Higher nic level needed?

[zaxytha]

I'm fairly new to a reo mini with boge 2.0 cartos and loving the vape and flavor. I'm using 12mg nic. Here's the but - I'm still reaching for the cigs. Not smoking as many. I do want to quit, but maybe I need a higher level.

 

[cherewine]

That would be my guess as that is what happened to me when I first started vaping. Even if you vape a higher nic level during those times when you find yourself craving analogs, then go lower when you feel the 'need' for analogs has been satiated. I say this because *some* people get crazy with vaping (chain-vaping) in the beginning and get headaches and nausea from too much nicotine being absorbed in a short period of time.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Hi zaxytha! I would try stepping it up to 18mg juice. You don't want to do too great a jump at once. If the 18 still won't do it for you, try bumping it up to 24mg, etc. Just order small sizes until you find what works for you.

Good luck!

 

[mlinky]

I started on 18mg, and couldn't quit the cigs until I stepped up to 24mg; so, yes, if you still have cig cravings, you probably need higher nic.

 

[BardicDruid]

I started out on 24mg, but I was the type of smoker that didn't put out the analog until I tasted filter. Most normal people start with 18mg and it works for them.

 

[36tinybells]

ummm... I actually still do 36mg sometimes, 24 mostly, but NO CiGs in months!

 

[zaxytha]

Thanks for the response. I'm off to order some 18mg. I guess that I'm going to have to get another mini too so that I have 1 set up with higher and 1 set up with the lower nic. (Oh boy, I've a legit reason to get another reo!)

 

[SuziesMom]

It took 36mg to get me away from analogs. Now I vape around 30 mainly because I can't stay hydrated enough if I chain vape at 24- 30mg lets me put the Reo down for a few minutes at a time.

My advice (unsolicited)- grab your favorite juice in 36mg,and 0mg and use that to dial it in to your liking. If you're vaping at too high of a strength it will zing you, but nothing too terrible, and it clears up in a few hours.

 

[nerak]

There is nothing wrong with needing 36mg at first. It got me off the cigs the first day. In fact over the past six months I have stayed at about 32 mg. You will know when you have had enough nic and can stop vaping for awhile. I found that 24 mg made me chain vape. I just was not satisfied. Also the lower nic juice had me going through lots of juice!
It is a good idea to get a few different levels, as it was said before you can mix and lower the nic if needed.
You can't look at what you are smoking and try to match nic level to it. I was a ultra light, one pack a day person.

 

[washvap]

I'm fairly new to a reo mini with boge 2.0 cartos and loving the vape and flavor. I'm using 12mg nic. Here's the but - I'm still reaching for the cigs. Not smoking as many. I do want to quit, but maybe I need a higher level.

Yeah, you definitely need a juice with 24mg or higher. Personally, I haven't stepped down from that point yet. Tried 18mg once but it's like puffing on air. Really don't think I'll ever decrease my nic level neither. Perfectly happy where I am right now and 24mg is the only thing I buy.

 

[Big Hitter]

Higher nic in a good tobacco flavor did it for me.

Back then I was vaping a lot of fruit flavors .... when I needed a cig I pulled out some 24mg tobacco and scratched the itch.

Now I have turned to mostly tobacco flavors and do fruity once and a while.

 

[viktorialee]

When I first started, I was still grabbing a cigarette once a day and couldn't figure out why so I did an internet search and found a study that they did on the absorption of nicotine in the body from an e-cig vs a regular cigarette. I'm too lazy to look for it right now, but basically they measured the amount of nicotine in the blood after smoking and after vaping.

I'm doing this from memory so don't quote me on this, but if I remember right, the amount of nicotine absorbed from a cigarette is 1/10 of the amount in the cigarette, and the amount from vaping is 1/10 of that. So if you had a cigarette with 18 mg of nicotine, your body only absorbs 1.8 mg of the nicotine. If you vaped 18 mg nicotine juice, your body only absorbs 0.18 mg of the nicotine.

So, the answer would be, yes, you do need to increase the amount of nicotine you vape to compensate for what's not getting absorbed.

My problem now is that when I get super-stressed (like a month ago when my 15 year old son came home with a tattoo or yesterday when he outright refused to take out a septum piercing that I told him he couldn't have) I reach for a ciggie. It has nothing to do with the nicotine, but more with the calming effect of holding that ciggie in hand and taking a drag. After decades of dealing with stress that way, it's hard to break that habit.

 

[FeistyAlice]

DH has been vaping for almost a year, 24 mg. His taste in juices, all tobacco, changes occasionally. All the while vaping he has a few analogs most days. Maybe a whole pack a week. That's a drastic change from 2.5 - 3 pack a day for > 50 years. Just this week he had me mix some plain VG into a new juice he likes to 1) lower the nic a little and 2) mild down the flavor a bit. He hasn't had an analog in a week, too. It just happened and he hadn't planned it.

I basically stopped analogs after the first few weeks of vaping but had 2-3 a week second month. Third month I no longer wanted or could stand analogs although his analog use didn't bother me or make me want one. I smoked for 40 years and was up to 3 PAD, American Spirit Organic when I started vaping. I am right at a year vaping and still using 24 mg juice; what I started at. I've tried lower nic but I just vape more.

The main thing is, "It's not how many analogs you smoke it's how many you don't smoke."

Everyone's needs differ. Make it easier on yourself and give yourself good strokes for the analogs you are not smoking. You will eventually settle into what satisfies your needs.

Alice