People that cough when they vape

[freeall]

More specifically, newbies that try vaping for the first time. I let a few people at work, all that have smoked cigarettes for years, try my pv and they all coughed right after. First they ask; ' how does this work, do I just push the button?' Then they take a tiny pull and start coughing lol? It's like all of them swallowed the vapor or took a direct lung hit. I don't understand it. I told them to just take a puff the same way you smoke.

I know when I first started vaping, I never coughed like that. It's a 50/50 blend with low nic, it's not like it was some strong hard flavor, either. These people all smoke heavy, too. It's bizzarre.

Its kinda like eating food. You gotta chew it before you swallow it. Instead, you get these people that hold the pv like its a grenade, hold the button for 3 seconds, take a tiny hit and blow out no vapor,then follow it with a cough. Then they watch me do it and I fill the room with vapor in 2 puffs. It's comical.

Am I alone on this? Did you cough your first time? Maybe I'm just too used to it, idk.

Strange stuff, regardless.

 

[slinco]

I coughed my .... off the first time I tried my buddies vape, that was quite a while ago with some really nasty RY4.

 

[mcol]

When I let someone try my pv, I first tell them to push button while inhaling, to take a smaller
amount of vapor the first time, and take it into their mouth first before inhaling. I've not
had anyone cough yet.
I don't remember my first time trying it.

 

[makuto]

It happens to my wife Ive tried all nic levels and a lot of pg/vg mixtures and she always cough. We found that with less airflow she will cough less. I.e lowest airflow setting on the Atlantis...

 

[dbrandt01]

It happens to my mom when she uses my Reo, I think she's just being a little dramatic. A half second pull shouldn't make her cough.
Most people try to vape different than they smoke. They try to go straight lung inhale it seems. I started vaping with lung inhale and never had a problem with coughing

 

[yppan]

Did you cough your first time?

sort of... I think it was because the airflow on my first set up was very poor. 510 pen style battery that thing lasts for 15 puffs on my EVOD.

I like your sig.

 

[Zealous]

I didn't cough the very first time I took a puff but I have at other times after. In my case, and perhaps in the case of those you let try it too, I was expecting a certain sensation in my throat & I kept pulling on the device aiming for it. I didn't get the sensation & ended up taking too big a puff as a result. I also will sometimes cough even now (and I've been vaping for years) when I have too high a mix of VG. It's an irritant for me at high levels.

But then I also don't take a puff off my device the way I smoked so if I were just trying it out & followed your suggestion to puff off it like I smoked I might have coughed too. My draw is more like someone might take a puff from a pipe or a cigar and that's not how I smoked a cigarette.

 

[Paramaniac413]

For me it was a different feeling in the back of my throat - almost like it caught. I didn't cough horribly, but there was that little 3 seconds of, "what the heck?!" coughing. I still cough occasionally, but mostly if my throat is dry or I take a hit that's a little too long. It's just different.

 

[sos2001]

Coughed, gagged. turned blue....quite the hoot. It was my mistaken thought that I NEEDED the highest nic possible. Now, .3ohm builds with airflow wide open and a smile. It's part of the journey I suppose.

 

[Wissel Joe]

I still cough like crazy if i mouth to lung hit my sub tank.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Look at me I'm a l33t vaper thread you're awesome bro and handsome just like your Mom said.

 

[freeall]

I think she's just being a little dramatic. A half second pull shouldn't make her cough.

This is kinda what I was leaning towards. Almost like a fake cough, just to make it seem worse than smoking or something lol.

 

[mikelm14]

I coughed several times when I first started, thought it was odd since I was smoking newports at the time.

 

[Jovey]

First time i took a draw, i hit it like i would my cigs and i coughed only slightly. However, now i'm finding that in order to get the throat hit i enjoy, i have to do a straight lung hit. I never smoked analogs by taking a direct lung hit, so unsure why i find vaping more enjoyable by doing so.


.....it's a mystery! *insert dramatic music here*

 

[issy]

Definitely coughed when trying my brother's vape for the first time. With every 'first vape' that I've had the priveledge of witnessing, the new initiate has coughed dramatically. Then they get used to it.

 

[Oberon75]

I was absolutely miserable for three days before I got used to the vapor and even then, it took another couple weeks to completely stop coughing.

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[BigEgo]

Same here. I coughed as well. I also gave my PV to a 40 year heavy smoker who coughed up a lung -- at least for a couple minutes. I am no MD, but it is probably just your body's reaction to something "new" entering the lungs even if that substance is far less harmful than the analog smoke.

 

[edyle]

it would be because of lung inhales.

better to use mouth to lung in the early stages to taste the vape; puffing also helps, to check that the hardware is functioning.

 

[juicynoos]

Of the many family and friends I've watched take their first mouthful of vapor, it is obvious to me that ONLY the one's who fear it cough

 

[The Torch]

My first e-cig (eGo-T) was so bad at producing vapor I don't think it ever made me cough.

Some juices, mostly fruit flavors, make me cough now and then especially if my throat is dry.

Last year (coming on my first vapeversary in a month), RDA's made me cough bad. A couple of months ago I tried a Nautilus with 0.5 ohm coil and was surprised at the cloud that came out and I barely coughed. I believe it's due part to getting used to e-juice and part lung/throat regeneration.