Vaping for Beginners – Getting Started

If you want to make the switch to vaping, our Getting Started guide gives you the basics about vaping and e-cigarettes, including how e-cigarettes work and the different parts of an e-cigarette.

HOW TO VAPE

If you’ve decided to try an electronic cigarette, it may all seem a bit complicated at first, but it’s actually quite simple. Here we introduce you to the basics of what an e-cigarette is, how e-cigarettes work, how to use an e-cigarette and also what is actually in e-cigarettes.

VAPING BASICS

In our vaping for dummies guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about vaping. Whether it’s an e-cigarette starter kit or something more advanced, an e-cigarette is basically made up of the same parts. To vape, you need a battery, a tank or similar to hold the e-liquid, a heating element and a mouthpiece. These are also known by different names – vaping mods or vape kits.

In the same way that water turns to vapor, the liquid in an e-cigarette – known as e-liquid or e-juice – is heated to the point where it becomes a vapor. This vapor is inhaled, much like a smoker inhales smoke from a cigarette.

When you push the button on an e-cigarette, the vape battery sends a current through a metal coil (literally a metal wire shaped into a coil) that acts as a heating element. A wicking material loaded with e-liquid runs through the center of the coil, and as the coil heats up, the e-liquid flavors vaporize – changing from a liquid to a vapor.

The vapor is sucked up through the mouthpiece and you’re vaping. That’s how you vape, it’s that simple.

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E LIQUID – WHAT’S IN AN E CIGARETTE?

FLAVOURS

One of the major differences between smoke and vapour is the flavour. E liquids have infinite flavour possibilities and the flavour is one of just three or four basic ingredients that make up e liquid.

VG

Vegetable Glycerin (VG) is used in the food industry as a sweetener, preservative or thickener, while in cosmetics it’s found in moisturizers. In terms of vaping, UK VG gives you the “cloud” and it’s non-toxic. It’s thicker and requires more power to vaporize, but can produce more vapor. It’s for this reason that vegetable glycerin vaping is popular with cloud chasers.

PG

Propylene Glycol (PG) is used in a variety of applications, such as inhalers, and produces the “throat hit” similar to smoking. There is no evidence that PG is carcinogenic or toxic. PG e-liquid is thinner than VG and therefore doesn’t require as much power to vaporize. PG vaping is great for discreet vaping.

NICOTINE

he final ingredient is nicotine, however many people choose to enjoy vaping UK with nicotine-free e liquid, and choose to vape purely for the flavour choices. Others balance their nicotine levels by choosing a concentrated nicotine shot and blending their own.