe in and out deeply I sometimes hear bones from the chest cracking and a little pain. This goes on already since 6 months.

I have no problems with sports and I already saw a lung specialist recently, did x-ray and so on - no problems were detected at all.

Now those symptoms of shortage of breath and chest cramps are also attributed to psychological disorders like anxiety and panic attacks (which I also suffer from).

But I have the strong feeling it's related to the use of e-cigarettes, because when I refrain from vaping for 1-2 weeks the symptoms disappear completely. However I'm so addicted to vaping that I always relapse. So it makes me feel like e-cigarettes aren't that safe after all, but if that would really be the case why did the lung specialist not detect any anomalies in my body?

Does any of you who is a vaper experience this symptoms? What's going on here?

 

I don't think the nicotine is the problem. I also tried using 0 mg and at some point had the exact same symptoms. It must be the ingredients of the liquid (PG+VG+flavour).

If vaping is damaging, why aren't there any cases/studies about it? It's already in use since more than 10 years. The vaping deaths in the US were caused by the use of Vitamine E + THC. But I live in a country where those ingredients have always been banned and I still have weird symptoms. Lung specialist didn't find anything. It could be all psychological of course, but the shortness of breath + chest pain feels very physical to me.

It's so hard to quit. If I have no e-cigarettes, I will go back to regular cigarettes at some point and those are a real killer.