How quick did you drop the nic?

[AngiBe]

I started at 18 mg, it was perfect and now around 60 days later I'm thinking I need to drop down already!?!? I'm pleasantly happy, but super surprised. Figured I'd be on 18mg for around 6 months. I'm getting the typical too much nic signs: slightly racing heartbeats, jitters and slight upset stomach after heavier vape times.

I know everyone is different but does anyone know if there's an average time frame for a 1- 1 1/2 pad/Marlboro Light smoker? Just curious.

What blows is I just bought 6 bottles of 30ml/18 mg! Either going to add 6mg of unflavored and lose some taste or going to have to buy 6 new bottles of 6mg. My wallet is taking a beating!

 

[Tiktik]

I've been vaping since this summer.
I'm still vaping 18mg. Used to smoke camel menthol


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[AngiBe]

I thought I'd take that long too..so weird. I got a new VV and I'm wondering if I'm getting more vapor out of it or something. I'm not angry about it, just perplexed..

 

[Robino1]

I dropped down a couple of months into vaping from 24 to 18mg. About every three months I dropped down. Like you, my body let me know. Mostly it was the Taste of the nic. It started just tasting harsh to me. After a year vaping, I'm now down to 9mg.

I would drop by 3mg's each drop so it wouldn't feel quite so noticeable.

Yeah, I ended up paying forward some.....well quite a bit of liquid

 

[ZNinja]

The beauty of DIY, besides the cost savings is that I can drop my nic 1mg at a time. Currently on 13mg. Started at 18 about 2 1/2 months ago.

 

[Susan W.]

I've dropped fairly quickly. I did the same thing as you. I bought a ton of 18mg and it wasn't long before I was using 12mg and now I'm using 6mg in 6 months. I want to drop to 3mg but I'll have to get some 0 nicotine and mix until I'm ready to go to 0 completely.

 

[Mrs C]

I started at at 24 about 7 weeks ago and I'm comfortable at 12 most of the time. I've been getting 6 or 0 to mix in and use up my higher.

 

[AngiBe]

Does unflavored really dilute the flavor a lot? I've got 6mg unflavored to lower the 18 but don't want my juice to taste really muted. I guess I can play with it before buying a bunch of 6mg. I also for some dumb reason have a 24 mg unflavored

I wonder if I had a few glasses of wine when I bought all this stuff!

 

[AttyPops]

Drop? I keep the cap on the bottle. No problems.

OK, well, I guess I have "dropped" a bit. Mostly out of juice savings. The nic base is the most expensive part. But I find it's easier to reduce now. But that took over two years for me. I vaped like a fiend while getting over the cig addiction and frankly wasn't that motivated to reduce nic too quickly. I wanted to be REALLY far away from cigs. I'm still occasionally around people that smoke and I really want to distance myself from my 30 year addiction to tobacco. I suppose reducing nic is a....tread carefully...thing with me. I go with the flow. As I feel less need I reduce.

I have been vaping 24 mg. I'm probably around 18ish. No biggie. No a major reduction. But I don't care.

 

[Baldr]

I started at 24 nic, and had to go to 30 to get off the cigs. It wasn't long before I could do 24 all day, and I stayed there for quite awhile. Then I thought "I bet I can move down to 18". The next time I bought juice, I got it in 18, and I mixed the last of my 24 with an equal amount of 18 and used that "21 more or less" as a stepping stone on the way to 18. It wasn't a big deal, so after a few months at 18, I thought "Lets try 12". Again I made a mix that was an in-between step. (I never measured these closely, but just sort of eyeballed it aiming for 50/50.)

I just kept doing that. Now I've been nic free for several months. I had thought that with no nic, I'd find it easy to set the thing aside, but it's not. I can do it - I went for just over 24 hours recently as a test. But I'm a lot happier when I can vape, and I'm not convinced there is any harm. I'm even thinking about getting some 6 nic juice, probably not as my "all day", but just for a casual thing now and then.

Early on, I was just so happy to get off the cigs I didn't even think about moving down in nic level. I'm pretty sure that if I had tried, I could have gotten off the nic in six months or less. It wasn't a big deal. The lack of throat hit was more a pain than actually missing the nic itself.

