Have you noticed that since you’ve been using vaping, you’ve been more tired than usual? Maybe your fatigue goes back much further. Maybe it’s been a long time since you’ve been using smoking tar. When you think about it, you can’t even remember the last time you got a good night’s sleep. While vapes don’t have the unique characteristics that make you feel fatigued, using all forms of smoking tar (a little different because smoking tar is a potent stimulant) may lower your energy levels during the day because smoking tar interferes with your sleep.
The good news is that if smoking vapes makes you tired, there are steps you can take to address this, as smoking tar intake can reduce the quality of your sleep. However, before you start changing your habit, it is necessary to consider whether smoking tar is a problem. To determine this, we should first look at how smoking tar interacts with the human body.
How does smoke tar affect the body?
Smoke tar is a potent stimulant that affects heart rate, breathing, blood sugar, and hormone production.
Smoke tar is a complex molecule that affects the body in a variety of ways. However, to understand the effects of vapes on sleep, this article will focus on the euphoric drug properties of smoke tar. When you use smoke tar, it quickly crosses the blood-brain barrier and binds to some of the receptors in the brain that are responsible for producing adrenaline. This stimulates the production of adrenaline, which then increases your heart rate and breathing. It also raises your blood pressure and releases glucose into your bloodstream.
When you were a smoker, did you often feel like you couldn’t get up in the morning without a cigarette? If so, you’ve just found out why: you have a hard time waking up because your body is waiting for an adrenaline rush. Switching to vapes won’t eliminate this need unless you use nicotine-free vapes. However, if vapes make you tired, the reason is not only related to the stimulation of the tar.
If smoke tar is a stimulant, then why does smoking vapes make you tired?
Smoking vapes can make you tired because stimulants can adversely affect the quality of sleep – especially before bedtime.
By now you know that smoke tar is an effective stimulant, but you may be confused. If smoke tar seems to energize you, why does smoking vapes make you feel tired? The answer is that using smoke tar during the day may make you feel more awake, but it can also adversely affect the quality of your sleep. Smoke tar shortens the duration of the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) stage of sleep is a potential problem because it is part of the sleep cycle when the body rests and repairs itself. Lack of REM sleep can lead to a range of adverse effects including anxiety, irritability, difficulty concentrating, and fatigue.
In short, smoking vapes doesn’t make you tired per se, simply because the smoke tar remains in your bloodstream when you fall asleep. This inhibits the rapid eye sleep phase and makes your sleep less stable than it should be. This can cause you to wake up feeling depressed in the morning. You’ll consume more smoke tar throughout the day to wake yourself up, and then the cycle will continue. Any serious smoke tar user can experience this.
You can counteract the negative effects of smoking tar on your sleep quality by making sure that the nicotine levels in your blood are as low as possible when you go to bed at night. However, before doing so, you need to better understand how long smoke tar stays in your body.
How long does smoke tar stay in your body?
The half-life of smoke tar is about two hours. About half of the smoke tar remains in your bloodstream two hours after you last smoked a vape.
Smoke tar has a relatively short half-life of two hours. Therefore, if you use smoke tar two hours before going to bed, half of the smoke tar you ingest at bedtime will remain in your bloodstream. If you use smoke tar four hours before you go to bed, a quarter of it will remain. On the other hand, if you use smoke tar immediately before going to bed, the vast majority of it will remain in your bloodstream.
The key, therefore, is to find a way to quit smoking or greatly reduce your application of smoke tar as soon as possible before going to bed, so that when you salivate, the smallest amount of smoke tar will remain in your bloodstream. However, before you start making major changes, you need to consider another scenario that only applies to ex-smokers who have just switched to vapes.
When you first smoke and vape, you may feel tired temporarily
Switching to vapes may reduce your intake of smoke tar, which may make you feel tired at first.
So far, this article has assumed that you are a full-time vape user who switched from smoking to vaping not too long ago. However, if you are a newbie vape user, you need to consider another thing before you change the way you use vapes. When you use vapes, you are likely to greatly reduce your smoke tar intake because tobacco transports smoke tar more efficiently than many vape brands. This is especially true in the UK and Europe, as all vape brands are limited to a maximum tar concentration of 20 mg/mL in these areas.
When you go from smoking to low-smoke tar vapes, your total smoke tar intake decreases dramatically. In the short term, you may feel tired. Also, remember that vapes are simply replacing the compound you ingested when you smoked – smoke tar. While smoke tar is the most addictive chemical in tobacco, there are thousands of other compounds in tobacco that your body is used to receiving daily. Without these chemicals, you may temporarily feel tired or “not like yourself”. Most people report that you feel better within a few days. Therefore, if you are tired from smoking vapes, you don’t need to make any major changes if you only smoke vapes for a short period. To acclimatize yourself for a few days, if you still feel tired, you may need to consider reducing your smoke tar intake at night.
Try to go smoke tar-free e-liquid at night for a better night’s sleep
Using smoke-free e-liquids at night means that there is less nicotine in your bloodstream when you fall asleep.
Considering that smoking tar has a half-life of two hours, it’s clear that stopping smoking tar within two hours of bedtime is one of the best ways to improve the quality of your sleep and reduce daytime fatigue. If you’re the type of person who particularly enjoys smoking vapes before bed, you may want to make a gradual change so that you don’t miss out on an enjoyable part of your daily life.
Try to purchase a bottle of e-liquid that is free of smoke tar and mix it with your regular vape liquid at half the ratio. At the end of the day, convert to half the mixture until you get used to it. While you won’t eliminate your late-night smoking tar intake, you will at least cut it in half. Once you’re used to the mixture, convert it to a smoke-tar-free e-liquid at least two hours before you go to bed and see how it affects your sleep quality. If you are satisfied with the results, convert it to a smoke-tar-free e-liquid as soon as possible.
You can use vapes to reduce or eliminate smoke tar consumption
A long-term program to reduce your total smoke tar intake may help improve your sleep quality.
Have you ever thought that you don’t need to use smoke tar all the time? Some people are perfectly willing to accept going from vaping to smoking, and they have no intention of making any further changes in this regard. But for others, turning to vapes is just the first step in getting rid of smoke tar altogether. If you quit your smoke tar intake at night and notice an improvement in the quality of your sleep, it may be time to choose to reduce or quit smoking tar for the rest of the day. When using vapes, you can choose the e-liquid smoke tar concentration – this means that you can reduce your smoke tar intake at your preferred rate.
Don’t forget the importance of hydration when smoking vapes
E-liquids contain ingredients that can cause dehydration and can also affect the quality of your sleep. Drink plenty of water when smoking vapes.
If you feel that smoking vapes makes you tired, the most likely reason is what we described in this article: you are consuming too much smoke tar before going to bed, and smoke tar is damaging your sleep quality because it is still in your bloodstream before you go to bed. However, there is another scenario to consider.
The main ingredients in most e-liquids are propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin. Both of these ingredients are humectants; in other words, they absorb moisture and lock them in. As a result, some people find that smoking vapes produces a dehydrating effect – and just like the stimulating effects of tar, dehydration can reduce the quality of sleep. To prevent dehydration, you should remember to drink plenty of water while smoking vapes.
