heavy vaping? too much?

[ltrainer]

I started vaping about 6 weeks ago. I have kept track of my juice volumes and I am vaping 6ml a day of 24mg strength. Is there anyone else vaping this much? I smoked 2-2.5 packs a day. I see most vape about 2-3ml day. Am I crazy? I'm using an eGo with mega cartridgess and go through 3 to 4 a day. Most of the time when I top them off they take at least 50 drops of liquid.

All that being said, I feel great, much better than when I was doing cigarettes.

 

[Sdh]

I vape 36mg 2-8mg daily. (depends). I am now just ordering 24mg. I tried 24mg when I started and found too many withdrawel signs/symptoms. (July)

 

[Automaton]

There's no such thing as vaping too much, unless you shouldn't be vaping nicotine at all - which would be if you have a serious heart condition. Nicotine is a stimulant, and like drinking coffee, it is a mild strain on your heart. For a healthy person, this strain is pretty minor and no real reason for concern.

Also keep in mind not all of that juice is making it into the atty. Carts hold on to some juice. The bigger the cart, the more they hold on to. They don't vape dry.

I have seen other people vape as much as you do - and higher nic, too. None of them are dead yet.

Don't worry. Not smoking? Great.

 

[Sdh]

An interesting read would be the nicotrol pdf file on pfizers page. One can just type in Nicotrol inhaler. The pharmacology behind the study of these inhalers would be similar to e-cigarettes? Maybe? Anyhow check it out. Or pm me I have a pdf file I could send via email to anyone interested.

 

[banjo]

I consider my vaping to be fairly heavy, but I only go through 2 to 3ml of 24mg a day - 6ml a day seems way high to me.

 

[WomanOfHeart]

I think I go through around 3-5ml per day. It depends on how much time I spend in front of the computer.

 

[Vapmire]

I think I vape about 4ml 36mg nic daily..

My next batch of liquid will vary between 16mg-36mg..

As MistressNomad said.. Not smoking?? Great

 

[GenMan]

Seems consistent with what I vape. Pack and a half a day smoker before vaping now doing about 4ml of 18mg a day.

 

[Heartbskts]

I smoked 1.5 pad and have been vaping for 2 months. I am currently still vaping @ 30mg nic and use about 4ml juice a day. I am thinking about cutting my nic levels a little at a time, but nothing too drastic to start with. Maybe cut by 2mg increments at a time?

 

[zenoland]

I was at 2 PAD and I vape a lot when I'm at home, where I also work. I can easily go thru 5-8 ml (mostly 18mg nic) a day, including some spillage that happens. I use the 901 whistle type cartridges on my 2 eGos so I'm constantly adding drops to the cartridges. (I've tried cartomizers and such but decided this is what I prefer.) I still feel much better than before and sleep a lot better.

 

[Liv2Ski]

I run about 10mls per day. Below is clipped from one of my posts a few days ago when the same question was asked. The reply was when someone questioned if I was drinking the stuff:

I am using LR atty's which are noted juice whores to begin with. I can also vape at my desk all day. Figure there are 25 drops/ml in my DIY mixes that is 250 drops. 5 nice 6 second draws per 3 drop charge on LR so that is about 80 charges. 80 charges is about 400 draws. This is very doable (About 23 to 24 draws per hour) when my average day is 17 to 18 hours. I hope that helps with the curiosity. Of course this is average and I could have stated my usage as 6 - 12 mls per day

BTW - I vape 9-10mg/ml juice

 

[Kate51]

When I first started, I needed to go to 24mg juice to keep the panic away, was vaping constantly. I was buying and using 3 to 4 -30ml bottles of it every month, which would give me a consumption of 3-4 milligrams a day. But after the second month, after initial withdrawal was diminishing, I started being more aware of my nicotine intake, so started decreasing the mg nicotine, by 25% ~ I did that twice, now down to 6 or 12 mg juice, with no panic, no further withdrawal. I began DIY so I could keep cutting down, and in the process also dropped juice consumption to 1½-2ml per day!! I feel like I'm still vaping heavily, but am now after about 19 months, I have to go look for my PV once in awhile! That never happened to me when I was smoking, I never lost track of them. In fact, I was smoking more and more, and killing myself in the process. Panic was the factor I couldn't deal with alone.
So the main thing I think is to be open to reducing nic density, and just let the vaping cadence play itself out, don't set goals that will endanger the "comfort" zone you're building and expanding every day by vaping. The panic factor can definitely rear it's head again if you do that. Then we find ourselves back-sliding a bit.
That's the biggest trouble with conventional 'stop smoking' efforts. That just exacerbates and emphasizes the discomfort zones. Expecially if "conventional" means using someone else's "guidelines".
It is an extemely personal phenomenon to find your sweet spot, make sure it's not a challenge to your goal, instead of just accepting your vaping as a place where you are at the moment. There are days when stress plays a role in how much you rely on your PV, but there is always going to be stress. Your way of dealing with it will change now, as there is life after smoking, and life will continue to be something we have to 'grow' into!
With vaping, I'm not quite ready to stop yet, but "life" is becoming so much better I know now I can deal with stress much much easier than I ever have. My comfort zone has grown, my panic zone dispersed into it !! I also have lived with ADD all my life, to me this "comfort" thing is BIG. I smoked for 44 years, 2-3 or more PAD. That's how big this is!

[edit] And by the way, my plasma level of nicotine is at about a level of 100 ng/l, down from about 4000 + ng/l before I started vaping. I can live with that. Literally.

