If you're dependent on vaping nicotine instead of smoking
tobacco, perhaps you should read this before buying that
next mod or other gear.
500 ml (a bit over a pint) of 100 mg/ml (10%) nicotine base
only costs about as much as a carton of cigarettes. It keeps for
years in the freezer and will make:
1 liter of 20 mg/ml (200 ml of nic base + 800 ml of VG and/or PG)
+
1 liter of 15 mg/ml (150 ml of nic base + 850 ml of VG and/or PG)
+
1 liter of 10 mg/ml (100 ml of nic base + 900 ml of VG and/or PG)
+
1 liter of 5 mg/ml ( 50 ml of nic base + 950 ml of VG and/or PG)
All that "VG and/or PG" adds up to less than a gallon.
That's enough for most vapers to comfortably wean off nicotine
over a period of a year or more, and vape zero nic VG and/or PG
after that, without ever going back to smoking tobacco.
I buy it in VG, so if I develop an allergy to PG, I can do 100% VG.
Even if you prefer mostly PG, at the most, an all VG base could
only be 20% VG at 20 mg/ml. But buy it in PG if you prefer. If you
get it in a glass bottle, you can put it in the freezer without even
opening it. It won't expand and break the bottle.
Hopefully, your supplier filled the bottle to the neck so the surface
area exposed to air is minimal. Stand the bottle up in the freezer to
minimize surface area. I do recommend you put it in a heavy-duty
zip-lock bag inside another to contain it if the bottle is broken or
the cap cracks.
You don't have to know how to mix it now--you just have to
have it to be able to learn how to DIY it, if/when you need it.
If panic buying starts, you may not be able to get it anymore.
Propylene Glycol, Vegetable Glycerin, and flavorings will all
still be available. You don't have to buy them now.
You DO need to have a lifeline to keep you off tobacco, if
bottled nicotine becomes difficult or impossible to acquire.
