Juice woes - delayed tobacco withdrawal?

[Dan_]

vaping has been very frustrating for me recently. I wonder if anyone has had similar experiences.

- I switched to vaping about 4 months ago (Sept)
- Started on 18 mg, but dropped to 12 mg after a couple of weeks, mainly due to overniccing and concerns about my nicotine intake rather than taste.
- Have been fine with 12 mg until about 10 days ago (early Jan):

I started to experience inability to taste my juice properly (vaper's tongue?), and a dry, scratchy irritation in my throat.
This also coincides roughly to when I started re-wicking with cotton. Not sure if it's related, but maybe worth mentioning. I switched back to silica wicks but that just tastes worse - I get a burnt flavour in the background (I know how to dry burn and I get this with new silica wicks too). My juice consuption has been consistent at 3-4 mL/day for the last 2 months (less recently due to the issues I'm having).

The only thing that helps is using 6 mg liquid - my EJ Banilla 6 mg still tastes amazing, but my 12 mg Apple Jax is not going down well at all (2 weeks ago I could happily chain vape it). Anything over 1 mg strength and the throat hit is unpleasant and I get slight tingling in my tongue and a sort of bitter aftertaste. I also tried to reset my tastebuds by eating half a lime, then a very spicy curry, then the other half of the lime... which did help to some degree.

Now, I am quite happy to just switch to 6 mg, it's just annoying that I will probably end up throwing out a fair quantity of liquid. Perhaps it's just my body protesting about the nicotine, but I find that odd since it is addictive. My main question is whether anyone else out there has had a similar experience?

I am also wondering if my symptoms could be tobacco withdrawal as many of them are consistent with that. Dry, irritated throat (when vaping 12 mg, not constant), difficulty sleeping and I had a bout of spots (quit zits?) in late December that I just got over 2 weeks ago. It just surprises me that I am getting all this 3-4 months after giving up smoking (I've didn't really have any symptoms before this).

Any thoughts/experiences appreciated. Cheers.

 

[Roselie]

When I first gave up smoking and started vaping I had bouts of vapers tongue. I also found my tastes in things changed from day to day. I asked and was told it takes 9-12 months for your tastebuds to settle down after you quit smoking depending on how long and heavy you smoked.

I'm 3 months into vaping and recently had to get rid of anything over 12mg. Anything higher than that and I suffered from a bit of nicotine overdose, hyperactivity, couldn't sleep, nightmares, etc. I seem to be fine so far at 12mg or less and am definitely a lot calmer.

I always thought the same thing, nicotine is addictive so your body should want more of it right? I don't really know the reasons behind it but I started out with 18-24mg/ml nicotine, dropped it to 12-18mg/ml and am now down to about 6-12mg/ml. This isn't because I was trying to cut back on nicotine purposefully, this is what my body has been telling me to do. I don't really understand why myself.

 

[kalex]

U don't have to get rid of all your juice if u need to drop nic levels. you can always dilute it with either same juice in 0mg, PG, VG or distilled water