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Tutorial: Beginner’s Guide to Vaping

Welcome to Misthub's Tutorial Beginner's Guide to Vaping. It is safe to assume if you are reading this you are either new to vaping, want to learn how to vape, or curious about vaping. Misthub's expert staff is compromised of avid vapers with over 20 years of combined experience. Our goal for this guide is to explain vaping and it's various aspects in order to give you an accurate and factual understanding of this rapidly growing alternative to smoking.

What Is Vaping?

Vaping is the term given to using an electronic cigarette or personal vaporizer. Someone who uses traditional tobacco cigarettes is a “smoker” and they “smoke” cigarettes, someone who uses an e-cigarette is a “vaper” and they “vape” their e-cigarette or personal vaporizer. Lets dive deeper and learn how to vape.

What Is an E-Cigarette and Where Did They Come From?

E-Cigarettes or Personal Vaporizers are a device that gives us an alternative to smoking tobacco cigarettes by vaporizing “e-liquid” - a mixture of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, food flavorings and sometimes nicotine. The first e-cigarettes as we know them were created by a Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik in 2003 but didn't enter the US market until late 2006. Since then the industry has expanded exponentially. Today, there is a massive selection of vapor devices available ranging from the humble e-cigarettes to high wattage advanced personal vaporizers. All of the early devices were manufactured in China but are now manufactured by companies large and small worldwide. While almost all of the early devices resembled traditional cigarettes, early e-cigarette users often modified or created their own devices because of the lack of variety and features. This has had a lasting two part effect. One being that a large portion of vapor devices are now most commonly referred to as “Mods” which is short for modified or modifiable and two, if e-cigarette companies wanted to remain relevant and continue to sell products they would have to create a variety of devices as diverse and intuitive as the community that uses them.Anatomy of an E-Cigarette

Despite the large selection available today there are a few things in common with all vapor devices. At their simplest all vapor devices use a lithium battery to heat a wire coil. A wick is used to draw e-liquid to the coil. When the e-liquid is heated by the coil is vaporizes and can then be inhaled in a similar fashion to smoking. That however is usually where the similarities end. Below we will take a look at the general components of a vapor device.