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How to Choose Your Vape Flavour

Choosing one from countless vape flavours that are in stock at 123 Vape isn’t easy, especially for the beginners. The favourite e-juice flavour of one vaper might be appalling for another. So, knowing a few basic things can help you avoid wasting money on e-cig juice flavours that you won’t like.

What is Inside Your E-Juice?

An e-liquid has a few ingredients including a base that consists of either Vegetable Glycerin (VG), Propylene Glycol, or both, nicotine, and flavouring. Made from vegetable oil, VG is a thick, sweet natural extract. So, it thickens the vapour plus its sweetness can impact the overall flavour of the e-liquid. PG, on the other hand, is an organic glycerol made from propylene oxide, a petroleum byproduct. It usually results in a higher throat hit. E-juices have a different blend of VG and PG, and many e-liquids give you the freedom to select a mix of your own choice.

Most e-juices come in different flavours and nicotine strengths. For new ex-smokers turned vapers, a higher strength, such as 18 mg can be an ideal place to start as it will give you your nicotine fix. A healthy approach most people adopt is to work their way down to lower levels and eventually to 0 mg. Remember that the amount of vapour produced by your e-cig or vaporizer also impacts how much nicotine you’re consuming. The rule of thumb is, the higher the amount of vapour your e-cig produces, the lower the level of nicotine you should choose.

The flavouring used in an e-juice is what can make or break it. Vape flavours range from plain tobacco to sweet and sugary fruit flavours. These different e-cig flavours are made to cater to different vapers, from those who have an intense craving for tobacco to those who have a sweet tooth. Moreover, you can mix different flavours by simply, in a few mouse clicks, creating your own unique vape juice flavours.

Types of Vape Flavours

There are virtually infinite e-cig flavours available on the market, which can be categorized into four main groups. To find the best e-juice that will satisfy your taste buds, start with one flavour and then add other flavours to it. For example, if you have been smoking menthol cigarettes, you’ll probably like the taste of menthol e-cig juice flavours. But you might like it even more if you add banana flavour to it.

Tobacco Flavoured E-Liquids

Since most vapers are ex-smokers, they love the flavour of tobacco. Tobacco flavoured e-juices try to offer them a fix for their craving without the tar, carcinogens, and other harmful chemicals found in the tobacco smoke. This is why almost every e-liquid manufacturer will have a tobacco flavour in their line of e-juices.

Single Flavoured E-Juices

Single flavoured e-juices are the most popular type and can taste like anything from coffee to fruit to cakes and so on. The best thing about these flavours is that you can choose the nicotine strength as well as VG/PG blend to customize the e-liquid according to your very likings.

High VG E-Juices

Considered ideal for sub-ohm vaping, high VG e-juices are a class apart when it comes to the intensity of flavour. However, making high VG e-juices is a very complicated matter and that’s why many companies miss the mark. Either you’ll get dry hits or a burnt taste when vaping at high wattage/voltage or very low resistance, because the e-juice isn’t created to withstand the immense heat, and ends up losing the flavour.

For more information on the right flavours for you, please contact us via the contact us page on this website.

Welcome to the, HOW TO VAPE Guide for beginners. 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. 123VAPE staff are experienced vapers with over 20 years of combined experience. Our goal for this guide is to explain vaping and its 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.

What Is an E-Cigarette?

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 flavourings 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 global market until late 2006. Since then the industry has expanded exponentially. Today, there is a massive selection of vape 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 vape 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.

The E-Cigarette

Despite the large selection available today there are a few things in common with all vape devices. At their simplest, all vape 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 vaping device.

Beginner’s Guide to Vaping Devices

Device – Vaping devices can come in a large variety of colours and shapes often dependent on their specific uses. Some might look like a traditional cigarette while others might resemble a pen, a tube, a box, or other forms but they all serve the same purpose ultimately. To take the power supplied by the battery and deliver it to the atomizer.

Beginner’s Guide to Vaping Batteries

This is the most crucial part of the device. It supplies power. While some devices use a non-replaceable internal battery a large portion use one or more replaceable rechargeable high drain batteries.

Beginner’s Guide to Vaping Tanks (Atomizer)

This heat resistant part houses one or more resistance wire coils and its wick(s) often with some form of the reservoir to hold e-liquid. There are many different styles, atomized cartridges, Cartomizers, Clearomizers, Rebuildable Tank Atomizers, Rebuildable Dripping Atomizers, Hybrid Atomizers.

Beginner’s Guide to Vaping Coils

These are small pieces of resistance wire that is made into a coil shape resembling a spring. The type of wire used, the diameter of the coil and the number of wraps will all effect the coil’s resistance. It’s resistance is what determines the amount of electricity it will need to power it and the amount of heat it will produce. Coils are commonly made from Kanthal and NiChrome and more recently Nickel and are considered to be the safest to use for vaping.

Beginner’s Guide to Vaping E-Juice (E-liquid)

Also known as e-juice, this is a solution consisting of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, food flavourings, and sometimes nicotine. This liquid can come in a variety of PG/VG ratios and nicotine strengths. Typically most cigarette smokers switching to e-cigarettes will start using high nicotine juices and move towards lower strength juices over time. It is common for most people to start out using strengths as high as 18mg/ml (heavy smokers as high as 24mg/ml) but often will soon switch to 12mg/ml e-liquids for their improved flavour (as nicotine content drops flavour increases) We do not recommend use of e-liquid with a nicotine strength above 18mg/ml. In fact, we recommend using the minimum nicotine strength needed to satisfy your nicotine cravings because as nicotine content is decreased flavour is improved. It is important to note advanced users using devices that produce more vapor will typically use lower strength nicotine because when more vapor is produced and inhaled, the overall nicotine concentration stays the same. The need for higher nicotine concentrations is exclusive to devices producing smaller amounts of vapor. Those using advanced devices will typically favour liquids in 3mg/ml or 6mg/ml.

Beginner’s Guide to Vaping Wicks

Made from various materials including cotton, twisted silica cord, eko-wool, ceramic, and stainless-steel mesh the wick(s) carry e-liquid to the coils. Wicking material acts as delivery method e-juice from the tank directly on to a coil itself, where it is vaporized.

What Device Is Best for Beginners?

This is a very common question we are asked and it is also one of the most complex and difficult questions we are faced with. With vaping many things like the taste, for instance, are subjective and what works best for one person might not work as well with the next. This is further complicated by the large variety of devices available today. We will, however, recommend two specific devices below that we feel are appropriate.

Conclusion

Hopefully, you now know how e-cigarette’s, personal vaporizers, and other vapor devices work in theory. Understand the e-liquids they use, and have an idea of what devices are best suited to bagginess and you are now ready to start vaping. If you are still unclear or unsure about what to do or what equipment to purchase or use, please contact us via the support page on this website and we will be happy to help.