Will 18mg nic juice be strong enough?

[ridethespiral]

I've never used an e cigarette before in my life and decided to take the plunge today by ordering the ego c twist. Currently, I smoke between 5-7 smokes at work and generally only a single smoke before bed. Sometimes even halving that last smoke and finishing it in the morning when I wake up.

Now, along with the ego twist, I've ordered 6x flavours of 18mg juice. I'm now sitting here wondering if I should have gotten a few in 24mg strength.

What are your opinions? Do you think 18mg is a good choice? I definitely don't want to make the addiction stronger, of course.

Thanks!

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[gthompson]

That's a good place to start. No one here can tell you, you just have to let your body tell you.

 

[MacSabbath]

18mg with an ego twist is pretty strong. I smoked a pack a day and 18mg is strong enough to tide me over. I have some 24mg on the shelf I haven't tried yet but 18mg is plenty strong if you only smoke 7-8 a day.

 

[Antoly]

18mg is OK for you, I guess. Also if some percentage is not strong enough for you, you will just vape a little more.

 

[Jaysin]

I was a pack a day smoker and have only been using 18. Fine for me.

 

[Hello World]

In part it depends on how strong of a cig you were smoking previously moreso than how much.

I smoked a pack of medium-strong cigs and found 18 didn't quite cut it for me, then went up to 24 and found my place. In due time I'll cut back down again but not until I'm 100% clear of any pangs to go back to smoking again.

 

[sgenn99]

i used to smoke at least a pack of marlboro mediums a day, and i use 18mg juice. it works for me...i haven't used anything less than 18mg. i have a few that are stronger, but i'm ok with 18mg. i do vape like a maniac, though..like,a lot.

 

[CarbonThief]

What GThompson said, you just have to find out, but I do believe it is a good starting point for most smokers trying to quit via vaping. Warning, you may, like I did, and many others, find yourself vaping a LOT more an you smoked, because, well a lot of reasons, it can taste so yummy when you find juices you like, and the perceived relative safety of it may also play a role. I got quite the buzz chain vaping the 24 and especially the 32 mg juices I started out with for the first week or so. Drink lots of water when you start vaping, and keep drinking it.

 

[CarbonThief]

Oh and here is a good website with links to the nicotine and tar content of major brands of cigarettes: Nicotine, Tar, and CO Content of Domestic Cigarettes

You can find in these forums some estimations of what the equivalent nic strength per puff, per mL juice, etc, but just know they are really just estimations and people's opinions I think, no hard data that I am aware of. Again, as GThompson said above, you will just have to vape and see how your body responds.

 

[Tajji'smom]

I've never used an e cigarette before in my life and decided to take the plunge today by ordering the ego c twist. Currently, I smoke between 5-7 smokes at work and generally only a single smoke before bed. Sometimes even halving that last smoke and finishing it in the morning when I wake up.

Now, along with the ego twist, I've ordered 6x flavours of 18mg juice. I'm now sitting here wondering if I should have gotten a few in 24mg strength.


What are your opinions? Do you think 18mg is a good choice? I definitely don't want to make the addiction stronger, of course.

Thanks!

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I smoked 13 a day and started with 12mg and bought 1 15mg. Was plenty strong enough for me-one month later and 10 mg is just fine now. I smoked Players smooth (medium strength)

 

[Racehorse]

Do you think 18mg is a good choice?

You are asking people to guess.

What did you smoke before, brand and size..... and how much per day?

I go by the level of nic you were getting formerly.

If you only smoked 5-7 at work, then one at bedtime, you certainly should not be needing 24 mg or even 18mg!

Even the strongest cig I can think of wouldn't put you more than 10mg of nicotine. Even if we calculate for less nic absorbsion with ecig as opposed to analog, I couldn't see you vaping more than 11-12mg.

i used to smoke at least a pack of marlboro mediums a day, and i use 18mg juice. it works for me...i haven't used anything less than 18mg. i have a few that are stronger, but i'm ok with 18mg. i do vape like a maniac, though..like,a lot.

And that makes total sense. Sounds just about right for you.

But the OP only smokes like under 10 cigs a day!

 

[ridethespiral]

You are asking people to guess.

What did you smoke before, brand and size..... and how much per day?

I go by the level of nic you were getting formerly.

If you only smoked 5-7 at work, then one at bedtime, you certainly should not be needing 24 mg or even 18mg!

Even the strongest cig I can think of wouldn't put you more than 10mg of nicotine. Even if we calculate for less nic absorbsion with ecig as opposed to analog, I couldn't see you vaping more than 11-12mg.

