{"id":25306,"date":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.saatva.com\/vaping-nicotine-and-sleep\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T13:36:33","slug":"vaping-nicotine-and-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saatva.com\/blog\/vaping-nicotine-and-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"How Vaping Messes With Your Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vaping has become big business\u2014and along with it has come a growing concern for its impact on health<\/a>. According to a 2017 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly seven million Americans<\/a>, 18 or older, use e-cigarettes. Even though it’s illegal to sell e-cigarettes to anyone under 21, research by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that an estimated 3.6 million middle school and high school students reported using e-cigarettes in 2018<\/a>\u2014a whopping 78% increase in e-cigarette use by high school students alone in just one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While recent reports have shown the dangers associated with vaping<\/a> and the steps the government is taking<\/a> to limit or block flavored e-cigarettes, new research out of Oklahoma State University specifically examined the connection between e-cigarettes and sleep<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNicotine is known to act as a stimulant,” explains Sara E. Benjamin<\/a>, MD, a board-certified doctor in neurology and sleep medicine at Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep. “As both e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes contain nicotine as the active ingredient, the impact on sleep should be the same.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-cigarettes and sleep<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The recent study, published in the Journal of Sleep Research<\/em>, analyzed the sleep health of 1,664 college students, comparing daily e-cig users, occasional e-cig users, combustible cigarette users, and nonusers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poor sleep health, which the article defined as \u201csleep of inadequate quality, timing, efficiency, or duration to prevent daytime sleepiness” is already a public health issue in the United States, particularly with college students, 60% of whom self-report as having \u201cpoor quality” sleep. As vaping use continues to rise across the U.S., this study revealed important impacts that regular and even occasional vaping can have on sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key findings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n