Lowering Nicotine Strength

[CardinalWinds]

I have found that following this axiom has maximized my vaping enjoyment: Find the frequency that you like to vape at and adjust the nic level accordingly, rather than tailoring your vaping frequency around a certain nic level.

 

[Alien Traveler]

My rule of thumb: If I need more that 4 ml of juice per day, my nic level is too low. Right now I vape at 10 mg, 4 ml (10 months ago started with 24 mg). I do not like idea of putting more foreign stuff in my lungs than absolutely necessary.

 

[AutoGibbon]

My experience in dropping a nic strength is this: I was on 24mg for about a year til I tried Space Jam's Galactica juice, and immediately decided it's the best stuff I've ever had. The highest strength they make is 12mg. I made a sacrifice for my love.

 

[JNOV]

Totally noob here. I was a heavy smoker for 20+ years. I started off at 24 mg/ml out of sheer fear that I'd go back to cigs. My approach is to buy two bottles of my favorite juice (30ml), and when it's time to buy more, I go down a notch. The first week is a vape fest, and then I mellow a bit. At this rate, I hope to be at 3 3mg/ml by the end of the year. Your mileage may vary, and I'm not sure if it matters that I'm a woman and might react to nicotine levels differently.

Recently I was stuck in an office building for three hours without getting twitchy. If I'd still been on the cigs, I would have punched someone by hour two.

Vaping: Keeping me out of the hoosegow for four months. ;-)

 

[Lato]

Started at 12, went down to 6 and now at 3 all in the span of a month. If I felt like I needed more nic I would just vape more. Worked for me. Wish you luck!

 

[Metal Storm]

I have a question for all of the experienced vapers out there since I'm a relative novice in this area. I quit analogs on January 2 of this year and have been using blu's until this week when I picked up the Halo Triton. I was a pack a day smoker and contrary to the guidelines on what nicotine level would work, I find that for myself 24 mg juice works for me and curbs any desire I have of going back to analogs. When I was a smoker, I would typically smoke one or two analogs and then go without for anywhere from two to several hours before the next one. With vaping, I find myself pretty much keeping with the same routine (which I think helps break the habit) and I will vape anywhere from 5-15 puffs at a sitting, much like smoking an analog. Depending on how much vaping I was doing, I could go anywhere from 15 minutes to a couple of hours before I start my next session. Over the course of the day, I will go through about 3 ml of juice and the 650 mAh Triton battery will last me the entire day, I swap out the battery before I go to bed with a fully charged one and throw the old one onto the charger.

If I am having a heavy vaping session, I will notice a very slight light-headedness and a very slight queasiness in my stomach so I know I'm getting up to my nicotine tolerance. Last night, I was sitting there watching TV and noticed that I was picking up the Triton and taking a couple of puffs every five or ten minutes. After about a little over an hour of this, I knew that I needed to put it down. For now, I still think that I would rather stay with a higher nicotine content and vape less often. In your experience, barring any change in equipment, at what point should I consider going with a lower nicotine level? Is there any guidelines for this such as after one month, six months, one year?

Hard to say for somebody else but at week 3 of vaping, I'm down to 3mg nic in a sub Ohm tank and 12mg in my Nautilus. I smoked two packs a day for over 20 years and nic levels above 3 / 12 are too much for me. I don't want to feel the nicotine, I just want enough to keep the cravings from coming on.

Congrats on quitting cigarettes. Before long, you'll have quit for two months!

 

[jseah]

Definitely one thing that I think will help me to stay off the analogs is knowing that having just spent a couple of hundred on gear and juice and don't want to have it go to waste.