Do You Vape With Your Throat Closed Or Open?

[MikeDeason]

With reg, cigs I inhale with throat cloased and then suck the smoke down into the lungs, mainly to get the taste.

Since you need to take longer drags on these e cigs is it better to just suck it straight down the lungs so you can inhale longer or do you inhale then suck it down into the lungs and enjoy the taste only on the exhale??

 

[OaklandCA]

i alternate. Just as i did with analogs. Usually i take it into my mouth first throat closed roll it around the tongue as it were and then inhale, but if i'm feeling low nic i might take a few deep drags--just as i would on a regular cigarette.

 

[martha1014]

I did not even know what direct inhaling was until I read it on the forum. With smoking I always inhaled it into my mouth and then into my lungs I tried this it was not as good a throat hit.

 

[Thyestean]

I inhale straight to the lungs until they can't hold anymore same as I usually did with real cigs.

 

[December Moon]

Right now I only have automatic batteries, which require quite a bit of sucking to activate. Since I am already sucking like that with my throat open, I take the hit that way. I am waiting on delivery of my manual battery though, and am hoping it will work better with a closed throat hit.

 

[jaded]

I always did the fill mouth then inhale when smoking, vaping i mostly just get a mouthful and blow it out my nose. Very little vapor makes it too my lungs.

 

[alter.ego]

I usually french inhale...

 

[Belletrist]

i also alternate.

 

[Kent C]

I draw, taste, open mouth, inhale, longer draw, taste, open mouth, inhale, exhale. The open mouth takes in air to dilute the vapor. This way is good for about 25 smoke rings on a Bartleby/Protege, 20 on a Tornado, 17 on a 510, 13 on a cartomizer, 801/901. DV VG ...ymmv

 

[Slim_TheHippie]

i also alternate.

99% of the time i do the 2 part inhale. Mouth then lungs, but on occasion i will strait inhale, i seem to get a better nic "high" like the first smoke of the day. For me it's great for those high stress days.

 

[PaulB]

I think I've only ever known one or two people who made a practice of direct-inhaling their cigarettes, and I always though it looked peculiar. And when I tried it myself I found it an unpleasant assault on the bronchials. It seems more do-able with vapor, but not for me. (Old habits...)

What I do find myself doing increasingly (and I'll bet a lot of you are too) is double-dragging: taking some vapor in and then taking some more in as I exhale out the nose. The kind of thing I usually reserve, when smoking, for when I'm trying to finish a cigarette quickly (still present tense, increasingly past tense).

 

[Col. Gaunt]

I inhale straight into the lungs as I did with analogs.

 

[CathyfromOhio]

Sometimes I need it to just go straight to my lungs and hold as long as possible. Do this about 3 times and you can feel the stress relief instantly. Other times when I'm more relaxed I enjoy the taste and inhale into mouth and then to lungs.

 

[Dmass]

If you take it in your lungs all at once after you get a mouthfull, you get the best TH.

 

[goodbyebluemonday]

From my experience (which certainly doesn't apply to everyone), its all about what you are going for. I'm a big fan of lots of vapor, like Kent C was saying; lots of smoke rings and big clouds of it hanging over your head like a part water, part glycol rain cloud. For that, Kent C's directions in my experience are spot-on: draw it into your mouth, getting lots of thick vapor in there but not wasting lung space, quick inhale to the lungs, then repeat until you maximize your lung capacity.

As far as the direct hit, I have found that I do "seem" to get a better nic-buzz, but it is hard for me to say if that is from asphyxiation/headrush of sucking a golfball through a garden hose or the nicotine. I have found that the throat hit is pretty comparable, and that type of juice plays more a role in that than inhalation protocol.

Once again, just my experience.

 

[Ngspotts]

I just inhale into the mouth then into the lungs. I find that if I direct inhale the exhale TH just kills me.

 

[djrms357]

Ya i can't do a direct inhale either. Omg i tried that and it was so harsh so i won't do that again. Inhale to mouth then lungs for me

 

[Ctroop]

With the correct pg, vg mixture I puff into the mouth then inhale like I did with analogs. If I vape with all vg, I inhale straight to the lungs for the added TH.

 

[MikeDeason]

Wow, I didn't know anyone direct inhaled real cigs!

Never once did that w/a real cig.

 

[dark cobra]

I did not even know what direct inhaling was until I read it on the forum. With smoking I always inhaled it into my mouth and then into my lungs I tried this it was not as good a throat hit.

I smoked analogs that way too.
Mouth, then lungs.
I do the very same thing with my PV.
To say the truth though doing this with analogs, i never really had huge throat hits so it's not something i look for in a PV.
I'd say once in about 500-1000 puffs i'll take a lung inhale for the heck of it and everytime i have to drink something to make the tickling feeling go away because i feel like jamming my hand in my mouth and scrath my ticklely throat.

Oh and i just tried about now and i can say im glad i only try that by myself cause the face i make doing it must be priceless...think first time smoker feeling the stuff is too strong.