Differences in vapor vs. smoke

[Machina]

Yea, there are health benefits from using vapor (aside from ppg inhalation) but thats not what I made this for.

What are the differences in the smoking experience for you all between a cig/cigar/pipe and vapor? Here are a few I found.

The vapor cools quickkly, so if you hold it in your mouth for a second or two and try to french inhale, the vapor might end up falling instead of rising. I noticed this after I started french inhaling, partially to see if the atomizer worked and still be able to breathe in my hit.

If you hold the vapor in after breathing in, part of the reason there is less vapor coming out is because it dissipates/returns to liquid/whatever in your lungs, so you are actually breathing out less vapor than you breathe in.

Hell of a lot less taste (speaking from cigar experience).

Anyone else have some similar experiences?

 

[silvertop]

Hi,

One thing I have noticed is a different hit when e-smoking compared to smoking the old golden virginia rollys with filter tips.
The 'brian melting' toke high I used to get from tobacco isn't quite the same as the vapor hit from e-smoking. All I can equate it with is e-smoking for me is almost a little like traditional pipe smoking.

I think because the e-smoke nicotine molecules are not in a combustable state (I suspect they're still in a particle state), they don't hit your blood stream through your lungs as fast as tobacco smoke. Sometimes I get to impatient waiting for the hit, and before I know it I've OD'd on the e-smoke - btw that's what was giving me headaches not the PG or Glycerine.

Any thoughts please ?

St.

 

[trog100]

i dont think it bears much of resemblance to real smoke.. i still have the odd real cigarette just to remind me what they are and tell me i dont really need them..

but its not smoke and pretty obviously not to me..

trog

 

[trog100]

as for over dosing.. i find the bodies tolerance builds up.. it is easy to take in too much.. its also hard to tell when u have.. i get a slight light headed feeling but it takes one hell of lot to bring it on.. i think one needs to find some way of limiting the intake.. else the tolerence builds up too much and your dependence get worse..

more so if you use a device that produces lots of vapour easily..

my main problem is the dry mouth thing.. not indoors i can keep drinking but away from home its a problem..

trog

 

[TropicalBob]

... and the correct answer is: All of the above.

Having experienced an e-pipe, e-cigar and two styles of e-cigs, I can agree that none are like smoking their counterpart. I had highest hopes for the pipe, which I didn't intend to inhale, but it was a technological bust. The vapor has neither the taste nor feel of real smoke. The nicotine kick is delayed, not instant as with real smoking. There is not a liquid available that has as much nicotine in one puff as is found in a cigarette's single inhalation. Some of the wimpy devices I've owned must have been more like one-tenth as much. But even the best is less than half, using 24mg nicotine liquid.

I continue to smoke real pipes, morning and evening on my porch, for both the taste, smell and feel of smoke. I don't inhale the heady latakia-heavy pipe tobacco, but do blow out huge clouds of tobacco smoke, which is very satisfying, and the break gives me time to reflect on this crumbling world. I haven't found an e-liquid taste yet that is as appealing as that pipe tobacco (although some e-liquid flavors are appealing in a different way). And I just ordered some final tins of Kahlua cigars, since Drew Estate is ceasing their production (RIP my favorite cigar).

All of the above. E-smoking does not duplicate the smoking experience.

 

[trog100]

Some of the wimpy devices I've owned must have been more like one-tenth as much. But even the best is less than half, using 24mg nicotine liquid..

i still recon my nicotine need and intake has gone up bob.. i dont have wimpy ones they go in the bin.. but when i have a real strong tobacco roll-up i still reach for my lots of vapour producing e smoking device just as if i hadnt had the real cig..

one day i will just smoke real cigs all day just to see how many i need to keep me happy relative to how many i used to need before my e smoking days.. a complete reversal.. will i be able to go a whole day without my e cigs.. he he he

one thing i do know.. the average UK filter tipped cig does absolutely nothing for me.. i might as well not bother.. i have been offered the odd one recently and have taken it.. in the past i would have said no and smoked a virginia roll-up instead..

we all differ but the e smoking does give me enough nicotine.. but only if i use the biggest smoke producers.. which is why i have got thru so many.. only the best smoke prodcers will do.. the rest get put on the shelf.. precisely where my latest USB or car use classic try out will go.. it works but only so so.. i wont use it..

if the smoke (vapour) aint there its just like smoking a weak ..... frustrating..

trog

ps.. i handed my e pipe to a 30 a day average filter tipped cigs smoker today for a trial puff.. he took a deep draw.. inhaled and burst out into a fit of spluttering and coughing just like a kid have his first real ciggy.. he laffed and said that works.. he he