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[cherrypopwizkid]

Hey everyone,

I've been gone for a while. I was a bit of a traitor. I went back to analogs for a bit, and then quit entirely. I made it five days when the psychological craving was just to much. When I was at wits end I decided better the e-cig than a real cig, and I picked it back up and have stuck to it. It helps but it isn't 100% the same and this I knew, but there is one thing I don't quite get...

Has anyone here gotten dizzy the way you do with an analog if you don't smoke it for a long time and then have one? I mean the can't stand up straight feeling? I have never gotten that with an e-cig, am I doing it wrong?

 

[FRESH x913x]

its gonna take a bit more to get that with an e-cig. theres a few posts around of studies showing that you dont get as much nicotine using the e-cig as you do with a analog.

i havent gotten that feeling yet using the e-cig and im always vaping, it always in my mouth.

 

[Walrus]

Dizziness is a sign of nicotine OD. Maybe use a lower concentration?

[edit] Maybe I read that wrong. You want the dizziness? Maybe use a higher concentration?

 

[cherrypopwizkid]

sometimes yes I do. The dizziness equates to relaxation for me from the nicotine. Most of the time its just to still cravings, but yeah when your angry, drunk, or just haven't had one in a while you expect to get dizzy. This friday I am ordering the 36 from wicked e-liquid, probably camel flavor, I have a good feeling about that one.

 

[willsgirlie]

I don't think you will get that, I saw a thread the other day kinda about the same thing.. nobody seems to get the head rush... all the same it still satisfies my cravings

 

[Surf Monkey]

I can get it if I take a bunch of drags in a very short time. It comes on slowly, though.

This seems to have to do with a couple of factors. First is that nicotine in vapor isn't absorbed through the lungs as readily as nicotine in smoke. Instead it's absorbed through the mucous membranes in the mouth and sinuses. That means that it gets into the blood much slower. Second is the fact that the cigarette manufacturers put additives in the tobacco to increase the PH, which causes it to be absorbed even faster. When you hit a cigarette you get a LOT of nicotine hitting your brain very quickly. When you hit a vaporizer you get far less nicotine hitting the brain much slower. At least, that's what the existing research suggests.

Bottom line here is that you're probably not going to get that dizzy, can't stand up rush from vapor. If you want to maximize your nicotine intake, you should hold the vapor in your mouth for a little bit before breathing it in. Take a lot of hits in a short period. It's not going to hit you all at once, but you can (if your chemistry is like mine) get to a dizzy feeling doing it that way... but it's rare.

 

[mamu]

I get the dizzy nauseous surreal thing when I vaped 36 mg.

Maaannn... I can't believe anyone actually wants to experience that??

Took me a while to get my land legs back.

 

[cherrypopwizkid]

Are you serious? lol. If it wasn't for the addiction and the habit it would be the only reason to smoke. When I first started smoking analogs at 20, I spent a week not inhaling and I didn't realize I just wasn't doing it. Then on the way to work one night I did inhale, still not realizing the difference, and BAM it hit me like a ton of breaks. No one ever told me about this so I got scared. I actually texted my girlfriend at the time and said "I think there is something wrong with this cigarette! I think its laced!" lol, I was so nieve back then. When I was working two jobs for a couple of months I didn't get to take very many smoke breaks, which meant I looked forward to that dizzy feeling.

I'd also like it because frankly without having it occasionally I don't know that I'm smoking. My cravings are milder with the vapor, they are not deplited. Getting that kind of hit would be a comfort to me. But I'll get over it. I am still unclear about what exactly a throat hit is but I had assumed the reason you other vaporteers have been questing for it so vigorously is BECAUSE it gives you that dizzy feeling. Guess I was wrong.

 

[openthewell]

Some people like the head change that comes with, say, the first cigarette of the day. I personally don't understand it, but I have yet to experience it with 16 mg or 24mg juice. Maybe 36mg juice will do it, but I don't understand the point of purposely introducing an over abundance of nicotine in your system on purpose. To each his own I suppose.

 

[cherrypopwizkid]

Addictive personality I suppose. Same reason people purposely get drunk or high. But with nicotine at least it doesn't last to long and it doesn't make you dysfunctional. Its just relaxing. But I can see how it would be the oppisite too.

 

[Adik Ted]

I'd like to get it myself but these things have a long way to go. 36 mg won't give you what you want.