Quitting smoking and remaining smoke-free is no easy feat. According to the American Cancer Society, it takes 8-10 attempts for the average person to quit smoking for good. So instead of going ‘cold turkey’, many smokers use cigarette replacements to support their journey to a healthier and happier lifestyle. Vaping products are among the most …
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Why are Flavoured E-Liquids Important?
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The Tobacco Plant – An In-Depth Guide
With over 70 varieties and 8000 years of cultivation, there are very few plants that can match tobacco in terms of how interwoven it has become into human society. The Latin name for tobacco is Nicotiana tabacum. It is part of the Solanaceae plant family and is therefore botanically linked to potatoes and Aubergines. Tobacco …
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Vaping on a Budget – Our Top Tips
Switching smoking to vaping saves plenty of money. However, there are still savings to be made in the e-cigarette world, particularly if you know where to look. Vaping on a budget while maintaining rich flavours, satisfying clouds, and a hit of nicotine is perfectly possible. The first step to spending wisely is breaking down the …
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E-cigarettes Could Soon be Available on the NHS
England looks set to become the first nation in the world to prescribe e-cigarettes, following a landmark decision from the English health authorities. The government’s drive for a smoke-free England by 2030 spurs this drive, making the country a global leader in progressive anti-smoking and e-cigarette policy.
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8 Benefits of Nicotine Free Vapes
Vaping offers a great alternative to smoking, cutting out carcinogens and other smoky side effects from your lifestyle. However, with vaping’s simplicity and great taste, its users sometimes forget their goal in picking up an e-cig in the first place: kicking their nicotine addiction. Understanding the benefits of nicotine-free vapes helps you remember that goal, and maybe even achieve it.
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Does Vaping Make you Tired
The common question ‘does vaping make you tired?’ does not have a direct answer as vaping itself does not cause its users to experience fatigue. However, your body can experience immediate or delayed drowsiness if you consume nicotine.
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Life Insurance for Vapers – Your Questions Answered
Cigarette smokers have significantly higher life insurance premiums than non-smokers because the habit is known to increase the chance of death. By this logic, vapers should receive improved insurance rates as it is approximately, according to Public Health England in 2018. However, this isn’t always the case.
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Passive Vaping – Is It Dangerous?
Second-hand vaping is the act of inhaling vapour from an e-cigarette that has been exhaled from an individual nearby. We refer to this as passive or second-hand vaping because the vapour does not originate from the e-cigarette, as it has already been inhaled by the individual using the device.
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The Truth About Vaping
In an era full of fake news and alternative facts, it’s often tough to sort the truth from the clickbait. The truth about vaping and smoking exemplifies this issue perfectly, as public perception differs wildly from government advice. Public Health England describes vaping as 95 per cent safer than smoking. However, a mere one in three English adults know this fact.
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How To Quit Smoking – Help And Advice
Quitting smoking may not be easy, but it comes with many health-boosting perks. It’s key to understand the services and aids that are available to you, instead of going through it alone, unable to determine which approach suits you the best.
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Can Vaping Make You Fat?
As with so many issues around both weight gain and smoking, the answer is complicated, but here we are going to discuss some of the key factors that will hopefully help you make informed and healthy decisions about your weight when vaping.
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Why Choose Naturally Extracted Tobacco E-Liquids
The term ‘naturally extracted tobacco’ actually refers to the process used to isolate the tobacco flavour from the tobacco leaf. Several methods are used to achieve this, and at Red Vape, we use a procedure known as proprietary cold maceration.
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Vaping and Exercise – Does Vaping Affect Athletic Performance?
We all know how harmful cigarettes are for the body but what about vaping and exercise? Does vaping help or hinder people during athletic performance?
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Outdoor Vaping – What You Need To Know
Whether you’re preparing for the next festival season, planning a hike, or braving an extreme sport, vaping can be tricky outdoors. When smokers hike, they have to shelter their lighters from the elements. Vaping, while removing the need for a flame, brings challenges of its own. With a few essential tips, you can ensure you enjoy uninterrupted outdoor vaping.
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Is Vaping Bad for Your Teeth?
There is no argument that smoking is pretty disastrous for our teeth and gums. Having been around a lot longer than vaping, there have been extensive studies on how smoking affects oral health.
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Vaping Side Effects and How To Handle Them
Vaping is a much a safer alternative to smoking with Public Health England considering vaping as much as 95% better than traditional cigarettes. However, there can still be vaping side effects which all users should be aware of. Most of these side effects will only be temporary or will affect a very small number of people. They are typically a result of vaping too much or incorrectly.
