Vaping outdoors versus indoors

[Kataphraktos]

Hello. I've been vaping about a month now. I've picked up a Provari 2.0, a Vmod 2.0 and a Vmod XL. I've experimented with various atomizers on the Vmods, and settled on Cisco spec 2.0 ohm attys for them. I've had excellent results using a Kanger Protank and Kanger Evod, as well as an Igo-L on the Provari (as well as Cisco spec attys). The plumes and flavor I get at home are awesome.

However, when I vape outdoors, I do not get the same results with any of these setups. The Vmods bother me especially, because I bought those for on-the-go vaping, and outdoors, the vape is very weak and low on flavor, whereas at home, I get a pretty decent vape. The Provari, which gives me insane clouds at home, is not much better than the Vmods on the street.

Now, granted, the same can be said about analogs. One of the reasons New York's draconian anti-smoking regulations have been so successful is because they force people to smoke analogs where they suck the most - on the sidewalk.

Is this a known phenomenon? Or are there ways to improve my outdoors vape?

 

[hrlw817]

I know that sometimes wind is a factor when it comes to vapor. You need to remember that water vapor is less dense than cigarette smoke, so the vapor will disappear quicker than smoke. So, the wind will take the vapor making it seem like you didn't have much of a vape.

As far as flavor goes, sometimes the temperature will factor in. If it's colder outside, the juice will thicken up a little, and won't have it's "normal" taste. If it's really hot outside, the juice will become thinner, and the taste will again be off.

 

[DC2]

I know that sometimes wind is a factor when it comes to vapor. You need to remember that water vapor is less dense than cigarette smoke, so the vapor will disappear quicker than smoke. So, the wind will take the vapor making it seem like you didn't have much of a vape.

As far as flavor goes, sometimes the temperature will factor in. If it's colder outside, the juice will thicken up a little, and won't have it's "normal" taste. If it's really hot outside, the juice will become thinner, and the taste will again be off.

I get much more vaper in colder weather, because it helps with condensation.
Vaping in the car in front of the air conditioner is a special treat.


Also, I can't say for certain because we don't really have any humidity around here that often...
But I would make an educated guess that more humidity might lead to more vaper as well.

More water in the air to condense.

 

[nuttyriv3r]

I've been noticing this too. Something about vaping outside is totally different. It's not nearly as satisfying. I cant figure out if it is physics or purely psychological, but I can tell meteorological conditions do make a difference.

 

[Heavyrocker]

Proof that vaping is meant too done inside,i always vape inside.

 

[LucentShadow]

I don't usually notice all that much difference between inside and outside, unless the climate differential is great between the two.

I have also noted that hotter temperatures and lower humidity makes for the least amount of vapor. Cooler temperatures and higher humidity makes for the largest amount of vapor.

I'd say that heat convection from hot building faces or sidewalks, and breezes also have some impact. Maybe atmospheric pressure has impact, as well.

I can't say that I notice a lot of difference in taste, but the vapor density impacts the feel of vaping quite a bit for me.

 

[tarotcat]

My big issue is the wind. I tend to french inhale and the wind just completely messes that up for me. I love vaping ina cold still room, the vapor just hangs there...so pretty.

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[stormwench]

Proof that vaping is meant too done inside,i always vape inside.

LOL. Stay in side, adjust the environment for perfect vaping.. sit back and smile

To be very honest I never have notice and inside/outside or temperate/weather effect on taste or th or whether I feel like I am getting the nicotine or whether my device feels different - all the mst major things to me. Granted I like the vapor too but don't equate the amount of vapor with how good the vape is in relation to the other categories. All of those, of course, do directly affect vapor production - like its going to certainly look like you're exhaling a whole lot more vapor outside in 20 degree weather on a moist day then if you standing inside on a hot, dry afternoon. As for the vapor I am inhaling I have not made a study of it but I think the amount is the same - sans different devices of course. Its a pretty short trip from that coil to the inside of you mouth and its a pretty fast trip too, even if you inhale slowly. Possibly in really cold weather the vapor could cool enough through a large tank to make it bad experience but I do cross country in the winter and have vaped while doing so - in weather well in the negative degrees and not gotten a decent amount of vapor, and then again vaped in hot, dry SoCal in weather over 100 degrees and not notice the vape being drier on inhale.

