What Is E-Juice?

So now that you understand that vaping isn’t smoking, the next question most people have is whats in that liquid that’s being atomized into vapor?

e-Liquid or e-Juice is normally composed of up to 5 ingredients (not main ingredients with a giant list of other stuff, all ingredients) :

• VG (Vegetable Glycerin) The Base makes up 80-90% of e-juice and is composed of 100% VG or a mix with PG. Common ratios are 100% VG, 50/50 PG/VG, and 80/20 PG/VG. It is widely used in all types of food and personal care products like toothpaste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerol
• PG (Propylene glycol) Commonly mixed with VG as the base for e-juice. This is a solvent that’s used in all sorts of things. Along with being a solvent, its mainly known for its use in fog machines.  A higher PG mix e-juice will produce thicker clouds of vapor. However PG can dry out your throat and even cause mild allergic reactions in some users. If you have any issues with PG, just use a 100% VG e-juice like those from Virgin Vapor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_glycol
• Flavor 10%-20%. All the e-juice I’ve seen uses Food grade flavorings originally intended for baking or candy making. Here is an excerpt from the LorAnn website: “All of our materials are food grade (where applicable) and adhere to standards set down in the USP, NF or FCC (U.S.Pharmacopoeia, National Formulary, and Food Chemical Codex).”
• Nicotine 0%-2.4% depending on strength. Any large supplier of e-juice is using pharmaceutical grade pure nicotine.
• Distilled water is sometimes used to dilute if needed.

That’s it. From as little as 2 ingredients (VG and flavor) to as many as 5, and theories on nicotine ingestion non withstanding, all used regularly in food products. Remember, the important thing is what e-juice doesn’t contain: the 4000+ chemicals in a cigarette.

Maintenance

We suggest is that you clean the excess juice out of the reservoir and clean the metal contacts down inside the atomizer adapter once a week. You can use a Q-tip or paper towel to clean off the parts. 

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Vaping Guide: Abbreviations

So you’re new to the whole scene of vaping and very confused with all the abbreviations people are using on forums, websites, chats and even here at New Cloud.  Well, look below, we’ve layed out all the abbreviations and the meanings to them

General

Noob – Beginner

Analog – Regular Cigarette

Mod – Homemade or modified PV

Pull – The act of sucking on the mouthpiece to pull the vapor into your mouth

TH – Throat Hit (The tingling sensation in the back of your throat)

Vapor – the “smoke” emitted from an e-cigarette

Vape, Vaping – The use of an e-cigarette (similar to the term “smoking” when referring to an analog)

Topping off – Adding drops of e-liquid to your current cartomizer.

Dripping – Vaping by adding a few drops of e-liquid directly on the atomizer instead of using a cartomizer.

E-Cigarette

E-cig or E-cigarette – Electronic Cigarette

PV – Personal Vaporizer (think ecig that is beefed up)

APV – Advanced Personal Vaporizer

Atty – Atomizer

Cart – Cartridge

Carto – Cartomizer

Bat – Battery

Filler – The fiber found inside your cartomizer that holds your e-liquid

PCC – Personal Charging Case

PT – Passthrough or passthrough battery

2-piece/Disposable – 2 part e-cigarette. The Battery and a “cartomizer”.

Cartomizer – An atomizer built into the cartridge, marketed as disposable (you throw it away when the e-liquid is used up).

3-piece – 3 part e-cigarette. Battery, Atomizer, and Cartridge.

Cutoff – Refers to how long the battery will activate the atomizer before shutting down (safety measure to protect the atomizer).

E-Liquid

E-juice, e-liquid, juice – the liquid nicotine that you fill your cartomizers with.

DIY – Do it yourself (homemade e-liquid mixture)

PG – Propylene Glycol

VG – Vegetable Glycerin(Glycerine = glycerin = vegetable glycerin(e) = glycerol)

PEG – Polylethylene Glycol

At New Cloud Vapor Lounge, we will show you the ins and outs of vaping. Come hang with us!

History of Vaping

Contrary to what many of us believe, vaping ‘came into being’ as far back as over five decades ago (1960s to be exact). Back then it was not what it is today – but of course. Vaporizers at the time weren’t easy to carry around. They were more of a static, tabletop kind.

The big brain behind their invention was Hon Lik, a Chinese pharmacist who took inspiration from the death of his father.

Cause? Cancer from smoking.

He called this device a Ruyan, which loosely translated means ‘like smoke’.
The Ruyan proved to be a hit, and it slowly vaporized its way into the U.S. in the mid-2000s, and here, vaping was born.

What Is Vaping?

Vaping can be defined as the act of inhaling water vapor through a personal vaporizer (the vaper’s tobacco-free version of the traditional cigarette).

Vaping is an alternative to smoking. It’s like smoking minus several of the adverse effects of the latter: no bad smell and bad breath, no cigarette burns, no more dirty ashtrays, less likelihood of getting cancer and other smoking-affiliated illnesses – you get the drift.

In short, vaping is the name given to the use of a vaporizer. The process involves applying heat to a liquid which generates vapor. The user, called a vaper (smoker in traditional cigarette circles) gets their nicotine hit through inhaling the almost odorless vapor (smoking equivalent of ‘smoke’).

Cloud Chasing

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