Converting to E Cigs with regards to Nicotine content.

[yosamijo]

I'm expecting my first kit tomorrow or monday...then maybe on tues or weds getting a couple different nic juices. Not sure when my lorann oils will be in the mail. But I'm excited about doing some experimentation with dilution with glyxerin (I've got Wilton's on standby in my bathroom closet!). Also looking forward to creating my own unflavored non-nic mix with distilled water and glycerin! I bought Everclear to use a diluter on a whim 'cause someone said to use that rather than water....sounds scary tho. I'll try water first and if that does the trick I'll just make me some trash-can punch with the Everclear! (ewwwww)

[Hangtime]

The everclear will give you the throat hit that tha water won't.

[ProfessorDaffy]

ngarriso - I had the same issue with my Smoking Everywhere ecig (about a month ago). I bought some juice to drop in the cart. Worked better that way. Then, after a gazillion hours reading these forums, I bought a 510 with a manual battery. My Smoking Everywhere cig has not left its case since. I love the 510 no comparison. Also no analogs for 3 weeks. Hang in there - you will not be disappointed. Best of luck to you!

Most Smoking Everywhere customer is happy with their next e-cig. Dripping on the atomizer is probably the best you can do for now, it will increase vapor and flavor. Just don't give up! My Mom got one of those as a "gift" and now she's got a Yeti, too.

Yep, unfortunately, there is a learning curve. And, yep, we are all glad you didn't give up, ngarriso! It would be great if everone's first e-cig was a 901 or a 510, but we all have to find out own way. Thank goodness for the forum. My 510 was actually my fourth e-cig and now I don't care so much about what the next big thing is.

Read, learn, vape! Thank goodness for the forum!

--Daffy

[yosamijo]

The everclear will give you the throat hit that tha water won't.

Its slowly coming back to me now....I remember why I bought it, heh! You are right, I was reading last night (after too many vodka-clubs) that Everclear gives a throat hit.

I wonder how bad / not-so-bad it is for you thought to vape?? 'Tis a shame we don't all have us some fancy-sweet scientist hangin' around to test all of our concoctions and ideas!!

[yosamijo]

Wish I'd had this help when I started. Great advice to people getting started; GO EASY. Didn't realize I was getting a nicotine overdose until I bought some of the 34 mg unflavored and began flavoring my own without cutting with glycerin the first time. Talk about RLS (restless leg syndrome), it was so bad I had to go to the recliner and spend one of the most sleepless nights ever. My wife caught on and pointed out that the only thing she could figure out was too much nicotine while I was still vaping away at 3 AM with a case of "jimmy legs" that would have made a good episode of Seinfeld in the day.

Insomnia's a "female dog" even without the overdose of stimulants! Have you diluted your stuff from now on?

[unkuser]

Here are two of the studies I looked at.

According to the site/study by Dr Laugesen on the Ruyan e cigarette only one tenth of the available nicotine in an ecig is actually absorbed.

Table 1 Nicotine doses deliverable from a tobacco and a Ruyan® nicotine e-cigarette

Manufactured tobacco cigarette
Per puff 0.1 mg
Per 15 puffs or one cigarette 1.5 mg
Per 300 puffs (20 cigarettes or 1 nicotine cartridge) 30 mg

Ruyan® 16 mg cartridge
Per puff 0.010 mg
Per 15 puffs or one cigarette 0.15 mg
Per 300 puffs (20 cigarettes or 1 nicotine cartridge) 3 mg

Ruyan® 0 mg cartridge
Per puff 0.0 mg
Per 15 puffs or one cigarette 0.0 mg
Per 300 puffs (20 cigarettes or 1 nicotine cartridge) 0 mg

This makes more sense. I have been vaping a lot more than I have been smoking and I just could not understand why. It felt like the nicotine withdraw symptoms I had when I was trying to quit smoking. 18mg/10ml does not mean 2 cartons of analog cigarettes.

[AngeLsLuv]

Hi and welcome! Yes you can mix zero nicotine with low. Try half and half and see how it works. I agree with trying the 555. It's the only one my dad likes, and when I tried it, I liked it too.

Why don't you just cut it with glycerine and save your money??

[bigbear8481]

Hey All,

Through my research I came across a DOC that has the current levels of TAR & NIC per cig among the most popular brands. The test was conducted in late 2008.



Find your brand. Make sure your not using more than you use to. Take that level & X by howmany you used to smoke. Try to stay within that range.

My example. I smoke Marlboro Menthol Lights FTK 20S. NIC level per analog is 0.7 MG. Tar is 8 MG per analog. X 15 ANALOG per da average = 10.5 MG of NIC per day & 120 MG of TAR.

So by VAPING I save 120 MG of TAR NOT in my lungs. Over the course of a year thats 43800 MGs!!! Or 43.8 GRAMS!!!! OR 1.54 OZs PER YEAR!!! Oh My god. I have been smoking for 18 years. Thats means I have taken in 27.72 OZs of TAR. Damn, thats 1.74 LBS........

Where the hell is my PV!!!!

Bear

[degnr8]

I also posted this in helpful links, so please forgive the cross post. People keep referring to analogs as roughly 1mg so I wanted to point out that there's actually a huge variance. an analog can be anywhere from .8 to 1.9 mg. I wanted to post a link, but apparently am not allowed to do that yet. if you google cigarette nicotine content, ignore the sponsored link & the first legit hit will give you the nic content by brand/style of cig

[scaf77]

That is what I am going to do with my 24 Wicked juice.

Have cut down to 12 with PG for day time, and full 24 when I want a blast.



Cat

Do you just ad PG to cut it down??
I found food grade PG for $22.99 gl.