A Beginner’s Guide to Vaping

A Beginner’s Guide to Vaping

Vaping can be succinctly summarized as a modern alternative to smoking. Essentially, vapers inhale a vapor, which is often nicotine-infused, that originates from vape juice, otherwise known as e-liquid. The juice is heated by an electronic device, namely an e-cigarette, and the vapor that is subsequently created by pressing the button is what the user inhales.

Types of E-Cigarettes

There are basically four main categories of e-cigarettes and vaping devices.

Mechanical Mods are a sleek, simple, and up-and-coming alternative to the highly recognizable pod devices most vapers tend to use automatically. Mechanical Mods keep the technology light and simple and contain only the very lowest of circuitry needed to operate the device successfully. Essentially, mechanical mods are the equivalent of a ‘rollie’ in the conventional smoking of cigarettes and are more suited to seasoned and hard-core vape enthusiasts.

Disposable e-cigarettes are by far the cheapest and most convenient vaping device on the UK market currently and are essentially a back-up device for when your main e-cigarettes are damaged, lost, or lacking battery. All disposables come with pre-filled vape juice tanks, can be operated as soon as the package is opened, and must be thrown away after use.

Box-style e-cigarettes are the bigger brother of slimmer devices and are usually personalized and decorated to the individual vaping enthusiast’s personal tastes and specifications. Technologically, they are significantly more advanced and often come with a display screen as standard. The latest box-style mods come with temperature controls that auto-regulate power and vapor production without any manual effort needed, and generally, these styles of e-cigarettes have longer battery power and produce significantly more vapor.

Finally, the most popular, user-friendly, and commonly seen style of vaping device is the pen-style mod. Physically larger than a disposable and a mechanical mod yet smaller than a box-style, they consist of a pic-and-mix style of components and enable replacing one or more elements without compromising other elements. Pen-style vaping devices, therefore, make for a cost-effective and generally wholly reliable vaping starter kit.

Vape Juice

Vape juice, otherwise referred to as e-liquid, is usually comprised of three core ingredients: propylene glycol (PG), vegetable glycerin (VG), the chosen flavor, and only if you deem it necessary, a varying degree of nicotine content. CBD e-liquid is also available, and should you choose this variety, ensure you purchase from a reputable retailer such as Vape CBD World for comfort that your product is of good quality.

Vape juice is available in a seemingly constantly expanding plethora of flavors and styles from the conventional; tobacco, menthol, and every kind of fruit flavor you can conceive, to the sublime and ridiculous; butter, beer, bacon, and birthday cake flavors, for example.

Essentially, choosing your first vape juice flavor comes down to individual preference and taste palettes. Suppose you are considering vaping as an alternative to conventional smoking. In that case, logic dictates that if you were a menthol smoker, you should choose a menthol-flavored liquid and if you were a tobacco smoker, select a tobacco-based e-liquid.