 

[Myrany]

5 months from 12 mg to 1 mg (and the occasional 0 mg tossed in)

 

[Vwls]

I started with some 18 and some 12 - rotated as needed according to cravings. At about 1 week in, I got the nic overload sensation, and moved to 9 and 6. A month later I stopped vaping the 9. I'm at 6 now and ready to move to 3 or 4 since I started rebuilding... it's been a month and a half since the journey began. So yes, it can happen fast. Lovin' it.

 

[wv2win]

Does unflavored really dilute the flavor a lot? I've got 6mg unflavored to lower the 18 but don't want my juice to taste really muted. I guess I can play with it before buying a bunch of 6mg. I also for some dumb reason have a 24 mg unflavored

I wonder if I had a few glasses of wine when I bought all this stuff!

Just get some 6mg eliquid in the same flavor you like, mix 18mg & 6mg, 50/50 and you will end up with 12mg without any flavor loss.

Note: the lower you go, the less and less throat hit. Most only go so low due to the throat hit, not due to the other characteristics of nicotine.

 

[tnt56]

Drop? I keep the cap on the bottle. No problems.

OK, well, I guess I have "dropped" a bit. Mostly out of juice savings. The nic base is the most expensive part. But I find it's easier to reduce now. But that took over two years for me. I vaped like a fiend while getting over the cig addiction and frankly wasn't that motivated to reduce nic too quickly. I wanted to be REALLY far away from cigs. I'm still occasionally around people that smoke and I really want to distance myself from my 30 year addiction to tobacco. I suppose reducing nic is a....tread carefully...thing with me. I go with the flow. As I feel less need I reduce.

I have been vaping 24 mg. I'm probably around 18ish. No biggie. No a major reduction. But I don't care.

I have to agree with AttyPops. I started at 24mg, and after a year I'll switch between 24mg (most of the time) and go to 18mg. Depends on the stress level at the time. I'm not worried about the nic. I'm worried about a 45 year habit.

 

[Robino1]

I honestly believe that it is the Habit more than the nic that is addicting for a lot of us. Yes, there is an addiction to nic, as can be attested to by many. Some of us, not so much.

 

[sidetrack]

I started at 18mg then in the first month went to 16mg. After that I made a conscious effort through DIY to get to 0mg. It took me about 6 months. Each new DIY was dropped by 1 or 2mg. I was like you 1-1 1/2 pad/Marlboro Lights. I don't think there is a standard for everyone, do what works for you. The great thing about being 0mg now is the looming FDA ruling means very little to me. Not to mention I can test negative for nicotine use for insurance purposes. Another trick I used was to vape a higher nic juice when I first got up and later in the day switched to a lower mg until I adjusted. Good Luck!

 

[belsenj]

After 1 month, I went from 24 to 18, then a month later did 12 for about a week. Too much of a drop too soon. I went back to 18 and am staying there until my body tells me it has had enough. Too much stress in my life right now to drop too soon. I'm selling my house!

 

[montara]

I too started high.... 24 on a 808 w/cart. 18... 12... now 6 & even 0 after a year. BUT now my vapor delivery devises are much more potent. When you step up your hardware game you will drop your nic %. Try a Kayfun or Reo, bet 6mg is your limit.
What I did with all the high test juice I initially bought; go back to vendor and repurcha$e what I liked (and pay it forward with those juices I didn't want to invest more $ into) in a zero blend and mix it down. That way I was still able to retain the same flavor level. Welcome to the game

 

[cramptholomew]

I started at 18 in July (was a PAD smoker - Camel filters. July 2nd was my last cig). Went to 12md somewhere around mid August. It's now October 3rd, and I've been at 6mg for about 2 weeks. Not an intentional drop, but I was getting nic'd out constantly. Jitters and yucky feeling. Not sure why vaping affected me so strongly. Maybe because I didn't direct lung inhale cigs? I always smoked how I now vape - draw into mouth, then inhale. Maybe I wasn't getting all the nicotine out of the smoking, that I'm now getting from vaping. I dunno. All I care about is that I'm not smoking.

 

[Myrany]

One thing I notice with dropping my nic levels RDA's made a huge difference. They seemed to replace some of the Throat Hit I lost with ultra low nic levels.