What actually is chain vaping?

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Personally I'm a mtl , 2 pulls then 5 minutes later another 2 pulls, then perhaps 15 minutes later another 2 pulls....anyways I have always thought chain smoking was 2 to 3 cigs in a row without stopping, then perhaps 10 or 15 minutes later another 2 or 3 cigs in a row and continuing that the rest of the day. So is chain vaping basically the same? From the very first time I heard the term chain vaping, I imagined it the same as chain smoking , but maybe I'm wrong...It use to take me about 15 drags to finish a cig, so is chain vaping like taking 30 to 45 puffs in a row, then a 10 or 15 minute break, then repeating that through out the day? I always thought chain anything was bad so whenever I heard people say they chain vape, I thought that's crazy to vape that much, but maybe it's not like I imagined.....how do you chain vape?

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When I first switched, I was using 48-55mg in a 10w pod device. I went through 10mL a day. Always had it in my hand, and any craving resulted in a puff. Got a nord, dropped down to 35mg, and was going through 8mL or so a day. Once I got a mod, I dropped to 6mg, then 3, but upped my intake to 30mL a day. I no longer have the vape constantly in hand, but it's always in reach. For extreme cravings, I grab the Rx2, which is set to 160w, and 2mg juice.

I also know people that ALWAYS had a lit cigarette in hand. ALWAYS.
 
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I'd say I chain vape. If I'm not physically doing something, my mod is my hand the whole time. It's been a lot more often since switching to 3mg DTL but my math says I'm taking in less nic than when I was MTL at 24mg, so there's that.
I don't constantly hit it, but every coupl'a minutes there's a cloud.
 

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It's taking one puff after another, often without achieving satisfaction.

Last night I was distracted, playing a computer game that requires a lot of concentration and clicking with my mouse hand. My free hand clutched my mod and I vaped unconsciously. Then I noticed the tank was uncomfortably warm and I had been chain vaping for an hour.
 

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Normally I vape like you do, a few draws and rest for a while. Chain vaping, to me, is what I do during a stressful situations. Mainly happens when watching football/hockey/baseball games lately (life's been pretty good lately). It's when I sit there and vape like a madman until commercial break. Not vaping for the nic but vaping for the compulsion of vaping. Probably why I used to bite my nails when I was young, a nervous habit.
 

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If your coils look like the pic on the left, you might be a light chain vaper ... if your wire spool looks like the pic on the right, you are a heavy chain vaper:
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If your coils look like the pic on the left, you might be a light chain vaper ... if your wire spool looks like the pic on the right, you are a heavy chain vaper:
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That's definitely a chain vaper...I like that one

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I'd say I chain vape. If I'm not physically doing something, my mod is my hand the whole time. It's been a lot more often since switching to 3mg DTL but my math says I'm taking in less nic than when I was MTL at 24mg, so there's that.
I don't constantly hit it, but every coupl'a minutes there's a cloud.
I do have to say that there's a potential for me to vape more. If I didnt work and was home all day, or had a desk job where I could vape, I think my consumption would be higher. I guess because I'm out of the house from 7 to 7 and really cant vape alot during the day, it keeps my consumption down. I probably vape 1 ml of juice between 7 & 7, but then vape 2 to 3ml in the next 3 hrs....

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Chain smoking describes smoking one cigarette after another without a break.
Chain vaping describes vaping frequently, puff after puff, generally causing heat to build up without enough time for coils to cool.
Hotboxing a cigarette is when you rapidly take puff after puff in quick succession. When I hotboxed, I would take a heavy drag into mouth, inhale, exhale through nose at the same time I was drawing another heavy drag into mouth. That's more like chain vaping than chain smoking.
 

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To me chain vaping is taking drags every couple of breaths. Say 1 outta 3 breaths per minute for a whole minute. Hot vaping (like hot boxing a cigarette) would be like 3 or 4 drags in a row without breathing in between. By drag 6 your lip says "enough of that nonsense" from a non temp controled device.

My normal MTL is about 2 drags, maybe 3 in about 5-6 breaths, then wait a minute or so and repeat if need be. If not needed to repeat some 15-45 minutes passes before I repeat. Usually those 2 drags gives enough nic to satisfy.
 

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I think maybe I'm doing too much vaping ~ sometimes it's almost constant in order to simply avoid the thought of lighting up a cig ~ but it's probably still better than smoking 3/4 pack per day.
Yes, vape and vape, better then smoking...

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To me chain vaping is taking drags every couple of breaths. Say 1 outta 3 breaths per minute for a whole minute. Hot vaping (like hot boxing a cigarette) would be like 3 or 4 drags in a row without breathing in between. By drag 6 your lip says "enough of that nonsense" from a non temp controled device.

My normal MTL is about 2 drags, maybe 3 in about 5-6 breaths, then wait a minute or so and repeat if need be. If not needed to repeat some 15-45 minutes passes before I repeat. Usually those 2 drags gives enough nic to satisfy.
One out of 3 breaths? I think that would be about 8 thousand breaths a day, no one vapes that much.........I think
 
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