New to forum and Nic Level Question!

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hasu

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First off I would like to say hello, I'm new on ECF and glad to be here! I'll soon be making the transition from cigarettes to vaping and have some questions as well.

I have 2 main questions regarding nicotine levels and the nautilus mini. I'm gonna give a little backstory if you don't mind, just to give anyone that might answer some insight. I was not a heavy smoker. I started off social smoking here and there and whenever I would drink on weekends, to having some here and there sober with friends at college, to buying own packs and so on. I would say I probably smoked anywhere from 3-6 cigarettes (full flavor reds no lights) a day depending on the day. So I never really reached that half a pack threshold or anything, I quit well before that point. However while I smoked I most definitely craved them, I loved them in the morning but never really got a buzz after the morning ones, they just helped with stress and whatnot. Approaching this summer my girlfriend and I got Mystic e-cigs just to stop smoking analogs because I didn't want to keep inhaling that if I had other alternatives. Every time I lit one up I felt bad and just wanted to quit before it ever went anywhere.

TL;DR - Smoked 3-6 a day at the most, bought a mystic to hold me off for a bit, after that quit on my own after running out of cartridges and didn't feel the need to waste more money on a cigalike. I got cravings and still kind of do but generally avoid cigarettes just because I don't want to inhale that.

My question is this - I had the 1.8% Mystic and one day while chain vaping I got a headache after a little bit. After that day I never got one again, I'm guessing it was from the 18mg or whatever. I haven't had a cigarette or vape in a while, I just know that when I go back to school in a month, if I'm going to smoke I'd rather enjoy a nice tasty vape instead. I was thinking about going with 12mg juice on the Nautilus Mini, but I noticed the BVC coils perform pretty damn well with large amounts of vapor. Will I need to drop down to 6mg for this? I was planning on buying 12mg and 6mg just in case.

I've done my research, from egos to regulated box mods/unregulated mechanical mods and battery safety. I was planning on getting an MVP and a clearomizer tank for the easy charging and on the go vaping. Now I'm planning on getting a DNA30 with an Aspire Nautilus Mini (for the coils). It looks to me to be the most impressive clearomizer (unless it's technically a cartomizer tank). The reason for the DNA 30 is that I figure I should just get one now to spend less money overall, vape at wattages higher than the mvp and then eventually if I want to get into RDAs I can pick up some 28g wire and build coils around 1.2-1.5 ohms getting a similar experience to sub-ohms while maintaining battery life. (But that's for some day in the future! :))

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
 

InTheShade

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If you have an option you could get the same e-liquid flavor in say a 12mg and a 6mg. Mixing these in a 1/1 ratio would give you about a 9mg strength e-liquid. By getting two strengths it will allow you to experiment how it affects you and allow some flexibility in changing strengths without having to purchase more liquid.

You could always get some straight VG to reduce the strength of any liquid you have, although adding it to a flavored juice will dilute the flavor as well as reduce the strength.
 

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I agree with the others, drop it down to maybe a 6. A light, social smoker, you can get by on much, much lower nic. I was a two pack a day type and don't go over 12. Most times, I'm down around 9.

I'd give a 0 nic a whirl. Always a chance the nicotine doesn't have that strong a hold on you (as opposed to me... hoo boy) and it's more the "ritual" thing. The going through the smoking type actions. You might escape nic all together.
 

misfit0r

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We can be noobs together!

I can say - having just got my Nautilus Mini's today - you will not be disappointed. I'm typically a "almost a pack-a-day" smoker (unless I'm drinking!!) Camel Wides for 17 years.

I'm using 6MG Juice in both tanks and think I might need to drop it down to 3 because I'm getting pretty light headed. But that could just be me vaping a little TOO much because I'm loving the taste from these so much.
 

hasu

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Thanks for all of the advice everyone! I've been reading the forums but didn't join for a while, glad I did. I'll probably pick up some 6mg bottles and maybe 1 or 2 12mg if I want to get somewhere in between. From what everyone said here I doubt I'll have to but just in case. Hell if I don't need it at all I could just save it for smoker friends if they want to try it out. Thanks everyone :)
 
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