Since I'm only vaping my day 4 now, I find that all day long I do about 1-1.5ml of 18mg Kent cut to 10-11mg. What bothers me is this evening, as well as the previous I suddenly feel a need for a hard hit. This does not go away until I make 5-8 long draws on a fresh cart+bat+dripping using my Cappuccino (which already has MASSIVE throat hit). Is this normal?
I used to do 1/2 pack per evening when on analogs, also. That is with overall 1.5 packs per day.
I think I am overdosing...
general question: how much liquid in ml should i start with, since i haven't vaped yet, i don't want to end up with too much cuz i'd rather get 1 flavor and try other vendors...but since i want to ditch the analogs, i don't want to be stuck without juice...will 20ml be alrite for now, or should i go for 40ml...ie. if i go thru 3-5 carts a day, how long would 20ml likely last me...plz answer promptly, my order is a minute away from being complete
UPDATE: nvm, i just grabbed 20ml...
Last edited by Joe81; 08-30-2009 at 12:14 AM.
This is an email response to me from Dr. Laugesen. I posted this in the health section of this forum, but thought I'd post it here as well. If you click on the link below you will be directed to the website. I had initially asked a question about the cancer risk of nicotine. This question is answered under the tab "e-cigarette" on her website. The email below is in response to my game plan for getting off analogs and eventually going to 0mg nic liquid.
Heather
The cancer risk answer is now available at www.healthnz.co.nz/cancerrisk.htm
Thanks for sharing your game plan. I would like to make the following comments. But do keep in touch as to how it goes for you.
Because ecigs contain less nicotine per puff, you will need more puffs not less to get sufficient nicotine and to damp down desire for a cigarette. The ecigarette, not requiring to be lit, can be conveniently used every five minutes if that is what you need to damp down the desire for a cigarette. Some people need one refill every day, some need more or less than this.
There is no risk of overdosing on nicotine. The first sign of excess nicotine is nausea, and that is a signal to eliminate one more cigarette from that point onwards.
If you can make sure you are no longer smoking even one cigarette a day you have protected your health. Complete abstinence from smoked tobacco is essential. This is Stage 1.
Stage 2. Quitting nicotine may take longer and it doesnt matter so much because now your health is not under threat from your smoking. Once you have quit smoking tobacco, it doesnt matter so much if you cant cut down to 0 mg. Without nicotine you may be more vulnerable to start smoking a cigarette again each day just for the nicotine.
Continuing the smoke a nicotine e-cigarette ensures you always have nicotine on hand should you ever be tempted to smoke cigarettes again.
I strongly advise anyone who quits and who owns a ecig to keep an ecig in their purse or pocket at all times for at least one year. And you may find an emergency nicotine refill cartridge for the e-cigarette in the purse is useful.
This is all meantime.
Murray
Oh thanks for that post...was worried about overdoing it!!!
I'm new in all this, i just order my blu, it is suppose to get here in a couple of weeks, and I'm looking into getting down on my nicotine use, I order the the higher level on nicotine, but after reading the posts I'm afraid I will end doing worst than before, please help I need info. about all this
HazelS- read my previous post two above this one. It has been said time and time again that the nicotine we get from e-cigs may not be as addictive as from an analog. This is because the e-cig doesn't have the added chemicals analogs have that make the nicotine more pleasureable by heightening the effect of the nicotine in the brain. Therefore, it will be easier to go down gradually in regards to mg/ml. What alot of people do is use the higher mg nic for when you really have a craving and use a lower mg nic to just vape all the time. Please go to the link in my post above. That will take you to a website that will inform you about how much nic you are actually getting with the e-cig. The more informed you are, the more comfortable you will be with vaping. Read, read, read, and read some more. And ask as many questions as you want. Be sure to visit the womens room under the catagory "social groups" too! Welcome!Originally Posted by HazelS
Holy crap. If the OP's calcs are correct, I must have smoked about 10 packs of cigs today!! LOL I usually smoke a little over a pack a day.
I'm at the other end of the spectrum... I smoked a little over a pack a day (camel filters) for 35 years, heard about vaping, did the research, bought the kit and extra juice (24mg/ml) and totally quit on July 31. Haven't had a cigarette since.
Camel filters have 1.3 mg nicotine each. That's 26mg per pack. A 15ml bottle of 24 mg juice has 15*24 = 360 mg of nicotine, which is about 13.8 (call it 14) packs of camel filters.
I'm about 2/3 through my first bottle of juice, over a 37 day period. Where I was smoking a pack a day, my nicotine consumption is now down to the equivalent of about 5 cigarettes worth per day.
Now if I can just figure out where I lost my other e-cig during the first week...
-T
Howdy All, I'm a newb myself and was worried about overdoing it. I initially got suckered in by the smoking everywhere cig that I used a whole 4-5 times before I did more research. I'm Marlboro 100's pack a day smoker. So I decided to buck down and got myself a TECC 510 titan kit, some extra batteries, extra atomizers, some 18mg TECC liquid (not liking very much) and some 18mg TW Cherry liquid (LOVE IT!). I barely got my stuff yesterday and noticed that I overdid it a bit. Mostly I'd like for the 510 to replace my regular cigs and eventually cut down to as little nicotine as possible but fearing that I might end up getting more nicotine than I had before. But as was said earlier I guess I just need to listen to what my body is telling me. This is a great thread by the way and thanks to everyone that's participated! - Waka
I smoked analogs on purpose a couple of times the past few days so I could count how many drags I take off of one. I average between 12 and 15 inhales per cigerette.
I think you have to account for how many inhales you have too. A person who inhales only twice per cigarette won't get as much, a person who smokes a 100 will get more than somebody who smokes the same way who smoked kings, etc and since they count by drips (or at least inhales, sort've at least) I think you have to count that in too, some people suck on them like a sucker fish stuck to a fish tank, some people smoke them about the way most e cmokers smoke (long and slow but inhaling and having it out their nose sort of like a 'dragon snorting, which oddly I don't see hardly anyone doing with e cigs, msot seem to be going at this like they're pipes or cigars, unless absolutely everyone on YouTUbe etc is just not inhaling and 'dragon nostrilling' for effect to demonstrate how much vapor they get, I dont' know) some inhale more deeply, some more lightly, etc etc
In really thinking about all this, I don't see how even the exact same cigarette (say you have 10 people all smoking Marlboro red for example), because of the way they would all smoke differently, take different amounts of inhales, I don't see how that one cigarette could be counted on to deliver the same 22 mgs (or whatever) to all of them.
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