Lowering my nicotine suggestions

[learman96]

Hi all, been vaping now for 4 months with my ego and now my ego-T. I've been using 18 mg strength juice and thinking about cutting it to 12 mg, do U guys think thats too much of a drop all at once? My ejuice comes from FSusa, and they dont have anything in between 12 and 18 mg. I just don't want to lose the TH. I still .find I'm getting a slight buzz from the 18 mg, I'm a pilot and like to vape in the cockpit by the way, I love this stuff, It's changed my life for the better! Thanks all.

 

[Rosa]

Heck give it a try. If the 18mg makes you buzz, I bet 12mg would be just right. It's not a huge plunge.

edit: you could always get some of each and mix them together too.

 

[swedishfish]

If it's too much of a drop, mix the 12 and 18 together.

 

[tabithad]

I just went to 12mg this past few days... I am noticing a difference, I am a little more on edge than I have been...but I am thinking I will adjust.... just keep vaping..

 

[atom48]

I just went to 12mg this past few days... I am noticing a difference, I am a little more on edge than I have been...but I am thinking I will adjust.... just keep vaping..

I'm doing the same thing, with the same effects. Unfortunately, I'm also doing 12mg right now, partly because that's all I have until my 18mg arrives in the next day or so. I'll mix the two after that, as I'm also noticing some heart palpitations in the evening with the 18mg all day. The throat hit isn't that much different to me. As long as I can "feel" the vapor, then I think all will be well. Make sure you're using a juice flavor that you love.

 

[Liv2Ski]

Hey wait a minute learman96 didn't the Dept of Trans just ban the use of e-cigs on airlines If you don't kick me off the plane for stealthing it in my seat I won't say a work about what you are doing in the cockpit! Anyway I am at between 10 - 12mg/ml and found when I made the step down I just vaped a liite more often until I got used to te lower nic. Best of luck

 

[emanguba]

The best test I've found is to buy unflavored nic, catch vendors on sale, buy 0 nic flavorings.

And play it by ear...

Sometimes you do want higher nic, and sometimes not...

I dropped from 24mg to 0mg in no time, but found that my body doesn't crave it...listen to your body and adjust accordingly.

 

[learman96]

It's hard to say if even 18 mg is enough for me, with the tank, I'm constantly vaping now but only take a good hit, wait a few min then take another. I'd like to to just be able to take 4 hits and not have any craving for an hour or so. Like a dummy, I just ordered $ 60 worth of juice all at 12 mg strength. Dam, maybe I should of gone up in nic level instead! Hey liv2ski, no such rules on corporate aviation, vape away all u want, at $5000 per flight hour, passengers can pretty much do anything they want in the cabin

 

[mwa102464]

It's hard to say if even 18 mg is enough for me, with the tank, I'm constantly vaping now but only take a good hit, wait a few min then take another. I'd like to to just be able to take 4 hits and not have any craving for an hour or so. Like a dummy, I just ordered $ 60 worth of juice all at 12 mg strength. Dam, maybe I should of gone up in nic level instead! Hey liv2ski, no such rules on corporate aviation, vape away all u want, at $5000 per flight hour, passengers can pretty much do anything they want in the cabin

wow what are you piloting a G4

 

[Liv2Ski]

So that's the secret. I better get a bigger expense account from my Company then! Best of luck with the nic. You may want to look into DIY then you can dial in whatever you desire. I know on commercial flights I make a no flavor 90Pg/10Vg sauce at around 26mg/ml. Helps with the stealth and need less hits to scratch that craving.

 

[Zal42]

Like a dummy, I just ordered $ 60 worth of juice all at 12 mg strength. Dam, maybe I should of gone up in nic level instead!

It's not a loss! I mostly vape at 18mg. If I have a juice that isn't the strength I want, then I adjust it myself. I have a bottle of pg, vg, and unflavored 60 mg/ml nic juice. If I can't find the right strength, I get one that's too low and add the nic juice to it to boost it up. This way, I have to add less fluid than if I'm adjusting down, so the flavor doesn't weaken noticeably. If I can't do that, I get one that's too high (as close as I can get it) and dilute it with my preferred pg/vg mix (80/20).

So, if I had your 12 mg juices, I'd do something like this, to make a 6ml batch of the right strength: 6ml of 18mg contains 108mg total. 6 ml of 12 mg has 72 mg total. So, I have to add 36 mg to the 12 mg bottle to make it 18mg. If I'm using 60mg nic juice, that amounts to (36/60) 0.6 ml of it that I have to add.

The end result will actually be a bit less than 18mg, but close enough.

 

[swedishfish]

Where do you get your unflavored nic juice?

 

[Zal42]

Where do you get your unflavored nic juice?

