Silly ? but HICCUPS??

[MonicaRae]

So it doesn't happen ALL of the time but let's say 7 out of 10 times I vape I hiccup on the inhale. When I 1st started out smoking cigarettes this used to happen to me A LOT so I got used to smoking with hiccupping on every inhale (no its not pleasant but u get used to it.) Now it's happening when vaping! If I take a baby puff it doesn't happen but who wants to do that? Just wondering if anyone out there may have a clue as to why or a suggestion to stop this cuz its ANNOYING!

Thnx friends

 

[CheekyChica]

Hi MonicaRae!

Well I took a look at "hiccups" on the wiki and says that hiccups occour in most people because of air being trapped in the stomach upon ingestion. So you may be swallowing air or getting air in your stomach when you inhale. Try different ways of inhaling on your e-cig and see it that helps. Like try inhaling your "drag" and keeping your mouth closed and exhaling through your nose.

FYI~ Burping is caused by foods/drinks creating gasses in your stomach, such as the carbonation from sodas.

 

[BlueMoods]

Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm, a large, flat muscle below your lungs and, above your stomach. If inhaling vapor is setting off a spasm, you are probably inhaling too deeply or to quickly. Try changing it and see if it helps.

 

[TheDarthJager]

That use to happen to me all the time, and my friends always got a good laugh at my suffering. I noticed like Cheeky and Blue said that its your diaphragm wigging out. I usually pull some air into my diaphragm when causes me to burp but it seemed to fix my problem for me (granted I'm not sure if pulling air into your diaphragm is healthy, I'm just saying for perspective). Also try a slower inhale, I noticed especially when I smoked cigs if I trying to power through it at work that's when it happened most often. If you relax on how fast your vaping that may help.

 

[Apheks]

I thought I was the only one! I am glad to see this has happened to other people.It happens once in a while but enough to notice it when I started vaping. Mine fell more intense then a normal hiccup but doesn’t happen enough to bother me. I would take the occasional hiccups over the way I used to feel when I was smoking analogs.

 

[Kellycat]

I actually just dealt with this for the first time tonight, and I'm fairly sure it had to do with a mixture of swallowing air and the strength of the liquid I was using. Nicotine seems to trigger a throat tickle for me, which normally doesn't do anything, but this time around I started hiccuping and coughing from it..cut the remaining liquid in my tank with VG and it stopped immediately. Might be worth a try if you're vaping high-nic or high-PG mixes, just add VG to taste, of course that'll dilute your nicotine level down, perhaps an appreciable amount depending on the strength you're using already. I hit 30-36mg liquids so cutting to 24mg doesn't make much of a difference, but if you're dropping from 12 to, say, 6 or 9mg nicotine from diluting it, you might have other issues like chain-vaping.

ETA: Also try the mouth/nose inhale method with vaping, it didn't work for me but a lot of people swear by it, basically you only inhale the vapor into your mouth and exhale through your nose. Supposedly you still absorb nicotine doing it that way, and it bypasses the lungs and throat almost entirely, which might help keep you from swallowing vapor/air and burping/hiccuping.

 

[Rickajho]

You may be ingesting (swallowing) nicotine. It takes very little to aggravate your system and induce hiccups. Anyone who has used nic-o-gum is all too familiar with this.

I would suggest you check your vaping style. Make sure you are not "gulping" your vape and taking it into the esophagus. And absolutely make sure you are not getting liquid in your mouth from your carto, drip tip, etc.

 

[Apheks]

I think this might be true for me it happened more when I switched from one e liquid to another. I first started with a 16mg and when trying new flavors the jumped up to 18mg because it was the closest to my level. When I mad the switch I noticed it happened more frequently. Thanks for the tip I will see how it works for me.

 

[MonicaRae]

I'm so surprised and glad at the same time that I'm not crazy or alone! Other people do actually have this problem, lol. @TheDarthJager I so feel you! All the time people get kicks off the fact I'm in pain at every inhale as I get this crazy hiccup...so not funny! And @Apheks YES it is so intense it's at the point of being painful half the time.

All your words of advice are great. I think it had a lot to do with the nicotine because I used to get the hiccups ALL the time when I 1st started smoking regular cigarettes. It's funny though cuz it's not like the smoking gives me the hiccups its just I hiccup on the inhale! I could take a drag hiccup so hard it hurts then put my PV down and not hiccup again at all...that is until I go for another drag then Oh out of the blue here I go with another hiccup!
I know how to make sure I don't hiccup and yes that's to take a small little drag that I can barely feel but who wants that? Ugh not me! I need the throat hit..if not I'll be reaching for a reg cigarette b4 I know it..I'm still not fully free from them even though I SO want to be It's so hard when you have someone else in the house smoking like a darn chimney but I've gotta get with it cuz 1/2 the time I don't even enjoy the analogs anymore & I actually reach for my pv during the time I'm smoking an analog!!!

Thanks guys ur awesome...sorry to blab but that's what I DO!

 

[Apheks]

I just thought about it but could it have something to do with the draw maybe? I know it happened more when I got my first kit with tanks a long time ago. One of the main reasons I switched was it was too tight of a draw. I found my self trying to take slower draws and not feeling so smooth and it did happen a lot more. It felt like I was vaping through a coffee straw. When I switched to a tank like a vivi nova it happened less often. I can’t even recall a time it happened when I was dripping. Not to say it never happened but not often enough to even remember. It could be a mixture of both draw and nicotine. It’s just a theory. Has any one else noticed anything similar? I know the slower draw helps a bit for me but I fell like it happens more often in I don’t have a smooth draw. Like when I am walking around at work and I see no one around and I go for the quick vape. Lol I won’t get in trouble but I don’t want to go through the trouble of explaining it to the people that don’t know what it is.