filter for when you have a sore throat

[SeanFromIthaca]

I got the flu pretty bad Saturday night and for all of Sunday and Monday my throat was so raw from coughing that I couldn't even vape 0mg peppermint juice, and I was really bummed

so today, even though my throat felt good enough to vape probably 8mg or 12mg juices, I thought I might just help myself along a little and see if I could mellow the vapes a bit and then not have to stick to the light juices

I use cartomizers, so in order to put a 'filter' on the vapes, I just took a cartridge (flat ones are awesome) and with scissors cut about 1/8" off the part that would normally fit into an atomizer -- so it would fit into the back of a carto without squashing against the carto's filler, cut a little 1/4" square out of the polyfill from a blank cart and stuffed it into the mouth end of the cartridge, put the little cartridge cover back on, and put the cartridge on the back of the carto

result: it makes it so you can still vape high-nic, high-throat-hit juices when you have a sore throat

so that's pretty cool -- just that little plug of something as a buffer makes it so you don't have to only vape super light nic juices when you have a sore throat

 

[withravenoushunger]

Do menthol flavors have the same cooling feeling in your throat/mouth as menthol cigarettes? When I had a sore throat,I just switched to menthol and it made it better than full flavor cigarettes.

 

[BlackMetalBuick]

Menthol carts (At least the prefilled ones I used) aren't quite as strong or soothing as a real menthol analog, but still nice and minty. My GF has a cough and a sore throat but has still been doing okay with the menthol carts.

 

[SeanFromIthaca]

I'm glad you mentioned that actually -- I found yesterday that whenever I sucked on a cough drop (containing menthol) I could hit juices that were much higher strength than the ones I could comfortably hit without the cough drop -- actually, the amount of mellowing of the throat hit from menthol is about the same as adding a little filter, so you could probably vape 48mg juice or higher if you had a filter AND your juice was menthol haha

or, if all your juices are 30mg or less, you could probably keep a bottle of just menthol juice and a few little 3ml bottles to mix your favorite juices with menthol for when you're sick and get around the whole filter idea

I just don't want to be relegated to vaping menthol whenever I'm sick -- I was never a big menthol fan when I smoked

definitely nice for when you're sick, but I don't want to start associating menthol flavor with being sick either, which is why I think the little filter is great -- you don't have to do anything different except put a filter on the end

another way to do it is to take the rubber grippy thing off a big pen and put a little cotton or something in it before you stick it on the end of your cartridge or carto

 

[billy7650]

I got the flu pretty bad Saturday night and for all of Sunday and Monday my throat was so raw from coughing that I couldn't even vape 0mg peppermint juice, and I was really bummed

so today, even though my throat felt good enough to vape probably 8mg or 12mg juices, I thought I might just help myself along a little and see if I could mellow the vapes a bit and then not have to stick to the light juices

I use cartomizers, so in order to put a 'filter' on the vapes, I just took a cartridge (flat ones are awesome) and with scissors cut about 1/8" off the part that would normally fit into an atomizer -- so it would fit into the back of a carto without squashing against the carto's filler, cut a little 1/4" square out of the polyfill from a blank cart and stuffed it into the mouth end of the cartridge, put the little cartridge cover back on, and put the cartridge on the back of the carto

result: it makes it so you can still vape high-nic, high-throat-hit juices when you have a sore throat

so that's pretty cool -- just that little plug of something as a buffer makes it so you don't have to only vape super light nic juices when you have a sore throat

so you notice the throat hit is less doing this? how is the flavor and vapor?