While admittedly vaping is healthier than cigarettes, the toxicity and addictive nature is far from absent and has been coined as a ‘crisis for our youth‘. Additionally, many that vape use them way more often than the manufacturer even recommends and increased frequency than a person would smoke a conventional cigarette, thus adding to their toxic affects. Most vapes include nicotine, solvents, and synthetic carriers. For those that enjoy the act of vaping or smoking there is a healthier alternative…
It’s called: Dhum Pan Therapy:
There are formulations for Power, Relaxation, Dream, Boost, Focus and Happy. You can buy vapes separately or a multi-pack to try them all and find your favorite.
Currently, we have found several options: please use at your own risk.
- Ripple (link), has different flavors, but also has it’s own delivery system that is larger than a pen / cartridge and has one of the largest plumes (a favorite for vapors and our patients).
- Cloudy (link), also has different flavor and health options but only has disposable pens as of the writing of this article.
- HealthVape (link), with varying options with vitamin/herbal infused pens and cartridges (juul).
- Fum (link), also has similar flavors, but what makes this one a little different is that it is designed to fidget but has less plume and is more just flavored air.
As we learn of more vendors that start to offer safer smoking alternatives, we will do our best to update them here.
In Ayurveda there is a tradition of smoking herbs for health, this is called “Dhum Pan” which means inhaling smoke from burning the therapeutic herbs. This makes sense when we consider that the lungs are a quick pathway to the body and the bloodstream that skips digestion.
Herbal Vapors may use the pure CO2 extracts, vitamins and or essential oils from traditional therapeutic herbs to allow the consumer to have the smoking experience without actual smoke or unhealthy additives. These oils will vaporize at a temperature around 250° F to 300° F which is well below the temperature that would combust them. Today’s vapor pens are devices that heat the liquid to a temperature that matches our needs and vaporizes the ingredients extracted, traditionally used in Dhum Pan.
This leap forward in technology allows the use of an ancient method while avoiding the potential health consequences of breathing in the smoke produced through burning of plant material or habit forming or toxic additives like nicotine, tobacco, diacetyl or acetyl propionyl.
The social aspect of smoking / vaping cannot be ignored and has dated back to early civilized man and is why healthy vape alternatives are part our our quit smoking cigarettes program. Continuing to enjoy the smoking experience with your friends, without the toxicity, as we help you wean off of the habit forming cigarettes,slowly to avoid withdrawal symptoms – is the best approach to quitting for good. Now you can vape for your health; not against it.