 

[iJax]

Don't look at the mg since that deals with transfer at the alveoli ( Pulmonary alveolus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ) At 2- 2.5 packs of analogs a day...your lungs are coated with tar, you are vaping a lot less mg then you think, but don't jump up in mg to compensate for that. Your lungs will clear and then the higher mg will become a poison to you...stay at your level or decrease over time . You can decrease your ml per day by altering your PG/VG content, how long you hold the vapor in, how long your drag is. In a couple months if you wanted you cold drop your mg down and increasing your VG. Its all very personal so what works for you will not work for another

 

[Tam323]

Hi ltrainer. I vape between 4-5 ml of 26mg e-juice a day. I find that this works for me because if I go any lower on the mg of e-juice, I don't get the throat hit I like and if I vape less than the 4-5 ml a day, I don't feel satisfied. Oh and I am very new to vaping just by itself w/o smoking analogs too.

 

[silkakc]

When I first started, I needed to go to 24mg juice to keep the panic away, was vaping constantly. I was buying and using 3 to 4 -30ml bottles of it every month, which would give me a consumption of 3-4 milligrams a day. But after the second month, after initial withdrawal was diminishing, I started being more aware of my nicotine intake, so started decreasing the mg nicotine, by 25% ~ I did that twice, now down to 6 or 12 mg juice, with no panic, no further withdrawal. I began DIY so I could keep cutting down, and in the process also dropped juice consumption to 1½-2ml per day!! I feel like I'm still vaping heavily, but am now after about 19 months, I have to go look for my PV once in awhile! That never happened to me when I was smoking, I never lost track of them. In fact, I was smoking more and more, and killing myself in the process. Panic was the factor I couldn't deal with alone.
So the main thing I think is to be open to reducing nic density, and just let the vaping cadence play itself out, don't set goals that will endanger the "comfort" zone you're building and expanding every day by vaping. The panic factor can definitely rear it's head again if you do that. Then we find ourselves back-sliding a bit.
That's the biggest trouble with conventional 'stop smoking' efforts. That just exacerbates and emphasizes the discomfort zones. Expecially if "conventional" means using someone else's "guidelines".
It is an extemely personal phenomenon to find your sweet spot, make sure it's not a challenge to your goal, instead of just accepting your vaping as a place where you are at the moment. There are days when stress plays a role in how much you rely on your PV, but there is always going to be stress. Your way of dealing with it will change now, as there is life after smoking, and life will continue to be something we have to 'grow' into!
With vaping, I'm not quite ready to stop yet, but "life" is becoming so much better I know now I can deal with stress much much easier than I ever have. My comfort zone has grown, my panic zone dispersed into it !! I also have lived with ADD all my life, to me this "comfort" thing is BIG. I smoked for 44 years, 2-3 or more PAD. That's how big this is!

[edit] And by the way, my plasma level of nicotine is at about a level of 100 ng/l, down from about 4000 + ng/l before I started vaping. I can live with that. Literally.

LOved your whole post Kate! It gives me hope for the future. I'm vaping 4 times as much as I smoked and it makes me feel bad. It's good to know the insane urge to vape can subside with time.

Lori

 

[Kate51]

For about six weeks I thought I was going to starve to death! But I had a multitude of energy to go along with that. So by sheer will I got my poor abused body up out of the chair and back to working. And stayed out of the fridge.
But I've not lost for one minute the urge to NOT go back to smoking again. This is just waaaaaay better!
Withdrawal in any form it takes is a fading thing, will not go on forever, so give yourself all the time you need. This is definitely do-able.

 

[EZVAPR]

I'm guessing 3 to 4 mills a day is average.

 

[R1ppy]

I'd say the mega carts are why you go through so much juice, like MistressNomad said. The only way to scale accurately how much juice you vape through a day would be to direct drip your atty with a drip tip.

 

[rpm13]

This is a great topic/thread.....Too much of anything is not good and while we have eliminated the thousands of carcinogens from smoking analogs we still are ingesting nicotine. When I started vaping (14 days ago), I noticed I did have some "panic" issues. I was a 2 PAD smoker. I started at 16mg nic and got juice that was 18mg. The 18 mg did curtail my panic issues. I switched to ecigs for a variety of reasons. Mostly because I was tired of stinking up my clothes, house and car. I tried patches and gum to no avail. The ecig works for me and I am not imposing my decisions on anyone who is a non smoker. The ecig now will allow me to SLOWLY drop my nic levels (perhaps over a year, I dont know yet). But I too have no goals to stick to. My body will let me know. I still keep in the back of my mind that I am ingesting nic (a known vaso-constrictor) so there will always be a chance of health issues (heart disease, stroke, etc...). But I now know I can control that uncomfortable and unbearable panic that had always prevented me from quitting analogs. Its a hugh health hurdle we have jumped when we stopped analogs. There is one more.....0 nic level... But did I mention, I LOVE MY ECIG AND VAPING

 

[tresrottn]

6 week mark was about the same time I started vaping like a smoking volcano. Went through a couple of weeks (maybe 3) of just plain vaping like crazy I drained my normal 8 hour shift batteries in 4 hours. It came and passed on it's own. I started vaping "normally" like nothing changed.

I think it's a normal part of detox, readjusting your outlook/perception on things, and if you notice it, that's perfectly normal, too!

LOL, the thing to do is *not worry about it*. It's a phase, it will pass. Let your body be your guide and let it do it's thing. Remember this, although you didn't fight a major battle to quit smoking, you have won the war and you prolly didn't even realize it. There is a whole new "normal" now, and sure there are new things to learn, this is just your body doing that.