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hittman

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    I don’t know how much it has to do with taste buds. Way too many flavors for my liking.

    I’ve been tricked into buying a bunch of new flavors before with these big recipes and then not liking the recipes.
     

    newyork13

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    @mattiem, a few others, and I have vaped without inhaling for years. It's the only way I've ever vaped, since I started vaping in Nov. 2013. I can't remember if mattiem and the others started that way or switched to it long ago. In about the last 2-3 years though, when vaping without inhaling to the lungs has come up in discussions...quite a few people have decided to try it. Some haven't been able to get the hang of it, but others have with practice. Our numbers have steadily been growing.

    As far as how to do it - I pull vapor into my mouth the same way I used to pull in smoke from my ciggies. The difference in the 2 starts after it hits the back of my throat. Instead of then pulling it down to my lungs in the next split second or so with a 2nd littler inhale (as I did with smoke)...the vapor stays in my mouth for a second or 2, and I exhale it right back out, through my nose and/or mouth.

    To me, the method is more like I've seen people do, who are smoking a pipe. But, most of those I've seen using a pipe...exhale only through their mouth.

    Reasons I started vaping without inhaling to my lungs from the get-go were...1) I'd read and heard that nic in vapor is more readily absorbed by the cells of the cheek linings, nasal passages, and sinus cavities...rather than in the lungs. I knew I likely needed to get the most out of the nic in my vapor as I could, to help keep me off the smokes. So I decided to try the not inhaling to my lungs at all method. 2) I'd already been putting smoke into my lungs for 42+ years. I figured I'd give them a break the rest of my life and not inhale even vapor.
    Yup your logic is good. I've been practicing since @Redbird11 replied. I'm getting the hang of it. But, I'm not sure (despite the logic) that's it's quite as pleasurable as a lung inhale. But, I do agree that's it's probably much better for me. So, I plunge ahead.
     

    newyork13

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    Unless I'm stressed I usually will french inhale. I've been doing this forever (it seems). I think it evolved from my lungs hurting when I first started vaping. Of course, at work I MTL.
    "french inhale"?
    I'm afraid to ask.
     

    Redbird11

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    I’ve

    decided I don’t have enough taste buds to handle that many flavors at once lol. It tastes all muddled to me
    I recently found myself making recipes with too many flavors and have kind of hit a streak of not so good mixes. I've made myself follow a new rule of no more than 3 flavors per recipe for awhile. I think simpler is better for me. Then if I find something a like with the 3 flavor mix, I can see about expanding or adjusting that recipe with additional flavors.
     

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    Yup your logic is good. I've been practicing since @Redbird11 replied. I'm getting the hang of it. But, I'm not sure (despite the logic) that's it's quite as pleasurable as a lung inhale. But, I do agree that's it's probably much better for me. So, I plunge ahead.
    I tried it a bit last night. I used to smoke cigars semi-regularly so it's kind of familiar to me. But if I had to choose, I still probably prefer the inhale method.
     

    newyork13

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    The FLV Tobacconist Assortment pack contains:

    Arabian Tobacco
    Cavendish
    Classic Cigarette
    Commercial Cigarette
    Connecticut Shade
    Cured Tobacco
    Kentucky Blend
    Native Tobacco
    Oriental Tobacco
    Pucker Tobacco
    Red Burley
    Sweet & Smokey Tobacco
    Sweet Cigarette
    Tatanka Tobacco
    Turkish Tobacco
    Virginia Tobacco

    I'm pretty excited about it. And it's a good deal. If you bought all of those separately it would be a lot more than the $50 I spent on the 10 ml bottles.
    As @hittman also mentioned, I've been mostly doing NETs (Stixx) when I mix tobaccos. Except for the Purilum Sweet Tobacco, which I think is very nice, straight or mixed.
    So, make sure to let us know how those FLVs work out for you.
     
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    newyork13

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    Thank you for sharing that! Once I hopefully find out which ingredient is causing my sensitivity or allergy. I think I will continue vaping without inhaling :) I was forced to start it, but if I can find out what ingredient is causing the sensitivity in my sinuses I will be able to blow the vapor out my nose and also be able to vape more than 4 puffs in 2 days without having symptoms. I’m really hoping it’s not PG...because my nicotine is all PG based... lol My husband was traveling and picked me up a bottle of premade max Vg eliquid 3mg nic when this all started. Supposedly it is 91% Vg, and I still get symptoms. My husband picked it up for me to try just in case it was something in my personal Vg or pg that I bought. I did notice that my experiment not that long ago of my mix of 100% Vg with 2% flavoring I had much worse symptoms....but also that was not very long after getting better. Once I wait a bit longer, I just finished experimenting with the this premade eliquid, I am going to try 100% Vg nothing else in it to see what happens. If the symptoms happen with just the Vg I will try just pg after waiting a bit to let the Vg leave my system. If it happens with both I will be sad but I will be able to take a puff or two every few days! Lol It is a terrible time for my body to decide it is sensitive to something in my vape :) I really hope I can figure it out and mostly that I can still vape.
    Your post reminded me that I have issues with really high VG. Not allergic, just sensitive, in that it irritated my lungs and nostrils.
    But, if I manage to not inhale, and just suck it into my mouth and exhale through my mouth rather than nose, it might work out.
     

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    My filter is working really well this week. This is the second time in 3 days I felt my comment was very inappropriate. I am growing up in front of all of y'all.
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    NolaMel

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    I appreciate that :) I would love if it was something so simple :)
    I’m going to wait a bit and try again and differently. I did not wait long enough the first time. I am hoping it turns out differently this time when I try it with everything out of my system :)
    I’m going out on a limb... it was ice cream you reacted to? Did it have nuts in it?
     

    Uncle

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    "You're" funny my friend @Uncle. I'm thinking about visiting FL to figure out my life and where I want to live next. Not sure if it will happen soon, as there are numerous things going on. But, IF I visit Ft. L would you give me some pointers? It's always better with someone who is local.


    It would be "My" pleasure, I'll also show you around . . . :D


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    uthinkofsomething

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    I sat down with a new RDA last night and three SFTs. They were only four days old but I tried VT Fresh Milk at 2%, WF Tahitian Vanilla Cream at 4%, and WF Aged Bourbon Cream at 2%.
    I don't dislike the milk but I wonder how it would stand against other flavors. The most interesting part of it was mouthfeel and aftertaste I guess, it almost seemed to leave something on my tongue like I had drank some milk, which was interesting. I thought of the flavor as kind of a whole milk, I definitely got the sweetness in it.
    The Tahitian Vanilla Cream was nice, and plenty strong at 4%, I can imagine using lower in recipes. Don't know how I would describe it (not that others need a description) but was a little brighter almost fruitier than other vanillas I'm used to.
    Aged Bourbon Cream is a serious flavor. Seems refined, elegant, fancy, really tasted the bourbon in it. 2% was a great percentage to taste. However, I'd forgotten how much I struggle with the taste of barrel aged whiskey, I can't help but taste Jack Daniels from it, which is a bit cloying to me. I like it, but don't like it at the same time, hard to put lol. Wyrmwood, ew. But I dripped a little of the Cookies and Cream FW mix I have in after the Bourbon cream, and they mixed in a lovely way. There will be a recipe using these in combination in the future, for sure.

    The new RDA I have is a Loop 1.5. Works well, nicely made, looks pretty, gold finish.
     

    Katya

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    I'm making the simple syrup flavorings tonight for the shaved ice I'm doing at the horse rescue's fundraiser Saturday.

    Thank you for helping rescue horses. ♥
    They're very popular with children and adults...here in Florida and in Hawaii.

    And in California. :)
     
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