Intro and question about harshness

[badguy1971]

Hello, this is my first post.

I bought an e cig a few days ago from a local retailer in my town. I have never seen or heard of one before, the store let me try it out and I bought it right then and there (WAY overpaid judging by web pricing). Anyways, i absolutely ADORE this thing, it's the coolest thing I've experienced in a long time.
I believe it to be a kr808 type, it uses cartomisers. I have been reading and vaping this thing non stop for days since I got it.
However, it came with ZERO nic carts, and I believe if I had nic juice I will toss the ol smokes. So today I got a bottle of 24 mg tobbaco flavoured juice from another local store (again WAY WAY WAY overpaid but I was desperate to try and not wait for an internet order).
I proceed to refill a used cart, with about 10 drips (used only once) and vaped it. OMG it hit my throat like an INFERNO!!! it was like I was smoking a 1000 yr old dried out piece of dung!!! can i cut this juice with VG to mellow it out? man I hope that works cuz I love this vaping thing, but cant breath this cart at all!!! way too harsh.
I did get some VG today also and some LorAnne flavours but I've yet to locate mixing supplies and bottles etc.
Tomorrow if I locate pipettes and bottles etc I am going to try to cut this 24mg juice and play with flavours, wish me luck!!

Thanks all, talk to ya soon!!

Rob

 

[warlike36]

I dont do DIY...But good news is...there is a whole sub-forum on DIY and once you get 5 posts..you will be able to post anywhere you like. I have the opposite problem. I have been vaping for just a touch over a year and I CRAVE TH. (TH=Throat Hit) I have 4 bottles of REALLY good and tasty juice in front of me...but....NO TH...grrrr

You can cut the juice you have. Put equal amounts in a bottle...that will give you 12mg and should help tame the TH. Good luck and welcome to THE BEST place to be for help, support and alot of fun !!

 

[Eclipsed1770]

Welcome to ECF badguy. Good luck with your mix. It will cut the nic level down when you mix in the VG but will decrease the TH so it won't be so harsh. Not sure how fast you get things in Canada but sounds like you really should get your supplies online and sounds like you can get overnight shipping and it'll still be cheaper that the local rip off stores.

 

[melloyello]

"it was like I was smoking a 1000 yr old dried out piece of dung!!!"

taking your word for it, not going to ask you how you know this

 

[dormouse]

You can cut it with 100% vegetable glycerine. if you have Michael's Craft Stores up there, they sell Wiltons - should be near cake decorating stuff etc. if you have Walmart, the Humco brand USP Glycerin )near rubbing alcohol) should be ol - Humco says theirs is all vegetable.

If you bought 100% PG juice with 24mg, yes that is very harsh, and on top of that it's probably the Chinese juice and some of their flavors are not too good. Nicotine is a skin irritant. 100% PG lets through the most flavor, TH and irritation. I like 70pg/30vg. Some like juices with more of less VG.

 

[badguy1971]

thanks for the replies all, I did get some VG today from a health food store, but just now noticed it says food grade 99% pure on the bottle. I think I will run out to Michaels or Wally tommorow and get 100%, just to be safe, the stuff I bought was cheap so no real loss there, I'll find a use for it.

 

[badguy1971]

OMG I am currently smoking an analogue cuz my juice is too much to take till I cut it, anywas, I put it in my mouth and just started sucking.... I forgot to light it LOL. Seems old habits die QUICK.

 

[ninjamunky]

I can't say for sure, but the VG you got should be fine. If it's 99% pure that should mean the other 1% is water. You said it's food grade so I think it OK to vape.

 

[badguy1971]

well I went to Michaels and WalMart today to look for USP vg... I was only able to locate USP Glycerine... that was all that was printed on the label, it did not state what type of glycerine it was and I dont know enough about it to know if that was what I was after, so I am currently vaping the 99% food grade stuff I got from a local health store, seems fine to me so far, but I have nothing to compare it to as far as other VGs... also today I mixed up some no nic juice using the VG I got and some LorAnnes watermellon...WOW yummy!!! I put it in a cartomiser that had some HARSH straight tobbaco flavoured PG and it made the hit just about perfect, so I will experiment a little more...

 

[SGTgilbuena]

I just started vaping too, and recently have switched to dripping. It seems to me that some juices right off the bat are very harsh. I'm thinking it's the ethyl alcohol. I've found that if i heat it up for a couple seconds and let it sit for a minute; the harshness goes away and a nice cool vapor is produced.