Newbie - advice please

[chlobo]

Hi Everyone

I really want to give up smoking and would like to give e-cigs a go! I currently smoke around 5-6 Silk Cut a day and so far all I seem to find is high strength nictotine products. All I want is a low strength nicotine e-cig, and one that potentially goes down to 0mg nicotine. Please can someone advise? Some of the ones I have looked at say 74mg nicotine etc, i dont get it? I certainly dont want to start increasing my nicotine intake!!! Silk cut per cig is 6mg so what ecig is the same as that or less?

Thanks in advance

Ps I am from the UK so just UK products please x

 

[The Ocelot]

Hi and welcome!

You must have found a misprint somewhere, you aren't going to find 74mg e-liquid. That is not safe to vape. The highest you can usually find is 36mg, although I have seen 48mg once or twice.

 

[The Ocelot]

Where did you find Silk Cuts listed as having 6mg? I'm not saying that's incorrect, but I've smoked Silk Cuts and they didn't seem any different to me from other cigarettes. When you see cigarettes labeled as "light," unless you read the fine print it refers to the flavor of the cigarette, not the nicotine, tar and other goodies.

As far as what level of nicotine to start with, what you should be looking at is a level that will address your cravings. Sometimes people approach vaping with the intention to quit smoking and reduce their nicotine intake at the same time, starting out with too low a level. If it's too low you will still gets cravings and may feel vaping isn't working for you.

At the amount you say you smoke, 6mg would likely be right, but 12mg isn't outrageous. You absorb nicotine differently when you vape than when you smoke (some people feel more, some people less), so you might want to get some of each.

 

[blinx9900]

there are a lot of brands out there, i personally really like Ben Jhonsons and i vape all their flavors in 6mg.

 

[Dakota Jim]

Hi and welcome to the ECF

Here is the link to UK ecf forum - once you get 5 posts in the beginners forum you can ask there and you will be able to get the answers to where to go in the UK for vaping equipment and e-liquid (you can read through the posts right now but will not be able to post until you get the 5 required posts in this sub forum)

UK Forum

juice flavor and strength is subjective - I recommend starting with smaller quantities (5-10 ml bottles) in an assortment of flavors and strength until you decide what works best for you. I have juice strengths from 0mg to 24mg based on my mood. And I have juice I may never end up using due to it was not the taste I was expecting (and I bought 30ml bottles like an idiot)

in regards to equipment and batteries you will need to decide if it needs to look and feel like a cigarette (commonly referred to as cig-a-likes) these are a smaller battery and you will need to have several on hand as the battery charge does not last as long as the "ego" style batteries (these are the most popular style batteries in my opinion) - the small batteries are usually 180 mah (mah = milli amp hours = how much of charge the battery holds) the "ego's" range from 350 to 1300 mah (they get longer the larger the mah) 650 mah is the most common size

Juice delivery devices - the easiest to work with are called clearomizer's (clearo's - work very well on ego style batteries and will generally hold more juice - 1.6 to 2.4 ml) or cartomizers (carto's - work very well on the smaller cig-a-like batteries or ego style batteries)

My preferred device to carry around and to take to work is an ego twist battery 650mah (affordable variable voltage - allows you to tune the flavor and vape quality) with a spare in my pocket (the 650 will not always get me to work, chain vape during breaks and lunch and get me home - thus the spare battery in my pocket - along with a small bottle of juice) with Kanger Evod clearomizers

hope this info helps and again welcome to the ECF

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

Hi and welcome to ECF. Here's a list of reputable UK Vendors with discount codes compliments of ECF member Chrissie. Note at top of page there's a link to a map of B&M:
http://allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/1148/cigarette-liquid-vendors-discount-codes

 

[Mimikim1234]

I'm guessing the really high nicotine mgs you saw were for DIY mixing. Please don't ever vape anything that high! The highest premixed, ready to vape juices I have seen are 24 and 36 mgs. I have heard of higher, but haven't seen it myself. I was a 1.5 pack a day smoker, sometimes more, and 18 mg juice was fine for me. I was able to quit off of that. Now I am down to 12 and it's sometimes too much throat hit for me, depending on resistance and device.
L.J.'s eSmokes (I think that's the right name) makes a really nice 6mg juice: Clearwater. It's a really nice watermelon, and it's one of P. Busardo's favorites!

 

[Leoleoleo]

Hi Everyone

Hi Chlobo, welcome to the forum. What part of Surrey are you from?

I don't have any recommendations for UK vendors but, as Dakota Jim pointed out, you can ask this question in the UK forum when you have posted here four more times.

Where did you find Silk Cuts listed as having 6mg? I'm not saying that's incorrect, but I've smoked Silk Cuts and they didn't seem any different to me from other cigarettes. When you see cigarettes labeled as "light," unless you read the fine print it refers to the flavor of the cigarette, not the nicotine, tar and other goodies.

Going off topic but just for the fun of it: Silk Cuts are a "low tar" cigarette, also lower in flavour and nicotine compared with a regular cigarette. I don't know if there are any differences in the make-up of the tobacco but the main difference is in the filter. There is a row of perforations around the filter that mixes air into the draw so the quantity of smoke per puff is less. Whether or not you get less tar from it depends on how you smoke it. If you pull harder or cover the holes with your lips, it's not going to be a light smoke. When I was young and only had Silk Cuts to smoke, we would cut the filter in half, cover the holes with a rolling paper or just rip the filters off.

 

[The Ocelot]

Hi Chlobo, welcome to the forum. What part of Surrey are you from?

I don't have any recommendations for UK vendors but, as Dakota Jim pointed out, you can ask this question in the UK forum when you have posted here four more times.



Going off topic but just for the fun of it: Silk Cuts are a "low tar" cigarette, also lower in flavour and nicotine compared with a regular cigarette. I don't know if there are any differences in the make-up of the tobacco but the main difference is in the filter. There is a row of perforations around the filter that mixes air into the draw so the quantity of smoke per puff is less. Whether or not you get less tar from it depends on how you smoke it. If you pull harder or cover the holes with your lips, it's not going to be a light smoke. When I was young and only had Silk Cuts to smoke, we would cut the filter in half, cover the holes with a rolling paper or just rip the filters off.

Honestly, it was a number of years ago so I likely am not not recalling them correctly - but then again, I have smoked some weird cigarettes and perhaps that's why I didn't notice. The first cigs I smoked were ones I stole from my mom. She smoke Trues.