lowering nicotine mg on my bottles?

[mundane24]

ive got some bottles with 18mg that i just recently bought. i'd like to lower them somewhere between 6-12mg nicotine content <- my initial mg on my very first week vaping and what seems to be more suited for me, in hindsight.

hmmm how will i go about doing this? i saw some pure glycerin from cvs and plan to use it. i can do that right? now say for example i have a 4ml (50/50) juice with 18mg nicotine, how many drops of this pure glycerin do i need to lower it to 12? *i went to the eliquid subforum and even downloaded an ejuice calculator sheet but it's just too overwhelming right now for my noobie vaping brain.

thanks in advance!

ps. i think i made a mistake of upping the nicotine content thinking that 12mg wasn't enough. now im getting nicotine high right away and can not chainvape. :/ this is with the same juice only different mg.

 

[StarDose]

Using pure pg or VG will lower the nic and the flavor. Best to get a 6mg and mix 1:1 to make it 12 mg or a 0 nic and mix it 1:1 to get 9 mg using the same flavor for the lower nic to keep the flavor undilluted.

 

[StarDose]

I had the opposite problem I started with 12mg and figured I could go with 6mg but didn't seems to satisfy me so got a bottle of the same flavor in 18mg to mix it half and half to get a 12mg again.

 

[mundane24]

these are new bottles and dont wanna order the same juice with lower mg to mix (im not even sure if i like these flavors yet). was hoping with the pg i can lower it but then i missed the fact that it would lessen the flavor too. :/

 

[Ryedan]

The easiest way to do it is like StarDose said.

If you are in a jam and need something really quick, add to the juice half of it in VG or PG to turn 18 mg into 12 mg.

So, if you have 10 ml of 18 mg, add 5 ml of VG to make 12 mg juice.

To make 9 mg juice from 18, add the same amount of VG as juice to the juice.

 

[mundane24]

i see.

edit: still need to learn pg and vg.

 

[AttyPops]

Think of it this way: Two 6's are 12, three 6's are 18... or 12 is 2/3 rds of 18.

So... 2/3 rds of your juice, 1/3 of VG or whatever 'cut' solution you use...pref 0 mg same flavor.

 

[fabricator4]

i see. so tinkering with mg is best done with vg instead of pg? for flavor retention i suppose?

No, PG will carry the flavour better and give more throat hit. VG will give more vapour but will mask the flavour more.

I'd recommend diluting with PG for this reason.

 

[IamPaul]

I have to deal with this a lot where I work (beverage manufacturing). When the mixers add to much of an ingredient, the way we fix it is to add more of everything else that was in the batch minus the ingredient they added too much of. It's the only way to keep everything else constant. Adding more PG will work, but the cost is "watering down" everything else, which in this case is flavor.

 

[mundane24]

yepp. i mispoke on that one. sorry. still really a big noob here.

thanks everyone for the replies. im learning as i go along. =)

 

[fabricator4]

yepp. i mispoke on that one. sorry. still really a big noob here.

thanks everyone for the replies. im learning as i go along. =)

That's what we're here for!

As you may have noticed, if you get 6 replies to a question, you will probably get 4 different ones. Some of us actually agree on some things.


Read all the suggestions, then do the one that seems right for you. ;-)

 

[IamPaul]

No reason to be sorry, this is how we learn.

 

[DeeDee1234]

if you like the flavor you could order the flavor concentrate to add the flavor back in.Or maybe a different flavor tochange the flavor. Example: I have some peach I didn't care for so I add extreme ice flavoring and it's better now.