The vaping technique I've used since I started almost four years ago---mouth-to-lung---has remained the same. I seal my lips around the drip tip/mouthpiece with the delrin tip between my teeth. I don't "clamp" the tip between my teeth, but merely hold it lightly. (My drip tips are all delrin or nylon, because I don't like how metal or glass feels against my teeth.) I press the firing button and first take a "primer puff" to heat up the coil, taking the vapor into my mouth, then immediately expelling it. With the coil primed and presumably hot, I fire it up again and suck on the mouthpiece of the PV with some intensity, taking that thicker and more copious vapor into my mouth, as much as feels comfortable. Then I remove the PV from my lips and hold the vapor in my mouth for a couple seconds, savoring the flavor, before opening my mouth slightly and inhaling regular air into my lungs. The air takes the vapor in my mouth along for the ride down into my lungs. The effect is to dilute the impact of the vapor entering my lungs. When I exhale, I get a second hit of flavor, sometimes with a difference balance of flavors than on the inhale. That depends on the juice I'm vaping, of course.
This technique is second-nature to me---automatic, natural-feeling, and very comfortable. I particularly enjoy seeing the vapor from the primer puffs, which is somewhat akin to pipe smoking.
A "direct lung inhale" is all aerated vapor straight into the lungs,usually with no primer puff, and with no outside air. It's rather like breathing, except that it's vapor-filled air rather than regular air, and the inhale is longer and considerably more forceful than a normal breath---you know, the unconscious kind we do 20-25 times a minute to stay alive. As far as I know, all the cloud-chasing vapers and many regular vapers use that technique. It's apparently natural to them, and they seem to love it. Videos I've seen of vapers doing humongous direct lung hits are the vaping equivalent of watching someone chug a massive volume of beer from one of those vase-shaped half-yard ale glasses. I marvel at people's ability to do either of those feats.
At my current nic level of 12mg, using a 1-ohm micro-coiled, rayon-wicked RBA on a REO or other 3.7 volt bottom-feeder, I can handle a direct lung inhale as long as I do it s-l-o-w-l-y and very carefully (to avoid the sudden and dreaded coughing spasm). I just tried it four times, with two successes and two coughing fits. Significant loss of the flavor experience was immediately noticeable, although that could be simply because I am unaccustomed to this method. The vapor also got quite hot toward the end of the last 5-second slow inhale, a dead giveaway that my wick was insufficiently squonked (i.e., not saturated) with liquid.
Interesting, but I doubt that I will change my existing technique.
This technique is second-nature to me---automatic, natural-feeling, and very comfortable. I particularly enjoy seeing the vapor from the primer puffs, which is somewhat akin to pipe smoking.
A "direct lung inhale" is all aerated vapor straight into the lungs,usually with no primer puff, and with no outside air. It's rather like breathing, except that it's vapor-filled air rather than regular air, and the inhale is longer and considerably more forceful than a normal breath---you know, the unconscious kind we do 20-25 times a minute to stay alive. As far as I know, all the cloud-chasing vapers and many regular vapers use that technique. It's apparently natural to them, and they seem to love it. Videos I've seen of vapers doing humongous direct lung hits are the vaping equivalent of watching someone chug a massive volume of beer from one of those vase-shaped half-yard ale glasses. I marvel at people's ability to do either of those feats.
At my current nic level of 12mg, using a 1-ohm micro-coiled, rayon-wicked RBA on a REO or other 3.7 volt bottom-feeder, I can handle a direct lung inhale as long as I do it s-l-o-w-l-y and very carefully (to avoid the sudden and dreaded coughing spasm). I just tried it four times, with two successes and two coughing fits. Significant loss of the flavor experience was immediately noticeable, although that could be simply because I am unaccustomed to this method. The vapor also got quite hot toward the end of the last 5-second slow inhale, a dead giveaway that my wick was insufficiently squonked (i.e., not saturated) with liquid.
Interesting, but I doubt that I will change my existing technique.
