Most industries have their own special language and this jargon can take some time getting used to. The electronic cigarette industry makes no exceptions. We have a lot of interesting terms that we use to describe products, methods, and other e-cig related information. When a person is new to vaping it can be difficult to understand all the terms. Not only that, but many of these words have abbreviations to learn as well!
Here is a list of some words and their abbreviations from the vaping world:
- Amp (amperage)
- Atty (atomizer)
- Auto (automatic, as in 'automatic battery')
- Batt (battery)
- Cart/carto (cartomizer)
- DT (drip tip)
- E-cig/ecig/e-cigarette (electronic cigarette)
- LED (light-emitting diode)
- mA (milliampere)
- mah (milliamps hour)
- mg (miligram, as in 'I use a nicotine strength of 18mg')
- ml (milileter, as in 'Premium Nobacco Juice 30ml bottle')
- Mod (modified e-cig)
- OEM (original equipment manufacturer)
- OVK (Vapor4Life-branded Original Vapor King battery)
- PG (propylene glycol)
- PT (passthrough)
- PV (personal vaporizer)
- TH (throat hit)
- VG (vegetable glycerin)
- V (volt, as in 'my battery carries about 4.2V')
- VT (Vapor4Life-branded Vapor Titan battery)
