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Have you ever waited for hours to take a drag from your vape, only for that first drag to be one of plain hot air or even smoke? Nobody enjoys dry hits and it’s easy for that one drag to ruin your whole vaping experience and leave you in a bad mood. However, there is a way to decrease the chances of that occurring.

If you want to avoid dry hits when vaping, here are four tips to help you do so:

Avoid chain-vaping

Often, your habits are what is causing the dry hits to happen. Various practices, such as chain vaping or vaping with higher power can lead to higher frequencies of dry hits.

If you're used to chain-vaping or pushing the power up on your vape device for that big hit, it might be time to change your habits. Of course, it'll take time getting used to, but not having to deal with dry hits is worth the efforts in the long run.

Slow down with the drags

If you've been smoking before you started vaping, you might fall into the habit of hurried sessions where you take quick drags on the go. While pumping your brain full of nicotine may work with smoking, remember that vaping is quite different.

Vaping is all about relaxing and taking slow, long drags from your mod. When you take slower draws rather than rushed ones, the vape coils tend to stay moist for much longer, meaning that you’ll have lower chances of getting a dry hit. At the same time, after a long draw, switching the vape off for a quick "rest" allows for the coils to regain its moisture.

Keep the coils moist

As pointed out a few times in the previous tips, keeping the coils moist is vital to ensuring that you won't be dealing with a dry hit so often. If you can maintain a saturated coil, the chances of you getting a dry hit will be next to zero. 

Because of this, using vape kits that utilize a bottom-coil clearomizer tank can ensure that the coils stay moist even during extended use. Although you're paying extra for them, it is well worth the money not having to deal with dry hits or even be burdened by the thought.

Lower the VG and add to the PG

Every vape juice that is available in the market contains both Propylene Glycol (PG) and Vegetable Glycerin (VG). Of course, the ratios between the two can differ, depending on what the vape juice is meant to achieve. Those with a higher VG content will be much thicker and will result in a more prominent vapour cloud.

VG also makes it much harder for the vape coils to absorb the juice, meaning that if you're taking hits from high-VG vape juices, you're more likely to face a dry hit. Because of this, it is highly recommended that you opt for ones with higher PG content. While you might be sacrificing some of that satisfying plume of vapour, you'll experience far fewer dry hits.

Final words

Dry hits can easily happen to many people. Although dry hits don’t always happen, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't do anything about it. That said, follow the tips given above, and you’ll rarely have your vape session ruined by a dry hit!

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