{"id":14917,"date":"2021-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-back-pain-this-womans-back-pain-could-be-due-to-her-vaping-habit\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"condition-back-pain-this-womans-back-pain-could-be-due-to-her-vaping-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-back-pain-this-womans-back-pain-could-be-due-to-her-vaping-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"A 23-Year Old Found Out Her Vaping Habit May Have Caused a Condition Usually Seen in People 50 and Older"},"content":{"rendered":"
When 23-year-old Meghan McTigue went to her doctor with bad lower-back pain, she wasn't expecting him to ask if she vaped. When she told him she was an on-and-off vaper throughout her college years, he said that might be the reason for her current health issue. Sharing her story on TikTok<\/a>, McTigue put it bluntly: "I have the back of a 50 year old now thx to nicotine."<\/p>\n In an interview with BuzzFeed<\/a><\/em>, she revealed that she had tried several times to quit vaping.<\/p>\n "I've tried nicotine pouches to wean off of the inhalation aspect, lollipops to help with oral fixation, and signed up for one of the text services that sends you frequent reminders and tips on how to quit," she said. "I had thrown out my own device probably two or three times, but ended up buying another weeks or months after."<\/p>\n It took her recent health scare to make her get rid of her JUUL (a brand name e-cigarette) in December.<\/p>\n Dr. Weitzman says everything in our body undergoes a balanced breakdown\/rebuild process—and the better that process works, the slower our bodies will degenerate as we age. "Think of it like a plane coming in for a nice gentle landing," he says. "You can't stop the inevitable descent toward the end, but you want it to go as smoothly as possible. Every time you take in nicotine, it interferes with the repair part. So if you are constantly filling your body with nicotine, then that process is unbalanced and the degenerative part takes over." Then it's only a matter of time before things start breaking down, Dr. Weitzman adds.<\/p>\n Closeup of woman smoking electronic cigarette<\/span> , MD, co-founder of the Los Angeles-area Goodlife Physical Medicine<\/a>, in partnership with US Orthopedic Alliance<\/a>, explains the chain of events. "When the cushioning discs of our low backs break down, it can actually lead to several different kinds of low back pain. And now we know there is a direct connection between nicotine and worsened disc degeneration," he tells Health<\/em>.<\/p>\n