What's your technique? Do you inhale or not?

[New2Smoking]

So, what's everyone's technique.

I just basically use what was said on the technique article on this site:

"

• Draw (ie drag or pull) very, very lightly in comparison to a cigarette.
• Pull the vapor into the mouth, not the lungs.
• Draw for an extended length of time – for at least 3 seconds. This because for a 1-second draw, the atomizer does not heat up fully, and also because there is not as much nicotine in the vapor as in cigarette smoke.
• Hold the vapor in the mouth for 2 seconds, then inhale, then exhale very slowly through the nose.
• If you have trouble doing a long pull with just the mouth, then draw using the mouth only for one pull, using the lungs for the next.
• Use the ecigarette for twice as long as a tobacco cigarette lasts you."

Here's the whole article if you want to see it: User technique - ECF InfoZone

That's basically my technique. So, what's your technique and your experiences using different techniques?

 

[suspectK]

I do that, except I don't hold it in my mouth for two seconds before inhaling. I also don't vape like I'm smoking a cigarette. Typically, I just pull it a few times, and then, I'm done with it for a bit. Sometimes I sit there for almost the duration of a cigarette, but I'm too ADD to do one thing at a time.

 

[Galactic Stone]

I draw the vapor into my mouth, then inhale it deeply and hold for a couple of seconds before exhaling through my nose. It's basically what I did when I was smoking analogs, except I skipped the first step and just drew straight into my lungs. I think I do it this way because it tricks my brain into thinking it's an analog.

 

[jjkillian]

Depends on the device for me. My EGOs I pull in to my mouth before inhaling. My mech and RBA set ups I lung draw.

 

[DetraMental]

I draw it into my mouth and hold, inhale into my lungs, exhale through my nose. I get all the flavor this way, although sometimes I do exhale through my mouth just to look at all the vape

 

[Thunderball]

No Bill Clinton here......I vape EXACTLY like I was smoking a cig....with the exception of a slower and longer draw.

I draw it in to my mouth, then my lungs, then exhale.


I had to think about this for a sec.... Its like asking me "how do I poop"?........ I dont know, I just do it.........no technique required......no real technique involved......

 

[khaugust]

I smoke it like a cigarette...ahhhh

 

[Sane Asylum]

Pretty much like I smoke, except I don't 'drag' as hard. Once the vaper is in my mouth, then I inhale for a second or two, and then exhale. I don't exhale through my nose. Wonder if that means I'm not getting as much nicotine.

 

[toddiegee]

I kind of change it up. Sometimes I do mouth hits and sometimes I go straight to the lungs.

 

[dice57]

lung hits nose hits I can do them, draw it in my mouth inhale through my nose, it's all good vapping. suck into my lungs then finish with a draw in the mouth, gets my head a spinning. I usually like to have it all ways. Open up the air control screw lightens up my draw, then I crank it up to 15 watts, really get the thick juice Vape cooking and a brewing. Make my lung his nice and juicy. Think I need to drop my nic to 10mg, cause my build really puts out now.

Basically, depending on what you are cooking with determines how you can vape. If you have an atty that puts out like the, umm, umm, yeah I got it, puts out like Mount Saint Helens, then one can vape like an analog cigar cigarette or tiperello. Even hookah style hits are available. Damn, just did a nose hit, and I mean a nose hit, directly in the snozolla. Probably won't do it that way again. lmao

Every one has there own way and style. Read about one guy who didn't want to inhale and took a mouth draw and swallow hit.

Dang, I lied, tried it in the other nostril and then exhaled through the mouth. Really cleared up the sinuses, by George. Did have a familiar double hack cough on the exhale that brought back good ole memories. lol, hey but my sinuses are like super clear. Think I'll call it the Snozolla Lung hit, also to be referred to as the "Jimmy Durante"

 

[CreepyLady]

lung hits nose hits I can do them, draw it in my mouth inhale through my nose, it's all good vapping. suck into my lungs then finish with a draw in the mouth, gets my head a spinning. I usually like to have it all ways. Open up the air control screw lightens up my draw, then I crank it up to 15 watts, really get the thick juice Vape cooking and a brewing. Make my lung his nice and juicy. Think I need to drop my nic to 10mg, cause my build really puts out now.

Basically, depending on what you are cooking with determines how you can vape. If you have an atty that puts out like the, umm, umm, yeah I got it, puts out like Mount Saint Helens, then one can vape like an analog cigar cigarette or tiperello. Even hookah style hits are available. Damn, just did a nose hit, and I mean a nose hit, directly in the snozolla. Probably won't do it that way again. lmao

Every one has there own way and style. Read about one guy who didn't want to inhale and took a mouth draw and swallow hit.

