Carts and Drags?

[vapourhead]

I've been thinking about what a cartridge really is, what a drag really is, and how it correlates to analog smoking.

When I smoked, I smoked at least 25 cigarettes a day. Often -- because I gotta go outside -- I would double down. A typical cigarette for me -- Export 'A' Lights -- was about 12 drags from first light to filter.

Using a 901 or a 510 I am finding that I have a really hard time putting the thing down until the cartridge is empty. Which is typically about 12 - 15 good drags.

I keep reading about people who only need one cart per day, or maybe top up the cart a couple times... This just hasn't been my experience. I plow through about 6-7 carts per day (24 mg tw liquid - cut 60/40 with VG) and drain batteries left and right.

Have I quintupled my addiction to nicotine?

How many good draws do you get from a 510 or 901 cart?
How many carts do you go through in a day?

Kinda worried about myself...

 

[Applejackson]

I haven't counted on my 510, but it's WAAAAAAYY more than 12-15 drags. Also, you're cutting your juice and absorbing way less nic from vapor than smoke. Up your mg and you won't need as much.

 

[cassavetes]

I've wondered the same thing.

I vape 18mg liquid with a cart filled with about 12 drops and am using a 510.

What would be the nicotine intake compared to a Marlboro Lite, or about how many drags would be equal to an ML?

 

[Yosam]

This topic is right on for me at the moment. I hate carts. I don't ever think I get all the juice out and maybe 10-15 drags is right for me too. I top off quite a bit but only get 4-5 drops max before the cart is full again even though it took 12 to fill it at first.

The mg content is another issue. My goal in vaping is to quit. Some want to some don't. I do.

But.... lately I just haven't felt like it's enough. I think higher mg and less vaping may be the key. Gonna try that and see if a cart will last longer.

Yosam

 

[vapourhead]

I think higher mg and less vaping may be the key. Gonna try that and see if a cart will last longer.

This is kind of what prompted my questions in the first place. I don't really want to vape less. I love lounging about vaporizing. I'm ok with the cut liquid, and intend to continue to lower my mg content until perhaps one day I am only vaporizing 0mg liquid. I just loved smoking, and I really love vaporizing even more. It's clean, it tastes lovely, and it's a beautiful thing to watch.

Still, the questions remain:

When you sit down to vaporize, how many drags to do you take before you're "done?"

How many of those drags do you get from a cart?

 

[Yosam]

Done is the real question. Done with my nic needs or done enjoying the act of vaping. So I have seen many folks here say the have a few bottles. Say 1 bottle of high nic for the done with my nic needs and another low or no nic for the relax and enjoy vaping.

Lots of folks here been there done that. I am usually a guy that learns the hard way. Maybe now I get what they mean.

Yosam

 

[nick76]

i vape 2-3ml a day just dip/drip 401 and top off 510 cart, never let the cart run all the way dry to count how many drags.

 

[vapourhead]

Done is the real question. Done with my nic needs or done enjoying the act of vaping.

Oh God! The horror!

Yeah, you nailed it. I think I've been treating a cart, and a battery like a single cigarette... I vaporize, and vaporize, and vaporize until it's dry and dead.

then I consider leaving the house...

I've become a monster.