"Stealth" vaping?

[goodsignal]

We use VG/PG because it vaporizes at a lower temperature. Water vaporizes at, what, 212F? Boiling. So you don't want to inhale that anyway, you'd singe your lungs.

I don't know if we should be so quick to diss the possibility. There could very well be a reason that it's not possible but it's not vaporizing temperature. VG and PG vaporize at much higher temperatures, 554F and 370F respectively. Water is only 212F. (See boiling temps: Glycerol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Propylene glycol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

I'm not so sure that would work. As I understand it, the pg is in there not so much to provide the clouds of vapor (vg is much better at that), but to be a carrier for the nicotine and flavor. The same reason they use it in some medical inhalers. I don't think water would do that job so well. Also, nic bases are nicotine mixed with pg, vg, or some combo. It might be tough finding a base that didn't have either of them.

And as far as being carriers for nicotine and flavor: Nicotine is water soluble and so are many of the flavors we use. Water is the universal solvent after all.

If anyone's tried it, water is just so much less viscous than VG or PG, so just floods and drowns the atty because the wicks are designed for thick gooey stuff. Something that limits the flow could work -- like a much tighter/compressed wick. A mod could be possible -- I'm just sayin'.

 

[ilk80]

Movie theater, also the BI-LO Center when we went to see TSO.
Grocery store (not so much stealth now but usually when someone else is not the the aisle with me/but I have gotten a few looks)
Daughters doctors office & when I went to register her for school in the school (got looks there too)
Hospital
Some random dept. stores too (can not think of any right now though)

 

[ColonelPanic]

I vaped this weekend at the hair salon while my daughter was getting her hair cut, at the mall, in the bookstore and at Starbuck's . . . I don't actively TRY to hide so much as I keep my GGSlim in my hand like normal and just hold the vapor a few seconds longer. Nobody even noticed that I was aware.

Terry/ColonelPanic

 

[DyceJ]

i actually discovered both of those methods on my own the other day out of desperation. i had a 30 hour trip from el salvador to africa and none of the airports had smoking areas so i had to do some covert vaping. i first discovered the holding in method while in the terminal and it worked flawlessly. i continued this method on the airplane until i realized i had my complimentary airline blanket on my lap. i would take a hit from my ego-t and exhale with the blanket over my mouth. no vapor, no problem. i was able to constantly vape the whole trip (on one battery!). if i had never quit i would have been one irritable SOB because none of my layovers would have given me enough time to leave and return through security.

 

[charmed412]

vaping in my hospital bed right now...nurse keeps asking why my room smells like bananas.....told him I didn't smell bananas...

 

[hawkfire1]

hello,

I am wondering what visibility sensor onboard an aircraft would be set off in leiu of the smoke detector?

 

[swedishfish]

What about the second hand smoke... And when our kids get older they might choose to start smoking... FORBIDDEN

I think half the 'studies' on second hand smoke are pure B.S. Please don't do the 'what about the children' argument or I just may projectile vomit on my computer screen.

If you don't want to smoke (and I definitely don't want to smoke) don't. Why ban it? I don't want to River Dance, but I don't think it should be banned. Well, maybe.

Remember, we're all probably a battery charge away from being smokers.

 

[Mr Jones]

TL;DR short inhale / forceful exhale

I vape everywhere all the time and establish dead on eye contact with onlookers while I'm doing it. The more exposure of e-cigs/mods the better. Educate, educate and educate some more is the only way for people to understand that vaping is the alternative to smoking.

As far as stealth vaping goes, being that vapor is a gas which dissipates in seconds, as opposed to smoke being a bunch of carbon particles floating in the air, exhale with a quick force. I find this is the best way to get the vapor out and dissipating/disappearing as quick as possible. This works best with smaller/standard resistance e-cig units and short inhales.

I've only been vaping for about a week now and have already weaned myself off of analogs. A big part of the reason I quit is that I was very self-conscious about smoking in public. I was poking around the rest of the forum and saw a lot of people talking about stealth vaping. I'm assuming that means vaping in ways that aren't noticeable to other people. One of them was to hold in the vapor for about 10 seconds so it just dissipates. There was some debate about whether or not this could be harmful to your lungs. I tried it and it gave me one heck of a buzz though. Another was to blow into a napkin. This DOES NOT WORK if the napkin is crumpled up and you just blow into it. The vapor goes everywhere. I did find, however, that if I stretched it across my lips and blew THROUGH the napkin, there was no vapor.

Also, apparently it is possible to set off the smoke detector in an airplane bathroom if you get too close to the smoke detector, so you have to be careful. Anyone else tried out stealth vaping yet?

 

[hawkfire1]

Hmmm,

I don't see either the need or necessity of stealth vaping. I feel that stealth or sneaky vaping is just wrong because although people claim that vaping is not smoking and legal there is a stigma attached to vaping since in the public eye it is very much similar to smoking. Sneaking should not be necessary in comitting a perfectly legal act.

When one does something stealthily or sneaky it infers wrongdoing, which vaping is not.

In this thread alone, people are vaping in places where they normally would not smoke and not using simple common sense and reason to actively promote vaping in a positive light. e.g. vaping in a grocery store or walmart or even during class as stated in this thread.

Just like everything else in life there is a level of responsibility attached to vaping, especially if you as a vapor want public acceptance and a little patience, common sense and application thereof will go a long way to make that happen.

 

[kmets89]

I work at a mall and I used to be self-conscious about vaping inside until an ecig kiosk opened up. Also, I got a new pv that looks a lot less like a cigarette. I won't vape if there are a lot of ppl around, though.