I am sure they are experience different than mine and I bet this is one of those things that varies a great deal with the individual. I would bet that a vaper from SoCal used to vaping in hot and dry weather the majority of the type has adjusted to where their vapor production and experience is as good as anyones. Of course if someone from an area that never gets hotter then 70 in the summer and stays pretty humid (like some places in ALaska, lets say) travels to SoCal they may definitely notice a huge difference in the vapor they get at first. Same thing if they SoCal guy visits Alaska in mid winter his vapor is definitely going to be very different from what he is used. Maybe, anyway, because it all depends on the individual.

And if its noticed probably depends on the individual too. ( There are people who will be shock at the next sentence ) The experience is not always about the vapor for some

 

[yzer]

Guess what? Vaping outside is the same as smoking outside. Outdoor air circulation means that you will not be closed-in with exhaled vapor or smoke. That means you won't get the same intensity of flavor as doing it indoors. No mystery, here.

 

[Kataphraktos]

Thanks, everyone. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't alone in this. If vaping outdoors is a muted experience, I can live with it. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something within my power to affect.

 

[El_tecolote]

Factors such as barometric pressure, air currents, temperature and humidity all contribute to a decreasingly satisfying outdoor vape. The conditions indoors are usually pretty static and don't vacillate as much.

 

[XeniaMike]

Yea, vaping indoors is the best. In the car 2nd, and outdoors last.

 

[317Vapers]

I think a lot of it has to do with lighting. Your still getting the same amount of vapor its just darker inside a house then it is outside in the natural light, plus you have the wind/weather affecting the outcome. Its like smoking a analog in the bed of a truck going 50mph you never know if its even lit still.

Plus the humidity outisde will change the outcome of the vapor and how it lingers around or dissipates immediately etc.

 

[Heavyrocker]

The best place too vape in in front of my computer screen.

 

[Cycles Gladiator]

At least from my own experience: I think part of it is psychological. When I'm outside and it's windy (I live right by the beach, it gets pretty dang windy) when I exhale, it dissipates so quick, I feel like I didn't puff anything at all. Even if I get the same throat hit, not seeing that big plume and making a visual connection throws off my sense of satisfaction. Another part seems to be olfactory. Inside, while puffing, I let a little out, I don't fully taste the flavor, but with letting a little out, I get the smell. Outside it dissipates too quickly and I don't always get the olfactory stimulation associated with "taste." However, I vape a lot outside, my gf still smokes (although, she is now finally trying vaping) and when I'm on campus I vape outside too. It's not the same, but it doesn't detract too much from the experience. I never liked smoking inside, always seemed to sting my noise and on the rare occasion I'd get smoke in my eyes.

 

[Equus5O]

Outdoors, I can't do the "out the mouth, up the nose" thing. The vapor blows away, and it's so disappointing. I lost my vapor!

 

[Salm12]

When your indoors there's no wind, so in turn the vapor will linger. Outdoors, as soon as the wind catches to it it will dissipate the vapor. Your probably getting close to/if not the same vape as you would inside, it's just the mind games that your...errr mind(?) plays on you haha. And when it's cold out its definitely going to appear as if your producing more vapor. But that all has to do with you blowing hot air/vapor into the cold. Same deal as seeing your breath in the winter, just with some added vapor clouds

 

[UncleChimney]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that feels like this!

 

[vapero]

I don't really mind the vapor, too much wind is going to take away the vapor and smoke quickly as many ha said but regarding the flavor the wind also plays an important roll here; I usually take a drag, then open my mouth to take more air for inhaling it to my lungs, if you have wind in your face it will certainly take some or a lot of that vapor from your mouth and dissipate it before you actually inhale.

 

[ckelly10]

I prefer to vape indoors due to this reason but out respect and curtsy for other people around me I will always go outside whenever possible.