If you’ve been thinking about starting a weight loss regimen, you might be wondering how your vaping hobby affects your ability to shed pounds.  It’s only natural that people are concerned about vaping’s effect on their weight as many e-liquids come in sweet flavors such as candies, cupcakes and cookies.  So, can these tasty vape flavors sabotage your weight loss goals? 

How Many Calories are in Vape Juice?

As it turns out, e-liquid does have calories.  To be precise, there are about four or five calories in every milliliter of e-liquid.  If you vape 2mL of juice each day, you’re taking in approximately eight to ten calories daily from vaping.

The calories that are in e-liquid are mostly in the flavoring ingredients used to give them their wonderful taste. 

How Do These Calories Affect My Body?

To put things into perspective, a cucumber has about fifteen calories.  A single celery stalk has only six calories.  And, a slice of pizza has somewhere around 285 calories.  As you can see, the number of calories that are in e-liquid is incredibly low.  It’s really not enough to have any effect on your weight whatsoever.  In fact, you’ll likely burn that same number of calories just walking around your home throughout the day.  Therefore, there’s really no need to consider the calories in vape juice at all.

Additionally, researchers don’t even know if the calories in vape juice have any impact on your weight.  While the calories that we ingest do determine whether we gain or lose weight, the calories in vape juice are not consumed orally.  They enter the lungs and quickly leave as we exhale.  Researchers generally don’t believe that calories inhaled into the lungs have an impact on a person’s weight.

Will Vaping Make Me Gain Weight?

It’s safe to say that vaping will not make you gain weight.  The reality is that vaping can indeed help you lose weight, if that is your goal.  This is true whether you’re vaping an e-liquid that contains freebase nicotine, salt-based nicotine or zero nicotine.

Sugar Cravings

If you’re the type of person who is always craving sweet, calorie-laden treats, vaping can help you control those cravings.  For instance, if you’re someone who can gladly indulge in a bag of candy daily, vaping a candy flavor can allow you to satisfy your sweet tooth without actually consuming any sugar.

Nicotine’s Effects on Your Waistline

Another thing to consider is that nicotine is a stimulant, meaning that it can gently speed up your metabolism.  It does this by increasing your nervous system activity.  Nicotine’s also an appetite suppressant, giving it the ability to keep your cravings at bay.  That’s why many people end up temporarily gaining a few pounds once they quit nicotine.    

Stop Worrying About Calories

Vaping, as you can see, will not make you gain weight.  In fact, for many, it does quite the opposite.