Think I overdosed on nicotine.

[Richrob424]

So yesterday I woke up and had a couple analogs. I then proceeded to vape for a few hours before I went to work. I got to work and had a headache, stomach ache, mouth felt burned. I was smoking almost 2 packs of "lights" before I started with the vape. I never felt like this before. It was awful and kinda turned me off.


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[Nightshard]

The idea is to smoke less while you vape.

 

[bholcomb22]

What nicotine strength are you vaping?

 

[Richrob424]

I definitely am smoking less. I'm smoking maybe 6-10 analogs a day instead of 20-30. I am using 24mg in one and 12 in another.


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[pennysmalls]

Try vaping only the 12 mg. 24 mg for me would kick my ...., that's some strong nic. Pace your vaping as well, don't chain vape it. If you need the 24mg then switch back and forth between the two using the 24mg when you're really craving a cig bad and the 12mg for when the craving isn't so bad.

 

[xxJollyRogerxx]

So yesterday I woke up and had a couple analogs. I then proceeded to vape for a few hours before I went to work. I got to work and had a headache, stomach ache, mouth felt burned. I was smoking almost 2 packs of "lights" before I started with the vape. I never felt like this before. It was awful and kinda turned me off.


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Too much nicotine between both smoking and vaping. Same thing happened to me when I first converted over. The less you smoke and the more you vape the better you will feel.

 

[Robino1]

If you feel like you have overdosed on nic, drink a lot of water and do not vape for a few hours. You should start feeling better about a half hour to an hour after not vaping or smoking.

If you continue to feel bad.... Go To a Doctor!

 

[Scootaloo]

Well the symptoms sound a bit like they could be anything:

-Tummy ache I get with one E-liquid if I vape lots of it, just like some foods when eaten too much of can give such symptoms

-Burning in the mouth: was the tank/cartomizer/whatever it was filled up good with juice? Because a burning mouth sounds like it could be an unsaturated wick or something. Although I would say it’s a definite symptom of smoking analogues since it literally involves burning some dried up old leaves and paper to work

-As for headache, I do occasionally get those if I really badly over do it on the vapes

I wouldn't let that put you off though

 

[Deeo]

Maybe try just 18mg. 24mg might be to much and 12 might be too low.

 

[athousandyears]

If you are chain vaping, I would definitely switch to the 12 mg almost exclusively. You can always increase the mg if that is not working. Being nic sick sucks.

 

[Richrob424]

I would wake up and have 3 cups of coffee and about 4-6 analogs in about a hour span. Since I started the vape I have 2 analogs and then vape.
Maybe someone can tell me why eliquid has so much nicotine and a analog has so much less. I looked up what my Parliment lights were and it's somewhere in the 1.5 mg zone. Why would eliquid need 24mg? What am I missing ?


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[ReigntheGamer]

I was a heavy smoker (1 1/2 - 2 PAD) for 20+ years so when I started vaping I bought 24 mg, but I was vaping a lot more than I ever smoked. It wasn't long till I had some of the same issues especially nausea, headache, and the jitters were horrible. As far as the burning mouth I only have experienced that if I fry a coil.

So I dropped to 6 mg now I can vape all day and not get sick, and I am not having any obvious signs of nicotine withdrawal. I was so concerned about going back to analogs I thought I have to have the highest nicotine level and quickly found out that wasn't the case.

 

[Robino1]

I would wake up and have 3 cups of coffee and about 4-6 analogs in about a hour span. Since I started the vape I have 2 analogs and then vape.
Maybe someone can tell me why eliquid has so much nicotine and a analog has so much less. I looked up what my Parliment lights were and it's somewhere in the 1.5 mg zone. Why would eliquid need 24mg? What am I missing ?


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Here is something that might help you understand: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ecf-library/337017-inhalation-technique-e-cigarette.html

Taken from the post:

4. E-Cigarette vapor is a water-based mist and not smoke. This has two main consequences:
a. The droplet size in vapor is much larger than the particles in smoke, and therefore it does not penetrate as deeply into the lungs. Vapor aerosol is ten times the particulate size in smoke (10 microns vs 1 micron). Vapor cannot go anywhere near as deep, and this means that nicotine is not available so easily from the lungs, and is obtained more slowly.
b. It is likely that just as much nicotine is absorbed by the mucous membranes in the mouth and nose as within the lungs. In fact for maximum nicotine delivery, all three need to be employed: mouth, lungs, nose - otherwise all the nicotine in the vapor will not be extracted.

