Lung Inhale vs Mouth Inhale

[RobinBanks]

I notice that people have been giving advice to use mouth inhaling instead of lung inhaling. For me I was always a mouth inhaler and I didn't even know lung inhaling was an option. Even when I smoked cigs I would draw the smoke into my mouth first before inhaling. I always thought this was the norm, but apparently the majority of people do lung inhales when smoking cigs. So I was wondering what was your inhaling method when smoking cigs and has it changed since you started vaping?

Same as you. I didn't even know people did "lung hits" until I joined this forum. I always smoked with the "vape technique", although I do hold onto vapor in my mouth a bit longer since it's so delicious.

 

[LittleBang]

Wow, i didn't know you even could just inhale to the mouth, thought that was just for cigars. Interesting

 

[KC33]

Always mouth inhaled, I find that I miss a great deal of the flavor otherwise.

 

[Renzuli]

Ehuman kinda hit the nail on the head . When I smoked , I drew into my mouth . I also started vaping , using my mouth . But since I went to 0 nicotine , and using mostly mechanical mods and RDA's , I now lung vape . and as he stated in an earlier post . mouth vaping type devices don't work very well for lung vapors , and the same holds true the other way . So really up to you . If your using any nicotine at all . Best you continue to mouth vape . Once you go to 0 nic , (if you ever do ) then maybe time to switch to the lung method . Good Luck .

 

[Ryedan]

I mouth inhaled cigarettes and do the same vaping. I've been using zero nic juice since the beginning of this year and switched to RBA's in February I think. I have drilled out the air holes so the draw is very airy. I really notice the 'hard' draw from other devices now. Hard or open draw doesn't bother me, I get used to it either way quickly .

IMO, as long as you are being safe, there is no correct or incorrect way of vaping. Whatever works for people is the right for them. Nice, isn't it

 

[JuRuKi]

bringing up an old thread
I find theres almost no flavor on the inhale when i do lung hits? I do feel the flavor is more intense when im blowing the vapor out (dripping on a Nimbus). Is this normal?

 

[syeroc]

Seems pretty normal to me. You are pulling the vapor past your taste buds so quickly that there isn't much time for them to register the flavor. I get better flavor out of my exhale on while doing lung hits on my Trident too.

 

[Jparrack]

I've always gone with the deep lung inhale, but you do lose flavor.

 

[JuRuKi]

ic... i thought i was doing something wrong. A lot of juices have a slightly different flavor on the inhale and exhale. I guess ill stick with mouth hits
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[Jay-dub]

This isn't exactly scientific but someone might find it interesting:

When I get my cloud on I'll occasionally cough. It's not persistent or anything. More like something tickled the back of my throat just right. I always figured it had something to do with the moisture level of the vapor as it hits and possibly condenses on the back of my throat. Well, we broke out the humidifier for the season. It's an ultra-sonic so you see the vapor being expelled. Anyway, I toked on it and boom! Same exact feeling and same involuntary cough. Anyway, I figure some people's physiology includes a less sensitive throat. Others may have more or less trained the body to ignore it, and the rest of us just have to be more careful and develop a technique that works for us.

Oh yeah, and I've also noticed sweeter flavors get to me more... so condensation is only a suspected factor but not likely as the only factor.

 

[ddaktiv]

I am a former cigar smoker and so, I inhale into my mouth, let it settle, then either inhale into my lungs or expel/exhale through my mouth or nose. Since vaping and cigar smoking are similar in many ways, the taste is important and the nicotine is absorbed quickly by the mucous membranes of the mouth and sinuses, I didn't have to change my draw method much (if at all) from how I smoked cigars.

My wife was a 2 PAD cigarette smoker and her inhalation technique is very different. Because of the differences in alkalinity, the nicotine in cigarette smoke is absorbed better in the lungs than via the mouth. And so, her draw is short, hard, and deep straight into her lungs. She's been inhaling that way for over 30 years and it's completely automated and an unconscious process for her. She didn't (and couldn't) change her method when she switched to vaping.

So comparing our two methods, I would say that it has two major factors in play. Taste and delivery systems.

I can taste subtle flavors more easily than she does since the vapor is where my taste-buds and sinuses are, she only gets to taste vapor as it passes quickly through her mouth and as she exhales. As a result, she tries my juices and finds them "muted" or "too light and subtle". Her liquids are overpowering (in taste) to me.

As far as delivery systems, my draw really lends itself well to a Carto-Tank. The long draw (I can be taking a really long draw and my mod will "safety time out" due to firing for "too long") means that I am making a nice prolonged gentle low pressure and the carto in my tank delivers consistently to the coils. If my wife uses a carto-tank, she makes such low-pressure over the coils that even with a single-laser hole in the carto, it is "pulling" juice in from the tank faster than the coils are cooking it and more than the fill material can absorb. As a result, my wife is capable of flooding the cartos in a Carto-Tank in a couple of minutes.

So, we've got her filling and saturating those gigantic Dual-Coil Mega Cartos (no tank please) and it "works for her" and her strongly flavored liquids.

In my house (to answer your question) no one has altered their inhale, but rather found hardware and wetware that best supports our personal inhalation method.

What at nic content do you use? I'm asking coz I'm a really heavy chain smoker.. So far not sure if I chain vaped what's the best mix (flavour + nicotine content) and or does it matter?

 

[Mark Anthony]

Pretty much the same as when I was smoking.... mouth first then the lungs.

 

[diggyb]

I didn't know people did lung inhales for things other than . I can't imagine lung inhaling an analog. :O

 

[erotikpanda]

Both me and my gf have been smoking for 9 years, until 2-3 months ago, when I got us the ecigs (so stoked it help us quit).
From get go I was after the clouds and mouth inhaling, which is what I did with cigs, missus on the other hand, was having a hard time since she would lung inhale and nearly gave up on vaping, now that she re-adjusted to mouth inhale, it's all good

 

[OldSeer]

As for me... to really find the best of both worlds... means a little of each... mouth and some lungs at given times...
or I can find there is no true enjoyment to be savored.

 

[boborone]

Did mouth on cigs. When I first started with the cigalikes, I couldn't get a good throat hit. So I did the lung inhale. Got an eGo starter kit, started doing mouth again. But I've started to notice that with different tanks and wattage settings I do different inhales. Like with the Protank, I'll do a mouth and without stopping, do another mouth and finish. But with the same wattage on an iClear 16 or 30, I'll do just one mouth. I think it has to do with the dual coil vs one and also a cooler vapor from the Protank. I'm completely sold on dual coils now, but I like the cool vapor from the Protank, so I'll be getting a Protank 3 and test it out. Maybe it will give the large flavor and vapor hit I like, but be cool at the same time.

 

[diggyb]

I do the continuous mouth ->inhale-> mouth thing, too sometimes. Mostly with cartos, since I tend to get heavy throat hits from other devices.

 

[Rabbit Chaser]

I never did lung draws on analogs, don't do lung draws on my vape....unless I am dripping. Odd.

 

[el Jexican]

I mouth inhaled the cigs. With vapor it all depends on the set up. With my clearo's I usually mouth inhale. With my RBAs (larger air hole) it goes straight into the lungs.

 

[diggyb]

as I'm sitting here sucking on my 510/carto since my spinner died a few hours ago, I'm realizing - I do a lung inhale, and finish it up with a mouth inhale.

Never really thought about it before. Strange.

Protank I definitely do mouth pull only.