So I've been an occasional smoker for 15 years. Sometimes I'd have one or 2 a day then not have any for weeks. I've always directly inhaled into my lungs, to be honest I didn't think there was any other way. Even when smoking other 'weeds', I always directly inhaled. I've been vaping for about a week now, and I've been inhaling straight into my lungs. The throat hit was a bit harsh at first but I think I'm used to it now. Anyway, I've been reading about the mouth inhale method. I'll draw into my mouth, let it hang for a sec or two, then inhale into my lungs. I notice the nicotine hit seems to be stronger using the mouth-then-lungs method, but one odd thing I noticed is...when I exhale, there's almost no vapor? Even when I inhale straight into my lungs, hold it a sec then exhale, there's little vapor? Is it my ejuice mix perhaps? I've got the standard Vapires mix which is 60%vg/40%pg. If I just inhale into my mouth then exhale there's lots of vapor though. Is this all normal or do I have to adjust my vaping technique a bit?
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A little of both. Perfectly normal what you are experiencing.
From a nicotine absorbtion perspective, you'll absorb more of the nicotine in the vapor if you do the mouth to lung technique. The molecules of vapor carrying the nicotine are larger than the molecules carrying nicotine in smoke. Most of the nicotine in vapor will be absorbed from the mouth, throat, and nasal passage and not so much from the lungs. So knowing this, inhale into your mouth using your cheek muscles, hold it there for a second (allowing absorbtion and cooling of the warm vapor), then inhale into your lungs for the cigarette-like experience.
Water vapor disapates quickly once it is created, so the longer you hold it within your body the less vapor will be exhaled. People who stealth vape do the "double inhale technique" so that when they finally exhale there is literally no vapor expelled.
From a nicotine absorbtion perspective, you'll absorb more of the nicotine in the vapor if you do the mouth to lung technique. The molecules of vapor carrying the nicotine are larger than the molecules carrying nicotine in smoke. Most of the nicotine in vapor will be absorbed from the mouth, throat, and nasal passage and not so much from the lungs. So knowing this, inhale into your mouth using your cheek muscles, hold it there for a second (allowing absorbtion and cooling of the warm vapor), then inhale into your lungs for the cigarette-like experience.
Water vapor disapates quickly once it is created, so the longer you hold it within your body the less vapor will be exhaled. People who stealth vape do the "double inhale technique" so that when they finally exhale there is literally no vapor expelled.
Wow props to you man youve got some tough lungs haha. I was a smoker for 21 years, and while 'other' stuff went into the lungs just fine, there is no way I can even imagine sucking a cig directly into my lungs.. Always done the mouth to lungs thing, always thought thats how you were SUPPOSED to do it but who knows. Tried it with my Evod the other day and whoa that was some gnarly hacking action after that!
Nah, sounds normal to me. I don't lung inhale myself. A little funny given I did deep, deep inhales as a smoker. In fact, back when I started vaping, lung inhales made me try to cough up a lung.
I just did it a few times now and, yeah, much less vapor doing a deep inhale.
I came to prefer more of a pipe like "puff" with vaping. In smoking, the primary nic absorption is in the lungs. In vaping, mostly the mouth and nasal passages. So while you can lung inhale in vaping, it's kinda optional. A personal "taste" thing. So it's down to how you like to vape.
But, yeah, seems you lose some vapor with lung inhales. Least that's what happened over here when I played around, alternating between them.
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