I can't explain how many times I have googled something vape related and typed "e cigarette forum" alongside to get the best advice from this forum. Most of the well known members of this community have posted their replies to many inquiries by others which helped me a lot. I wished I had joined the community earlier so I can also become part of this amazing smoke-free atmosphere. I am just here to introduce myself today.
vaping background: I was vaping Juul mint pods since 2016, giving about 1yr and 8m dedicated to Juul. I was subscribing monthly to Juul pods and paying close to anywhere between $130USD-150USD. That's almost 3K I have spent on the company so far regarding how many times I had lost a Juul just to buy another one. So recently I quit my subscription and felt very happy about it.
My first builds: I was building on protank mini 2 while working with Juul, and I was building on the serpent mini for a long time and getting juice from vendors outside which also costed me quite some bucks. I also own a VTC mini, provari and Nugget mod for stealthy vaping.
Present: I am still loving the MTL vaping experience hence I ended up buying myself an authentic Kayfun Prime recently. I am honestly loving the prime a lot although I wish I was able to go for a kayfun 3.1 which is discontinued now or a kayfun mini v3 which is sold out atm. I will be using my prime on a Smok priv-2 very soon. I have recently gotten into DIY and been practicing making different ratio juices with different mg of nicotine.
My thoughts on DIY: I am an ex-smoker and I quit all together about 6 months ago. Before that, I would smoke less than I did when I didn't have the Juul. With DIY I did many tests with VG/PG ratios and this is my conclusion on them regarding my body: If it's high VG, I will wheeze and feel heaviness in my chest. If it's high PG, I will sneeze a bit, and feel dried inside. I tried these testing with 80vg/20pg and 20vg/80pg. And now I am really liking it at 60vg/40pg with slight wheezing still. I tried 50/50 but it felt a bit dry for me around my throat area. I do realize I need to drink lots of water which I do. With nicotine: I believe 6-8mg works great for me but my first order was in VG-based which is not so easy to work with as you might know yourself. My next order of nicotine will be in PG-base.
My concerns: I am a little concerned about the flavorings I am using, and if too much flavoring will cause some kind of discomfort for others as well, as it is doing for me. Now I know testing is the best way to conclude what works best for my body but I was wondering if my body is just not accepting to some of the flavors out there. I do realize my lungs are still getting use to vaping and I shouldn't consider 6 months to be a long time before quitting analogs. The way I figured which vg/pg ratio works for me, and how much nicotine I may need, my goal out here now is to get as many experts together to give a list of flavors they do not have problems with compare to list of flavors they do have problems with. I tried searching a lot for this concern of mine but I was able to only find which ingredients to not use in your DIY. I am new to DIY, and some companies I believe will not list the ingredients in certain flavors, nor do I know which certain ingredient might not work good for my body. This is the reason why I would really like to get a list of flavors that are troublesome free with everybody. May I work with only those flavors and hopefully get better results. With my testing, I was able to get the 40pg/60vg @ 6mg with about 5 drops of mint, 2 drops of menthol per 15ml without a problem except for a bit of wheezing. Then I moved to something a bit more complex, well at least for me, and added the 40/60@6mg with about 10% flavoring I found on ELR and it began to give me a rough/sick feeling. I coughed a bit on it, felt a little harsh, felt it was the flavoring to do that to me. If I did miss the forum somewhere, and if you guys do have a list of all the flavors known to be at no issue for the DIY users, please do inform me about them. Would you suggest I do one vendor instead of mixing them? Such as work with flavourart only, or work with TFA only, etc. Thank you for reading guys! Happy vaping.
-Zen
vaping background: I was vaping Juul mint pods since 2016, giving about 1yr and 8m dedicated to Juul. I was subscribing monthly to Juul pods and paying close to anywhere between $130USD-150USD. That's almost 3K I have spent on the company so far regarding how many times I had lost a Juul just to buy another one. So recently I quit my subscription and felt very happy about it.
My first builds: I was building on protank mini 2 while working with Juul, and I was building on the serpent mini for a long time and getting juice from vendors outside which also costed me quite some bucks. I also own a VTC mini, provari and Nugget mod for stealthy vaping.
Present: I am still loving the MTL vaping experience hence I ended up buying myself an authentic Kayfun Prime recently. I am honestly loving the prime a lot although I wish I was able to go for a kayfun 3.1 which is discontinued now or a kayfun mini v3 which is sold out atm. I will be using my prime on a Smok priv-2 very soon. I have recently gotten into DIY and been practicing making different ratio juices with different mg of nicotine.
My thoughts on DIY: I am an ex-smoker and I quit all together about 6 months ago. Before that, I would smoke less than I did when I didn't have the Juul. With DIY I did many tests with VG/PG ratios and this is my conclusion on them regarding my body: If it's high VG, I will wheeze and feel heaviness in my chest. If it's high PG, I will sneeze a bit, and feel dried inside. I tried these testing with 80vg/20pg and 20vg/80pg. And now I am really liking it at 60vg/40pg with slight wheezing still. I tried 50/50 but it felt a bit dry for me around my throat area. I do realize I need to drink lots of water which I do. With nicotine: I believe 6-8mg works great for me but my first order was in VG-based which is not so easy to work with as you might know yourself. My next order of nicotine will be in PG-base.
My concerns: I am a little concerned about the flavorings I am using, and if too much flavoring will cause some kind of discomfort for others as well, as it is doing for me. Now I know testing is the best way to conclude what works best for my body but I was wondering if my body is just not accepting to some of the flavors out there. I do realize my lungs are still getting use to vaping and I shouldn't consider 6 months to be a long time before quitting analogs. The way I figured which vg/pg ratio works for me, and how much nicotine I may need, my goal out here now is to get as many experts together to give a list of flavors they do not have problems with compare to list of flavors they do have problems with. I tried searching a lot for this concern of mine but I was able to only find which ingredients to not use in your DIY. I am new to DIY, and some companies I believe will not list the ingredients in certain flavors, nor do I know which certain ingredient might not work good for my body. This is the reason why I would really like to get a list of flavors that are troublesome free with everybody. May I work with only those flavors and hopefully get better results. With my testing, I was able to get the 40pg/60vg @ 6mg with about 5 drops of mint, 2 drops of menthol per 15ml without a problem except for a bit of wheezing. Then I moved to something a bit more complex, well at least for me, and added the 40/60@6mg with about 10% flavoring I found on ELR and it began to give me a rough/sick feeling. I coughed a bit on it, felt a little harsh, felt it was the flavoring to do that to me. If I did miss the forum somewhere, and if you guys do have a list of all the flavors known to be at no issue for the DIY users, please do inform me about them. Would you suggest I do one vendor instead of mixing them? Such as work with flavourart only, or work with TFA only, etc. Thank you for reading guys! Happy vaping.
-Zen
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