I'm with smacuser here - I smoked for more than 50 years; vaping got me off that over one weekend - and by that time I'd already failed 3 Smoking Cessation Courses so I'd say, go with the flow, vape as much as you need to stop smoking, then gradually lower the nic level if you feel you must.
Me, I started vaping on 16 strength liquid nearly 8 years ago using simple kit like an iStick 30w coupled with a Nautilus Mini tank - still my favourite mix after all these years
Personally if you want to vape something horrible imho - then get anything purporting to be tobacco flavoured or make your own extract by brewing up some pipe tobacco, Latakia or British Virginia and that should do the trick!