When You First Started Vaping
- Thread starter aliceisinwonderland
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
I coughed for about a week, but I was having all sorts of other upper respiratory responses to quitting smoking too. I also realized that taking a puff straight into my lungs would make me cough, while drawing into the mouth and then the lungs wouldn't. I've also noticed that juices that are higher in VG make my throat less dry and scratchy so I don't feel like I need to cough and clear it. Drinking lots more water seems to help a great deal as well.
When you first start vaping, and stop smoking cigs, the coughing is usually due to your bodies attempt to clear out all the bad stuff that is in your lungs from smoking cigs. In that sense it is a good thing. I coughed for about a week then it went away but it is different for everyone. Don't remember if I coughed while vaping or only after so can't help you with that. One thing that everyone recommends is to make sure you drink more water because vaping tends to dehydrate you a bit so try to drink more and see if that helps. You will just have to wait till your body does it's thing and after that you should be fine.
I coughed. My opinion is that it had nothing to do with quitting smoking, as I hadn't quit. 
I got used to vaping in about a week (and improved my inhale technique). Then I used that e-cig for a month or so, without any success in quitting smoking. I then upgraded... guess what.... more coughing.
By the time I made it on to a "proper" e-cig I was 100% used to vaping. Now I can vape on anything (within reason) and not cough at all.
I got used to vaping in about a week (and improved my inhale technique). Then I used that e-cig for a month or so, without any success in quitting smoking. I then upgraded... guess what.... more coughing.
By the time I made it on to a "proper" e-cig I was 100% used to vaping. Now I can vape on anything (within reason) and not cough at all.
The back of my throat, and a bit further down, was dry, and so I coughed. It was so dry that I wasn't able to enjoy more than a single glass of wine: swallowing in comfort became an issue.
So water, water, chug-chug... In a couple of weeks it'll get better fast, it did for me anyway. I still drink the water, but now I can hit the booze again too.
So water, water, chug-chug... In a couple of weeks it'll get better fast, it did for me anyway. I still drink the water, but now I can hit the booze again too.
I stared vaping about a month ago and i coughed like crazy the first week. After that week the cough calmed down but I still find myself coughing crap up here and there, probably just crap from my years of .... smoking
I definitely had some issues with coughing the first few days I started vaping. I was actually worried it might stop me from wanting to continue... I had to play around with it for awhile before I finally figured out the right way for me to inhale. Now, at times, I can even lung inhale without issues... I think we are about 3.5 weeks into vaping. Stick with it and it'll get better.
Im on day 9, started coughing on day 5 (been vaping/smoking for quite a few weeks before) mainly cough on a evening and a coughing fit during the night, but having the odd coughing fit through the day too. I have a cold too though so could just be that, mostly dry/tickley but coughed up some crap too, been a smoker for 20yrs. Hoping it clears over the next few days
on the plus side my chest/breathing and walking up hill is much better already
on the plus side my chest/breathing and walking up hill is much better already
Last edited:
Just the opposite I stopped coughing and no more bronchitis! You may have a PG allergy.
Hi aliceinwonderland and welcome to ECF. I know that everyone is a bit different (though my friends would say I am a lot different...but that is another story), but I coughed for the first week I vaped. Some of it was because of my lungs clearing and discarding some of the ugliest brown stuff imaginable, and some was because of learning to vape (remembering to draw slowly into my mouth, then inhale). I'm lucky in that I don't have any reaction to PG, so no cough from that. After about a week the cough pretty much went away and my housemates and co-workers were commenting on how much my cough had reduced. Then about 8 weeks in, I started coughing again. It was kind of like a second round of lung cleaning. Lasted about a weeks and cough has been gone since then. I am wondering if there will be a third round of lung cleaning and won't be surprised if that happens. I smoked for a LOT of years, so it will take some time for my body to recover and I'm cool with that.
I hope that your vape experience continues to grow and be fantastic for you and thanks for your post.
Keep the vape and namaste.
I hope that your vape experience continues to grow and be fantastic for you and thanks for your post.
Keep the vape and namaste.
I coughed too if I purchased online ejuice because I didn't know the nicotine level I needed. Now that I am working at our local vape shop and have been for awhile I am fine. I have been vaping on and off for over two years and the off parts were because of the coughing. Make sure you nic level isn't too high.
I did, but I started on a 510-T with VaporStation's 35mg Banana juice. 35, mg. Got used to it until I got into RBAs recently and now I HAVE to cut it with plain PG or something else or it simply tears my throat right out.
I hacked for about six weeks, but most of that seemed to be my lungs clearing themselves out. I swear one of the bits that came up had "1985" stamped on it.
Drinking a LOT of water seemed to help, although it's possible the cough was just subsiding as time went on. Eventually it stopped totally and I only cough now if I have a good reason to do so. Strangely, the ear-nose-throat-lung infection I had this winter never went into my lungs, and I never coughed. I felt awful, but never coughed.
Drinking a LOT of water seemed to help, although it's possible the cough was just subsiding as time went on. Eventually it stopped totally and I only cough now if I have a good reason to do so. Strangely, the ear-nose-throat-lung infection I had this winter never went into my lungs, and I never coughed. I felt awful, but never coughed.
Once again, I'm finding that the vaping experience is very different for each of us. I had read a lot about lungs repairing themselves after quitting smoking, so I was prepared to cough. For the last few years smoking, I had coughed terribly in the morning when I got up, some throughout the day, and then in the night while I slept. My hubby would frequently ask me, "Are you all right, I heard you coughing in the night?"
And then I started vaping - cough just disappeared like magic! I kept waiting, but no coughing. I am truly leading a blessed vaping life and I am very grateful.
And then I started vaping - cough just disappeared like magic! I kept waiting, but no coughing. I am truly leading a blessed vaping life and I am very grateful.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
