How to measure my usage...?

[Rachy_B]

Okey dokey, this is a strange one, I know...

I use cartomisers and I love them! I just drip into them and go. I don't find dripping as often as I need to as I'm usually sat at a desk, I fill her up before I go anywhere and I have a tank system for driving long distances...

My question is that I never know how much I'm using in a day. I know it's not very much because I made up about 10ml of 12mg about a week ago and maybe less than half of it is gone. I also know that I'm using about 2.5-3 long penstyle 510 batteries a day so that's not a whole lot either.

My current idea is the next time I'm DIYing, to put a sticky label on the outside of the bottle and measure 1ml in at a time and mark on the label each ml increment to try and work it out...but if I'm using cartomisers, I wont know how much is left over from the day before and I don't fancy using a fresh cart every day!

Its a curiosity thing but I'm hoping that by knowing, I'll be able to understand myself and my addiction to nicotine a whole lot better. I could put it in a diary - or better yet a graph (geek!) - and track my usage against my stress levels! Oh how I do love Excel... So does anyone have any genius ideas?

 

[kiwivap]

An empty cartomizer takes roughly 1ml, which is about 20 drops.
So 10 drop is about 0.5ml
5 drops is about 0.25 ml.

Or you could mark the juice bottle with a label, which sounds heaps easier.

 

[unloaded]

You could get an eVic it logs your Puff Count and plugs into computer via USB and logs it all for you.
If that doesn't interest you, since you don't seem to mind dripping, you should try an atomizer. Won't have to worry about what's in there, whatever's missing from the bottle, you vaped it.

 

[Uno mas]

I fill smaller 3.0ml or 4.5 ml bottles daily or as needed from my larger 30ml bottles, it's not a perfect way to know how much fluid I'm going through but it does give me a pretty reasonable estimate. I have 3 clearo's (little easier to actually gauge) going that I take with me daily and 3 flavors that I have little bottles for so as they are being depleted during the day I get a pretty good idea how much when I refill them in the evenings, works for me

 

[SissySpike]

Make 100mls transfer to 10ml bottles keep a running log of each day and events at the end of the 100mils look back threw everything and make your graphs ect.... but to get a true accurate idea you'd have to keep track for a year. Lots of stresses and factors could mean more or less vaping.
I think you must have way to much time on your hands or are amused very easily. But Id like to see what you come up with.

 

[adeline]

Like Uno Mas said... Using a 3ml bottle will help you narrow down your usage. You could mark it down to the .5ml very easily.

Other than that, using Excel to make quick averages should give you a good idea once you have a couple days worth of data.

On the other hand, if you know how much your carto holds, just measure how much liquid you put in it the next day.
So if your carto holds 1ml and you put .5ml in it in the morning, add .5ml to the previous day. If you put in .4ml, add that .4ml to the previous day! (This is why a smaller bottle would be useful)

It's not perfect, but with a couple formulas in Excel, you should get a pretty good idea of how much you go through.

On an entirely different note, I think there are clearos that have markers on the tubing. And maybe the clear vivi novas? I'm not sure about the VVN, I only used the metal tubes for 'em.

Let us know how it goes. I <3 Excel too!

 

[easyvapour]

hi my method is to fill a 3 mils syringe in the morning, then you can get a little syringe cap to prevent leaks this way i can see exactly wat i use daily! the only problem is i use more by dripping so im restricting dripping

 

[Thrasher]

you can use something like this, i bet searching would bring up a few variations.


Amazon.com: 1ml Eye Dripper: Beauty

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[Rachy_B]

I think you must have way to much time on your hands or are amused very easily. But Id like to see what you come up with.

Lol!...yeah! I have a spreadsheet to track my spending too... researching is my passion! Usually I like my social research (I study Criminology) but I can make an exception for this! My research focus has nothing to do with vaping and I'm very sad about it! There's a paper in here and I'd love to be the one to write it but my supervisor and department would rather I focus on my PhD...

It's because I'd like to be cutting down my nicotine and when other people say 'oh but I vape Xmls a day' I can reply with 'and I smoke Ymls a day' rather than 'uhhhhh I use 3 batteries?'. It also means that I've got tangiable proof that I'm cutting down. I might expect spikes in my usage during heavily stressful times or when I've cut down further, or even when I have a new yummy flavour to try. I'd also expect a dip depending on how physically busy I am and who's company I'm in.

I think decanting into an old 10ml bottle is the way forward and measuring from that. I have some 5ml bottles but they're a devil a squeeze to drip out of of. This could get verrrry interesting! Roll on February 1st and I'll start data collection ;-) x

 

[Uno mas]

hi my method is to fill a 3 mils syringe in the morning, then you can get a little syringe cap to prevent leaks this way i can see exactly wat i use daily! the only problem is i use more by dripping so im restricting dripping

Sometimes the easiest solution is staring you/us/me right in the face and too obvious to see...

Brilliant!

 

[eHuman]

(Back when I was curious about this) I went by, "How many days it takes me to go through a 30 mil bottle." Then you divide the bottle size (mils) by # of days to get mils per day. I do that for each bottle and average the mils per day value with previous bottles. . You will get variance as you go through different amounts daily do to many variables.

If you typically use multiple flavors daily, pre-fill 10 mil bottles of each flavor (say three for example) and use them up fairly equally then find your average based on the total (30 mils in this example) divided by number of days for mils/day.

 

[DC2]

An empty cartomizer takes roughly 1ml, which is about 20 drops.
So 10 drop is about 0.5ml
5 drops is about 0.25 ml.

You have to be careful when using drops as a form of measurement.
Different bottles definitely can deliver different sized drops.


I have some Halo bottles with small tips and it takes 20 drops to fill my eRoll tank.
And I have some BWB bottles where it only took 9 drops to fill that same tank.

 

[kiwivap]

You have to be careful when using drops as a form of measurement.
Different bottles definitely can deliver different sized drops.


I have some Halo bottles with small tips and it takes 20 drops to fill my eRoll tank.
And I have some BWB bottles where it only took 9 drops to fill that same tank.

It was a rough guide for cartomizers, not e-roll tanks. A cartomizer holds about 1 ml - I'm sure OP could figure out how many drops in a blank carto if she was inclined to. As I said I think going by a bottle level is easier.

 

[FantWriter]

A common method for gauging usage --
1) Fill everything and record how much is in reserve.
2) At the end of the day, fill everything again. What's missing from the reserve is what you used.
3) Repeat ad infinitum.