Smoke rings

[strayling]

Or vapour rings I suppose I should call them.

Anyway, what is it about PVs that brings about an uncontrollable urge to blow smoke rings? I'd blame my reading of The Hobbit at an impressionable age but I never blew smoke rings much when I smoked dead leaf cigarettes, so why have I started now?

(Currently trying to see if I can thread one ring inside another.)

 

[sixstring]

weird. I noticed this too...

Maybe we're trying to convince ourselves that it's really smoke?

I dunno, but I do it too.

 

[strayling]

My current theory is that using a PV requires a slower, more relaxed, inhalation unlike smoking a cigarette where you can gasp in a quick lung-full. Taking our time gives us a chance and incentive to play with the vapour a little.

 

[youngorboy]

I blow rings more now too, but I think for me it is because I vape indoors where there is no wind to ruin them. When I smoked it was always outside or near a window, and the rings would just get ruined. I also think it is easier to do with vapor because smoke becomes pretty thin after its in the lungs.

 

[yoshistr]

It is a great way to relax, I blow rings with my ecig all the time, most of the time I don't even inhale and I'm just blowing rings one after the other. It looks great and I couldn't blow rings before because of the wind outside. The smoke is also so much more thin so it is very easy to blow rings, lately I've been doing smoke tricks like the snap and french inhale. I used to blow rings when I smoked with my pipe, I think it is the inhale method that makes it tempting and the drag is lighter leaving some air in your lungs to exhale rings, cigarette filters have a lot more tension and by the time you take a full drag you really don't have as much air in your lungs to work with.
Either way its a great way to show off and attract other smokers to tell them to quit smoking analogs.

 

[strayling]

... I've been doing smoke tricks like the snap and french inhale. ...

*googlegooglegoogle*

Ok, now I'm going crosseyed trying to do that.

 

[yoshistr]

The french inhale is difficult with vapor because the smoke is not very thick but simply drag as much as you can without inhaling the smoke so keep it in your mouth, *slowly* open your mouth to let the smoke rise and inhale through your nose so that the smoke comes out of your mouth right into your nose. If you open your mouth quickly air can get inside and disperse the smoke and it won't work also it takes a little practice to get the breathing times right, exhale/inhale about half the air in/into your lungs first then take a drag into your mouth without inhaling, then as you open your mouth slowly inhale through your nose until all the smoke is gone or until you can't inhale anymore.
The snap is a little trickier to get at first, take a deep drag into your mouth then let a little escape but not to far so you can quickly inhale with your mouth dragging the smoke right back in.
Its a cool trick when you can blow a ring, do the snap dragon, and then a french inhale in a row. Takes a lot of practice though, you can even blow a slow smoke ring then snap it back into your mouth and then french inhale another cool trick.

here are some links to get you started:
http://www.wikihow.com/Do-Smoke-Tricks
http://www.wikihow.com/Learn-Smoking-Tricks

 

[strell]

My wife has an amazing mouth for tricks like this (sorry, couldn't resist). But really, within seconds of her first vape she realized she could gently get much more vapor to play with than she could with smoke. I am terrible at any of them, but vapor defintely is more laid-back and makes it easier for an idiot like me to come close to some "smoke" tricks.

 

[umop apisdn]

I think I'm more addicted to blowing vapor rings than the nicotine.

 

[jj2]

Boy do I belong in this group.
I DO IT CONSTANTLY.
There's something so fun about playing with the vapor.

 

[Bella Chic]

I never blew rings when I smoked the real cigs and I've tried with the vapor but I just suck at it and can't do it. Maybe one day I'll learn how but it's difficult to me, lol...practice practice practice.

Gina

 

[lukmech03]

I never blew a lot of smoke rings with analogs myself, and still don't with vaping, but I definately "play" with the vapor a little. These cigs are just amazing and fun to me!

 

[jennlsnoopy]

I blow rings a lot more than I did when I smoked analogs. It's fun to play with and I think the rings look better with the vapor than they did with smoke. They seem to be thicker or stay together longer or something. It's hard for me to say for sure because it's been over 4 months since I've had an analog.

 

[buddhamonk]

"vapor rings" are much more fun and pleasurable to do with ecigs because it doesnt taste so dam bad when you do it! when youre blowing smoke rings...the smoke just tastes so horrible you dont want it in your mouth for too long...ha!

 

[tattoo131313]

I smoked analogs for 25 years and I never learned how to blow a ring.What is the secret? How do you do it?

 

[strayling]

Holy zombie thread, Batman!

*blows a vapour ring*

 

[MoparMike]

There are some good reasons brought up here. For me, at first it was like testing my new e-cig for vapor production. If I could blow nice, thick rings then I was happy with its performance. Then because I didn't have to stand out on the patio any more in the wind it was a more common occurance. Now I do it without thinking about it. I even do it while driving since I don't roll the windows down anymore. I had not done it with real cigs for at least ten years and my fiance didn't even know I could until she caught me blowing rings into my computer screen and watching them expand in all directions.
It is kind of a fun act and it isn't surprising that people are doing it more often with a product that they are having a good time using.

 

[ShayDwight]

Thanks to this thread, I now know how to blow smoke rings.

I've never been able to before.

 

[Turbo]

Scott (igetcha69) is one of the best I've seen. He has a video tutorial here and some more on his youtube page. I've been practicing some myself

 

[DinosaurVapor]

and to me it seems easier than with a cig, like the hookah ones that linger for 20-30 seconds