how are people here on 0mg coping with coming off nic?

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Ragnar94

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starting to miss that nicotine rush you get after a hard day, I use to smoke quite heavily, but now for enjoyment its a beer and a vape on the N.E.T's very enjoyable, but I do miss the nic, of course people vape to quit smoking all together, but I chose it to stop all the nastys going in to my body, might start off with 2mg, isit worth doing or staying off all together you reckon? every man is there own man its totally up to me what I do with my body but you guys understand we've all been in the same boat, not asking for anyone to tell me whats right and wrong just wondering from your experiences.... thanks
 
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I started fairly high at 12 and have gradually worked down to 1.5 or 3. I took it pretty slow and it worked out well for me. I've vaped some zero but it just did t do it for me, so I went back to some nic. Way I figure it nic isn't terribly bad for you and neither is vaping, so as long as it's not smoking I'm content.
 

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I started at 24. Went down to 18 fairly quickly. 24 worked in a cig-a-like but was to much with better equipment. I went down even more as VV came on the market. I have settled at 10 or 12 and really see no reason to go any lower with the devices I use now and plan on using from now on. We each have to find our own path on our vape journey so what works for me may not work for someone else. I personally believe that nicotine is not harmful so plan on staying on it. I've even read that there are some health benefits so there is that too.

I think the worst thing one can do is go to low to quickly and then decide that this vaping thing doesn't work.
 

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When I quit using Cig-A-Likes I was at 18-24MG and when I bought my first MOD I purchased a bottle of 6MG while still having some of the higher percentage sitting around that I used on rare occasions. One month later cut that down to 3MG where I am right now although I did try making 1.5MG for a while which I recently changed the recipes back to 3MG. The other day during snow plowing I really did not vape as much as usual and I did not have any cravings to be honest. But that is just me and everyone experiences life differently.
 

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I started at 24. Went down to 18 fairly quickly. 24 worked in a cig-a-like but was to much with better equipment. I went down even more as VV came on the market. I have settled at 10 or 12 and really see no reason to go any lower with the devices I use now and plan on using from now on. We each have to find our own path on our vape journey so what works for me may not work for someone else. I personally believe that nicotine is not harmful so plan on staying on it. I've even read that there are some health benefits so there is that too.

I think the worst thing one can do is go to low to quickly and then decide that this vaping thing doesn't work.
hmmm exactly bud!
 

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Well I went down to 12mg lately and I'm comfortable there.
I'm taking a different approach to cutting back.
I try to vape less a day in mls.
Trying to beat the hand to mouth motion.
After smoking for 30+ years, I feel like I have the craving under control. It's the mental thing that I want to reign in.
I went up to 1.5 mls per day at 12mg, I'm trying to bring that down to 1 ml.
But hey, I'm weird!:blink:
 

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I coped with 0 nic by going back to the nic. Now it's no more than 2mg.

Compared to everything else in a regular cigarette, nicotine is likely the least harmful and even has some minor benefits. It's roughly similar to caffeine. If it's what you need, there's no sense in getting rid of it.
 

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starting to miss that nicotine rush you get after a hard day, I use to smoke quite heavily, but now for enjoyment its a beer and a vape on the N.E.T's very enjoyable, but I do miss the nic, of course people vape to quit smoking all together, but I chose it to stop all the nastys going in to my body, might start off with 2mg, isit worth doing or staying off all together you reckon? every man is there own man its totally up to me what I do with my body but you guys understand we've all been in the same boat, not asking for anyone to tell me whats right and wrong just wondering from your experiences.... thanks

I haven't had a nic rush in years :). I weaned off nic slowly over about my first 9 months of vaping and then stayed off it for half a year. These days I vape 1.5'ish mg at 16-20 watts at work for a few ML and then mostly 0 nic at home at 30-40 watts. Right now I'm having a couple of beers and dripping a couple drops of 12 mg into an RTA occasionally for a blast of TH. I don't do that too often, but enjoy it once in a while.

Yup, whatever works for everyone is great and it will be different for a lot of us. I don't know how important getting off nic was for me to lose the smoking addiction and I do think smoking addiction and nic addiction are not the same. At least that's how it seems to work for me. YMMV as with most things.

Best of luck in your journey Nayngnottz94 :thumb:
 

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I started at 36mg and weaned down to 0mg over about 2 years time. I started noticing a very gradual decline in my mental sharpness after going to 0mg but blamed it on various things, newly diagnosed hypothyroidism, aging, etc. After about 18 months of 0mg a friend gave me a bottle of 6mg juice when she accidentally bought the wrong strength for her. Since I really wanted to try the flavor I vaped it and after a day of 6 mg the lights just came back on upstairs. I felt so much better it was unreal. So I put nicotine back in my vape and have been vaping it happily ever since.

The whole time I was off nicotine I didn't feel like I was missing it but I was vaping up to 30 ml a day of 0mg and I don't sub ohm.:eek:
I'm now back to a more reasonable 60ml a week with nic added.

Omg is just a very individualized experience. Some people do it and barely vape at all, others can't tolerate it at all for any length of time, and then there was my experience where I thought I was tolerating it just fine for a long amount of time but in hindsight I wasn't tolerating it very well at all. :)
 

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I had six months of very low nic. Followed by a little over a month of zero. After that experiment, my wife & I decided it was best for everyone that I go back to using nicotine. Since going back, about a year ago, I have observed a huge improvement in ADD symptoms.
 

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I started at 36mg and weaned down to 0mg over about 2 years time. I started noticing a very gradual decline in my mental sharpness after going to 0mg but blamed it on various things, newly diagnosed hypothyroidism, aging, etc. After about 18 months of 0mg a friend gave me a bottle of 6mg juice when she accidentally bought the wrong strength for her. Since I really wanted to try the flavor I vaped it and after a day of 6 mg the lights just came back on upstairs. I felt so much better it was unreal. So I put nicotine back in my vape and have been vaping it happily ever since.

The whole time I was off nicotine I didn't feel like I was missing it but I was vaping up to 30 ml a day of 0mg and I don't sub ohm.:eek:
I'm now back to a more reasonable 60ml a week with nic added.

Omg is just a very individualized experience. Some people do it and barely vape at all, others can't tolerate it at all for any length of time, and then there was my experience where I thought I was tolerating it just fine for a long amount of time but in hindsight I wasn't tolerating it very well at all. :)
I know what you mean.

@Ryedan went 0mg some time back and now sometimes it takes him months to find the forum again.

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