Hacking a lung up with high VG juices

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Don't think the gums gonna do it for you, myself have gone back to where i came in, after a good few years of sub ohm vaping started to develop tinnitus,so now 1ohm coil 12watts 12mg nic v/g 10% water, now all is good,
so this is worth a try, lets hope you don't go back to the nasty sticks.

You're so right. I bought some gum today and it made me feel like vaping. It made me feel like I had smoked a cigarette. Way too much nicotine, even though I split the piece in half.

I was doing 6mg 60pg/40vg or 70/30 at 5 watts or so ;) and that was fine. With a 3ohm coil! Don't laugh, but I still use Vivi Novas. At least I don't use cartomizers anymore ;)
 

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I liked the taste of EC Blend's flavors, but they smelled like alcohol!

Some e juice flavoring is alcohol based. If you couldn't taste it though, (alcohol) then it was probably just heavy on flavoring (therefore perfumey) and not actually alcohol based.
 

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The Breeze is not very good for MTL with the sub ohm coil and too large an air hole. It’s been discussed here that they now realize this through customer feedback. They are supposedly developing an above ohm coil for it, which might improve the device a lot.
If you want to try MTL with the Breeze, take your finger and partially block the air hole on the side.
That really helps! Thank you. Even with the air hole partially blocked it's a really strong vape with 6mg. juice. And not very flavorful. I'm guessing that's why people use 3mg.
 

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Some e juice flavoring is alcohol based. If you couldn't taste it though, (alcohol) then it was probably just heavy on flavoring (therefore perfumey) and not actually alcohol based.
It didn't taste perfumey (I hate that!). I tried several flavors and they all tasted great. I think the first few puffs were alchohol-y
 
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I saw my doctor today. She said the Pulmonologists and Cardiologists she knows are now finding out that vaping does the same thing to their patients' lungs and hearts that smoking does:( !

My doctor is at a big university teaching hospital. She said this is a very recent discovery. Bleck!
 
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That really helps! Thank you. Even with the air hole partially blocked it's a really strong vape with 6mg. juice. And not very flavorful. I'm guessing that's why people use 3mg.
Yep. It’s not the best set up for MTL. It is a great unit for a 3 or 4 hour event in which you want to be sneaky stealth. No one even knows you have it in your hand. I was told in another thread they are developing 2 above ohm coils for it. Too many shortcomings for all day use. You can’t see the liquid level very well. Adding juice when you’re out is messy. Poor battery life. Don’t ever fill above the red line. Big oops.
 

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Yep. It’s not the best set up for MTL. It is a great unit for a 3 or 4 hour event in which you want to be sneaky stealth. No one even knows you have it in your hand. I was told in another thread they are developing 2 above ohm coils for it. Too many shortcomings for all day use. You can’t see the liquid level very well. Adding juice when you’re out is messy. Poor battery life. Don’t ever fill above the red line. Big oops.
I don't find it to be that great for stealth vaping -- it's so darn noisy! Plus it makes lots of clouds. I LOVE that it's so small, though. Then again, the battery charge doesn't last nearly as long as my little eLeaf minis do. Yeah adding juice is messy. I am surprised my vape shop guy sold me the Aspire Breeze when I told him I want to get out of the stone age of vaping. It's the worst mod I've ever bought.
 
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Every vape shop employee I see has one. They call it their fiddle around unit. For some reason they all have 3 battery mods, but like to fiddle around with these.

Take a hit, hold it, and blow it inside your shirt. Lol. Stealth. Then close your hand around the device so nobody sees.

I quit using mine.
 
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Every vape shop employee I see has one. They call it their fiddle around unit. For some reason they all have 3 battery mods, but like to fiddle around with these.

Take a hit, hold it, and blow it inside your shirt. Lol. Stealth. Then close your hand around the device so nobody sees.

I quit using mine.
Why did you quit using yours? I have one battery mod I still use. A Zmax! Old but it works.
 
