You remember when you were a smoker, when you smoked way too much before going to bed, how your lungs felt raw and painful the next morning? I usually feel something similar the morning after chain-vaping like a steam locomotive - albeit a lot less painful than with tobacco of course.
Yesterday, I chain-vaped a LOT, and harsh juices full of PG and nicotine too. I probably went through 20 ml, because I was trying out my new mod and couldn't put it down. And this morning? No heaviness in the chest, no nasty feeling in the lungs, nothing.
I think this may well have something to do with my new mod being a DNA40, running with temperature protection on: I wanted a DNA40 because it *ensures* the coils cannot overheat the juice and produce acrolein, and I believe this is exactly what it's done all of yesterday. I've probably vaped a lot cleaner vape than I usually do.
I have this theory you see: acrolein has a harsh taste, and it's responsible for those awful dry hit. Conventional wisdom in the vaping world says you can't really vape acrolein, because you feel it immediately and stop inhaling. Only I'm not so sure: I believe if the coil overheats the juice only a little, and produces only a little acrolein, the slight harsh taste may be "hidden" behind the juice's flavor. It may even be perceived as desirable increased throat hit. In short, low levels of acrolein in the vape may go undetected, because it's below the human body's detection threshold.
This is why I wanted a DNA40: while I trust my body to immediately detect hard, frank dry hits, I don't trust it to detect low levels of acrolein. Given how good I feel this morning after a day of unreasonable vaping, and how quickly the DNA40 goes into temperature protection if I don't keep the wick almost flooded all the time, I think I was right. The vape out of the DNA40 mod doesn't feel any different from the vape out of my E-Mech at similar power levels, but the DNA40 definitely knows when the wick needs wetting, and it tells me so long before I can tell the difference in the vape.
So, I think I may have been inhaling a lot more "hidden acrolein" than I previously though, before getting the DNA40. Kinda scary...
Yesterday, I chain-vaped a LOT, and harsh juices full of PG and nicotine too. I probably went through 20 ml, because I was trying out my new mod and couldn't put it down. And this morning? No heaviness in the chest, no nasty feeling in the lungs, nothing.
I think this may well have something to do with my new mod being a DNA40, running with temperature protection on: I wanted a DNA40 because it *ensures* the coils cannot overheat the juice and produce acrolein, and I believe this is exactly what it's done all of yesterday. I've probably vaped a lot cleaner vape than I usually do.
I have this theory you see: acrolein has a harsh taste, and it's responsible for those awful dry hit. Conventional wisdom in the vaping world says you can't really vape acrolein, because you feel it immediately and stop inhaling. Only I'm not so sure: I believe if the coil overheats the juice only a little, and produces only a little acrolein, the slight harsh taste may be "hidden" behind the juice's flavor. It may even be perceived as desirable increased throat hit. In short, low levels of acrolein in the vape may go undetected, because it's below the human body's detection threshold.
This is why I wanted a DNA40: while I trust my body to immediately detect hard, frank dry hits, I don't trust it to detect low levels of acrolein. Given how good I feel this morning after a day of unreasonable vaping, and how quickly the DNA40 goes into temperature protection if I don't keep the wick almost flooded all the time, I think I was right. The vape out of the DNA40 mod doesn't feel any different from the vape out of my E-Mech at similar power levels, but the DNA40 definitely knows when the wick needs wetting, and it tells me so long before I can tell the difference in the vape.
So, I think I may have been inhaling a lot more "hidden acrolein" than I previously though, before getting the DNA40. Kinda scary...
