Learn About Vaping

Here is some Vape Mountain wisdom for you: Vaping is not smoking, and neither is smoking, vaping. Surprised? Allow us to enlighten you further.

Ah the humble vaporiser, 40 times fewer ingredients that tobacco smoke, produces harmless vapour and makes none of the lung-damaging tar of regular smokes...but is vaping healthy, really?

Once you've got your head round what vaping is and whether it's right for you, the next step is to choose your vaping device. This may seem a little daunting at first, but don't worry - like Moses to the Red Sea, we're here to part the fog from in front of you and help you see what's what more clearly.

Before answering this question, it's best to get a little pedantic. As the saying goes, there's no smoke without fire. Vaping, by definition, doesn't actually produce any smoke. The clouds produced are simply vapour, caused by heating up your e-liquids. Smoke is created when you burn something and destroy it, whereas vaping simply heats the liquid until it transforms into vapour. Creating the biggest vapour clouds possible is becoming a popular pastime within vaping circles, and 'cloud chasers' even compete now to see who is the best.

It may seem like a simple question, but it’s one we’re sure most of you will have considered at some point: is vaping bad?

Whilst some activities, like smoking cigarettes, undeniably have a negative effect on your health and well-being, how bad vaping is for you is something which can be explored, argued and weighed up with pros and cons.  

As with a lot of things, there is no definite answer - is sugar bad for you? Are extreme sports? Is going to a party? We’re not here to inspire a lengthy debate, but what we can give you is the facts.

That's an interesting question, and one which can be interpreted more than one way. For one, it could be referencing 'vaping' - the act of inhaling vapour from an e-liquid through a personal vaporiser. It could also refer to the 'vape', i.e the vapouriser itself that is used to inhale said vapour, otherwise known as an electronic cigarette, e-cig, apv (advanced personal vaporiser) or mod.

A vape, you ask? A vape is a magical device that unlocks a world where clouds taste of anything you like! An e-cigarette, shisha stick, vaporiser, vapestick, epen or a plain old vape, there are hundreds of names, and just as many options, when it comes to picking a vaping device, but what do any of them do?

Beer, cake, bread, pie, burgers...Sorry, we’re just listing some of the things that have more ingredients than your vaporiser liquids...Crisps, sweets, that sandwich you bought from the supermarket this morning. We could go on for days, really, because your e-cigarette cartridges and e-juices have precisely 5 ingredients in them, yes, five, and sometimes even less than that!

Vapers are a species known to roam the earth from sea to mountain in search of clouds. Commonly found in groups of like-minded individuals, we estimate that vapers are as much as 50% cooler than their tobacco-smoking counterparts. Let’s take a look at the habits of this most exhale-nt of animals...