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Or at least moral support.

I ran out of traditional cigarettes yesterday (Made a pack last five days between two people!). When I ordered my PV, my roomie recommended I purchase 18mg cartos. I've been doing OK until this morning. Old routine has been 2 cups of coffee and 2 cigs, check over my email, take care of a few things, then, if I have things to do, off to the bus stop (this is a one mile walk). This morning, was a touch different, obviously. I had my coffee and vaped untill I felt I had enough. Checked the bus schedules to get me to my meet-up on time, checked the forums and my email and off I went.

About half way I noticed two things; 1) My legs had not started to cramp up like normal, and; 2) If I didn't get nicotine soon, I would start strangling kittens!

Call it a quirk, but I would not smoke while walking, so I do not vape, either, so I held off until I reached the end of my walk. I got myself a hot caffeinated beverage and headed to the bus stop. I arrived way early and had half an hour. I spent most of this time vaping. Like crazy. By the time the bus arrived, the kitten population was safe.

I did, however, burn out a carto WAY earlier than I am happy with.

Now, my reason for starting this was to get me off smoking and then to take care of my nic diction, but do you think my non-FDA approved self medicating is a bit off? Given this little... incident, I think so. Should I move up to a higher rating, or just avoid small animals for a while?
 

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Sorry, don't have much advice. It's really up to you. For you, vaping enough will satiate your appetite. Upping the mg will (in theory) require you to vape less.

What's the worst that can happen? You don't like the higher nic. You can always cut it down afterwards. Or carry a spare bottle of juice so you can top off your carto during the day. (At least in the meantime until you get your higher nic).

Although I shouldn't say too much. 12mg was too much nic for me when I started this adventure.


Congrats on your ecig. Welcome to ecf.
 
I don't trust the FDA for anything but taking tax dollars:)...
Man, I wish they took more if our tax dollars, they might actually be HONEST in their reports!
try some tobacco and ease yourself into the vaping process slowly.
But I'm already starting to breath without sounding like Zamfir giving a concert! I think, tho, if I do do buy another pack, I'll by those British imports I love so much! I think at almost $10 a pack I can limit myself. That should tide me over until the new cartos and juice arrive. Too bad you can't get Sobranie Black Russians in the states any more. I loved those when I was a kid!
 

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But I'm already starting to breath without sounding like Zamfir giving a concert! I think, tho, if I do do buy another pack, I'll by those British imports I love so much! I think at almost $10 a pack I can limit myself. That should tide me over until the new cartos and juice arrive. Too bad you can't get Sobranie Black Russians in the states any more. I loved those when I was a kid!

Personally, I would go with something horrible that you dont want to smoke lest you be tempted to smoke them more and your E-Cig less. Before I realized I needed no smokes with my E-Cig, I was planning on a pack of Benson and Hedges Ultra Light 100s as my "wow, I sure wish I didn't need to smoke these annoying, horrible tasting pieces of..." emergency backup - something I would really hating smoking, you know. Might make it much easier to get off the smokes if you just really cant stand smoking them.
 

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She smoked about a pack or so a day but smoked lights. But she smoked many years. You can't really go by that though.

Regardless of how much you smoked or if they were light cigarettes the addiction is the same. What will get you off the cigs is really individual. I don't think you can know that until you start vaping. She dropped down to 6-12 mg of nicotine now. But for her to quit the cigs that's what she needed at first. I smoked Newport and ordered juice in 12 and 24 figuring I could add to the 12 or decrease the 24. I was good with the 24.
 
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