491: E-Cigs: GenZ's Latest Obsession

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Arts, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Nicotine, smoking, and vaping- did you know that cigarettes are the leading cause of
preventable deaths? It’s true. Despite public health efforts to promote abstinence, quitting nicotine can be a lot harder than it looks. The problem itself seems to have passed onto the new generation as well as they have their own version of cigarettes: the e-cigarette. In this podcast, I’ll be discussing the harms that e-cigarettes produce and why you shouldn’t ignore the evidence found in your patients.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and today's podcast
0:22.8	is going to teach you all about the problems with vaping. I know that you guys have friends
0:31.4	who vape. I know you sometimes vape yourselves. And I just wanted to go over for everyone the harms of e-sigarettes.
0:41.4	Because nicotine smoking, vaping, this is all leading to problems in the United States with
0:47.8	death rates increasing, cancer rates increasing, skin being harmed. That's not the most dramatic problem, but e-cigarettes
0:56.9	and vaping are dangerous. And as much as it seems like it's a cleaner, better trend than regular
1:03.2	smoking, it's really not. So we're going to discuss the harms of e-cigarettes and why you shouldn't
1:09.8	ignore the evidence and teach your patients,
1:12.5	teach yourselves, teach your friends why e-cigarettes and vaping pens are not the best thing
1:18.9	to do to yourself, the harms of e-cigarettes. Anyhow, let's talk. So, e-cigarettes are also known as vaping pens.
1:29.6	It's an electronic device that's similar to a typical cigarette.
1:33.5	Your nicotine is going to be stored in small handheld device that heats up to produce an aerosolized mist.
1:39.9	And sometimes it comes in a variety of flavors, making it appealing to younger users.
1:44.2	And the tobacco industry has been widely criticized for making fruit-flavored and fun-flavored e-cigarettes.
1:51.7	Because it's just a way to make smoking easier, more addictive, and more appealing, and accessible to young people,
1:59.1	and trapping them to a lifetime where they are addicted
2:02.7	to nicotine products. Smoking itself, of course, we know to be harmful. And I want to dispel
2:10.4	the myth that vaping is safer than smoking real cigarettes because really, there really is no
2:16.7	difference. That is right. Vaping e-cigarettes is just as bad
2:21.1	and sometimes worse and can cause significant health problems. So here are a few of the negatives.
2:27.2	Number one, addiction. This is the most obvious and it cannot be ignored. The nicotine concentration
2:33.4	found in e-cigarettes and vapes can be highly addictive,
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