Different inhaling styles for different devices

Another important distinction between how you inhale on a cigarette vs. how you inhale on an e-cig is the fact that your specific device can make a difference when you’re vaping.

Whichever brand of cigarettes you smoke, you inhale in the same way. For vaping devices, it isn’t quite so simple. The main factor is the specific type of tank you’re using, or how much airflow it has.

For tanks with a restricted airflow, such as the Aspire K2 or the Aspire Nautilus Mini, the draw is a lot like the draw on a cigarette and you can perform “Mouth-to-Lung” inhales.

We’ll cover this in more detail in a moment, but a Mouth-to-Lung inhale is basically just the same way you inhale on a cigarette. Mouth-to-Lung tanks tend to use higher resistance coils and work best with lower power settings, so if you have a basic vape pen, Mouth-to-Lung inhales are more common.

For tanks with more open airflow, vapers often inhale directly into their lungs. This is different to how you smoke (and again, we’ll give more detail in a moment), and is more common when you’ve gotten used to vaping a bit.

Sub-ohm tanks tend to have much more open airflow (although they do let you control it too), and they’re usually paired with higher-power mods rather than simple vape pens. If you have this type of advanced setup, you’ll get better performance with the Direct-Lung inhale style.