I've been a smoker more often than not over the past 16 years. I've randomly quit now and then, for up to a year at a time more than once, but I so enjoy the action of smoking that I always seem to go back to it. For the last 4-ish years, I've been smoking Parliament Ultra Lights, about 1 to 1-1/2 packs a week. Most work days, I'll have 2-5 cigarettes and on weekends I tend not to smoke at all. It's not at all uncommon for me to go several days without smoking. Recently, Groupon had a deal for a starter kit, I know that no cigarettes are better than just a few & since it's the act of smoking that I love, I thought I should try vaping.
I got my 510-T kit last week with a PG/VG mixed juice at 11mg nicotine and after 2 puffs, my throat felt like the morning after the times I've smoked too much at the bar. I did some searching online & read about the problems some people have with PG & that my nicotine might be too high, so I picked up some plain VG from whole foods & mixed in 50% VG. It helped, but I was still getting the sore throat, so I ordered some 100% VG juice which might be in today. I even vaped straight VG to be sure I didn't get a sore throat- I didn't, but I did get a headache, and I was very hydrated.
After reading a thread here about people vaping 0 nic, I'm thinking I might order some nicotine-free samples today and see how I do with that. If anyone who sees this happens to be of that 0 nic group, I am curious if you still had the initial side effects like everyone else has? I only ask because it seemed like a decent number of people who were infrequent smokers (like me) or even former smokers who had picked up an e-cig instead of turning back to an analog and I assume I'd be on par with that group as far as things like my sore throat not being caused by nicotine withdrawal, etc.
All in all, I'm looking forward to all of this and I'm just hoping I can keep myself from spending a bomb on new flavors & accessories before I even decide if I like it! I absolutely love accoutrements!
I got my 510-T kit last week with a PG/VG mixed juice at 11mg nicotine and after 2 puffs, my throat felt like the morning after the times I've smoked too much at the bar. I did some searching online & read about the problems some people have with PG & that my nicotine might be too high, so I picked up some plain VG from whole foods & mixed in 50% VG. It helped, but I was still getting the sore throat, so I ordered some 100% VG juice which might be in today. I even vaped straight VG to be sure I didn't get a sore throat- I didn't, but I did get a headache, and I was very hydrated.
After reading a thread here about people vaping 0 nic, I'm thinking I might order some nicotine-free samples today and see how I do with that. If anyone who sees this happens to be of that 0 nic group, I am curious if you still had the initial side effects like everyone else has? I only ask because it seemed like a decent number of people who were infrequent smokers (like me) or even former smokers who had picked up an e-cig instead of turning back to an analog and I assume I'd be on par with that group as far as things like my sore throat not being caused by nicotine withdrawal, etc.
All in all, I'm looking forward to all of this and I'm just hoping I can keep myself from spending a bomb on new flavors & accessories before I even decide if I like it! I absolutely love accoutrements!
