Vaping kills throat. Went back to cigs for now. Help.

[MarxMarvelous]

Hi I have been vaping for about 6 weeks now. The last 3 or 4 days it has really really stared to irritate my throat. Burning, itching sensation. I was using it to quit smoking and had gotten down to about 2 or 3 cigs a day (mostly after meals) over the last 6 weeks. But now I am back full time on cigs because I just can't stand how vaping makes me feel.

I use Evod 2 and Protank 3 Minis. The ones with the dual coils. I use 1.5 ohm coils. I tried 1.8 but I felt like I was trying to suck a golfball through straw so get any vapor. The 1.5 worked great for the last 5 weeks. I use a Vapros Spinner II at home and the little EVOD 650 mah batteries away from home. I also have an eLeaf iCare. I have changed the coils and cleaned all the tanks and batteries.

I have a number of different ratios, flavors and strengths of juice. 6, 12, 18mg stregn nic all hurt throat now. 50/50, 60/40, 75/25 and 100%vg all hurt throat now. MTL and DL hits both hurt throat now. I tried burning it hotter, cooler. I have tried soft slow hits. I have tried fast hard hits.



None of these things hurt my throat for the first 6 weeks, now suddenly they all do. I don't think it is my setup anyway, I have had plenty of other people try it and say it doesn't hurt their throat at all. In fact, I went into a store yesterday and even tried their big fancy subohm dripper they let you sample flavors with. That things was always the smoothest thing I had ever hit, and even it was killing throat. And they use 0% nic.

I am not sick. This only happens during vaping and for about 30 min afterward. I drink plenty of water. Why is this just now happening after 6 weeks and what can I do?


Edit: I should point out I tried this once before a few years back. I tried the Green Smoke ecigs. They worked great for about 2 months and started irritating my throat so much that I threw them away, went back to smoking and vowed to never try that garbage again. Well I broke my vow to try vaping again, but if it doesn't work this time, I know I will never give it another shot again.

Am I just one of those people who it won't work for? I am really thinking I am.

 

[stols001]

Well, I too had this problem, not later on, but immediately. It cleared up over time, but I did find out I was allergic to PG. For me, I spent a few days drinking *a ton* of green tea with liberal amounts of raw honey and lemon... That was my family's home remedy for sore throat, and it works well.

I would try vaping ONLY 0 flavor for a while, to see if it's that, or the nic itself, it may take *some time* for the sore throat to go away, so give it a few days.... If you want to get creative, you don't actually HAVE to inhale, period-- with a small, MTL tank, you can suck juice into your mouth, hold it a second, then exhale through your nose. That way, you are avoiding the throat hit at ALL. Since nic is absorbed okay this way (I mean, pipes and cigars wouldn't work, if you couldn't do it that way) you might give that a shot, to see if it's your throat in particular, or you are unable to vape, period.

I don't really know what else to tell you, it sounds like you've tried a lot of things, but I'm sure others will be along to assist. I hope you get it figured out, that must be so annoying to GET your vape going, then have trouble I imagine if you can figure it out *at all* you're in the right place to get answers.

Best of luck,

Anna

 

[stols001]

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't notice the part where you said you were dual using? The whole 6 weeks and how many cigs a day? Because, I dual used a bit the first week and found that with DUAL use, my extra dried out throat (juice will dry you out first) it didn't really matter what I did, I'd have a horrendous sore throat, especially if my cig use climbed upward.... It took about a week of e-cig *only* to make the sore throat go away.... If you can tolerate the first few days (I could barely speak at times) and drink a LOT of water, and fully make the switch, you may be more successful?

A lot of people can dual use without throat issues, I'm not one of them, but my throat was pretty torn up from repeated pneumonias, and I just had to make the leap and switch? If you can try a week without smoking (maybe up your nic level a bit) and vape through it, you may wind up fine on the other side.

Anna

 

[MarxMarvelous]

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't notice the part where you said you were dual using? The whole 6 weeks and how many cigs a day? Because, I dual used a bit the first week and found that with DUAL use, my extra dried out throat (juice will dry you out first) it didn't really matter what I did, I'd have a horrendous sore throat, especially if my cig use climbed upward.... It took about a week of e-cig *only* to make the sore throat go away.... If you can tolerate the first few days (I could barely speak at times) and drink a LOT of water, and fully make the switch, you may be more successful?

A lot of people can dual use without throat issues, I'm not one of them, but my throat was pretty torn up from repeated pneumonias, and I just had to make the leap and switch? If you can try a week without smoking (maybe up your nic level a bit) and vape through it, you may wind up fine on the other side.

Anna

I was using regular cigs 2-3 times a day. Usually just after meals.

 

[Two_Bears]

Hi I have been vaping for about 6 weeks now. The last 3 or 4 days it has really really stared to irritate my throat. Burning, itching sensation. I was using it to quit smoking and had gotten down to about 2 or 3 cigs a day (mostly after meals) over the last 6 weeks. But now I am back full time on cigs because I just can't stand how vaping makes me feel.

