Hi there. I'm new. Got a question. Any love for the French hit?

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MissAlice

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Hi there. I'm Missy Alice.

I've scoured the threads up and down and, when it comes to the type of hit you take (mouth or lung) all I see is that. Either mouth or lung.

I see people explaining "more flavour" for the mouth one. Or "more throat" - "more cloud" - "feel it better".

I'd love to ask: why not both?

Have you tried the French hit? For me it comes naturally - this is how I also smoke cigarettes.

Basically you do a mouth draw (not inhale) and then open your mouth bringing your bottom jaw forward while also drawing in air through your nose, then let it out immediately.

This provides 3x the flavour (you feel it with your mouth, then with your nose, then on the exhale again) and if you develop this further and get/know exactly when to rip it out, you get a throat hit on the exhale!

The more advanced technique (which comes naturally without thinking... it just takes time) is actually a sequence of a mouth-to-lung and another mouth-to-lung without exhaling the first one. Then you do a french inhale for the extra kick of flavour. - you only exhale here, so make them (the mouth ones) short, fast and sudden. The exhale has to be straight and vigorous. I'm sorry I don't have a video for this, but if enough people are interested, I'll make one.

Your mouth will water.

Here's a suggestion: if you don't feel the flavour of your juice, or you can't be arsed to 'swing it around your mouth like wine'. Try a french inhale.

Basically, this: /watch?v=-KCBLA-fuVw
 
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Hi there, I have tried the "French" inhale. It's just not for me. I guess I don't care for the vape going directly up my nose like that..even if it is only for a moment. But that's great that you like it! I say whatever works. If it works for you then keep it up.. it's just not for me. I would like to welcome you to our forums and hope you stick around! This is a great place to make new friends and learn new things! There are many interesting Sub forums as well. Thank you for sharing your post and I hope to see you around in the future. :) :)
 

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Is there any French designed vaping tank? I could bet it would be elegant, flavorful and fun to use.

Guess the newer crowd never heard of titanide from france
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But i cant fault anyone cause I guess its hard to learn about real gear when the US forums are overrun with chinese box mods and cheapo tanks
 
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Hi MissAlice and welcome aboard!

Ok - my eyes crossed at the "jutting your lower jaw out" part...



... and that was just while reading! :lol:

I'm sure it's great, just as I'm sure that I'm probably too uncoordinated to make it happen properly. Perhaps I could come to London and get some lessons.

Glad that it works for you and might work for some others - thanks for sharing!

Happy Vaping!
 

poadi

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I used to always try French hitting when I was smoking, because I thought it looked cool... I had two problems with it, one, I wasn't coordinated enough, and just ended up with burning eyes, and two, if I DID manage to get any smoke in my nose, I had about a 50/50 chance of a serious sneezing fit.
With vaping, I still have the coordination problem (although at least it doesn't burn my eyes), however, I do have to agree with the extra taste/smell/whatever you get when you inhale it through your nose.
 
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