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Why did you quit using yours? I have one battery mod I still use. A Zmax! Old but it works.
I discovered the Innokin Endura T18 and T22. This device replicates smoking almost exactly. However, it fires at a fixed 14 watts. My wife is very sensitive and found the 14 watts too harsh. So I bought her an Eleaf iStick 30w. I put her T18 tank on the iStick and let her adjust to where she is comfortable. She ended up at 8.5 watts.
 

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I discovered the Innokin Endura T18 and T22. This device replicates smoking almost exactly. However, it fires at a fixed 14 watts. My wife is very sensitive and found the 14 watts too harsh. So I bought her an Eleaf iStick 30w. I put her T18 tank on the iStick and let her adjust to where she is comfortable. She ended up at 8.5 watts.
That's interesting! Last night when I went on an ordering binge, I bought another eleaf istick mini - 10W. They only go up to 5 volts. I bet your wife would love them. They're so tiny they fit in the palm of my hand. I'll look for the T18. I think I need to stop using the Vivi Novas! They have plastic tanks and whatever the wick is made of is probably yucky. I never got into making my own coils, I just buy them.

Meanwhile, I hacked up another lung today. Seriously gross, sorry for the visual. We all should probably quit, you know that.
 

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Please don't say what we all "should" do, when it comes to quitting. I think it's fine for you to quit if you feel so inclined, but I'm pretty sure quitting would lead me back to cigarettes rather rapidly, and that's something I care to avoid. I don't know about your doc's "oh so recent" findings, but I'd love to know her methodology in this discovery, as I don't agree with it and it is not supported by other research that I've read. No offense.

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Smoking masks thyroid issues in some, I had to up my thyroid med when I quit smoking, was unable to comprehend why I was glued to the couch for a while there. That's not an unreasonable test at all, though you've been quit for a while, so IDK.

Did the doc actually test anything at all, or just tell you vaping sucked and toss you out of the office? Cuz mine woulda marched me over for a chest X-ray and probably some other testing. You may well be missing what the problem actually is, if your doctor only bothered to spend the time *you* were paying for telling you that it was vaping and how terrible it is. What if you have developed pneumonia/lung cancer/other terrible things from vaping that she said were just NEW DATA? You'd think she'd be doing some checking, I'd think, if it's THAT bad.

I will tell you NONE of my docs would have let me leave without follow up. They are highly alert to the state of my lungs due to my *smoking* habits, not vaping habits. :)

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Please don't say what we all "should" do, when it comes to quitting. I think it's fine for you to quit if you feel so inclined, but I'm pretty sure quitting would lead me back to cigarettes rather rapidly, and that's something I care to avoid. I don't know about your doc's "oh so recent" findings, but I'd love to know her methodology in this discovery, as I don't agree with it and it is not supported by other research that I've read. No offense.

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No offense taken! How long have you been off analogs? Congratulations for not smoking. What my doctor meant was other doctors told her about their patients. No research, no discovery, just personal conversation. Sorry about the 'should' statement. I was wrong to say that. For me, here's how I started vaping. I quit smoking for ten years. I got cocky and started bumming cigarettes every few months here and there. Then I was taking an art class, and all the 'cool kids' and the teacher went outside for smoke breaks. I bought them all a pack to pay them back for all the cigarettes I bummed, and ended up buying myself a pack too. Six months later, I was still smoking, but only got up to half a pack a day. Much better than my 1 1/2 pack a day previous habit, but enough to know I was back to smoking. I researched how to quit and couldn't find much except vaping. This was back in 2011. I've been vaping now for 6 years. I really don't want to go back to smoking, I love vaping. But every cell in my body says it's time to quit.
 

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Coughing & clearing throat = go see a decent doctor & get your thyroid checked, especially if you've ever had problems before, like thyroid nodules.

I've heard that about thyroid, and it makes sense. I have had thyroid issues since I was 4 years old, so I do see an endocrinologist regularly.
 
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