Vape Making Me Cough - E-Liquid Problem?

[Mel B]

I noticed for a while that I have been feeling short of breath and my vape is making me cough, I vape a lot, but not more than some others do.

So anyways. I make my own juices, and when I finally tested a batch of 0mg of a flavor I made, it was NOT HARSH like all of my juices have been tasting. I got my nicotine in the mail and made a 3mg batch and it started making me feel short of breath and cough-y again, and I tasted the flavor less.

Is nicotine like spicy flavors? The more that's in it, the less you taste the flavors? And this is a better brand of nicotine, I think, so I doubt its a bad quality one.

Do I need to drop to 1.5mg, or 0mg, or is there something else I am missing here?

 

[Letitia]

Some oxidized nic tastes peppery. Some vendors offer smooth th nic or you can switch to nic salts. Where do you get your nic from and how do you store it?

Welcome to the ECF family Mel.

 

[Mel B]

Thanks!!!

Is is BRAND NEW, and gonna be stored in the fridge. It has a dark glass. I just read that it needs to be stored properly, I did not know that until 30 minutes ago reading this forum. It was bottled on the 12th, so like, three days ago. I dunno if it tastes peppery. It just feels.....like I can't breathe as well, and I cough. Not a lot of phlegm. Just feels like its irritating my throat/voice box area.

It might be that I vape too much and its just that I need to lower the content or vape 0mg. When I tried the 0mg for half a day, the cough went away completely and the juice didn't make me feel 'restricted' breathing-wise.

 

[Mel B]

I am ADHD and I use the vape partially as a way to keep myself occupied, but the nicotine keeps me awake and is much preferable to coffee, which gives me anxiety even at one cup. I don't feel jittery on nicotine. So I might have to just make a 1.5mg mix or lower, and maybe just add teeny amounts so I still feel it a bit but it doesn't irritate my lungs/throat?

 

[Mel B]

Even putting some 0mg of the same flavor to reload the tank and vaping past the 3mg in the cotton currently, I feel a little better. At this exact second. So yeah....I dunno.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

What is the strength of the nic you just received?

 

[Mel B]

100mg 100% vg

 

[AzPlumber]

Maybe you're mixing it too strong. Can you tell us what MG (strength) is your nicotine base, how much did you use, how did you measure it and what size batch did you make.

 

[Mel B]

Maybe you're mixing it too strong. Can you tell us what MG (strength) is your nicotine base, how much did you use, how did you measure it and what size batch did you make.

Its only 3mg, and yeah, I measured properly. 30% pg 70% vg. The nicotine is 100mgs, at 100% vg. The 0mg mix I made did not make me feel short of breath at all. So its not the flavors.

 

[Mel B]

It might be too strong for ME, though, still, at 3mg. That was what I was wondering. Or the fact its a 100mg nicotine content? I dunno.

 

[AzPlumber]

How much nicotine did you use in what size batch? How did you measure it?

 

[SupplyDaddy]

We are still trying to figure out your recipe. A 30ml bottle of eliquid would be .9ml for 3mg mix from a 100mg base.

 

[Mel B]

With a small 1ml syringe. It was precisely 0.9ml, which is the right amount for 30ml of juice. I measured everything exactly just without the nicotine when I made it. Then I added in the nicotine later.

Perhaps it needs to sit longer? The flavors don't need to steep except to get stronger, they aren't harsh. Just the nicotine is. So does it need to sit and get less harsh in the juice itself? Will it go away later?

 

[Mel B]

Yes what SupplyDaddy said ^^^ lol! I use e-liquid recipes dot com, so it calculates the exact amounts for me based on what I want.

 

[Mel B]

At least the flavors of the juices I have taste good! And I can always vape 0mg until I figure this out.

 

[AzPlumber]

Sounds like you have the numbers figured out, might just be too much nic for your style of vaping. Must have been a chore getting that VG nic in that little syringe.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

Well then, I would suggest either/and/or cutting your nic in half or letting the eliquid steep for a while. You could also add a drop or two of apple cider vinegar to help smooth your mix a bit.

 

[Mel B]

It has a wide tip, so it is easy to pull from the bottle!!! And yeah, sounds like I just vape so much the nicotine is too high and I need to use between 0mg and 1.5mg, and no more. Thanks guys! I will try that. I will leave the 3mg bottles to steep, try them later to see if that helps, and vape the 1.5mg in the meantime and see if the 1.5mg helps, and if it doesn't, try the 0mg and either stay there or just wait and see if steeping either of the others fixes my problem. I will also add some apple cider vinegar now to the 3mg and see if it helps!!!

 

[AzPlumber]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Mel B]

The nicotine ITSELF in my homemade juices was fine until I hit a certain amount of months vaping constantly, then I got this coughing/shortness of breath problem, so I do think its the amount of nicotine I am personally ingesting and not how I mixed it. I will try lower amounts. ^__^