What did they come from?

A version of the vaporizer has been used for a long time. The old school version of the vaporizer was called a Hookah. I'm sure a few of you have heard of it.

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A Hookah is used to smoke sheesha, or a flavored tobacco.
You smoke it by adding water to the bottom of the hookah, and a piece of burning charcoal on the top, on top of a piece of coil, to heat the sheesha.
You smoke by sucking through a long tube connected at the middle of the hookah.

As you suck through the hose the smoke is drawn through the water and out the hose

Again, vaporizers are just modern and more technical versions of a hookah.

For more information check out Hookah Company

In case you have wondered...

During my time writing this blog I have only covered vaping in reference to smoking e-liquid. I'm curious as to whether you guys are aware that there are other forms of vaporizers.

I am not advising you use the other forms, but you should be aware that there are other options.

There are vaporizers that allow you to smoke other things. The other tanks have oils, wax, and dry herbs inside of the tank rather than e-liquid. These use other heating methods to allow you to smoke other substances.

For example, the oil in the tank is supposed to slowly heat he active ingredients and give you the highest dosage possible.



You can click here to go to legalbuds.com and see for youself.

And yes, they do insist that:  

"All vaporizers sold on this website are intended for legal aromatherapy use"

Stopping Vaping

Vaping is fun! Yes, we all know that.
The fact of the matter is that ideally you're supposed to eventually stop vaping as well.
Vaping is a stepping stone into stopping smoking in general.

Where does the road to stopping start?

Well the answer to that would be slowly lowering your nicotine levels.
When your ready switch from 12 to 8, then down to 6.
Below six there is 3 in some stores.

Lastly, they have 0 nicotine levels for a reason. This will clense all the nicotine out of your system while you still get to vape. That way the act of smoking can still be preformed while you aren't getting and nicotine.

For there it is only he habit of puffing on something, rather it be socially or not.
Try smoking less often, or find something to do alternatively.

Just keep in mind the lack of studies done on vaping.
You know it's better than cigarettes, but it's better to put zero harsh chemicals in your body.

Fun before it's over!

I wanted to have some fun with a post before this class was over. 

I really enjoy looking at different types of vaporizers because they come in so many different shapes and colors. 

I have two favorites that I have choosen:
One looks like an old school pipe.
The picture below shows the ends of the cigar vaporizer.
The other plugs into your I-phone and thats how it gets it power. You vape with your phone!

Batteries

Both the Mechanical Mods and the Vape Pens are ran off of batteries. I know this seems like something I wouldn't need to write about, but your options are chargers are important.

Something my boyfriend runs into a lot of chargers that stop working. Normally you buy a small $10 one to two battery charger that plugs into the wall. It stops working almost immediately. Without a battery, how are you going to vape?

My boyfriend got the best of the best charger that was around $40. It charges up to four batteries at a time, and charges them in 5 minutes. It's the Efest LUC V4 charger.

Mechanical Mods Continued.

I brought Mechanical Mods to your attention in my last post.

I mentioned that they don't have a tank, which means that you have to build it yourself!

How would someone do something like that?

The answer is with wire and cotton. When the battery connects with the atomizer it heats up the wire allowing you to vape. The cotton soaks up the liquid. The cotton is wrapped around the wire, which is wound into a coil, and you burn the liquid just like with a tank.

Again, this is kind of like using a manual car instead of an automatic.

Mechanical Mods

Alright Guys!
I wanted to show you the type of Vaporizer my boyfriend is using currently.

But FIRST - What is a mechanical mod?
You can almost think of it as switching from an automatic engine to a manual engine.

It's a Mechanical Mod called a Nemisis.

The interesting thing is that it's not exactly like the vape pens I have been showing you.
This one doesn't have a tank.
You can't drop the liquid in and vape it.

On this type of Vaporizer, there is no tank. So... What do you do?
You have to build your own tank. (Which is actually called an atomizer.)



Check out this Tutorial for a sneak peak!