Inhalation Technique When Using Personal Vaporizers (ecigs, if you must)

[FilthyPazuzu]

Inhalation technique: ecig vs cigarette

This page is useful!

You'd think inhaling and exhaling would be simple, right? WRONG! (At least for me.)
It turns out there were a couple of things I was missing. Now I can go even longer between analogs, which is a very good thing.

 

[ManiaCaliMama]

I've been lurking for a while now. I've seen this mentioned a few times, but never really understood until recently what all the confusion was about. I inhale the same way I smoked. Apparently, though, most people took direct lung hits when they smoked analogs? I didn't. I always drew into my mouth first, held a second, and then inhaled.

The only difference for me, between smoking and vaping, is the exhale. I didn't usually exhale through my nose with analogs. It made me nauseous. I do with vaping because of all the yummy goodness.

I obviously had to change my draw a bit, slower/gentler tokes, but it wasn't too big of a leap.

Anyhow, I've been tobacco free for 4 months...and I'm loving it!

 

[jow350]

The most important points I got from this:

Definitely to be avoided
Try not to apply a lighter to the end of your e-cigarette.
Don't try to flick ash off the end, you'll look stupid.
Do not throw your ecig out of the car window after finishing with it.

Apparently I have been doing a few things wrong...

 

[Amberina]

Inhalation technique is very important. I have a friend who gave up trying to use her e-cigarette after a couple of hours because she said she couldn't get a good 'hit'. She called me and said that the harder she drew on it, the less she got. I told her that you smoke a cigarette very differently than you do a vaporizer. She was ready to give up because of this. I told her to come here and look it up.
It seems like such an easy thing, but it can really make or break the experience for some people!!

 

[Dezz]

I had to teach my wife this as well. She kept trying to pull like she would on an analog. Once she got the gentle slow pull down, she was hooked. I also take a hit blow through my nose as I'm pulling another hit. I seem to be able to taste different flavors in the juice when doing it this way.

 

[proraptor]

I take smooth slow and long hits and it works great. I usually blow out through my nose for the most flavor

 

[Mattnatti]

Thanks for the bump of this page. I have read it a couple of days into my ECF Membership and have looked for it a few times since with no luck. I just couldn't remember where I saw it. I took this info and quickly retrained myself to not inhale into lungs. It took all of 2-3 days. Since then i have taken very few lungs hits. I get plenty of nicotine keeping the vapor in my mouth and nasal passages. I strted at 18mg and am down to 6mg now in just a couple of months.

 

[CGlassford]

Wow!! Awesome article!! So glad I read this. Now I know what I am missing when I try to show friends the "Vaping Way" to get off smokes.

I have always pulled into the mouth then inhaled whether smoke or vapor. I didn't realize that some inhale directly from their cigs so I didn't know to tell them not to.

 

[RobinBanks]

I've been lurking for a while now. I've seen this mentioned a few times, but never really understood until recently what all the confusion was about. I inhale the same way I smoked. Apparently, though, most people took direct lung hits when they smoked analogs? I didn't. I always drew into my mouth first, held a second, and then inhaled.

The only difference for me, between smoking and vaping, is the exhale. I didn't usually exhale through my nose with analogs. It made me nauseous. I do with vaping because of all the yummy goodness.

I obviously had to change my draw a bit, slower/gentler tokes, but it wasn't too big of a leap.

Anyhow, I've been tobacco free for 4 months...and I'm loving it!

Same here. Apparently I smoked analogs the same way you're supposed to vape...always held it in my mouth and then inhaled. I didn't know people did it another way!

Maybe that's partly why this transition has been so smooth for me.

 

[FilthyPazuzu]

Same here. Apparently I smoked analogs the same way you're supposed to vape...always held it in my mouth and then inhaled. I didn't know people did it another way!

I'm still transitioning from analogs. I've tried inhaling straight into my lungs instead of pulling all the smoke into my mouth first - I can't even figure out how to do it!

As for PV's, I had already figured out the slow draw, it was these tips that helped me most:
Hold the vapor in my mouth before inhaling
Exhale through both my nose and my mouth
Go slow on both the inhale and the exhale

And especially: Take several hits in a row to keep the atomizer warm. Definitely a useful tip when using cartos!

 

[andrew001]

same here. Once you draw more gentle, you seem to get a good throat hit.