Lowering the nicotine levels in liquid

[Tumbleweed4829]

Ok I have read about making your own liquid etc etc.....but I am sooo confused about how I can take e-liquid I buy and make it lower. For instance I want to make low liquid....Can I do that with Medium liquid or do I need to buy high liquid to cut it to make low? Do I just add some PG to it? Can anyone explain this to me in simple terminalogy?

 

[Kate]

Hi Tumbleweed, you should have no problem making low from medium eliquid. Get some glycerine or propylene glycol and just mix it with the commercial juice in proportions you want for strength, eg if you start with 11mg eliquid and dilute with glycerine 50%, you'll end up with a 5.5mg mix.

You adjust proportions to get the strength you want. The glycerine also smooths the flavour so you might find it reduces the throat harshness. There are some threads about flavourings on the diy eliquid board if you need to add some.

 

[freddo]

sorry for the nooby question but what is the diff between PG and glycerine?

 

[Kate]

I think propylene glycol is a synthetic version of vegetable glycerine. For our purposes there isn't much else different, glycerine metabolises to glucose and pg to lactic acid. Both produce visible vapour.

 

[Tumbleweed4829]

Ok so I could take 1ml of 11mg liquid and 1ml of PG and poof I have 2ml of 5.5mg of nic mix? Am I right or still confused?

 

[Kate]

... Spot on.

 

[Tumbleweed4829]

Thanks so much Kate!

 

[yo han]

Using that method you'll also lower the taste and hit which is not what most people want.
If, for example, you buy 8mg liquid and mix it 1:1 with 0mg liquid you get 4mg liquid and keep the same taste and hit.

 

[Tumbleweed4829]

Ok so I got the liquid and was going to mix the liquid with glycerin but wow that stuff is thick! I surely can't use a syringe to measure 1 ml. How am I supposed to make it not so thick? Am I supposed to used water?

 

[CaSHMeRe]

Don't Dilute the glycerin itself. It is thick (and very sweet btw). Just kind of eye it. I use a syringe with an 18g needle and although it is a struggle, it eventually works

You can also try like an eye/ear dropper. Those work well!

 

[e-pipeman]

Eye-dropper bottles are available in brown glass from your local chemist for around 70p.. Get two - you may start experimenting with mixes/flavours , but it's good to have one ready-mixed for daily use with your "stock solution".

 

[someone]

Are you kidding? Lower nicotine?! I wish I could just inject the e-liquid (herein referred to as "sweet, sweet nicotine love") into my brain.

just kidding. Good luck with your kitchen alchemy! And let us know if you come up with any awesome flavor combinations!

 

[Kimmiegrif]

OMG!!!! I should have diluted the juice i vap election night. I laid on our couch and watched the last few hours of the election results, drinking red wine and vaping med nic janty juice...I over did it! And when I went to a meeting the next day and had to speak...I was still feeling really strange, it finally occurred to me that, I may have over did the vaping the night before. Be careful, I find that I vap, when I can a lot more than, I would grab that burning ... here and there...

 

[someone]

Oh yeah it's awful. I have been puffing on this thing non-stop. Normally the end of a cigarette is the "trigger" that says: "Okay, that's enough, next one in a while" or whatever. Nope! Constant supply = screwed.

 

[Heart's Smoking]

Yea I was just saying that sitting here at the computer and vaping is something I will have to get used to.... It is hard to know when to stop. Even when I get to the point where I need to top off, I just keep going..... lol

 

[Bertrand]

On mine, you only get about five or six drags before the battery needs to go back into the charger for four hours.

This is my cue to go and have a proper smoke.

 

[Heart's Smoking]

On mine, you only get about five or six drags before the battery needs to go back into the charger for four hours.

This is my cue to go and have a proper smoke.

In that case, you might need a new battery

I have one battery that is kind of wimpy and another that seems to last forever (knock wood), both brand new, but even the wimpy one gives me more than 6 drags... But yes, tonight I discovered a good stopping point for me is when I need to charge, even if the thing is still working. If its disassembled, I can't puff it, lol.

 

[jigtg]

You can calculate the nic level in any mixture using formula:
(n₁*ml₁ + n₂*ml₂ + ...)/(ml₁ + ml₂ + ...) , where n is the amount of nic and ml amount of liquid. So should you eg. take 1ml 36mg, 1ml 8mg and 2ml PG, youd get (36*1 + 8*1 + 0*2)/(1 + 1 + 2) = 11mg. Or if 1ml 36mg, 2ml 8mg and 1ml PG, youd get (36*1 + 8*2 + 0*1)/(1 + 2 + 1) = 13mg.
I don't generally see mixing worth it though. Just kills the flavor.

 

[Tumbleweed4829]

jigtg......you have completely confused me...I'm horrible at math!

I just put the glycerin in the syringe from the top and measured it. (no idea why I didn't think of that before instead of trying to use the needle.)

So far the liquid still has the taste. So 50/50 isn't so bad. Will keep experimenting. Thanks everyone for the help!