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Topdogie01

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My girlfriend is interested in my vaping and likes trying my flavors, but anytime she puffs and gets vapor she starts coughing. she can smoke just about any cigarette/cigar just fine. ive tried having her vape my juices as 100% pg, 50/50 pg/vg, and a few drops of only vg to see if it was only pg that was causing it. she fills her mouth with vapor then when she starts to inhale she just starts coughing. any tips for her to try to not cough? she can blow it out her nose sometimes without coughing...
 

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I coughed for about a week after I first got my 510. Most people I get to try my PV cough as well, and my friend that only vapes 0 Nic coughs everytime he hits my 18mg joose. It's all about how much you try and take in, just likes analogs... I remember coughing my face off when I started smoking cigs. Good luck Topdogie01 let me know how that turns out! I recently started seeing a girl and she smokes, I'm still easing her into the ecigs before I convert her ;)
 

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Well, increased pg will naturally give more throat hit which could be the irritating factor her her. Even 50/50 might be a little too strong for her, so you could always get a few small samples of juice with a higher vg content and see if that helps her. Also it might be beneficial to start her out at around 6mg nic and then work up to where she is comfortable.
 

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Sounds like she is hitting with her lungs which is common with smokers. Have her puff with her mouth, then inhale briskly. Its more of a nice pinch and less tickly harsh that way. Otherwise lower the nic and it will take a bit to get used to the feeling, as its not inhaling smoke, its vapor, and she isnt used to it
 

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I found when I first started that trying to hold it in my mouth for just a sec longer and then taking easy inhale helped. Tell her to keep and she'll be vaping like a pro in no time at all. Maybe even try a difference juice because my variety has different throat hits. Good luck and happy tooting.
 

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Most new vapors cough when they start out. Vapor is slightly different than cigarette smoke. It took us time to tolerate cigarette smoke, it may take some time to adapt to vapor. After vaping for over a year, I still cough for the first half hour of vaping in the morning.

Vaping technique is important. As others have pointed out, slow deliberate draws into the mouth (not directly into the lungs) like sucking on a straw in a thick milkshake. It's also not necessary to inhale the vapor into the lungs to absorb the nicotine, as nearly all of it is absorbed in the mouth and nose.

If using low resistance heating coils (1.5 - 1.9 ohm), increase them to standard resistance (2.0 - 2.5 ohm).

Bottom coiled clearo devices allow a longer distance from the heating coil to the mouth which allows the vapor to cool. Longer drip tips can also do the same thing.

510 Long Skinny Drip Tip - Aluminum - MyFreedomSmokes.com
 
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Bottom coiled clearo devices allow a longer distance from the heating coil to the mouth which allows the vapor to cool. Longer drip tips can also do the same thing.

510 Long Skinny Drip Tip - Aluminum - MyFreedomSmokes.com

Is that true? Ive heard that, alot of times here, about bottom coils giving a cooler vape because the air travels an extra half-inch, does that really give it time to become noticably cooler? I mean I havent noticed that. I dont notice any variance in temperature at all between my top and bottom coils...only difference Ive noticed was when using different voltages or between the carts and clearos and my drip atomizers, but never between clearos
 

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What kind of juices do you have? Could have something to do with that. I coughed for the first few times and I was a 25 a day smoker lol. It's funny but smokers tend to cough hard when they try vaping..well, maybe not funny but, oh yeah it's funny. Anyway, I digress, perhaps a smoother juice..

P.S. Sorry but the title of thread was kinda funny, thought you wanted some advice from the forum on finding a girlfriend lmao lmao lmao. It just struck me as funny, pay no attention to me, it's been a long week hahahaha! Hope you can find something for her.
 

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My girlfriend is interested in my vaping and likes trying my flavors, but anytime she puffs and gets vapor she starts coughing. she can smoke just about any cigarette/cigar just fine. ive tried having her vape my juices as 100% pg, 50/50 pg/vg, and a few drops of only vg to see if it was only pg that was causing it. she fills her mouth with vapor then when she starts to inhale she just starts coughing. any tips for her to try to not cough? she can blow it out her nose sometimes without coughing...

I have a friend who just picked up the Eroll and has the same problem,coughs like crazy and thats just from not even inhaling the vapour,i think hes allergic to the PG/VG.
 

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i have a few unknown manufacturer ones that i bought from the store where i got my ecig (mall kiosk..) and some flavors from DIYflavorshack and it doesnt seem to matter what im vaping she always coughs. doesnt even have to inhale to cough. just fill her mouth and she can cough. and its a hard cough like your choking on something. im thinking once i get a vv/vw system it may be easier for her.
 

Topdogie01

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What kind of juices do you have? Could have something to do with that. I coughed for the first few times and I was a 25 a day smoker lol. It's funny but smokers tend to cough hard when they try vaping..well, maybe not funny but, oh yeah it's funny. Anyway, I digress, perhaps a smoother juice..

P.S. Sorry but the title of thread was kinda funny, thought you wanted some advice from the forum on finding a girlfriend lmao lmao lmao. It just struck me as funny, pay no attention to me, it's been a long week hahahaha! Hope you can find something for her.

yeah, i was stuck between two titles. thought this was the lesser of evils.. other was "how to keep girlfriend from gagging?" lol.
 
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