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Vaping and the 8 Things You Should Know
Public Health England (PHE), one of the best sources for well researched, factual information on vaping, have released a new blog post alongside their annual evidence-based review on e-cigarettes>. The post has been written by John Newton >, a supporter of vaping who is keen to promote facts about e-cigarettes and debunk the dodgy research, myths and hearsay that surround vaping.
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Are you an Eco-Friendly Vaper?
The environment and the impact humans have on the planet is in the news daily. Whether it be bush fires in Australia, deforestation in the Amazon or flooding here in the UK. More and more people are starting to look at their own lives and how they can make environmentally beneficial changes. For the eco-friendly vaper, there are obvious concerns as vaping creates waste and is not 100% environmentally friendly.
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The US Vaping Scare – What We Now Know
The US vaping scare has meant that the second half of 2019 has been turbulent for the vaping industry. At the time of writing this post, approximately 50 deaths have been linked to vaping. In addition to this, nearly 2,500 people have reported e-cigarette related illnesses.
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A Beginners Guide to Vaping – Common Mistakes New Vapers Make
When you’re new to vaping, it can seem like there is a lot to learn. There are hundreds of devices to choose from, thousands of e-liquids and lots of terms that most none vapers will never have heard of. Fear not, we’ve all been a vaping novice once, and like anything new, it takes a bit of time to work out what’s what.
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The Pros and Cons of Vaping
For someone new to vaping or thinking of trying it to help them quit smoking, these wildly differing viewpoints can be very confusing. So, in an effort to try and cut through the noise that surrounds vaping, we’ve compiled a list of the key pros and cons.
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The Teenage Vaping Epidemic – Media Hype or Evidence Backed Facts?
In reality, teenagers are far more likely to take illegal drugs or drink alcohol than they are to vape. In the UK, approximately 38% of 11-15-year-olds have tried alcohol, 24% of 11-15-years-olds have tried illegal drugs, and 12% of 11-18-year-olds have tried vaping.
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Major Study Finds Vaping Twice as Effective as NRT
The strict protocols of drug trials can’t really be used for a consumer product like e-cigarettes. However, there have been large smoking cessation trials that involved the use of e-cigarettes. The last of these trials was from 2014 and tested the first generation cigalike products. Even with those early vaping devices, the results still showed the success rate was on par with other nicotine replacement therapy products.
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Public Health England Maintains Stance on Vaping
The government is to launch a new campaign to try and convince UK smokers that vaping is far less harmful than smoking and e-cigarettes provide a good way to help people to quit. The new campaign is to counter the scepticism that has been generated by some scientific studies and media headlines.
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How to Get Started on Your Vaping Journey
If you’re switching to vaping from smoking it may seem confusing at first, this guide will help to point you in the right direction to your vaping future
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Vaping and Sleep – Should You Vape at Bedtime
Does vaping affect your sleep? The simple answer is yes it can. However, all is not lost, there are things you can do to improve your sleep quality. This article will help you to hopefully gain the right balance and achieve a better nights rest.
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Can E-Cigarette use be Beneficial to Patients with COPD?
The most significant thing about patients with COPD is that they are very reluctant to quit smoking, and there is a much higher relapse rate amongst those who try. Most COPD sufferers will continue to smoke until the disease ends their life.
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The Growth of Vaping – How Will the Market Develop?
According to the World Health Organisation, the number of people smoking is steadily decreasing globally. Since 2000, smokers have reportedly dropped from 1.14 billion to 1.1 billion, not a huge decrease maybe. However, when you consider that over that same time period the global population has increased by 23%, or 1.5 billion people, then the reduction is far more significant.
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Vaping in Prisons – Prisoner Cell Block Vape
The smoking ban came fully into force in March 2018, with a few crown prisons being exempt, although this is due to change come August 2018. The matter is still under review but non-smoking prisoners and prison staff are keen to keep the ban in place.
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Summer Vaping Tips – Using Your E-cig in Hot Weather
Summer is a wonderful time to go outside and enjoy the warm weather. We all love to get out and about, often taking day trips, enjoying barbecues with family and friends or just relaxing in the garden. With that in mind, here are some simple tips on keeping your E-Cig working well during the hot weather
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CBD Oil and Vaping – What you Need to Know
CBD is short for cannabidiol a compound found in the cannabis plant. CBD makes up 40% of the cannabis plant and is second only to THC in the plant’s makeup. Unlike the THC compound, however, CBD has very mild psychoactive effects, so will not get you high.
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How Harmful is Nicotine to the Human Body
The way nicotine is consumed has a great impact on the effect it will have on your body. As already mentioned, when smoked in a cigarette, the other chemicals in that cigarette can cause multiple health issues.
