always been a 0mg nic vaper, thinking of changing that

[yinsen]

little bit of context here, I'll keep it brief!

my body is quite resistant to physiological addiction, and the day I ordered my first vape 8 months ago I quit a long-term ten a day rollie habit overnight with no problems (the vape didn't arrive til a fortnight after) and haven't touched bacco in any form since. for this reason I've only ever used zero nicotine because my body didn't need the nicotine so I figured if I could avoid dependence I should take advantage of that.

however.. the lack of vape satisfaction is creeping up on me. I went from a provari with a nautilus to a provari with a kayfun, to a kicked nemesis with a kayfun, to unkicked, to a RDA with a standard single microcoil, to dual, to subohming twisted kanthal duals. even with the nice toasty vape I'm getting from this, with a variety of yum flavours, I'm starting to feel unsatisfied and it's bothering me. I've tried throat hit enhancers (basically just seems like chilli juice to me) to no avail, the closest I can get to a throat hit is a strong menthol flavour, which I adore but don't always feel like.

I guess I'm asking you lovely people for two things:

1. what are your personal thoughts? I know it's my decision and all, but does it seem like a bad idea to you? I'm all ears to any criticism or vibes. and...

2. if I do decide to start using nicotine, how would I go about introducing it? I would only want a tiny amount just to get a little throat satisfaction, I wouldn't want to go past 3 or 6mg. all my juices are 100%vg 0nic, could I just buy a bottle of raw VG nic base and add some to my current juices? I just put in a big MBV order last week and it would be a shame for it to become redundant.

I'm sorry for being verbose, and thanks so much for reading and sharing your thoughts!

 

[Israfil]

If you can get really high nicotine levels (like 100mg/ml) in that pure nic base then you should probably be ok adding some. Make sure to calculate it carefully, wear gloves, and don't let it touch your skin undiluted. I'd recommend getting some small bottles to test mixes in and see if its diluting the flavor too much, because it will dilute it a little.

Another way would be to buy higher nic juice in the flavors you like from MBV, roughly double your goal, then mix them 50/50 to achieve your goal level. Doing that would (theoretically) prevent any flavor loss through adding unflavored nic to the mix.

Sometimes adding nicotine for your throat hit is the only way...personally I like the effects of nicotine on my body, so I'm a little biased.

 

[readeuler]

I guess I'm asking you lovely people for two things:

1. what are your personal thoughts? I know it's my decision and all, but does it seem like a bad idea to you? I'm all ears to any criticism or vibes. and...

2. if I do decide to start using nicotine, how would I go about introducing it? I would only want a tiny amount just to get a little throat satisfaction, I wouldn't want to go past 3 or 6mg. all my juices are 100%vg 0nic, could I just buy a bottle of raw VG nic base and add some to my current juices? I just put in a big MBV order last week and it would be a shame for it to become redundant.

I'm sorry for being verbose, and thanks so much for reading and sharing your thoughts!

1) Nicotine up, my friend! Congrats on quitting without it, that's quite the feat. But if you want to add nicotine, why not?

2) I have a feeling you can totally rescue that MBV order, especially since you'll probably only want < 6mg/ml. I would follow Israfil, and get some 100mg/ml nicotine base. The high concentration just helps because it will dilute your juice the least: If you ordered 12mg/ml base, you'd need to dilute your juice 50/50, and lose half the flavor. But for 6mg/ml with 100mg/ml base, only 6% of your mixture needs to be the nic base, and you retain 94% of the flavor. It's quite easy to add 0.6ml with a 1ml syringe if you're making 10ml dilutions, so don't be afraid that 100mg/ml will be too hard to work with. It's even easier to be accurate if you're diluting larger volumes of your MBV juice.

You'd just need a syringe and a blunt-tip needle, 14 gauge is thick enough for VG, and some nicotine base. It can be had pretty cheaply from places like Wizard Labs, although it can take approximately a week to process. Plenty of other places sell nicotine base as well. I'd reckon you can rescue the MBV juice for as little as... $20 maybe? And have plenty of nicotine to spare.

 

[crxess]

Thought you didn't need it?
Your Mind seems to disagree.

45+yrs and hell giving up the habit - But vaping changed all that. Has taken me 2 years to get to 3mg and 1mg on drippers. Would love to not need.