My issues may not be unique, but not the most common with PG. Seems most people complain of sore throat. With me, it's more like my mouth gets sore all over...kind of like when you burn it on hot soup or pizza or something. When I started vaping, all was good for a month or so. But then when I overdid it, my mouth would get sore like that. Especially if I overdid it, and vaped a lot throughout the day. I was trying to slow down the vaping, using aloe mouth rinses, stuff like that. Thought I was going to have to quit completely. But I'd started diy, and mixing with VG only, it kind of disappeared.
One thing I've noticed with salts that's different from freebase is that salts is very easy to overvape since it's so smooth and tasteless. I've used it both in a pod at 50mg and in my RTA at 5mg. Whereas overvaping freebase gives me a momentary queasy feeling, overvaping salts sometimes gives me a headache, so I've gone back to freebase on my RTA.
That's really odd. Nothing bothers me more when drinking beer.
This interesting. I had the exact opposite reaction. I was vaping 45-50mg off the shelf juice, started diy, bought salts cause that's what I had, but thought I wanted the throat hit at the time, so I bought hit salts. Switched to a Nord 0.6ohm, 30w, and dropped to 30-35mg. Tried some 3mg freebase, and THAT gave me a headache and made me nauseous. Now I vape 3mg, at about 60w hit salts, wish I got the smooth, because it's still too peppery for a simple peach juice with out a clove coverup.
Thank you. The reason I see the misinformation about salts is, to my mind, the bioavailability and metabolic differences. The corelarry my mind goes to is the difference between coffee, tea, Coca-Cola and red-bull. Caffeine, xanthene, and taurene(so?) All affect the body similarly, but there are subtle differences.
In one of Juul's patent filings they give exampe formulations for various strengths -- in all of these, they explicitly reference concentrations in freebase equivalents: that is to say, the 5% (w/w) refers to freebase equivalent nicotine content by weight, not to the nicotine-salt content. For a 10g solution: 0.5g nicotine, 0.38g benzoic acid, 9.12g PG/VG (3:7) --- works out to about 59mg/ml nicotine content by volume.
Ok, so that's juul. When I buy salts from a wholesaler, I don't think it follows the same formula though. Does it?
I was thinking exactly the same.A 5% Nic salt hits harder and faster due it's chemistry,this doesn't mean it contains 50mg free base in it.I wish that somebody could do a nicotine test at Juul e-liquids.
Have to ask your supplier/wholesaler --- I know several explicity mention "nicotine content" (not "nicotine-benzoate" content or "nicotine-otherSalt" content) in mg/ml on their labels and presumably mean just that (there are laws about labelling chemical content in most countries I think).
