What is spit-back?Spit-back, in vaping parlance, is when a coil spits a tiny amount of hot liquid into your mouth when you initially take a puff.How does spit-back occur?Imagine placing a frying pan on high heat without any liquid on and leaving it till it’s above one hundred degrees celsius. If you then flick water on it, it will spit.....
Ashtray Blog - Chronicling Vaping's Journey Since 2008
It’s official - electronic cigarettes are now the most popular way to quit. And when electronic cigarettes are combined with advice and support from stop smoking services, incredible quit rates are achieved.Unfortunately, the most effective way to quit smoking is highly underused. In 2016/17 just 4% of people using stop smoking services were also using electronic cigarettes.That could be about.....
Updated: May 2022Burnt coils. Spilt e-liquid. Leaking tanks.It’s easy to make a mistake when starting to vape – and after 14 years of vaping I think I’ve seen or made most of the mistakes here!But don’t be put off – over those 14 years vape devices have become ever easier to use, and with new beginner devices it’s getting easier.....
Updated: April 2024 by James DunworthOne of the key reasons some smokers fail to switch to vaping is not using the right inhale technique.While both cigarettes and vapes (usually) deliver nicotine, the inhale style is quite different. It’s important to learn these differences, as well as the correct ways to inhale, as failing to inhale a vape correctly can.....
Updated: March 2021Coils are one of the areas of vaping where evolution seems relentless. I remember briefly feeling like I understood coils, and then I started to notice a lot of chatter about Clapton coils.That’s OK, I thought, learning what Clapton coils were and trying them out. Then the permutations came: fused Claptons, staged Claptons and on and on. They’re.....
I remember the time I first picked up an e-cigarette. It was all very simple. It was a little cigarette-sized device with an in-built battery, and to charge it you just had to screw it into a USB charger and wait for the light at the end to turn green. It was foolproof.Little did I know that several years later.....
Updated: January 2024Plus the mods, tanks and coils you needI just wanted to buy a vape kit, but when I landed on a site I was immediately confused. Mouth-to-Lung, Sub-Ohm, Direct-Lung…what on earth do they all mean?Browse through a vaping website and you’ll often come across the terms Mouth-to-Lung (MTL) and Direct-Lung (DL or DTL).These terms are often used to.....
Vaping is changing.For a long time, e-cigarettes just kept getting bigger and bigger. We went from cigalikes to vape pens, from vape pens to tube mods, from tube mods to box mods, and since then the box mods have been packing more and more batteries into their bodies.There are many reasons for this. With a bigger device, you can vape.....
Updated: December 2023John has been vaping for a few months using a relatively simple device.He has no problem filling tanks, changing wattage or adjusting airflow, but he doesn’t (yet) have experience of more advanced features like temperature control mode.He wants to upgrade to a more powerful, sophisticated (and impressive-looking) device.But when he goes to choose his new mod he is.....
Updated August 2023The Aspire PockeX is a super simple, easy-to-use and compact device.Since its release in 2017, it has gained mass popularity with new and experienced vapers alike.When Aspire first launched the device, the top-fill and coil swapping system was innovative, and made filling and using the device much easier.A 1500mAh internal battery combined with the included 0.6Ω.....
When smokers switch to vaping, the main aim is to find a way to satisfy their nicotine cravings in a safer way. After all, nicotine is the addictive element in cigarettes - while the hundreds of other chemicals in the smoke are what cause a threat to smokers’ health.However, many struggle at first - finding that even the highest available.....
Updated: March 2021A friend of mine tried multiple times to switch to vaping.He’d picked up an eGo-style device with a basic clearomizer and some e-juice, but vaping irritated his throat so much he couldn’t keep going.He assumed the nicotine levels in his vape juice was the issue. However, reducing it makes vaping less satisfying for a just-switching smoker. Plus,.....
Updated: August 2023I held on to the thin white tube, put it to my mouth and inhaled for the first time on an e-cigarette.It wasn’t quite smoking, but it was certainly a good replication.And when I exhaled, I got a thin stream of vapour from the three-piece cigalike.That was back in 2008.Fast forward 15 years and things are very different.Sometimes.....
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I remember when throat hit was a big deal. My first vaping experience was with a high-nicotine cigalike device. The punch it gave me at the back of my throat was one of the main things that convinced me that vaping could really fill the role of smoking in my life.Yes, I enjoyed the vapour and the nicotine. But without.....