Table 1.
Results of the textual thematic analysis.
| Themes | Aggregated clusters (n=12), n (%) | Posts (n=10,990), n (%) | Indicators (words or hashtags) |
| General vape (including components, eg, coil, cartridges, and pod, as well as use, eg, blinker) | 4 (33.33) | 2741 (19.58) | vapetricks, cigarroeletronico, pod, vapelife, smoke, vapeo, vapor, vapemod, vapers, coil, vapepen, vapersontiktok, nicotine, know, funny, smoke, y’all, relatable, stop, vapeporn, vapefamily, wonderwaterdrip, girlvaper, vapersontiktok, carts, blinkersonlyfoo, fakecarts, blinkereyes |
| Vaping cessation | 1 (8.33) | 1272 (9.08) | vapelife, vapingislife, quit, addiction, quitvaping, health, vaping is bad, stop, stopvaping |
| Vape product marketing (including flavors) | 1 (8.33) | 1160 (8.28) | ultimatejuice, flavour, liquid, ultimatepuff, premiumliquid, eliquidshop |
| TikTok influencer (includes skate, gamer, vape, and other influencers) | 3 (25) | 3775 (26.96) | skateboarding, skater, nintendo, vapetiktoker, game, nintendo, retro, xbox, retrogrames, videogames, sega, console, games, gaming, thevideogamecollector, kingtinotazo (specific influencer) |
| Vape brands | 3 (25) | 2042 (14.58) | elf, geekbar, elfbars, pods, fresh mary, whereismymary, spookymary, scarymary, lostmarybm600 Juulgang, juullife, juulchallenge, juuling, juulsquad, mint, mango |