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Beginners Guide To Vaping

Vaping for Beginners: What Is Vaping?

Vaping is tobacco-free alternative to smoking. Vaping looks like smoking. It feels like smoking. It tastes like smoking, but it’s not smoking. Instead, an electronic heating element called an atomizer vaporizes liquid until it forms a vapor you can inhale. It’s called vaping because it involves vapor and not smoke. This guide for vaping for beginners will teach you about all the equipment you need to do that and how exactly to use it.

Why Vape?

There are, of course, nicotine patches and nicotine gums that help smokers to quit gradually without going cold-turkey, but unfortunately, these don’t really resemble smoking. Smokers typically report that they feel awkward without a cigarette in their hands and that they don’t know what to do with their extra time.

Vaping looks and feels like smoking, and, in fact, you can even purchase e-liquid flavored like tobacco. Vapers blend right in with the crowd, and in most cases, it’s impossible to tell from afar whether someone is vaping or smoking because they appear the same.

How Does Vaping Work?

Vaporizers are electronic heating elements attached to a battery that heat up when the device is turned on. When breathing in on the mouth piece, cotton wicking material whisks e-liquid from a tank onto the heating element which turns the liquid into vapor. Vaporizers can be more or less complicated, but they all make use of these essential components.

Buying the Right Vaping Products for Beginners:

If you’re already on board, that’s great, but you may be wondering now what to buy. Vaping can get incredibly complicated and even dangerous if you decide to build your own equipment, which many do. If you’re a beginner you need the right kind of equipment.

New to Vaping?

There are so many different vaping devices on the market that it can be difficult to know which one to choose when you’re starting out.

Generally speaking, like when you’re starting anything new, the best advice is to keep it simple at first.

The Aspire PockeX AIO Kit is a great choice for new vapers. It’s a pen-style kit, which means it’s easy to carry around. If you smoke or know somebody who does, the Aspire PockeX is a good option, it's reliable, easy to use, comfortable to carry and convenient to charge and compatible with a wide array of 50/50 mix ratio of e-liquids including Nic Salts.

The Aspire PockeX AIO Kit is also a mouth to lung device. This means it has been designed to reproduce the feel and action of smoking cigarettes. Most people who start vaping are trying to give up cigarettes so it’s an ideal and familiar place to start.

There are different types of kit here to give you an overview before you choose the best vape device for your needs.

Mouth to Lung

Classic inhales, also known as mouth to lung or MTL, is when you take a draw on the vape before you inhale. This action will be familiar to all smokers of cigarettes, which is why you would use MTL devices much like you would have used a cigarette - it’s that simple.

These devices tend to be small enough to fit in your pocket and generally have a long battery life. They are charged via USB and have been designed for simplicity of use.

Direct to Lung

Direct inhale vaping, also known as direct to lung or DTL, is when you breathe the vapour straight in, like you would if you were smoking shisha. Vapers who vape this way generally use sub ohm devices. This means they are vaping at a resistance of less than one ohm. This sends more power to the coils, which produces bigger clouds and more flavour.

These devices are larger than pen or pod kits. This is because they require more power, and can use 2, 3 or even 4 rechargeable batteries, depending on the model. We’ll come back to direct inhale devices a bit later on.


You can’t get an easier vape kit than a pod system. They work with disposable pods which contain the coil and wick and also come pre-filled with e-liquid, so there’s nothing for you to do but click your new pod in and vape away.


The LDN LIQ EZY Kit is a great choice if you’re looking for a compact, simple vape which does the business without any fuss at all.


It really couldn’t be easier. The pods are very easy to change and the taste and vapour production are much better than you might expect for a device of this size.


The replacement e-liquid pods can be bought as packs of 3 and there are 6 different flavours for you to choose from.