Has your nicotine levels increased or decreased?

[TheJester]

Over-time from when you started using your e-cigarettes, has the concentration of nicotine increased, stayed the same or decreased?

Some people may prefer stronger liquids in the morning/night, but over-all has their been any changes?

Over the past two or so months I started vaping mine has decreased. I started at 18mg/mL and now I'm down to 6-9mg/mL depending on the day. It's not because I had too or wanted to reduce it, I just drifted that way.

 

[93gc40]

You do realize that most people will decease the amount of nicotine concentration in thier juice due to vaping at higher power levels........ They will consider that as a decrease in usage, even though there may actaully be an INCREASE in both usage and dosage, simply due to more effective atomization and vaporization. resulting in increased juice consumption.

 

[bobwho77]

Recently dropped nic strength from 24 mg/ml to 18 mg/ml, though my actual dosage may be then same/higher since I've also upgraded my equipment to use higher wattage.

 

[TheJester]

93gc40 you're definitely right. This wasn't for like a scientific survey I was just curious what has happened to other people in general.

I was mostly curious because when I switched to e-cigs then had to switch back(device failure) I had to use a higher nicotine strength to get back off of cigarettes.

 

[sbc83]

Overall i've dropped. I still vape around 3.7v/6-7watts. Started at 16-18mg and am now at 8-10mg. Power has stayed the same but did drop down to 1.8ohm coils (vs 2.5) 4 months after I started.

 

[SamH94]

You do realize that most people will decease the amount of nicotine concentration in thier juice due to vaping at higher power levels........ They will consider that as a decrease in usage, even though there may actaully be an INCREASE in both usage and dosage, simply due to more effective atomization and vaporization. resulting in increased juice consumption.

As with myself, I say mine fluctuates, I started with 18mg, now I use 12mg exclusively on one device and 6 or 12mg on another. Also for some reason I keep nicotine lower in the mornings and turn in to a fog machine in the evenings!

 

[Puff2K]

I'm very new but I discovered that my 18 mg liquid is too high. I ordered a menthol at 3 or 8 mg (can't remember right now) and I'm looking forward to getting it. I'm not 100% off cigarettes yet.

 

[93gc40]

As with myself, I say mine fluctuates, I started with 18mg, now I use 12mg exclusively on one device and 6 or 12mg on another. Also for some reason I keep nicotine lower in the mornings and turn in to a fog machine in the evenings!

Thats just it... You may not be fluctuating at all.. If the lower nic juice is used in a more efficient device than the higher nic juice, the result may be MORE nic per puff than the higher nic juice.

 

[TXBiker]

Thats just it... You may not be fluctuating at all.. If the lower nic juice is used in a more efficient device than the higher nic juice, the result may be MORE nic per puff than the higher nic juice.

Exactly. I was at 12mg nic until I got my rba and a better mod. I built a .7 dual coil and used the 12mg because it was all that I had that day. The nic rush was rough and my normal vaping made me slightly sick from it. I went the next day and got 6mg nic juice and that cured it for the most part.

 

[RavenZ]

I started at 24mg nic and stopped smoking cigs after 3 days of vaping. Within 2 weeks 1 had dropped to 18mg, then 2 weeks 12mg, 2 weeks later 6mg which i stayed with for a few months, and now have dropped to 3mg.

 

[WickedSick]

Since I started my nic level has been progressively dropping and I am hoping to go to 0 before the end of the year, but there is no hurry .

 

[renacer]

Went from 18 to 12 to 6 and I've been using mostly similar hardware except for the awful starter set that was my first.

 

[Vapenstein]

You do realize that most people will decease the amount of nicotine concentration in thier juice due to vaping at higher power levels........ They will consider that as a decrease in usage, even though there may actaully be an INCREASE in both usage and dosage, simply due to more effective atomization and vaporization. resulting in increased juice consumption.

Absolutely this. Vaping got me off cigarettes. I still smoke a cigar after dinner and I take nasal snuff. Having used nicotine in all its forms for most of my life I'll tell you that cigars and snuff deliver more nic than any other means of using tobacco. Like anything else, you build a tolerance. I never feel a cigar, but the cigar every now and then type sure does, and an non-cigar smoker would get sick and/or have to go lay down.

That's the long setup for me telling you that as someone who chain vaped 18-24mg for over 4 years and who has a high tolerance for nicotine, when I started vaping subohm I could vape myself sick on 3mg. Today's gear is much better at vaporizing juice. I adapted and don't feel 3mg now, but I still buy 2mg when it's an option. All that tells me is my body can handle even more than the massive amounts of nicotine it was formerly used to, which isn't what I'm shooting for. I'm willing to medicate myself into a normal bp and heart rate to indulge my nicotine vice, but let's not push it.

Tl;dr even 3mg can be a lot of nic depending how you vape

 

[cinetrope]

I went from 24mg to 18mg on my first 30 ml of usage, then from 18mg to 12mg over the course of my next 90 ml. That's where I've ever since (except for one of my favorite juice companies who mixes to 11mg...hint, hint...)

 

[Rossum]

I answered "Stayed the same". Strictly speaking, that's not true. I started at 18 with some occasional hits of 24 to fight cravings. Once I stopped needing the 24, I tried dropping to 12. That was unsatisfying and I never put my gear down, so I mixed the 12 with an equal amount of 18 giving me 15 and that's where I've been for over a year, despite upgrades in gear from Pro Tanks to Kayfuns to bottom-feeders with small-chambered atties. FWIW, I'm strictly an MTL vaper. My days of lung-hitting anything ended when I left college 35 years ago.

Now for my most recent purchase, I spec'd 12 again, but will be mixing it 50/50 with some 15 I already have, yielding 13.5. Maybe, just maybe, I'll be down to 12 in another year.

 

[DC2]

Before the advent of setups that were more effective at delivering nicotine, anecdotal evidence made it pretty clear that most were decreasing nicotine levels.
The advent of such setups clouds the picture quite a bit, but the underlying reality is probably the same as it was then.

As for me, I've stayed exactly the same over the course of nearly six years.
I'm still using the same setup, and I'm not budging from my 12mg content that I started on.

But then I have absolutely no plans to reduce my nicotine intake.
In fact, I specifically intend to not do so.

Unfortunately, my URGE to have some nicotine has become pretty much non-existent.
So I generally have to remember to vape these days.

 

[Jugband]

I also have no plans to drop to zero. But I have lowered from 12 to 6. That's only credited to a more effective delivery system as mentioned above. At 12 I was using clearomizers now I use strictly RDA's.

 

[pennysmalls]

When I first started vaping I began with 24 and 18mg juices but quickly figured out those were way to high, like with a few weeks I dropped to 12. I've been at 12 for the remainder of the time I've been vaping, roughly 19 months. I've stuck with 12 through ego/clearomizers, provari/dripping atty and now bottom feeding with RDA's at sub ohm levels. I've tried to go down but begin to feel unsatisfied right away. I'm quite happy with 12.

 

[Ctufankjian]

Decreased. I'd like to be Vaping at 6 consistently though.

 

[cloudykitty]

I've been at 12mg since I started but I'm going to try one flavor in 6 and see how that goes.