People that cough when they vape

[Rickajho]

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.

Well I see three problems right there.

It's an insult to injury thing for a lot of people who have smoked for years or decades. Combine messed up lungs possibly full of tar and not functioning well, relatively high PG - which is an irritant, and taking it deep into the "insulted" lungs... and that sends many a smoker into worse hacking fits than they ever experienced when smoking. It doesn't work trying to vape the same way they smoked when starting out for a lot of people. I sure as hell couldn't lung inhale when I started.

I was a deep lung inhaler when I smoked and my lungs weren't having any of that when I started vaping. It took me a couple months of controlled vaping to lose the reflex to vape just like I smoked. You can tell them to just take a small mouth hit, but people are going to do what they know and it's hard to just not do an automatic smoking inhale they have been doing on autopilot for a long time.

You were lucky but a lot of us need time for our lungs to clear out before we can take up lung inhaling with vaping. ~> http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ecf-library/337017-inhalation-technique-e-cigarette.html

 

[Oberon75]

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.

Even mouth to lung, it was the exact same thing. I never lung hit a cigarette so when I started vaping, I vaped like I smoked. After about three days though, it got much better.

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[Ou2mame]

I drop the voltage on mine when I hand it to a newbie cause they probably aren't expecting so much smoke.

 

[e-pipeman]

I've developed a bit of a cough lately - the rattly "fluid-on-the-lung" sort.. I think I shocked my lungs with some 100% VG home-mixed. A year or so ago I used this all the time dripping in a 510 atty. More recently I've been vaping 70/30 pg/vg in my Nautilus Mini and GS-Air. I tried the 100% vg in the GS-Air on my iStick 20w. Vaped about 6ml of it and ended up with this rattly cough (I've put it to one side for now and will cut it with PG). So it would seem that no matter how long and how much you've been vaping it's still possible to shock your system.

 

[ChiBear85]

I let 2 of my friends try and they both did the same thing took little draws off of my evod 2 and coughed their ...'s off I don't get it

 

[VapnWitch]

I still cough sometimes, and I've been vaping over two years. I learned after a few months that I'm really sensitive to PG (I can sometimes vape up to 15% PG, but I can only take a few puffs of those before my throat feels raw and I start coughing) I also cough the first few puffs sometimes when I've rewicked an atty. If I vape too much 18mg (I usually use 12mg, but recently got 18 for high stress days), I cough. If I inhale weird or something, I cough. If an atty needs a new coil or wick, sometimes I cough. If my throat is dry, I cough.

I think for some people it just takes some time to adjust and figure out exactly how to inhale, how long to take a draw, etc.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

HMM never had a cough with it. I use 3.9V max ans cartos and clearos at about 2 - 2.5 ohms. 50/50 or 80/20 VG/PG juice. Some of the high PG juice gives me a tickle that might be leading to a cough, but not quite there.

 

[benroy44]

after 1 year I still sometimes cough just a little first thing in morning

 

[GaG8tor]

I still cough some first thing in the mornings. I'll usually start at low wattage and work my way up.

 

[3mg Meniere]

I always slip-stream (incomplete lip closure on drip-tip). Draw before hitting button. 50/50, 3-6 mg. I never cough-- in fact, I might try my technique for stopping a persistent tickle in the throat. I have a couple of disposables for emergencies, tried one several weeks ago, and it seemed harsh.