A little advice needed...

[jmccoy67]

I've been smoking since I was 12; I'm 32 years old now. I quit while I was pregnant with Blu 0mg nicotine ecigs for the rough moments. I was successful and rarely ever needed it. I started smoking again 2 months after having my son and have been up to around half a pack a day of lights.

Yesterday, I bought a starter kit from a local shop by my house. Ego battery with a clearomizer tank and 12mg 98%VG tobacco flavored liquid. (I had tried ecigs a long time ago and pg burns my throat too much)

My issue is I want to puff on the ecig ALL DAY. I start feeling weird after a while and stop, but then start craving a real cig. I was considering moving down to a 6mg or even a 0mg eliquid so I could puff all day and have a spare with nicotine in it for the real cravings. Is this a terrible an idea? How likely is it that I can OD on nicotine?

 

[wv2win]

The average nicotine strength used based on polls is 16mg - 24mg, so you should have little to no concern.

You are probably vaping all the time because your eliquid nicotine strength is too low. I would try bumping it up so as to satisfy your need. Some people vape one level (say 12mg - 16mg) for most of the day and then have a carto or clearo available with 18mg - 24mg for those times when they need a little more kick.

Vaping is less efficient in getting nicotine into your system than smoking.

 

[Spazmelda]

A lot of people vape a lot in the beginning. If you are still craving a cigarette I don't know if you should move down in nicotine strength just yet, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try it.

We don't have a lot of research yet to determine how much nicotine we get from ecigs compared to vaping, but most of the data seems to indicate that we don't get near as much nicotine from vaping as we did from smoking (based on cotinine levels).

Do you have any idea how many millimeters of the 12 mg/ml juice you are going through in a day?

Stupid guesstimate math below:
I go through about 3-4 ml of 12 mg/ml a day. So, if I figure 3 ml of 12 mg/ml a day, that puts me at 36 mg/day. I'm awake about 16 hours a day, so the average would be 2.25 mg/hour. If we guess that vaping only delivers ~30% of the nicotine available (and that's probably an overestimate) that would put me at an average of 0.67 mg delivered nicotine per hour. A cigarette delivers somewhere around 1 mg/cigarette (cigarettes only deliver about 10% of their available nicotine, and nicotine content and delivery vary between brands). I'm making an educated guess about how much nicotine is absorbed from vaping, and there are a lot of variables, so this could be way off, but it does provide some sort of comparison.

 

[MotoBlue]

The first symptoms of too much nicotine are a headache, abdominal pains and the runs. I would think it difficult to ignore those symptoms and continue taking in more nicotine. If you are still craving a cigarette perhaps you need to increase your nic strength and make a point of not keeping it in your hand.

 

[AttyPops]

I've been smoking since I was 12; I'm 32 years old now. I quit while I was pregnant with Blu 0mg nicotine ecigs for the rough moments. I was successful and rarely ever needed it. I started smoking again 2 months after having my son and have been up to around half a pack a day of lights.

Yesterday, I bought a starter kit from a local shop by my house. Ego battery with a clearomizer tank and 12mg 98%VG tobacco flavored liquid. (I had tried ecigs a long time ago and pg burns my throat too much)

My issue is I want to puff on the ecig ALL DAY. I start feeling weird after a while and stop, but then start craving a real cig. I was considering moving down to a 6mg or even a 0mg eliquid so I could puff all day and have a spare with nicotine in it for the real cravings. Is this a terrible an idea? How likely is it that I can OD on nicotine?

Not uncommon at all.

Also, some zero mg is a great idea. I should do that too, but I don't

You CAN get a bit over-nic'ed. It happens. But it's real hard to terminally OD on it. If you start getting sweats and clammy feelings and you've been vaping a lot, put it down. Search for nicotine overdose effects. There's a thread here somewhere.

 

[fccwpe]

I went through the same thing. I have figured out that for me, having the e-cig nearby and being able to vape whenever you want is the culprit.

With a tobacco cig you have to make that 5-10 minute commitment and then you're done until you feel like another. With an ecig each drag is "on-demand." There is no 5-10 minute commitment so it is very easy to never put it down because there is no final act of crushing the but in the ashtray. There is no "should I light another or wait until I really want it," it's always there.

I have learned to watch how much I am vaping and gauge how I feel. If I feel like I have had too much then I put my rig in another area of the room/house so I have to make that conscious effort (like lighting up) to go and get it. After a while I was able to look at my rig and say "nah, not yet."

My advice is leave it 5 or so feet away so you have to get up and get it if you want to vape. After time you'll be able to say "nah, not just yet..." as well.

 

[Bill Oso]

I just made the complete switch from tobacco to e-cigs 12 days ago and puff all day long (I read on here that most newbies do). However, it's a different frequency than with traditional cigarettes. With regular cigs, it would be puff after puff, back to back, for 10 minutes straight. With the e-cig it's more like a puff puff here, a puff puff there, here a puff, there a puff... lol (ex. five minutes in between puffs).

Eventually I will try to treat the e-cig more like a traditional cigarette and only puff on it every hour or so, but not yet. Maybe you need a better unit to be satisfied. The first e-cig i bought was also some eGo knock off from the traditional tobacco store. It was junk and I was still smoking maybe 4-5 real cigs a day using it until I got a better model from online.