If you’re trying to give up smoking, you might be considering some of the various products on the market, such as vaping, nicotine patches or nicotine gum, that can help you quit – in which case, you might also have heard about Füm.

But what is Füm? How does it work? Is it effective? And are there any harmful side effects that you might need to worry about? To help you understand more about Füm so you can make up your mind if you want to give it a go, in this post, we answer the question, is Füm safe?

What is Füm?

Let’s start at the beginning – what is Füm?

As just about everyone is aware now, smoking tobacco cigarettes is incredibly bad for your health.

Long gone are the days when cigarettes were advertised as a positive lifestyle choice that made you seem stylish and sophisticated – and once, even as something that was beneficial to your health.

Instead, nowadays, a large amount of energy – and marketing – goes into creating and selling products designed to help you give up smoking.

One of the best-known and most popular options is vaping. For example, if you’re trying to quit cigarettes, a great alternative is the Jack’s Bar 9000 Puffs disposable vape from up-and-coming brand Spiritbar.

This vape – which takes its design inspiration from a pirate’s rum flask and evokes a life of adventure and excitement on the high seas – provides up to 9,000 puffs of juice containing 50mg/ml of nicotine to keep your cravings for cigarettes under control.

Füm, on the other hand, is an alternative to vaping that might appeal to anyone who is still not convinced about the safety of using vapes to give up smoking.

Füm is different to vaping in that you don’t inhale any vapor (or technically, aerosols – since what you “vape” is not actually “vapor”).

Instead, Füm consists of a wooden inhaler with a pre-infused cotton “core” that contains essential oils for you to inhale from the device.

Whenever you feel like smoking or vaping, instead, you can reach for your Füm and take a hit of essential oils – and the manufacturer claims this can help beat your craving for nicotine as well as the action of smoking or vaping in a much healthier way.

Are the Fum ingredients considered safe?

One of the main claims about Füm is that it’s healthier than smoking – and that it’s also healthier than vaping since you don’t inhale vape juice in the form of aerosols into your lungs – but is this true?

This claim is based on the fact that essential oils are considered safe for human use, and that, according to Füm, there are “no direct contraindications” against inhaling essential oils in this way.

Decoding this, it means that the ingredients in Füm products are not considered dangerous for human use when used normally – but there’s a slight problem here because essential oils aren’t usually used in the way they are when you take a puff on a Füm inhaler.

Crucially, you’ll notice, this expression about there being “no direct contraindications” is quite different from stating categorically that this product is safe – rather, it means that it’s not known at this time to be dangerous.

The thing to remember, though, is that while we might not be talking about something being “safe” in absolute terms, it’s still probably a whole lot safer than smoking.

Most people would understand and agree with the logic that even if something is harmful – not something we’re claiming about Füm – it’s still a better option if it’s a lot less harmful than doing something else that you know is highly likely to kill you.

So let’s develop this argument a little further.

Is it safe to use essential oils from a Füm inhaler?

How safe is it to inhale essential oils from a Füm inhaler? Here’s what we know.

As we’ve said, essential oils are generally considered to be safe and even beneficial to humans.

However, the issue is that when you use essential oils, you usually place them in a diffuser and inhale them in small quantities with the air you breathe – or you use them to apply to your skin as a kind of ointment.

When used in these ways, they are considered perfectly safe.

However, when breathed in from a Füm inhaler, it’s not the same.

Instead, you are inhaling them in a far more concentrated form, and depending on the level of your cigarette addiction and how much you rely on your Füm, you may be doing this many times each day.

That’s not to say this is necessarily dangerous, and it could well be perfectly safe. However, since people don’t usually inhale essential oils in this way, no large-scale studies have been carried out on the long-term effects of this practice, so we simply don’t know if it’s safe.

This is a lot like the argument about vaping and the safety of propylene glycol (PG) and vegetable glycerin (VG) in vapes.

Both of these substances are considered safe for human use, either for consumption in foods or use in cosmetics.

However, that’s not the same as heating them up so that they form aerosols and then inhaling them – and when used like that, we don’t yet know what the long-term side effects may be, or even if there are any.

Is It Fum safer than smoking?

One thing’s certain, however, and that’s that, even if using a Füm has any harmful side effects – and we should stress again that none are currently known – any potential harmful effects are still likely to be a lot less harmful than the effects of smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Tobacco contains over 7,000 compounds that are known to damage human health, and many of them are known to be carcinogenic.

Compare that with the fact that using a Füm could have some kind of unknown harmful side effects and it should be clear that any risks associated with using Füm are far outweighed by the benefits if it helps you quit smoking.

The same can be said for vaping, incidentally. Although some people have some concerns that vaping might be harmful to your health, smoking cigarettes is known to be incredibly harmful to your health, so if vaping can help you quit smoking, it’s still a far preferable alternative.

Are there any exceptions?

Having said all that, there are a few exceptions to saying that Füm is a relatively safe alternative to smoking.

For example, if you suffer from epilepsy, have high or low blood pressure, are pregnant or are under 16 years old, using Füm is probably not a good idea.

However, if you are pregnant or are under 16 and smoke cigarettes, using Füm could still be a better option, so in these cases, it’s a good idea to speak to your medical practitioner about using Füm or other options to help you stop smoking.

Does it work?

So Füm is likely to be safe – or at the very least, not anywhere near as harmful as smoking – but does it actually work? Well, this is another question.

There are many different ways to try to stop smoking, and products designed to help you kick your tobacco habit now constitute a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Nowadays, one of the most popular methods of giving up smoking is vaping.

This is because vaping replicates both the action of smoking and the throat hit associated with taking a puff on a cigarette, and vapes also deliver a nicotine hit, helping satisfy your craving for this powerfully addictive drug.

If you want to stop smoking, you can turn to a wide range of vaping products – or you can try other things like nicotine gum or nicotine patches.

As we’ve already mentioned, vapes have the advantage of replicating the experience of smoking cigarettes while gum and patches are both discreet and unobtrusive methods.

Another option is simply going cold turkey – and the thing about all these methods is that some work for some people while others work for others.

In this context, if you try Füm and find it works for you, then that’s great. Many people have tried it and successfully given up smoking – while others have found it does nothing for them, perhaps due to the lack of nicotine in Füm products.

In short, Füm is worth a go. It’s extremely unlikely to damage your health more than smoking would, and if it works, that’s perfect. And if not, you haven’t lost much – you’ll simply know this is not the method for you and that you need to try something else instead.

A possible aid to giving up smoking that’s most likely to be safe

As we’ve seen, Füm is one tool among many that are designed to help people give up smoking, and just like any other technique, it works for some people while others might find it ineffective.

However, the most important thing to note is that, on balance, it’s likely to be safe – and in any case, it’s almost certainly a lot better for you than smoking. So if you’re thinking about giving Füm a go to see if it works for you, you don’t need to let potential health risks put you off.

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