Yes, the ones it works it’s really harsh. Not sure what to do. Tried both juices from Heather’s heavenly Vapes and can’t handle it.
If you can’t handle 24mg unprotonated nic you can’t. It’s a not particularly uncommon problem. There are two solutions I’ve heard of:
1) lower your nic. If you can’t handle 24mg nic there’s a decent chance you don’t need it in the first place. Maybe buy a bottle of zero nic with the same flavor and try titrations it down to a point where you can, and see if it’s enough nic for you to not need to smoke.
2) use nicotine benzoate instead. Nicotine benzoate is one of the “salts”. It’s supposed to produce equal effect with lower throat hit. It’s not nearly as well researched though. The only data I’ve seen is from a single company making its own claims. There are implications based on chart shapes released by that same company, that it may possibly also be more addictive than unprotonated nic, which means it may be has hard or maybe even harder to get off of than cigarettes. It may also still be a lot less likely to kill you than cigarettes (again, no research, though there are things implied by research on other things) so there’s that.
There are two schools atm. One is “go salts! They’re awesome!” The other is “try lower levels of traditional nic first. It’s better researched”.
I’m in the “other” group myself. I tried salts and didn’t find much if any improvement. There was less actual throat hit but I still coughed just as much as on a high nic. Plus they made my chest feel funny.
There are those here who are not though, and have switched entirely to protonated nic.
It’s a YMMV thing at this point, combined with a “how much risk are you comfortable with” thing.
Why I personally don’t like it:
JUUL, the only company that has any known research at all, claims “nic salt” by which they apparently mean nicotine benzoate, though that is also unclear as “salts” is a deliberately vague marketing term which could apply equally to a wide range of chemicals, claims that they are actually safer. They do it in a really unscientific and “marketingly” way though, which I personally do not trust.