I use Evod 2 and Protank 3 Minis. The ones with the dual coils. I use 1.5 ohm coils. I tried 1.8 but I felt like I was trying to suck a golfball through straw so get any vapor. The 1.5 worked great for the last 5 weeks. I use a Vapros Spinner II at home and the little EVOD 650 mah batteries away from home. I also have an eLeaf iCare. I have changed the coils and cleaned all the tanks and batteries.

I have a number of different ratios, flavors and strengths of juice. 6, 12, 18mg stregn nic all hurt throat now. 50/50, 60/40, 75/25 and 100%vg all hurt throat now. MTL and DL hits both hurt throat now. I tried burning it hotter, cooler. I have tried soft slow hits. I have tried fast hard hits.



None of these things hurt my throat for the first 6 weeks, now suddenly they all do. I don't think it is my setup anyway, I have had plenty of other people try it and say it doesn't hurt their throat at all. In fact, I went into a store yesterday and even tried their big fancy subohm dripper they let you sample flavors with. That things was always the smoothest thing I had ever hit, and even it was killing throat. And they use 0% nic.

I am not sick. This only happens during vaping and for about 30 min afterward. I drink plenty of water. Why is this just now happening after 6 weeks and what can I do?


Edit: I should point out I tried this once before a few years back. I tried the Green Smoke ecigs. They worked great for about 2 months and started irritating my throat so much that I threw them away, went back to smoking and vowed to never try that garbage again. Well I broke my vow to try vaping again, but if it doesn't work this time, I know I will never give it another shot again.

Am I just one of those people who it won't work for? I am really thinking I am.

Sounds like an allergy.

It may be an allergy to Propylene glycol or a flavor in the eJuice.

 

[stols001]

If you think you can do it, I'd try some non-flavored liquid nic (fairly high or low and frequent), unless that's totally gross to you, care for your throat with loving kindness, and give it a week, no cigs (even if you have to use SNUS after meals, if you can get it near you?) I'd try that, before giving up. I know it sucks, and everytime I fell off the wagon (even just a few cigs) I'd get that dry/sore throat again. I find VG more soothing and I'm allergic to PG anyway, but I'd try each one VG/PG seperately to see which is better (I'd imagine VG might be more soothing). Also, I know this is weird, but I found that singing/yelling cleared that *gunk* that collected at the back of my throat and caused pain/hoarsness, and you wouldn't want to hear me ah, clearing my throat in the morning. And honey/lemon is your friend.... It really is.

I'm suggesting this simply because if you can get past the hump, vaping can work SO well, I'd hate to see you miss out for the sake of a few cigs a day... I'm very happy I persevered, given that at one point during one of my pneumonias, I was so sore and hoarse (for months, on cigs) that my PCP was totally convinced I had throat cancer, and actually sent me to get scoped by an ENT (I was fine, just extremely swollen and miserable) and it's SO worth it if you can get past those few cigarettes and the hoarseness.... Some people can dual use with ease, I am not one of them, and you may not be, either.

Just my thoughts, having experienced it a LOT.

Anna

 

[tazzle]

Obviously this could be vape-related, but I just want to bring up the possibility it could be quitting cigarettes-related. If you google something like "sore throat after quitting smoking" (without quotation marks), or "quitter's flu," you'll see that this is a pretty common thing as one's body begins to repair. This would make more sense of the fact that it begins after several weeks, when the smoking chemicals are getting more flushed out.

(when I've quit smoking in the past, I felt so bad I joked that tar and nicotine was obviously the only thing that had been holding me together)

That it seems to happen only during and just after vaping and then becomes better would definitely be an argument that it's the vaping itself ... yet both times this beginning at roughly the same point when you have cleaned out a lot of the cigarette muck makes me think it's *possible* it may be related to cutting way back on the cigs.

I'm sorry this is happening, and wish you the very best working through it. Good luck!

 

[Opinionated]

Here is some unflavored you can try, in case it's a flavor or combination of flavors that is bothering your throat. You could also try adding a touch of menthol to it, as menthol has mild anesthetic properties, as well as it will be cooling to your throat.

Some people who can't do flavors can do menthol just fine. Here is the link: Nada - $6.00 : Heather’s Heavenly Vapes, Top Quality Custom E-Liquids

 

[Skold]

I get a bad throat with pg, even 50/50 is too high sometimes with certain flavours.
Try some high vg but also I'm dual using atm & in the morning I have the worse throat ever.
When I quit for 3 years it took two or three months for my throat to clear up, your nicotine strength could be too high as well.
Just try out a few things but dot give up!
Oh... Welcome to the site too! I noticed your a new member, the Evod isn't a bad setup either. It's what I started on

 

[iwarzon]

I too come across this and have partially narrowed it down to the nic even @ 1% nic it irritates me so I am only vaping 0% now and seems to be fine.

 

[Skold]

I too come across this and have partially narrowed it down to the nic even @ 1% nic it irritates me so I am only vaping 0% now and seems to be fine.

Never gonna happen for me, I need nicotine to function & plus studies show it helps aspergers syndrome and certainly does, vaping keeps me focused an calm