I guess I should have mentioned that lol. I smoke Export A Blue/Medium. Also, I used to smoke a lot more not very long ago (1/2 pack +), and I do smoke a ton when I'm out on the weekend. I pretty much power smoke my cigs too haha. Love the nicotine rush. The cutting back in smoking has only been recently

Sounds like I should have asked this before ordering my kit and juice though...

 

[LongDraw]

I quit in september. Used 18 mg liquid. First week went from 20 light cigarettes to 5 per day. The next week down to 1. It was pretty painless, the only time I remember being rough was the first two days without any cigarretes, and I chose my quit day as a saturday so I could vape as much as i wanted. Thats when i mainly noticed the withdrawals more then the other days. I've stayed at that mg. As others have stated though it can be different for everyone.

I've never used an e cigarette before in my life and decided to take the plunge today by ordering the ego c twist. Currently, I smoke between 5-7 smokes at work and generally only a single smoke before bed. Sometimes even halving that last smoke and finishing it in the morning when I wake up.

Now, along with the ego twist, I've ordered 6x flavours of 18mg juice. I'm now sitting here wondering if I should have gotten a few in 24mg strength.

What are your opinions? Do you think 18mg is a good choice? I definitely don't want to make the addiction stronger, of course.

Thanks!

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[CarbonThief]

The unfortunate thing is nicotine withdrawal gives you headaches, or can. So can absorbing too much nicotine. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. But I would look for the timing. If you are vaping, and within 5 or 10 minutes of vaping you geta headache with the 18 mg juice, you may need to dilute that juice and try lower nic juices in the ne t order. If its been 30 minutes or hours since you vaped, and you get headaches, you likely are experiencing withdrawal. Though really, this is more unlikely as you were/are a pretty light smoker anyway and must go hours between cigarettes at times anyway. Sou des to me like myself, your major addiction is to the ritual and psychological dependence of smoking ("oral fixation," keeping your hands busy, etc).

I disagree, in part with one of the above posters who admittedly has been here longer than I and many times more pots than. I have, but the concentration of the nic juice really has nothing to do with how many cigarettes you smoked per day and has more to do with the concentration of nic in those cigrarettes, just like pv ejuice. I.e. if you smoked 7 cigs a day at about .5 mg total per cig absorbed, and you vape about the same number of puffs as you inhaled when smoking per day, the concentration of the nicotine ejuice needs to be equivalent in what the body's absorption is. Ie if 18 mg (1.8% nic) juice equates to your brand of cigarettes in nicotine absorption in a single session, or puff to puff, then that could be right for you. If you tend to vape more than you smoked, as I said might happen in my earlier post, then you will want lower nic concentration. Make sense? I don't know may have just confused myself. But my point stands.

 

[J.R. Bob Dobbs]

i started with 18 first month, and i smoked nearly 2 packs a day. second month i ordered diff flavors in 12 and some in 18. this month im totally on 12mg. so yeah i bet it will work for you. if not you will likely just vape more and go through juice a bit faster is all.

 

[jammer397]

I was a pack a day smoker. I'm vaping 16mg. Which so happens to be what I started at.

 

[blondeambition3]

Do you think 18mg is a good choice?

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you....

I definitely don't want to make the addiction stronger, of course.

Highly unlikely

 

[Susaz]

I choose 24 mg and downgrade it to whatever mg I need at the time. For instance today I'm vaping 24 directly from CE3, while I have 14 mg downgraded on my T3. I sometimes miss the lack of flavor, but at least I can tweak how much nicotine I need. BTW I smoked 40 cigs a day, and today I just smoked a few...

 

[Jerms]

18mg is a great starting point. If you feel you'd like to vape more but are getting too much nicotine try less next time. If you find you are vaping more than you'd like to get your fix or if you don't feel satisfied that the cravings are under control go to 24mg.

My theory (based on what makes sense to me, and different from how most look at it) is that the more you smoked throughout the day the less mg you'll want. My reasoning is that chain smokers will likely want to chain vape, and it would be harder to do that with higher nic. Theoretically, 2 puffs of a 18mg juice would deliver close to what one puff of 36mg would. Alternatively, someone who smoked only a few times a day would likely want to vape less often, so would do better having a high nic juice to keep craving at bay longer in between vape sessions.

On the other hand, if you smoked less than a half pack a day but plan on vaping often, low mg will do. If you chain smoked but don't want to chain vape high mg will be better.

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[ridethespiral]

Thanks everyone for the very thorough answers!

I think the 18mg will be perfect to get a nice nic fix based on Jerms' theory, though maybe not the first few days when I won't want to put the vape down . I think I will need some weaker juice for when I'm drinking heh...



I'm learning so much! you all are seriously awesome.

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