Getting Started

Vaping for Beginners - Getting Started

If you want to make the switch to vaping our ‘Getting Started’ guide gives you the basics on vaping and ecigarettes, including how ecigarettes work and the different parts of an ecigarette.

How to Vape

If you’ve decided to try an ecigarette it may all seem a bit complicated at first, but it’s quite straightforward. Here we introduce you to the basics of what is an ecigarette, how ecigarettes work, how to use an ecigarette and also what is actually in ecigarettes. Welcome to the vaping 101 UK guide.

Vaping Basics

In our vaping for dummies guide you’ll learn everything you need about how to vape. Whether it’s a E Cigarette Starter Kit or something more advanced an ecigarette is fundamentally made up of the same parts. To vape you need a battery, a tank or similar to hold the eliquid, a heating element and mouthpiece. They are known by different names too – vaping mods, vape kits or simple an e cigarette.

In the same way water becomes steam, the liquid in an ecigarette – known as eliquid or e juice – is heated to the point it becomes a vapour. This vapour is inhaled, in a similar way that a smoker inhales smoke from a cigarette.

When you press the button on an ecigarette, the vape battery sends a current through a metal coil (literally a metal wire shaped into a coil) which acts as a heating element. A wicking material loaded with e liquid runs through the centre of the coil and as the coil gets hotter the e liquid flavours evaporate – turning from a liquid into a vapour.