I don't want to blame the sinus/chest stuff on vaping, but wondering if there is a connection. It is real discouraging to get an infection twice in one month after switching. Perhaps I need VG? Maybe it's just a bad luck of the draw that will run its course. Maybe this is the "smokers cough" that some get after quitting analogs? What did that feel like?
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I don't like pure PG personally, I try to use at least 70pg/30vg if not more vg. PG is irritating to me, and seems to dry my sinuses out. You'll get over it! Are you using cartos or attys? Occasionally I'll cough my balls off from a cart that's too dry...and then I usually can't vape the rest of the night...make sure they're nice and moist.
As far as the cough, I've been trying to quit for around 6mo. I didn't smoke that often, but would bum cigs from buddies. Until I actually quit, I felt like you described, waking up in the morning to feel like an anvil was on my chest, and hacking 'stuff' up for a few hours after getting up.
As far as the cough, I've been trying to quit for around 6mo. I didn't smoke that often, but would bum cigs from buddies. Until I actually quit, I felt like you described, waking up in the morning to feel like an anvil was on my chest, and hacking 'stuff' up for a few hours after getting up.
Clearing tar out of your lungs is good but feels bad, like having an awful cold. I think for a many a healing crisis begins when smoking stops. The side effects of getting more oxygen and nutrients to damaged areas causes healing that creates a cruddy feeling during the process and detox. I had the same reaction when I quit smoking (failed attempt) a few years ago. Or maybe it's a coincidence for you? Whatever the case, hope you feel better soon and see your doc if needed.
It is hard to say what it could be if it is vaping without knowing what kind of juice you are using. PG, as well as some flavors can be irritating, and if you have irritation you are more prone to infection. That being said, PG is antibacterial and antimicrobial so it it more likely to prevent respiratory infections.
What level nicotine are you using? And you are using 100% PG juices?
Nicotine is a skin irritant. Medium and high levels of nicotine in 100% PG can easily lead to sore mouth, tongue, throat or even lungs, especially if you are vaping heavily.
Suggestions in case that is your problem -
Try juices with some VG in them. I use 20% Vg juices in cartos, and vape some 50/50's with the atomizer. VG smooths the TH and irritation and adds more body to the vapor
Cut your nicotine down one level - you can always take extra drags. 3 drags of 16 is exactly the same nic as 2 drags of 24.
If you are vaping excessively, try to control that. At home, I leave the ecigs in another room so I have to get up to go vape instead of dragging on it constantly.
Also - when you get over an infection, clean all parts of your ecig that you touch or that go in your mouth. If you are using cartridges or cartos then throw them out and start fresh ones because saliva can get into carts and cartos. I also carefully wipe the outside of my batteries with a Clorox wipe after I've been sick - the wipes are barely wet and pretty safe - I am just careful around the button.
And remember to drink plenty of fluids when vaping. Vaping can be drying, to your whole body and to your sinus passages.
And if you are bringing the vapor through your nose to smell it, moderate that a bit. You may be irritating your sinuses with your nicotine. You don't have to smell the vapor on every drag.
When I started vaping my sinuses actually cleared up for the first time in over a decade.
Nicotine is a skin irritant. Medium and high levels of nicotine in 100% PG can easily lead to sore mouth, tongue, throat or even lungs, especially if you are vaping heavily.
Suggestions in case that is your problem -
Try juices with some VG in them. I use 20% Vg juices in cartos, and vape some 50/50's with the atomizer. VG smooths the TH and irritation and adds more body to the vapor
Cut your nicotine down one level - you can always take extra drags. 3 drags of 16 is exactly the same nic as 2 drags of 24.
If you are vaping excessively, try to control that. At home, I leave the ecigs in another room so I have to get up to go vape instead of dragging on it constantly.
Also - when you get over an infection, clean all parts of your ecig that you touch or that go in your mouth. If you are using cartridges or cartos then throw them out and start fresh ones because saliva can get into carts and cartos. I also carefully wipe the outside of my batteries with a Clorox wipe after I've been sick - the wipes are barely wet and pretty safe - I am just careful around the button.
And remember to drink plenty of fluids when vaping. Vaping can be drying, to your whole body and to your sinus passages.
And if you are bringing the vapor through your nose to smell it, moderate that a bit. You may be irritating your sinuses with your nicotine. You don't have to smell the vapor on every drag.
When I started vaping my sinuses actually cleared up for the first time in over a decade.
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I read somewhere that when you quit smoking that you hack more because the cilia in your lungs start working again (smoking paralyzes them). I have certainly been coughing more, even though I feel better. I'm sure hacking up crap might contribute to an infection.
