Newbie with 510 and 8mg juice -- too much nicotine! help!

[Sevenchan]

Hello all,

Long newbie story and plea for help here. PLEASE read! I really really want this to work for me!

I recently discovered e-smoking (bear with me I'm new and the term "vaping" still weirds me out) and ordered a 510 from Eastmall. Which is an excellent vendor, by the way -- fast, courteous, everything one could ask for. I also ordered a selection of their 8mg juices.

I'm a pack-a-day smoker of 0.3mg Philip Morris Extra Light 100s. I believe this is a brand only sold in Japan, where I live. Anyway, they're kind of like super-super-light Marlboros, with a massive throat kick (from all the added chemicals I expect). But the nicotine content only adds up to 6mg / day. If I smoke more than a pack and a half (say 10mg) in one day I feel yucky.

In other words my tolerance for nicotine is pretty low.

So, my package arrived today. I figured out how everything fits together, tried it out with the storebought cart, but was not happy with the lack of "throat hit." So I immediately performed the "straw mod" I read about on this forum (thanks guys!) using a blank cart, the 8mg juice, and one of those weensy straws that come with the little bottles of Yakult.

Presto fixo, much more vapor, but still BARELY enough throat hit to keep me happy. Still though, I figured this was working for me! So, I smoked away for a bit -- about 2 cigarettes' worth of puffs -- and then it hit me... nicotine overdose... a "tight" headachy feeling and a bit of brain fog... NOT GOOD!

I think I got a day's worth of nicotine out of those 15-20 puffs

So, is there any way I can cut down the juice so as to not feel sick, without losing the throat hit? I'd really like even more of a throat hit if that were possible. Help! Please give me any suggestions you can think of! I'm desperate to get off the cancer sticks!!

Oh, and I really don't give a damn about the taste of the juice. I ordered 5 different "cigarette" flavors -- they all taste the same, kind of like a hookah, perfectly acceptable. But it HAS to KICK like a cigarette!!!

[happily]

It is very common to get that head rush when u first get the e-cig.. You just started and you very likely still have cig chemicals in you... Give it a day and see if it goes away. There is an adjustment period, especially if you haven't been off the marblos long. It is a different method of nic intake so take it easy til you adjust. If it continues then you should dilute it.

[stevo_tdo]

I got that from the pg. Switched to vg and no horrible light headiness. Good be the nic though.

[Sevenchan]

Thanks for the reply, happily!

I think that what I'm after may not be "throat hit" but "lung punch." You guys know what I mean... where you really feel it in your chest. I get SOME of that with my 510 and 8mg juice, but not really enough... and I'm afraid I can't just continue with the 8mg until I get used to it. I'm just getting way too much nicotine

[Sevenchan]

Oh! That's interesting, stevo. So are the prepackaged liquids from Eastmall PG? Which ones are VG?

[smokaholic]

why don't u just dilute it with some vg?

[happily]

Thanks for the reply, happily!

I think that what I'm after may not be "throat hit" but "lung punch." You guys know what I mean... where you really feel it in your chest. I get SOME of that with my 510 and 8mg juice, but not really enough... and I'm afraid I can't just continue with the 8mg until I get used to it. I'm just getting way too much nicotine

with me it was just my first vape session and then went away after an hour or two...........but you do need to stop if it is too much. (listen to your body)

[DC2]

It definitely sounds to me like you are getting too much nicotine. Same thing happened to me at first.

I am not sure about the lung punch, but you sound like the perfect candidate to cut your juice with vegetable glycerin (VG) because supposedly it will signficantly increase the amount of vapor and at the same time allow you to reduce the nicotine. I think I read around here somewhere that you can get VG in a drug store or maybe cooking store.

Maybe others who have done this before can give you more information on that, but it sounds like the direction you want to be heading in from what I can tell.

[Sr.Shankly]

i got my VG (vegetable glycerin) from Michaels the arts and crafts store in the cupcape section, or you could order your juice online with vg from juicyliquid.com so im making my e-liquid with half pg half vg, the smoke is noticeably thicker so maybe that can help you with the lung hit and it will cut your nic content in half.

[KreeL]

Thanks for the reply, happily!

I think that what I'm after may not be "throat hit" but "lung punch." You guys know what I mean... where you really feel it in your chest. I get SOME of that with my 510 and 8mg juice, but not really enough... and I'm afraid I can't just continue with the 8mg until I get used to it. I'm just getting way too much nicotine

No you are not getting way too much nicotine with 8mg juice. You also did not OD on nicotine.

If the nic levels you are used to are that low, you should have no trouble quitting cold turkey. Do you ever get nicfits? Get some zero nic juice, vape until bored with it, and then quit.