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Mouth-to-Lung (MTL) Vaping: What Are the Benefits?

MTL and DTL Vaping Styles - An Article From Premium Vape

Mouth-to-Lung (MTL) Vaping: What Are the Benefits?

If you use a small vaping device such as a pod system or disposable vape, there’s a good chance that you use the mouth-to-lung (MTL) inhaling style when you vape. That’s because mouth-to-lung inhaling feels natural; it’s the same way that you inhale when you smoke a cigarette.

What you might not know, though, is that there are actually two different ways to inhale when you vape. You can vape in the traditional style as described above, or you can inhale the vapour directly into your lungs. This is called the direct-to-lung (DTL) inhaling style, and it can help you enjoy some impressively large clouds and bold flavours.

Before you try the DTL inhaling style with your current vaping device, though, there are some things that you should know first. In addition, it’s also possible that direct-to-lung inhaling won’t end up being the right choice for you. After all, MTL vaping has several benefits of its own as well.

In this article, we’ll explain both the MTL and DTL inhaling styles. We’ll start with the benefits of mouth-to-lung vaping, though, because it’s the style that’s best for most vapers. The mouth-to-lung inhaling style is the way that almost everyone vapes when they first make the switch from smoking, and there are plenty of good reasons for that. Here are the two biggest ones.

Why You Might Want to Stick with the MTL Inhaling Style
Mouth-to-Lung Inhaling Provides the Familiar Throat Hit of Smoking

The most important benefit of mouth-to-lung inhaling is that it’s the way to make vaping feel as close to smoking as it possibly can. As a smoker, you know the super-satisfying feeling that you get in your throat when you light a cigarette and take that first puff – especially if you haven’t had a cigarette in a while. That feeling is called throat hit. Smokers equate throat hit so strongly with satisfaction that you might lose interest in vaping very quickly if you didn’t feel the same throat hit. That’s the biggest reason why MTL inhaling is likely to be the best choice for you if you’re new to vaping – because it’s the way to get the strong throat hit that you’re craving.

Mouth-to-Lung Inhaling Is the Least Expensive Way to Vape

Aside from the fact that MTL inhaling provides the same assertive throat hit of smoking, it also has another major benefit: It’s the least expensive way to vape. Vaping devices designed for mouth-to-lung inhaling have very tight airflow, and that limits the amount of vape juice that you can consume per puff. In addition, a mouth-to-lung vape always works best with a high-nicotine e-liquid – and if you’ve using an e-liquid with a high nicotine strength, you’ll only need to puff a few times in order to feel satisfied. You won’t need to buy replacement pods as often, and if you use a refillable device, you won’t need to buy e-liquid as often. Vaping products are significantly less expensive than cigarettes, but they certainly aren’t cheap. If you want vaping to be as inexpensive as it can be, you need to vape in a way that allows you to reach your desired level of satisfaction while using as little e-liquid as possible. The MTL inhaling style is definitely the way to accomplish that.

MTL and DTL Inhaling Require Different Vaping Devices and E-Liquids

Before we discuss the benefits of direct-to-lung inhaling, it’s important to note that MTL and DTL vaping require different types of devices and different nicotine strengths. As we mentioned above, the best vaping setup for MTL inhaling is something like a disposable vape or a pod system – something that has tight airflow and a high nicotine strength.

When you use the DTL inhaling style, on the other hand, you inhale the vapour directly into your lungs. In order to do that, you need a vape tank with large airflow vents – and because DTL inhaling produces significantly more vapour, you also need to use an e-liquid with a much lower nicotine strength. Most people who use the DTL inhaling style prefer a nicotine strength of just 3 mg/ml, which changes the vaping experience significantly. Here’s how.

Why You Might Want to Switch to the DTL Inhaling Style
Direct-to-Lung Inhaling Gives You Big Clouds and Bigger Flavours

The biggest reason why some vapers ultimately switch to the DTL inhaling style is because they enjoy blowing big clouds around and would enjoy vaping more if the clouds were even bigger. Vape tanks designed for DTL inhaling have large mouthpieces and wide airflow vents, and that enables them to take in massive amounts of air. Thanks to the wide airflow vents, a vape tank designed for DTL inhaling can also have an atomizer coil that operates at a very high wattage without overheating. Between the airflow and the high-wattage operation, a DTL vaping device can produce truly enormous clouds.

Cloud chasing is fun in its own right, but it’s not the only reason to use the DTL inhaling style. The other reason is because the more e-liquid you inhale with each puff, the stronger the e-liquid’s flavour will become. If you’ve tried some higher-nicotine vaping devices and found the flavour a bit muted because the nicotine covered the flavour of the e-liquid, you may find that you prefer the DTL inhaling style.

Direct-to-Lung Inhaling Is the Smoothest Way to Vape

If mouth-to-lung inhaling is the best way to vape for those who really love a strong throat hit, direct-to-lung inhaling is the exact opposite. When you use an e-liquid with a nicotine strength of 50 mg/ml, the throat hit is so strong that it almost feels like you’re smoking a cigarette. With a nicotine strength of 3 mg/ml, on the other hand, you’ll feel almost like you’re inhaling nothing.

Although new vapers almost always want to vape in the way that provides the most throat hit possible, your feelings on throat hit may change as you gain more vaping experience. After a while, you may find that you no longer crave cigarettes anymore or even really think about your past life as a smoker. When you reach that point, you may decide that you’d rather vape in a way that provides a smoother experience with less throat hit. Since you’ll be using an e-liquid with a significantly lower nicotine strength, that’s exactly what will happen if you switch to the DTL inhaling style.

Please note the information provided here should not be treated as a substitute for professional medical advice; always talk to your doctor or a health professional. Premium Vape does not endorse or recommend any of the approaches discussed in this article and will not be held responsible for any loss, claim or damage arising out of the use, or misuse, of the suggestions made, the failure to take medical advice or for any material on third party websites. Vaping products contain nicotine which is addictive, adult smokers and vapers over 18 years of age only.