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Should You Allow Vaping In The Workplace
Although as yet, there is no data on the long-term effects of vaping, it is considered to be considerably less harmful than smoking. As vaping is helping many people to quit smoking, the long term impact can only be positive on the health system.
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Coming Soon – Urban Sky By Red Vape
Launching in the next few weeks, Urban Sky is our new range of high VG liquids crafted to produce silky smooth clouds of smooth, decadent vapour.
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Vaping and Driving – The Facts
Towards the end of February, many papers picked up on comments made by road safety officers working for the Sussex and Surrey police forces. The officers, quite rightly, stated if people are using e-cigarettes while driving and become distracted from the road due to vaping they could be liable to a fine.
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Public Health England Publish Updated Review Of Vaping
Back in 2015, Public Health England (PHE) released details of a review they had carried out into e-cigarettes. If you’re not sure what Public Health England is they’re a UK government-backed agency who, according to their website, “Exist to protect and improve the nation’s health and well-being”. Although not directly responsible for UK policy on vaping they will undoubtedly have a significant input and influence on those that are.
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Three New Positive Vaping Studies
One of the things most vapers will have noticed if they pay any attention to the press coverage on vaping is that the big, attention-grabbing, headlines tend to be pretty negative.
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Vape Tricks 101 – Vaping Tricks for Beginners
Many of the simple vaping tricks are not new but have in fact been used by smokers for many years. The French Inhale and smoke rings are just two that have been picked up by vapers. Where smoke from traditional cigarettes was a significant limiting factor to the tricks that could be performed the lovely thick clouds produced by vaping allows for much more elaborate creations.
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Vaping Etiquette for The Socially Responsible Vaper!
Correct vaping etiquette is seemingly always under discussion and not always agreed upon by vapers themselves. However, the basic rules we’ve outlined below are a good place to start.
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8 Things You Should Never Say to a Vaper
We’ve pulled together some of our favourite/most annoying comments and quips that you should never to say to a vaper.
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Vaping Around Children – Is It Safe?
It is common knowledge that smoking around children is a big No No! The damaging effects that second-hand smoke has on infants and young children’s developing bodies can last a lifetime. Kids who grow up around a smoking parent are also three times more likely to take up smoking themselves.
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Vaping Advice for Pet Owners
No vaper wants to be responsible for the untimely end of their little furry friends, and so in this post, we’ll be sharing some advice on how to vape responsibly around your pet. We’ll also explain what signs your pet might display if they ingest e-liquid and what you can do should this happen.
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The Best Cities In The World For Vaping
There are still some cities where vaping is not only accepted but positively welcomed. In this article, we look at some of the best places for vapers to visit, so that you can plan your next vacation.
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A Beginners Guide to Sub-Ohm Vaping
There is an increasing number of sub-ohm options hitting the market but many vapers are confused as to what sub-ohm vaping is and what the Pro’s and Con’s are compared to normal vaping.
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Vaping Care and Maintenance Tips
Vaping has exploded in popularity in recent years and there are lots of tips and advice circulating about how to keep your devices and e-liquids in tip-top condition. While the majority of tips are just basic common sense it is nice to have a refresher from time to time.
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Introducing the Red Vape TPD Compliant E-Liquid Range
From May 20th 2017 all e-liquids sold in the UK must be compliant with the regulations set out in the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). All of these new laws mean it’s been a busy time for us here at Red Vape as we’ve had to ensure all our e-liquids are fully TPD compliant.
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How do the New UK Vaping Laws Effect E-Liquids?
We wanted to write a new TPD post to solely cover e-liquids and how the new laws will impact what we do here at Red Vape. A lot of hard work has been spent over the last year ensuring our e-liquids are fully TPD compliant and this in practice means our product range will see some changes. We’ve taken the TPD as an opportunity to further improve our e-liquids by redesigning some of the flavour profiles and enhancing our packaging.
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Is Nicotine Bad For You?
Are you a smoker looking to quit cigarettes? You’ve probably considered vaping as an alternative thanks to numerous reports from the scientific community that point out that vaping is much less harmful than cigarettes.
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Where Can You Vape In The UK?
While you are free to vape at home and on the street, there still exists a lot of confusion about other areas where vaping is allowed. We’ve done our research to help you know where you can and where you can’t.
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Vaping and How to Get the Perfect Throat Hit
A throat hit is the feeling that the vapour from your e-cig gives you when you inhale it and it hits the back of your throat. Throat hits are not all the same though when vaping, and this isn’t too surprising when you think about the variables involved when vaping.
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