Hiccups

[Ronbosa]

Anyone else have issues with getting the hiccups when vaping? It would happen occasionally when I used to smoke analogs but since I switched over I noticed it happen more often.

Sometimes I can go a long time without it happening but when it starts it can get ridiculous. I wonder if it's related to the way I inhale.

 

[Rickajho]

Hi! And welome.

The problem is usually related to swallowing nicotine. Are you getting any liquid in your mouth from your setup on occasion?

Check your vaping style too. There are videos on ECF and YouTube showing proper vaping style. You might be, in effect, swallowing or gulping air when you vape and getting nicotine down your esophagus in the process.

 

[Ronbosa]

Hi! And welome.

The problem is usually related to swallowing nicotine. Are you getting any liquid in your mouth from your setup on occasion?

Check your vaping style too. There are videos on ECF and YouTube showing proper vaping style. You might be, in effect, swallowing or gulping air when you vape and getting nicotine down your esophagus in the process.

Thanks!

I don't think I'm swallowing any liquid, but yea I'm thinking it's my technique. I've always tended to let my mouth fill with a bit of vapor before I start inhaling as apposed to immediately inhaling as I start pulling.

 

[BikerBob]

I've gotten hiccups from:

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  Snus--letting a bit of the juice get down my throat before I really tasted it

• 
  Getting a 'wet' hit on my PV, and swallowing about 1/2 drop worth of ejuice.

• 
  Occassionally while drinking a sweetened carbonated beverage (such as Coca Cola) through a straw.

Seems to be related to something getting just beyond the back of my tongue, and the hiccup seems to be the 'reflex'. So, the way I inhale from my PV could give *me* hiccups.

...picking up PV (clearomizer) to try...taking a puff, and allowing vapor to hit the back of my throat but *not* inhaling...HIC!

A sip of water seems to have calmed that down. I repeated the same 'method' with my carto-tank. HIC! One more time, with cartomizer. HIC!

OK....feels like vapor condensing at the back of my throat == swallowing nicotine. That's my observation, and fits the previous observations (except for the carbonated drink part...) I sometimes do a direct lung-inhale, and don't get hiccups, probably because the vapor does not get a chance to condense.

So...I'll agree with Rickajho's comment.

 

[Turbo311]

It happens to me when I use carts but switching over to clearamizers has helped tremendously.

 

[TarFreeMe]

Happens to me occasionally, usually when imbibing because I tend to vape a lot more just as I used to smoke a lot more. Pretty sure it has to do with a mild nic OD.

OK, had to look it up before I clicked "Post."

10. Hiccups
Hiccups are reported to be a symptom of nicotine OD, for some people. Because of this, and their common occurrence, they are also known as the 'niccups'. The idea that they may result from an alternative delivery path for the nicotine, via the mouth or gullet (ie swallowing it), is attractive to some people.

Hiccups are reported to be experienced by smokers and tobacco users, and are said to be more common among those who use chewing tobacco, Snus, or dissolvable tobacco tablets. It is further suggested that they swallow tobacco juice and hiccups may result. They are not common among pipe and cigar smokers, who neither swallow nor inhale smoke, or users of nasal snuff.

Link to the whole post: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/health-safety-e-smoking/3305-list-symptoms-when-quitting-tobacco-changing-ecigarette.html

 

[Ronbosa]

Wow... I had no idea my hiccups are more likely being caused by my nicotine intake and not the way I'm inhaling. It makes a lot of sense now that I look back on it. I'm a pretty heavy vaper at 18mg. This has convinced me it's finally time to drop down to 12mg.

 

[Strigoi]

Thanks!
I've always tended to let my mouth fill with a bit of vapor before I start inhaling

That's how you should be vaping, so you're good there.

 

[BikerBob]

ok...I tried it earlier, and got hiccups intentionally, by using bad technique (with my usual 24mg) Can't get it to happen at all now, with some 0 mg.

 

[steved5600]

Welcome. Not yet but I sneeze a lot know but since it's Time for Mountain Cedar about now I can't be sure that is not the real reason. I can see where that might happen if you vape a lot.

 

[Rickajho]

I'm a little bothered by that term "overdose" used in context of this phenomena as it almost implies anyone who gets hiccups while vaping should call 911 and/or immediately drop their nic level. I think it has far more to do with where the nicotine is going.

Anyone who has tried to quit using nic-o-gum is all too familiar with the problem. The nicotine in that gum is released into your saliva. In theory it's supposed to be absorbed by the mucous linings in your mouth - same as with vaping. In practice, chewing on gum and swallowing are pretty much reflex actions and very difficult to consciously restrict or control. So the inevitable happens: Chew the gum more than directed, swallow your saliva, and you got hiccups. But the insert in the gum packaging never implied this constituted a nicotine overdose.

You can get hiccups from nic-o-gum and it comes down to a bad "nicotine gum technique." You can do the same with a bad vaping technique. I had a problem with this on occasion in my first few weeks of vaping and it came down to changing over from a deep inhalation smoking style to a more controlled, only to the back of the throat vaping inhale. I also have a friend - a seasoned vaper - who has had hiccups all along and never knew why. In her case it happens if she gets any liquid in her mouth - usually from a carto at the end of it's life span. Now that she knows, and spits out when that happens rather than swallowing, the problem has largely stopped.

HTH

 

[Butters78]

Never had the hiccups but when I first started vaping it gave me the gas bubbles something fierce. Febreeze air effects on the night stand was a necessity.