Lately, I've taken to buying 100mg juice from FreedomSmokeUSA. Bewarned, it's very potent and dangerous stuff and you should take precautions to ensure it doesn't touch your skin, even if you accidentally spill. I wear gloves and do my mixing in a tray.

I've been getting my 60mg from DIY Flavor Shack.

 

[Liv2Ski]

Where do you get your unflavored nic juice?

I have been buying from nicvape.com lately. He has a nice 20% of sale right now. Also have bought from MFS, Arctic Vapor, Gourmet Vapor (box elder nic). NicVape is good stuff, price is right and shipping is lightning fast and dirt cheap. Hope that helps

 

[Liv2Ski]

I've taken to buying 100mg juice from FreedomSmokeUSA. Bewarned, it's very potent and dangerous stuff and you should take precautions to ensure it doesn't touch your skin, even if you accidentally spill. I wear gloves and do my mixing in a tray.

Good call I also wear safety glasses and long sleeve shirt. Take what I need from source bottle with a pipette and place it in a graduated cylinder. When I have what I need I immediately cap the source bottle and place it back in the cabinet. Then I finish adding Pg/Vg to make my 250mls of 12mg/ml at 78/32 base solution which I use as stock for my sauces. This way you limit the amount of times you open your 100mg/ml nic and the opportunities for spills. Those 250ml blue bottles work great for storing your juice base mixed to the nic level you want.

 

[dormouse]

I did it - I went from 18mg to 12mg all at once on a weekend. First I started by buying my favorite juices and new ones I wanted to try only in 12mg (and for a couple I kicked up the PG ratio from 70/30 to 80/20 to let any TH through better). Once I started doing that I totally stopped buying 18mg juices. So I had a nice set of 12mg juices. When my fave 18mg ones were getting low, I made the switch on a Saturday. I boxed up the 18mg juices and brought out the 12mg ones.

Since I do not vape all the time, I was able to vape a bit more to smooth over the transition. it felt a little weird but I was home all weekend. I was a bit more needy to vape than usual but it was fine. By Monday I was pretty much back to my normal amount of vaping. The one thing I miss is the TH. The drop from 8mg to 12mg pretty much removed TH for me. Fortunately I have flavors I enjoy vaping and the vanilla (Backwoods Brew Vanilla Bean) has a bit of throat sensation of its own - just a bit of cool or warm. And I can sort of feel that WOWbacco from V4L - it is very cocoa tobacco and the WOWBoy adds a bit of mint. If I really needed more TH I would try adding Qhit or would briefly vape one of my old 18mg but I have not needed to.

I am a bit more worried about the drop to 6mg which would be a 50% drop. I might do some 9mg first on that one by mixed some 6 and 12.

BTW - for cutting down my own leftover 18mg faves I bought the same juice in 6mg and 0mg. And with the vanilla 0mg I could also cut down many flavors - lots of things taste good with a nice clean vanilla. I figure if I don't use them for cutting then I hope to be vaping the the 6mg after my next drop anyway.

 

[Stownz]

Mix your bottles in varrying strength, then don't label them. You wont notice a difference. Mark your bottles and you will have a psychological impact for sure. My wife made some 10 mg stuff of redbull, and I usually mix redbull at 36mg. I grabbed the bottle she had made and vaped it for 3 days. I just kept turning the volts up, as I thought my carto was dying and I just wanted to get the last bit out of it. It tasted weaker, yes, but the volts compensated and I never knew I was gettting 1/3 the nic.

Now that I know what happened, I dump every unmarked bottle down the sink, just to be safe, haha. Its almost all in your heads my friends.

Oh, and for DIY stuff. Check http://www.vaporrenew.com/index.php/. Not a single supplier listed above is cheaper then VR, and his stuff isn't diluted down.

 

[Zal42]

Mix your bottles in varrying strength, then don't label them. You wont notice a difference.

I actually did mix up some bottles (9 and 18mg), but I most assuredly did notice the difference!

 

[Seabrook]

If it's too much of a drop, mix the 12 and 18 together.

That's what I've done that worked for me until I got down to 6mg and then started making my own eJuice.

I'll mix the two after that, as I'm also noticing some heart palpitations in the evening with the 18mg all day.

Yep, too high a nic content for my system (at the time) also gave me heart palpitations at bedtime and headaches in the morning.

BTW - for cutting down my own leftover 18mg faves I bought the same juice in 6mg and 0mg. And with the vanilla 0mg I could also cut down many flavors - lots of things taste good with a nice clean vanilla. I figure if I don't use them for cutting then I hope to be vaping the the 6mg after my next drop anyway.

Yeah, what he/she(?) said.

And welcome to ECF learman96. You're lucky that you can vape while on the job. Happy vaping, smooth piloting to ya.

 

[Stownz]

I actually did mix up some bottles (9 and 18mg), but I most assuredly did notice the difference!

Change the voltage !