Question for the E Cig Crew

[guitarman56]

I recently had a sinus infection and took antibiotics. As I started to feel better I found something very interesting. I could inhale a regular cig but could not inhale my ecig. Anyone know what's up with that?
Thanks

 

[Nate5700]

That sounds pretty odd. Do you mean there's discomfort when you try to inhale or that you physically can't do it somehow? Are you doing DL or MTL on the e-cig? Do you exhale through the nose a bit or all through the mouth?

Those are the questions I can come up with and I'm not a doctor. But I've heard it said more than once that you don't actually have to inhale to get your nicotine from an e-cig. So if it hurts to inhale, well, just don't inhale.

 

[guitarman56]

It made me cough and a regular cig didn't. Pretty strange. I exhale through the mouth

 

[Nate5700]

It made me cough and a regular cig didn't. Pretty strange. I exhale through the mouth

Hmm. Did you refrain from vaping while you had your sinus infection? Could be that your body got used to having less nicotine and now it's making you cough. Keep in mind that a cigarette has additives and such to make it smoother so maybe that's why you can inhale the smoke. If it was me I'd probably try dropping the nic level in my juice and see if that helped.

 

[ilporcupine]

This is standard for me. Vapor always makes me cough.I resisted vaping for years, for that reason. I could 'hotbox' cigs, finish 2 on a ten minute break. Sinus drainage DOES irritate the throat! My sinus issues are bad enough to prevent me from tasting any flavored juice except menthol.

 

[Jebbn]

My mother is 80. She has been smoking since she was 14. She cant drag on my vape everytime without coughing some of the times but she has no problem sucking down cigarette smoke. I find that remarkable. What is in the tobacco that masks the harshness?

 

[ilporcupine]

It doesn't seem out of the ordinary, to me. Smoke isn't the same as vapor, no matter what the additives are. PG or VG mixtures are just a completely different substance. With me it seems to be a cough from deep down irritation. Lungs rather than throat. Could be an illusion, but shallow inhale causes less irritation.
Seems normal to me that smokers adapt to cig smoke, but body rejects a different chemical. I am slowly adapting to vape, but still am changing mixtures all the time, so always possibility of irritation. I very much doubt that I will ever be a 'cloud chaser'. Large quantities of vapor irritate my lungs still, after 5 months steady vaping.

 

[Nate5700]

They are different substances and some people get irritated from PG in particular. That may be an issue partially but I still think additives in cigarettes play a role in getting a smooth smoke. Inhaling from a cigarette is also easier than inhaling from a cigar or pipe.

Since OP seems to have been able to vape before his illness I suspect that he "de-adapted" to vapor if he wasn't vaping while he was sick. Whether that's a PG issue or a nicotine issue. My mind usually jumps to nicotine first since I don't seem to have a PG sensitivity but I can definitely feel it when I'm vaping a lot of nic.

 

[sake1bs]

I think i read somewhere once about one of the ingredients they put in cigarettes is something to stop you from coughing like an inflammatory or something of the sort but just searched and wasn't able to find anything

 

[r77r7r]

Earworm...

 

[ScottP]

It made me cough and a regular cig didn't. Pretty strange. I exhale through the mouth

My wife has the same issue, when sick with anything that causes post nasal drip vaping would throw her into coughing fits. What we finally had to do was switch to Nicotine Salts for her nic. That seemed to go a long way toward fixing that issue.

 

[Tiglish]

This is something I experience about half of the month. Have had ongoing sinus issues and had an operation in October which didn't fix it. It was a major barrier to me starting vaping via MTL devices. Some days I could vape a bit and be all YAY look at me maw, im vaping, and others it was cough till I pee. I am pretty sure harsh nic also played a role but I coughed with just straight VG. I was able to chain smoke with no problems though .

I don't have time to hunt down the links right now (working) but from what I understand there are aspects of cig smokes which have an anesthetic effect.

I still have these sensitivity challenges sometimes, and can't taste flavours clearly some days (which sure make testing my diy creations steeping not useful haha).

For me DTL was the solution as the transition of vapour from my mouth to throat seemed to be the trigger. Bypassing the mouth / throat transition removed this problem for me.

 

[Toronnah]

Vapor hits your upper respiratory tract. Smoke hits the lower tract.

This is why many cough when they first start vaping.

Its all in the size of the substance entering the lungs.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Vaping irritates my throat and (which is even worse) tongue. It kills my taste buds if I chain vape too much (and I do like to chain vape). But I need my nicotine. So it goes...

 

[Upinsmoke]

The tobacco companies can't afford to have their consumers taking time out every time they catch a cold so they thoughtfully added chemicals that have a mild anaesthetic to enable you to maintain your addiction thru trying times.
Vape juice does not have such a cocktail of pharmaceuticals.
I have found vaping flavourless in such circumstances helps .

 

[JanTee]

Vaping irritates my throat and (which is even worse) tongue. It kills my taste buds if I chain vape too much (and I do like to chain vape). But I need my nicotine. So it goes...

Try water with a splash of apple cider vinegar, it helps with the tastebuds I have found for many people.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Try water with a splash of apple cider vinegar, it helps with the tastebuds I have found for many people.

Four years of experience taught me that only Bourbon (or Scotch, as a substitute) can help me, but only for a few hours. But cannot use it "as needed"...

 

[Coyote628]

Well, theres alway the nose to lung inhale....

 

[SomethingElse]

My 2-cents probably won't "help" and, hopefully, I can phrase it so it won't get completely censored. In the early '70s ('71-'73), I worked in the "coke plant" in the steel mill in Lorain, OH. All day, EVERY day, regardless of season, you could SEE "glitters/twinkles" in the air that surrounded me. This, I came to learn, was "powdered coal" glinting in whatever light there was. I was friends with a co-worker there who had a friend I didn't know that worked at the "local" hospital as a "respiratory therapist (RT)." My friend from the mill went to see his "RT" friend 7-12 times per year for "therapy." The "therapy" he received, I eventually learned, was to inhale "a vapor," in a "tented" setup (like the "old" Vick's VapoRub commercials"), in order to expectorate the coal-dust and "whatever" (verboten to mention in this space) in an effort to "clear his lungs." The "magical vapor" at the hospital was almost "pure" propylene-glycol (aka, PG, and funny? how "spell-check" erroneously objects to those words). Anyway, long-story-short, my friend's RT told him that the mixture he was inhaling was DESIGNED to MAKE one cough-up any and all "irritants" he had in his lungs. My friend said he coughed, and coughed HARD (not gonna' mention the sputum he claimed to eject), for nearly an hour after each "treatment." So, maybe, the "extra" coughing you are experiencing is due to the PG in your juice interacting with "extra" mucous your lungs acquired due to your sinus infection.

 

[CMD-Ky]

I recently had a sinus infection and took antibiotics. As I started to feel better I found something very interesting. I could inhale a regular cig but could not inhale my ecig. Anyone know what's up with that?
Thanks

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