Nicotine Comparisons

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Wow1420

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I was surprised how much I adjusted to using just unflavored, but it took several days. The first couple of days I was really, really missing my menthol. Major "WAA! Where's my menthol!?" moments. But after a week, I'm fine without it, not certain if I really want to go back to it. The differences between the four were also easier to pick out over time.

I really like brand "?" for unflavored vaping, can't wait to find out which one it is.
 

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I have not had a chance to read all of this thread, so this question may have already been answered. How did you guys decide which brands to include in the comparison test to the exclusion of others - on the basis of price? I can understand why vtec would be considered a premium brand, but VZ and ECX have traditionally been more expensive than WL and MFS - even though they may have come from identical sources. I have tried vtek and fully understand why it was chosen. Haven't tried NN, but I consider ECX and VZ to be good but not stellar brands - both on par with MFS. Same goes with XTR. Could someone clear my confusion?
 
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It was the nics that Rossum supplied... Ecx and mfs is nicselect. Vz has atleast latelly been rated very good on par vith chemnovatic/vt by jimi D. Xv has always had a good rep and been stated(?) to be the same as wizzard's ice...

I've never tried any of these vendors btw, except chemnovatic from molinshop, since I cannot legally import nic from the states into my country and would not risk getting it taken and send back by customs, and so only stick to eu vendors. However, i've read this thread back to front a couple of times, though :)
 
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I'll be sending my results to C_B today; just finishing up my testing. If nothing else, these tests reminded me why vaping unflavored is just not for me! :D

It will be interesting to see how widely opinions vary or if some kind of consensus can be reached.
 

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Interested to see the results of the tests. I am pretty new to DIY and have only tried NicSelect so far.

I have a question though. All things being equal, does throat hit vary between brands? I have been vaping 3mg for some time, but a few months ago I ordered a flavor from Vape Wild at 6mg, just to have for stealth vaping at low watts. I really enjoyed the throat hit I provided.

Fast forward and I am now making my own. I made a 6mg (correctly), but there is virtually no throat hit (60vg/40pg mix). I know I can up the mg's, but I would prefer to get that same throat hit at 6mg, if possible. I'm wondering if the Vape Wild was higher nic than it was supposed to be, it thumped pretty good.
 

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As JeremyR stated, then different nic sources provide different throat-hit amounts. Often, the more "clean"(neutral - no or very slight tobacco or off-taste) the nic is, the lower the throat-hit, like e.g. chemnovatic(as from vt) is very clean tasting, but pretty low throat-hit.

The only thing you can do to highten the throat-hit of your current nicbase, is to either up the nic concentration, or up the pg ratio. The pg dosen't add throat-hit per-say, but rather dosen't mute the throat-hit, which vg does... Some say certain flavors also add throat-hit, but I don't really think it's the same kinda throat-hit there, but just an added throat-irritation of sorts(different kind of throat-irritation, as throat-hit also is a throat-irritation)...
 

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Does MFS use nicselect? It has decent TH, but is there one with better TH? Or do I need to wait for the results to come in?
I'm pretty sure mfs use alchem's nic(nicselect), or else they are abusing alchem's nicselect branding. I'm reffering to the nicselect branding chart that lists nicselect purities compared to usp and ep standards... They stated a long ago that they had stopped using it, after all the "rubber smell/taste" reports, but I think they have reverted back to using it again, now after the products seems more stable...

Oh, crap! I just checked there site again before posting this post, and I can see now that I was wrong about the branding! I sincerely apologize for spreading false information, or atleast I don't know if they use nicselect, but I think not...

I thought that the chart they used was the one from nicselect, since I clearly remember the e.g. 4 green vertical checkmarks, where they lists quality charasteristics, and then all the fields under which compares the purity to usp and ep standards.

However, after comparing the mfs charts closer to the nicselect official chart, then mfs dictates e.g.:

Best flavor
Unmatched purity
dependable quality
batch tested.

Whereas the nicselect uses the same vertical green checkmarks, but with the words:

Highest purity
Consistent quality
Better flavor
FDA inspected.

And then under that, all the values compared to usp/ep, and where there also are slight differences!

Again, I deeply apologize, and I remember posting this false claim in other posts also, so please disregard those older statements from me, please...
 
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