help me get my sister started

[windxrunner]

I don't know what level of nicotine to get her... I'm stuck between 12 and 18. She's young, 19yo, and she doesn't smoke cigarettes very often. she's tried the blu rechargables but didn't like them. I got her some v2 disposables with 18mg nicotine and she liked it better but it just didn't do the trick. she likes smoking for the nicotine. i'm giving her this 450mAh purple eGo battery that is the first one I bought, and tomorrow I'm going to buy her a pink tank and some vanilla e-liquid. should I go in for 12 or 18 you guys think? she likes getting that buzz from the nic, and will probably just smoke if it doesn't satisfy her. but, like I said, she only smokes occasionally so I don't want to make her sick. whatchoo guys think?

 

[Auntie Mame]

I think you need to define "very often". I smoked 2 PAD and bounced between 18 and 24. More info may lead to more help.

 

[windxrunner]

she smokes a cigarette every few days. maybe 2-3 in one day max.

 

[Lurch]

she smokes a cigarette every few days. maybe 2-3 in one day max.

Based on those numbers I am shocked that 18mg didn't give her a headache! I smoked between 10-15 small cigars per day and started vaping with 12 mg nicotine!

For someone that smokes that little, I would recommend 6mg or possibly even 3mg.

 

[windxrunner]

She smokes for the nicotine. She's not going to be puffing on her PV a lot, you gotta understand. She will hit it until she feels some nicotine, however much she wants to feel. I highly doubt a couple puffs off an 18mg solution is going to make her feel like crap when smoking an entire camel 99 doesn't...

 

[windxrunner]

6mg is too little for her, period. If she was going to be using it everyday throughout the day, that would be good. I just want to replace her smoking with something better. With such little nicotine she will be forced to hit it several times to get a buzz, that's not what she wants.

 

[v1k1ng1001]

No more than 12mg I would say.

 

[windxrunner]

That's sort of what I was thinking, v1k1ng. I didn't want to go too low, because I didn't want her frequency to increase because she started vaping, but didn't want to give her too much. I think I will go with 12mg, seems a good starting point.

 

[Subdivisions]

Don't forget guys, nicotine is ingested into your system at a much reduced rate with vaping than smoking. It gets into your mucous memranes more than in your lungs due to the large particle size of the vapor, kind of like chewing tobacco. I'd go 18mg and if that didn't seem to work then 24mg. Since she doesn't smoke very often she probably gets a bigger rush off of them. Remember when you were a kid smoking? I'd get nic sick off of 1 cigarette if I smoked it too fast.

 

[mac63]

At a couple smokes every few days, she is probably doing it strictly for the headrush. 18mg probably won't give her that unless she hits it long and hard in rapid succession. 24mg might do it but she'll still need to hit it hard.

I was a PAD and starting reducing when I got some decent equipment. Got down to a few smokes a day then 2 (1st thing in the morning and 1 and night). Then went to just 1 in the morning - that only lasted a few days. When I was at 1 or 2 a day, I would sometimes get the headrush. I never got it from the vape and I'm using 24mg pretty heavy.

It's not just the nicotine that gives the rush. It's a combination of the nic and other stuff in the smoke along with how fast the body absorbs it. I've known people that got the rush when dipping. Never got it myself the times I dipped.

 

[Subdivisions]

This leads me to think about dripping. Give her 18mg on a nice dripping atomizer and I bet she takes 2 hits and is done. Obviously it must be using a mech mod and putting out about 20 watts.

 

[Subdivisions]

One strange off topic thing but this post doesn't show me as having replied to it on the main list (the little green arrow).

EDIT: and yes, i've refreshed and looked at it an hour later

 

[Rt1Rebel]

I agree with the 18 or 24 recommendations. I smoked less than a pack a day of lights and started with 24, and only very recently cut to 18. Better to go too strong than too weak IMO.