Medium strength 901 cartridges

[pixietricks]

:)I am now using a 510 from OK smokey with flat 901 cartridges. Does anyone know where to get the prefilled cartridges with flat mouth pieces but medium strength. Have looked around but they tend to be in small packets - not cost effective!!
Thanks

[Chrissie]

Pixie, apologies for not remembering but why do you prefer the prefilled cartridges to filling them yourself with eliquid?

If you do want to stick to the prefilled cartridges then TECC (The Electronic Cigarette Company) has a good selection & you can buy from them in bulk :

www.theelectroniccigarette.co.uk/products/cartridges/pick-mix/electronic-cigarette-cartridges-mini-6-product.html

[pixietricks]

:)Thanks for the link. I need to cut down the amount of nicotine I am having, so thought it would be the easiest way to do it. I would like to refill the cartridges because then I can measure my intake per day, using your table - but seem to be crap at doing this. If I used a syringe I might be better. Can you recommend a syringe with a point on the end?
I am guesstimating that I will use - 2-3 cartridges (901) per day, so based on 3, I would need to use 1/3 ml of liquid in each one to get 14 mg of nicotine or whatever strength I need.

[Chrissie]

I think blunt needle syringes would be best to use. I've used one that came with a printer ink cartridge refilling kit. I think that any of these would work :

shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=blunt+needle+syringe

[pixietricks]

Thankyou, have ordered some, will give it a go!!

[Lilac]

Pixie...here's a post on ECF by Kate which might help you work it out while refilling...

That's absolutely right, it's important to keep track of approximately how many ml and mg of juice we dose ourselves with.

As a general guide:

Cigarettes usually give us 0.5 - 1.2mg nic per cig with 1mg being an average.

Eliquid potency is measured in mg per ml, eg 16mg eliquid contains 16mg nic per 1ml (approximately 16 cigs worth).

The exception to this measurement is Johnson Creek who use mg per 1.2ml (so their 24mg juice equals about 18mg per 1ml).

The average amount of eliquid members of the forum use is 2ml per day.

If you were trying to replace a 20 x 1mg cig per day habit you would need to vape 2ml of 10mg juice.

Small amounts of nicotine might be beneficial but higher doses can cause long term physical damage. Tolerance is quickly built up to higher doses and more nic is needed to gain the same effect.

[Scylla]

You've properly boggled my mind there, Lilac

My nicotine intake is very high, because I absorb a lot thru my fingers and lips as well as thru chain vaping :-[

scylla

[Lilac]

I had a bit of a scare a few days ago, down to overdoing it, i think Scylla, so i've went back to cigs while i think about it a bit more

[Scylla]

Awww, {{{Lilac}}} please feel free to share if it will help.

Have some flowers

scylla x

[Chrissie]

((((Lilac)))))

[Lilac]

awww...ta for the flowers...

Well, i'd had this strange feeling for a couple of days, on & off...1st noticed it on tues or wed, while we were out walking with the dogs...

hard to describe accurately, kinda like i couldn't get a proper lungful of air...i hesitate to call it breathlessness, cos it was barely noticible, but i found myself having to take several deep breaths and yawning a lot..

then on thurs evening i think it was, it got worse, and i had discomfort in what felt like my lungs, not a pain exactly, but not nice...

as you do, i immediately thought of the amount of vaping i'd been doing...a lot...cos i loved it...and loved the fact i wasn't smoking, could sit on the couch beside Gordi, having a glass of wine without him waving his hand about and holding his nose, lol

I went on the ECF forum and did a search on side effects, nicotine overdose, etc, and saw that there seemed to be a significant number who'd also had this chest discomfort, altho i don't think i saw any mention of breathlessness...

so i went for a pack of cigs and haven't vaped since...

but....i woke up on fri morning at 5am feeling very sick, and barely made it to the bathroom, 30 mins later, the other end started
that was me for the whole day, i could barely keep a sip of water down, i called the out of hours Dr just after 9 that night and they asked me to come in as there was only 1 Dr on that night, all others were off sick, so off i went, my son driving me, me sitting on a towel, with an incontinence pad in my nicks (oh, the shame) and a bowl on my knees.
I told him about the chest discomfort and he had a listen, saying my heart was fine, and that it was prob just a result of the virus (Gastric flu) and gave me tabs to put under my lip against the gum, so i wouldnt have to swallow them....

altho im still weak and dizzy sometimes, and very tired, the discomfort and feeling of not being able to get quite enough oxygen in are still there, just not as bad...

so...im not sure if i overdosed, or if it was the virus working on me thats caused it, cos it started 2 days before i got sick... ???

I reckon i'd been sucking way too much and too strong anyway, going by the amount i should be having, to replace a 20 a day richmond menthol superking habit...

but it scared me...

[Lilac]

wow...that wasn't a post...that was a novel
well, you did ask

[Scylla]

Very interesting though I would just say, take your time, maybe in a few days replace a fag or two with a vape now and then, see how you feel.

But talking of bugs, I don't know what happened to me the day before yesterday, but I suddenly became chilled to the marrow, all thru my insides, I had to chatter my teeth and shiver violently to survive... I lay down in bed with 2 duvets and eventually went off to sleep, and several hours later I woke up almost on fire It wasn't anything like my hot & cold flushes/sweats. Then the next morning it was as if nothing had happened ???

The only thing I can think of was that I'd eaten some Christmas walnuts that morning, I'd been disappointed that they didn't seem very fresh. But I didn't have a tummy upset.

There! Another book

I do hope you feel completely better soon, Lilac

scylla x

[Lilac]

Sounds like you've had a virus too Scylla, but you've managed to fight it off...prob smothered it to death under those duvets

I had to chatter my teeth and shiver violently to survive...

they say laughter is the best medicine and you saying that made me giggle

[Lilac]

Ta for the hugs Chrissie