Dang, I lied, tried it in the other nostril and then exhaled through the mouth. Really cleared up the sinuses, by George. Did have a familiar double hack cough on the exhale that brought back good ole memories. lol, hey but my sinuses are like super clear. Think I'll call it the Snozolla Lung hit, also to be referred to as the "Jimmy Durante"

Reading this just made my day

And I vary it up. Always mouth first then lungs to nose, lungs to mouth exhale or just nose or mouth exhale. Meh...whatever floats my boat. I like making vape rings too.

 

[Gautama]

No Bill Clinton here......I vape EXACTLY like I was smoking a cig....with the exception of a slower and longer draw.

I draw it in to my mouth, then my lungs, then exhale.


I had to think about this for a sec.... Its like asking me "how do I poop"?........ I dont know, I just do it.........no technique required......no real technique involved......

This is EXACTLY how I do it. I may hold it in my lungs for a bit longer than when I was smoking, other than that it's pretty much the same "technique" for me.

 

[Archimedes]

I've grown really fond of doing french inhales with clearos, but with my new RDA I like to do mouth to lung or straight to lung. And I always blow rings cause its classier than clouds. *pinky out*

 

[Boyne Drexel]

I'm frenching a lot with it but mostly I switch between mouth draw and lung draw.

after the first few hits I find myself lazily playing with the vapors. it's almost like a soaking in the tub feeling.

bd

 

[patkin]

I don't hold it in my mouth but I use the back of my tongue to prevent vapor going down my wind pipe. I do get TH that way but little-to-none in my lungs. I exhale from mouth, nose or both off an on. The odd thing is that when I had a smoke during the switch, I found myself smoking that way too and realized during the last years of smoking I was already smoking that way most of the time. I think, here on ECF, most refer to it as a "shallow inhale." I don't think I ever was a deep-into-lungs inhaler ever though. Since vaping I now know that nic is absorbed in the mouth/nose anyway as with cigars/'pipes. Might as well keep doing my lungs whatever favors I can but I'm sure not gonna give up my TH enjoyment.

 

[exoromeo]

I draw the vapor into my mouth, then inhale it deeply and hold for a couple of seconds before exhaling through my nose. It's basically what I did when I was smoking analogs, except I skipped the first step and just drew straight into my lungs. I think I do it this way because it tricks my brain into thinking it's an analog.

Yep. Same here.

 

[madqatter]

So, what's everyone's technique....

• Draw (ie drag or pull) very, very lightly in comparison to a cigarette.
• Pull the vapor into the mouth, not the lungs.
• Draw for an extended length of time – for at least 3 seconds. This because for a 1-second draw, the atomizer does not heat up fully, and also because there is not as much nicotine in the vapor as in cigarette smoke.
• Hold the vapor in the mouth for 2 seconds, then inhale, then exhale very slowly through the nose.
• If you have trouble doing a long pull with just the mouth, then draw using the mouth only for one pull, using the lungs for the next.
• Use the ecigarette for twice as long as a tobacco cigarette lasts you."

....So, what's your technique and your experiences using different techniques?

Softly draw into mouth, about 4-5 seconds. How long I hold the vapor in my mouth depends on the flavor and feeling of the vapor. From that point, I usually exhale through my nose, something I never did as a smoker. About one third up to half the time I will inhale into my lungs first, but much much less often than when I smoked. Occasionally I will expel the vapor through my mouth rather than nose-- some juices have a better flavor than aroma.

I do vary what I'm doing depending on the flavor, the setting, etc.

 

[Il Capo Svedese]

Good God Almighty! Are we talking about how we vape or should the thread name be changed to "50 Shades of Vaping"? (kidding of course)

I'm "trying" to follow the suggestions made in the "Inhalation Techniques Ecig vs Cigarette" thread, yet I do have to take a nice lung hit on occasion.

Is there any kind of damage that can be done from taking full lung hits?

 

[madqatter]

Is there any kind of damage that can be done from taking full lung hits?

If it were water vapor, it'd be like visiting a steam room. No one knows the long-term effects of inhaling this much vapor made of PG/VG/flavoring, but there's not yet evidence it's a significant danger.

 

[kgs-wy]

For me, it all depends on my mood at the time. Sometimes it's a lung draw followed by a slow, nasal/oral exhale, sometimes it's like the suggestions in the OP's article link.

-Laters...!
kgs-wy