How long did her vaping tries last?

When I first switched to vaping, the hits were really harsh for a few days or a week, but the feeling went away. Even all these years later, the first few hits in the morning are harsh.

Maybe see if she'll tough it out for a while and see what happens?

Maybe mixing with Nic Salts would help smooth it out for her? I know I had to be at a higher nic % when I quit and salts would help keep it from getting harsh at the higher %s.

Buy her a juul

I find that hydration is a big factor. Vaping dries out your throat. Drinking lots of water makes my throat much less irritated. I still get a little, though. Less than when I was smoking. I wouldn't be shocked if temperature is a factor, as well.

I have a mate who smokes heavily - both cigarettes and marijuana. Constantly chimney-ing away. As soon as he takes even the slightest draw on a vape he is overcome with coughing fits. Is it a medical/biological issue, is it psychosomatic, is it due to pre-existing airway damage due to smoking? Not sure.

I do know that quite a few people experience discomfort in the early days of vaping, and that discomfort goes away after about 1-2 weeks of vaping. I guess she has to weigh her options. Mild discomfort for a short period of time while vaping - or terminal illness/lung cancer/heart disease etc from cigarette smoking.

Make a cigarette juice to replicate the flavor, i'd be happy to help find a recipe, just give us her brand. My wife went through this and it was just a mental thing, replicating the flavors..

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Of course it hurts her throat, smoking cigs i bet hurt her throat when she started too.

I had the same issue at first. I bought a family pack of Halls from my local Rite-Aid and always had a mint while I vaped for the first month. It stopped being as huge a bother after 2 weeks, month later I was all good.

What type of device is she using to vape with? Because the device itself plays a huge role in harshness of the hit as well.

Try some pod system with high nic (salts) as first? So she doesn't need to take big puffs

Maybe go lower in nicotine and try a direct lunch setup. Most mouth to lung devices hurt my throat at first too

Edit: lung

Some people have a much smoother experience with Nic Salts, it might be worth getting a little bit to experiment with. Outside of that, trying a different supplier for your nicotine might help.

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My local vape shop had an amazing palette for flavors, but their nic was super harsh; it ended up being one of the first pushes towards DIY for me. I took some of their stuff at 0mg, picked up some nicotine online, and mixed it to my usual strength, and it was night/day in regards to the throat hit. She might be experiencing something similar.

For my wife, she has a better time at a lower wattage on a mesh sub-ohm tank. It might not deliver the same level of flavor as a rebuildable (and the coils are a bit more expensive than wire/cotton), but it might provide a different ( hopefully better) experience for your wife.

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Best of luck, man =)

From personal experience, I believe nic salts would work wonders in this situation. Far less vapor with much more nicotine consumption. Great for heavy smokers who are willing to quit.

Nic salts

I also had a terrible throat irritation after a couple of days of switching from cigarettes to vaping (around 4-6ml daily of 12mg nic juice).

I kept a bottle of water at hand all the time in order to keep my mouth and throat wet and I also changed some liquids that I felt that were very harsh. Not sure if any of these actually helped (the water probably did) but after a couple of days it stopped being an issue.

Try her on like everyone else said, a Juul or even a stick pen like a eGo. After that she will become used to it and will be able to go into a better mod. I started on an eGo pen and within a month moved into a mod then started to sub ohming. Nothing is wrong with those if they work for her to stop the analog ones. I'm sure I'm not the only here that started on a simply eGo.

Go with bought juice that she would like and push a higher mg in nic. I went from an 18mg down. It's easy to do on a stick and not sub ohming. :-)

If you want a woman to get into vaping, buy her a super small pod device and 50mg salt juice. I'd recommend getting her the Juul and one of the aftermarket power bank cases. The cases look like a pack of slim cigarettes, and keep the Juul charged and stores one or two spare pods. One pod is roughly one pack of smokes. I recommend the Juul because it's small as hell, smaller than it looks in pictures for sure, and it's honestly the best smooth salt experience imo. You can refill pods 10times easily so long as you never vape it till it's empty and dry where you can get burnt hits. You can even go so far as to disassemble and swap the cotton and get more life out of it but around ten refills it doesn't fit in the Juul as well anymore and starts falling out but mostly leaking becomes a real problem around 15 refills. It never leaks in my pocket but it collects up around the power prongs. The lids are machine pressed and not meant to withstand being removed and pressed back togeather 15 times but it's suitable up to around 10 refills.

I guess the only other option now is nic salts instead of freebase nicotine..

What's the lowest nic level you've had her try?

Much can be technique, airflow, temp and irritating flavors. Sometimes it's a weird reflex reaction to feeling something wet in the lungs, but definitely not the throat lol.

I had success with Freemax Starre Pure tank for fellow smokers. Normally I RTA, but this thing is pretty damn fine

I would try either a pod system of some sort or a mesh sub tank with a mouth to lung coil. The drag mini kit has a great one. My buddy had the same problem with harshness but he quit smoking with that kit.

Ok, so even with 0nic and pretty much 0pg she's getting a sore throat? Any chance she's sensitive to kanthal? Some people are. Try a stainless coil if you haven't already. This would also allow using temp control so the vape doesn't get too hot if she likes long drags. It seems everything else has been eliminated, as long as you've tried getting her to vape straight VG (so eliminating nic, PG, and possibly harsh flavors , all in one go, just in case her problem was all of the above...)

She's probably just lying cuz she likes her Freedom torches

Lol buy her 18 mg not sub oh device. That's the way I switched then I put 18 mg in smok aio for my first vape holy fuck I almost died.

You could try cutting out the flavors completely. Most flavored juices irritate my throat and chest, so I switched to plain un-flavored juice. I don't know if it would help but it's worth a shot

Just curious, but it hasn't been mentioned what nic and what % was used? I find with 100/100 PG nic, even at 6mg strength, it used to leave a scratchy effect. And the rest is what the others have said. Lower nic % or switch to nic salt, leaving it out of the sun and drink lots of water. Try different setups, coils, cottons, wattages. All those could contribute to unpleasant vapes.

Switch to salt nic. It doesn't irritate the throat at all.

I think it maybe the nicotine level if it's sore on throat, if she coughs her lungs aren't use to cold vapor and expect warm smoke but you didn't mention that. Nicotine is harsh very harsh make her a bottle of 70/30 vgpg and 3mg Nico if that works for her then next bottle up the nicotine to 6mg so she gets a proper hit. Good luck keep trying for her!

Get her to just hold the vapor in her mouth and not take it into her lungs, she'll still absorb the nicotine that way. Eventually she can try inhaling after a couple of week.

This is probably stupid ignore if so but maybe look into whether it’s just the vapor being too hot for her. When I started I didn’t realize how hot I was vaping until I burned my throat a bit

I know we are on diy but maybe try Prelude by Black Note. It's Very realistic and I've bought 2 bottles of it and 2 of Sonota. Things Always irritate my mouth throat etc but this doesn't bother me.

Get a pod system with salt based nice. Much smoother

How much pot does she smoke?

It's not the best way to do it and a lot of people think it's a nasty habit, but dipping maybe with pouches and vaping once or twice a day helps ridiculously. The constant nicotine from the leafs means you aren't trying to always play with your fingers while the vape still gives you something to do with your hands occasionally without chain vaping for an hour. I did that and haven't touched a cigarette in 4 months, where when it was just vaping I'd break after a week. I'm moving now from dip and vaping to just vaping, but its helped so much for me.

She's full of shite. Simple as that. She doesn't want to quit. Enjoys the stinkies too much. Don't envy you mate, must be horrible.