I've bolded the section that I think is pertinent to this discussion. So if an ecig does not deliver nic as affectively as smoking, we tend to need more in our liquid until our bodies adjust to the new way of getting the nic it craves. Once we do get used to it, it becomes easier to drop our nic levels. We are such an adaptable species.

Follow the other links in that post for the most comprehensive understanding of ecigs and how they work for us.

 

[wonner]

Overdosing on nicotine by vaping is like getting drunk on near beer -- you can do it, but you gotta really really work at it.

 

[DaveSignal]

I might be vaping a bit too much right now on this 6mg juice I got from vapealicious juice. It was the lowest that they sell, but I have it in a triple coil atty at low ohms and it is lighting the juice up fast. I am not at the sick point yet though... its kind of a pumped up feeling and it feels good actually, but I also drink caffeine all day so I am used to it.

But, especially if your atty makes massive amounts of vapor, you should only look for low nicotine juice.

 

[Richrob424]

I don't think it creates massive. I'm a noob. I have a spinner 2 and set at 4.3. I'm not sure about the tank.


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[pennysmalls]

I would wake up and have 3 cups of coffee and about 4-6 analogs in about a hour span. Since I started the vape I have 2 analogs and then vape.
Maybe someone can tell me why eliquid has so much nicotine and a analog has so much less. I looked up what my Parliment lights were and it's somewhere in the 1.5 mg zone. Why would eliquid need 24mg? What am I missing ?


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Our bodies (lungs) absorb the nic in vapor differently than it does with tobacco cigs. I've read that most of the nic we absorb from e liquid is actually absorbed via the mouth and not the lungs though I don't know if that's still supposed to be true. It really does sound like the 24mg is to much for you. Someone suggested going down to 18 and seeing how you feel with that, I think that would be the next logical step for you. I was on 18 for a few months before I made it down to 12 and the 18 didn't make me feel ill. It did keep me awake at night though.

 

[Padre]

I would wake up and have 3 cups of coffee and about 4-6 analogs in about a hour span. Since I started the vape I have 2 analogs and then vape.
Maybe someone can tell me why eliquid has so much nicotine and a analog has so much less. I looked up what my Parliment lights were and it's somewhere in the 1.5 mg zone. Why would eliquid need 24mg? What am I missing ?


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how much e liquid are you using in a day?

the 24 is the mg amount of nicotine in a a ml of liquid.
if you vape 1 ml of e-juice a day, you are vaping 24 mg of nicotine
if you smoke 40 conventional cigs a day at 1.5 mg per, you are smoking 60 mg of nicotine a day.

you need to do the math to apply to your own experience

 

[Israfil]

Honestly, I vape 36mg and do fine. Its more about the amount you vape vs your nicotine content. If you're a habitual vaper and prefer to chainvape all the time, go a little lower or temper yourself a little until you find a happy medium.

When vaping if your head starts to hurt, set it down and take a few deep breaths. It'll normally go away in a minute or two. If you keep pushing you'll get a pretty bad headache that lasts a while. A little care and listening to your body and you'll get used to regulating your intake, and eventually you just won't like the taste of the analogs anymore.

One other thing I've noticed.. If you smoke too many analogs after being more vape-oriented that itself can build toxins you aren't as used to up in your body and will cause varied symptoms of an unhappy nature. Just try to slowly cut back, maybe go a day without ciggys and just vape, have one with your morning coffee, then one day try with vape and coffee. Eventually you won't be going out for a cig at all. You'll just come on here, sip your coffee, and vape like a madman. (what I'm doing right now)

 

[Rickajho]

I would wake up and have 3 cups of coffee and about 4-6 analogs in about a hour span. Since I started the vape I have 2 analogs and then vape.
Maybe someone can tell me why eliquid has so much nicotine and a analog has so much less. I looked up what my Parliment lights were and it's somewhere in the 1.5 mg zone. Why would eliquid need 24mg? What am I missing ?

Your particular liquid has 24 m'gs per milliliter. So you would have to vape an entire milliliter to be exposed to 24 mg's of it.

Out of that 24 mg's you only absorb between 1/4 to 1/3 of the nicotine that's in it. Vaping is not an efficient method to get nicotine. So even if you did get through that entire one milliliter you only took in... somewhere between 6 mg's and 8mg's of nicotine - or the equivalent of four to five of your cigarettes.

We still don't know how much - of either of those two liquids - you actually consumed in those few hours, and in what kind of PV either.