How do Electronic Cigarettes Work?
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An increasing number of nicotine cravers are embracing the more-acceptable and less-dangerous e-cigarette, replacing the 7,000+ deleterious chemicals in tobacco cigarettes while getting the same nicotine hit.
Paradigm Shift in Habits
In a recent study, 81% of 91,000 vapers interviewed had permanently stopped smoking traditional cigarettes. E-cigs are more acceptable to non-smokers, in part due to the absence of that unpleasant tobacco-cigarette smell.
With the sky-high growth in vaping, things must really be getting on well. What more evidence than vapers everywhere: in streets, bars and even workplaces.
So, do we scientifically explain this phenomenal rise? How did vapes come to sufficiently replace the old cigarettes?
No Smoke Without Fire?
The predicament with distraught smokers hunting for that elusive cigarette light is something we are all privy to. But even as burning tobacco releases the gratifying smoke-hit that stimulates a nicotine craver’s brain’s pleasure passageways, an accompanying deadly mix of thousands of potentially-dangerous chemicals is also inhaled.
4 Main Components
Medics have not yet fully understood long-term health effects of vapes, but quite undoubtedly, available evidence shows that they are less injurious to health compared to tobacco cigarettes. With tobacco addicts shifting and sticking to vapes in droves, e-cigs must really work.
Have you ever wondered what goes on when you puff on a vape?
Basically, all e-cigs contain 4 components: a battery; a cartridge; a vaporization chamber and an LED light. [diagram here]
How E-Cigs Work
A long, thin, 80-1600mAh, lithium battery provides power. Two types exist, both rechargeable using conventional power sockets. While puffing on the mouthpiece activates an airflow sensor in automatic battery varieties, manual ones require the pressing of a button on top of the e-cig to trigger a similar process.
On pressing a button or puffing, an electric charge is fired from the battery into the vaporization chamber. The atomizer/cartomizer then generates heat through a small heating element to emit inhalable vapor from e-juice in the cartridge.
While artomizer cartridges have heating coils sitting at their bottoms, cartomizer cartridges have a polyfill wrapped around their heating elements. Polyfill soaks e-liquid, enabling you experience a much longer vape-time with less juice. Cartomizers are replaced once the chamber becomes empty. Due to significantly-lower capacities, atomizers are favored by vapers who love to drip. With atomizers, you can easily switch between multiple flavors, and also get a truer flavor since no polyfill is there to absorb e-juice taste. Contrarily, heavy vapers may dislike frequent atomizer refillings.
With new e-cig modifications continually emerging, the larger and more expensive plastic-or-glass-made clearomizer is the latest twist to hit the vaporization chamber. It contains a silica wick that transfers e-juice to the heating element.
Nevertheless, all chamber-types basically employ the same functional procedure.
The LED at the tip of an e-cig is turned on when you puff or press the button. Some change color on low battery or when on charge. While LEDs generally do not generate heat, some can indicate the amount of heat being emitted by the heating element to show when an e-cig is on a high, medium or low power-setting.
Many Alternatives
E-cig vapor constitutes a blend of propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin, nicotine and flavors.
Nicotine levels vary with e-liquids, from as high as that of a normal-strength cigarette to as low as that of an ultra-light. Some e-juices have no nicotine; the most perfect fit for those almost quitting smoking permanently.
Choosing Your E-Juice
This is among the most crucial aspects of making the all-important switch. Though most tobacco smokers are brand-faithful, changing a product does very little to the mouth-feel or taste of a cigarette. With e-juice, the complete opposite is usually true; choosing new flavors or formulations is a pleasure in itself.
Cartridge durability varies with user habits. Sizes range from 1ml-3ml with each milliliter roughly equaling 100 puffs. A light-to-moderate vaper normally takes in 1-2ml of e-juice daily while heavy vapers could consume up to 5ml.
Definitely, the record-setting boom in the e-cig market is expected to continually bring new twists in the design of future vapes, with emphasis still on customer gratification. Potential for expansion of this user-centric market can only be limited by manufacturer imagination. Therefore, e-cig use is bound to grow into a lasting lifestyle decision for higher and higher numbers of former tobacco smokers.