I am not an ecig pro... but I'm a certified natural health consultant and something that I have given to many people that quit smoking is tea. I'm not talking about lipton, I'm talking about real herbal tea. The best thing you can do is get a Honeybush tea and add some Chamomile to it, then after letting it steep for about 30 minutes add a drop or two of lemon juice.
Herbal tea is one of the best and safest ways to ingest herbs because the body can easily assimilate all the great properties of the herbs from the tea, and it doesn't force you to a bitter taste. This is the calm way to help relieve some of that gunky feeling in your upper body (respiratory and sinus). It also helps to ease some of the hacking / coughing that naturally comes from ridding yourself of cigarettes and your lungs starting to heal.
Herbal tea is one of the best and safest ways to ingest herbs because the body can easily assimilate all the great properties of the herbs from the tea, and it doesn't force you to a bitter taste. This is the calm way to help relieve some of that gunky feeling in your upper body (respiratory and sinus). It also helps to ease some of the hacking / coughing that naturally comes from ridding yourself of cigarettes and your lungs starting to heal.
From my like 2 months+... I didn't get sick but the first few weeks seemed hard on my throat and nose and chest. And like Dormouse said I'm at the point I think people's reactions to certain juice is more important than I initially thought. Crappy Smoketip screwed me on an order (I'll never do business there) and I had to spend several days vaping flavored scraps from V4L and Bloog--a different flavor after another. After a few days--esp on vanilla -- all that crap seemed to irritate my throat and sinuses and I would go to bed smelling the stuff. Then my Johnson Creek chocolate truffle arrived and all these problems instantly vanished and I have been vaping this like 24/7 for 5 days without a problem. So I'm NOT blaming flavored juices or chinese juice (well, maybe a little) I'm just saying get to a flavor/juice your body likes--they are not all the same (think I read on the posts here cinnamon can make peeps gums bleed and vanilla has irritants to some, etc.).
I'm using a 50/50 blend of VG and PG. I thi nk I am hitting it too much. I didn't think about disinfecting my equip. This one does feel like a cold without as much head stuff. I'll give it a few more days. I thought about trying both pure vg and pure pg to see if one of those is less irritating to me. Thanks for the replies everyone
Hang in there.
I vape 80-90% VG and haven't had any problems.
I never got the "quit smoking cough". If you are getting enough nicotine and you just feel the need to puff try vaping plain VG and see if that helps.
I vape 80-90% VG and haven't had any problems.
I never got the "quit smoking cough". If you are getting enough nicotine and you just feel the need to puff try vaping plain VG and see if that helps.
Maybe tmi but I am hacking up some stuff-2 weeks since my last analog. The first few days were worse, I'd feel like something was catching in my throat and have a coughing fit half a dozen times a day. Right now it's more like once every other day. Doesn't feel like infection or anything, just getting rid of yuck.
I wasn't even a really heavy smoker, pack a day, and I didn't have the coughing thing before but quitting has also caused me to break out. My guess is that smoking was suppressing my immune responses (I know it suppressed my allergies) to the need to get rid of the crap and toxins from the cigarettes, and now that it's not suppressed I will feel all that junk.
You didn't mention why you feel like you've had infection - have you been to the doc or are you exhibiting other symptoms like fever or discoloration of mucous, etc? I don't mean to gross anybody out lol, the only reason I ask is because I wonder if you're having an allergy to a flavoring or the pg? With allergies your sinuses would likely still be clear, an infection would be thicker and discolored.
I wasn't even a really heavy smoker, pack a day, and I didn't have the coughing thing before but quitting has also caused me to break out. My guess is that smoking was suppressing my immune responses (I know it suppressed my allergies) to the need to get rid of the crap and toxins from the cigarettes, and now that it's not suppressed I will feel all that junk.
You didn't mention why you feel like you've had infection - have you been to the doc or are you exhibiting other symptoms like fever or discoloration of mucous, etc? I don't mean to gross anybody out lol, the only reason I ask is because I wonder if you're having an allergy to a flavoring or the pg? With allergies your sinuses would likely still be clear, an infection would be thicker and discolored.
I seem to have a problem like that too, I ordered a while ago some 50% pg/ 50% vg, I read somewhere that many people are allergic to PG and I believe I am, I feel all odd, my thoat feels odd when I swallow, I can guarantee you that the feeling is not coming from withdrawl symptoms since I tried smoking it, started to feel like that pretty much right away, stopped, after a day or two it went away, then I tried again about a month later and felt the exact same way right away, then I just stopped and decided to try to find pure VG, since when it happens, my body just feels weird and I kind of feel like when I have allergies(I'm allergic to cats and dogs) so I strongly believe I'm allergic to PG, this is why I'm trying to find a supplier here in canada that sells pure VG, not so easy to find at the moment but hopefully being a member here will help me!
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