When I watch a Youtube video about e cigarettes, I notice that when they demonstrate a vape they all ,initially, let a puff of mist out of their mouth before they inhale. Is there a reason for the "puff"? Paul
Why The puffs
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Hmm the only time I do that is when I have a freshly loaded tank (well I let it sit a bit) that was cleaned recently. Take a couple of "puffs" so I don't get as much of a mixture of flavor just in case the previous flavor lingered some.
A couple of reasons. 1. Helps to prime/keep primed, for lack of a better term, your atty and 2. Taste. Don't know if you've noticed but, along with the little bit out of the mouth, some comes out the nose. I'm guilty of that. 
sense of taste and smell work well together. 
sense of taste and smell work well together. 
Unless I'm goofing around with a sub-ohm dripper and am mainly just looking to blow clouds of vapor, I'm a mouth-to-lung inhaler. It's how I smoked my cigarettes when I was still using them, so it naturally carried over into my vaping habits. I don't normally 'puff' out the first drag, but will often blow the first one out of my nose and take one or two more MTL pulls for each drag. I consider that first pull mainly a primer for the next two. I suppose some people just prefer to blow the primer pull out instead of inhaling it for whatever reason.
Maybe they are letting things "warm up" before taking that big hit to show off how big of a cloud can be produced? I have noticed that too and that's what I think based on my RDA's. If you take a pull soon as you push the button you don't get as much vapor as waiting a beat and then pull. Gives the coil time to heat up and fill the chamber with vapor. Hope that makes sense...lol
Yeah, I think primer puffs still have their place. I find myself doing it a lot on my Russian 91%. The chamber starts out with no vapor in it, so I feel it give me a more solid draw. It probably also aids in the wicking.
Habit for me, too. My old clearo/ego battery setups "required" the primer puff for my tastes (first one was going to be "dry or harsh" due to using thick 100%VG juices). Now that I use RDA's regularly, I still do this, though it's not really "doing" anything extra for me. Habit, I suppose, but good for me, nonetheless. Whatever works for ya is all good.
Definitely habit for me. I smoked mouth to lung and I puffed my analogs before a full drag. I do the same out of habit with my Kayfun and clearomizers. With my RDA, I usually have big open airholes and prefer a wide drip tip. I do lung hits with it and don't primer puff as much.
I have noticed that this is a habit for me. As to why i do this, I am not even sure. I think i just picked it up from watching people smoke Hookahs and other things. I did notice that when i take the first initial hit and let that "puff" out, i tend to re-inhale it. Like I said though, this is just habit for me.
Habit; it checks it things are working like they're supposed too.
If the coil is flooded, you'll notice from the puff.
If no power is getting to the coil, you'll notice from the puff.
While you're drawing vape in, you're not actually tasting anything.
its a mouthtolung vape; you draw into your mouth, then you inhale; at this point when you inhale that's when you get the taste.
The main reason is heat, but it depends on the gauge of the coil and device. For example, it takes a few seconds for a 28 gauge coil to completely heat up. There is also the reason Rob stated.
I say it's all habit. I did the exact same thing when I was burning coffin nails. There's no reason to give a primer puff on a dripper, so I have to intentionally stop myself from doing so.
In the Youtube videos, though, it's part showmanship and part marketing. Riptrippers is a primary offender: every week he makes a video on a new coil, with names like the SUPERMACRONANOMICRO DRAGONCLAXON DIAMOND XXXTREME (IMPROVED MODEL 3) because of ad revenue. Christ, if every other day he didn't "discover" a new, better, higher-producing coil he'd be destitute. Every coil HAS to be better than the last, or at least claimed as such.
In the Youtube videos, though, it's part showmanship and part marketing. Riptrippers is a primary offender: every week he makes a video on a new coil, with names like the SUPERMACRONANOMICRO DRAGONCLAXON DIAMOND XXXTREME (IMPROVED MODEL 3) because of ad revenue. Christ, if every other day he didn't "discover" a new, better, higher-producing coil he'd be destitute. Every coil HAS to be better than the last, or at least claimed as such.
That puff also gives you a hint of taste and can alert you of a burnt hit before you take it.
I do it to warm the coil so the second one will be warmed and full of flavor. Plus I get the prime of flavor in my mouth from the first puff. I don't think you have to do it it, but I do prefer it.
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