DIY Nic Salts for Sub-Ohm Vaping

I use nic salts at 3 mg. I like it better. There really wasn't much throat hit with freebase nic but there is not with the salt. Seems to satisfy a little better too. But could just be expectation there.

 

Should have mentioned that I did also try it at 6mg and still no TH. But chain vaping 6 mg soon gave me a headache so cut it back to 3 mg.

 

I certainly wouldn't discard freebase nic to use salt at 3mg either. I used up my freebase nic before switching to nic salt.

 

I use nic salts but at a much higher percentage (18%). I chose them for the lack of throat hit, which is what I wanted. With that said, I'm not sure you are going to notice huge, remarkable differences at 3 m.g. They may be slightly more bioavailable more quickly, but I think their main function is being able to go very high in nicotine (like the 50 mg/ml in Juul pods) without harshness, and at that level they'd probably give satiation/nic overload rather quickly if over vaped, although that's kind of hard to do with a Juul.

I don't think there's anything really magical about them at sub0hm percentages, but some folks just seem to prefer them, and I am one of them.

Anna

 

@stols001 I think they do absorb faster or at least seem to for me. A little more satisfying. Then again this could just be expectation. Seems to be a slight difference though.

 

I'd probably agree. The difference is so slight for me, even at 18%, I kind of wonder if it's real. I'd imagine it just becomes more and more noticeable at higher percentages, and I do have a couple mods I am considering lowering the nic in, just because they're quite airy. They aren't "the next best thing to a cigarette" or anything as far as head rushes or anything else. Maybe at 50 mg/ml they are but I don't think I will be mixing THAT.

Anna

 

At 3mg Pam I doubt the salts are noticeably smoother. Your son may pick it up at 6mg, I know I do at 8-9mg.

 

After vaping nic salts at 3mg for a few months I tried to use freebase at 3mg and hacked up a lung. The difference is noticeable as hell to me, but it wasn't initially - took getting used to the salts and going back to freebase to feel a difference. Literally can't vape freebase anymore, it makes me cough.

 

I have only used salts with diy and have no intentions of using freebase. I'll keep in mind your experience with it when posting.

 

Totally agree. At 6mg I noticed it right away as I normally use 3mg freebase. Had to cut it back to 3mg. I am able to tolerate it there but don't have a lot of noticeable difference. Who knows, it may help to preserve the eliquid a little longer than usual....

 

Your avatar is cool as hell.

 

Problem with vaping at 3mg in a DL device is salts de-protonate when heated and re-protonate as it cools further down stream in the lungs. Given that freebase is readily absorbed in the mouth and upper airway, sucking it in at rapid rate before its had a chance to absorb may be counter productive, and you might be better off using freebase at 3mg in a DL device so the alveoli can suck it up like a fat kid in a cake shop.

 

I use nic salts at 6 to 6.5 mg. at subohm. And i do the cloud thing as well. Sometimes i get big nicotine rushes, sometimes i dont. Sometimes i even black out. Ha ha just kidding, i dont black out. Sounded good tho. But seriously, its pretty smooth, i feel the nicotine faster, quite nice in fact. Definitely helps slow down chain vaping habit too. Who in their right mind wants to black out while driving anyway.