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[escapee]

Hello everyone

I am new here, although I have a confession to make..... I don't smoke!

I registered in an effort to help my mother who, until around a month ago, smoked over 40 cigarettes a day for the last fifty-odd years... she is now down to 0 thanks to my neighbours ecig recommendation (he too has gone from smoking around 30 roll-ups per day to zero!).

Unfortunately it's not all good news, it appears she has had a reaction to the PG in the eliquid which has caused a heavy rash and swelling to her legs which (after lots of research) appears to be a build up of lactic acid.  We're now trialling lower levels of PG/VG ejuice thanks to Joosejuice on here!

To be honest, I've kind of become obsessed with ecigarettes now as I look into things like rebuildable atomizers, mods, batteries and ejuices...... so really hoping this helps to keep my mum on the ecig trail and not deviate back to cigarettes on a 'technicality'.

Anyway that's me in a nutshell.... off to do more research, I must say the forums appear to be a fantastic point of reference.  

Thank you for accepting me as a registered user.

[rich64]

Welcome

You seem to be sorting everything out so best wishes to you and your mum

[Chrissie]

Hello & welcome escapee:)

And kudos to you for helping your mum so much

Really sorry though to hear she had a bad reaction to PG & I hope the lower level PG juices help her.

Congratulations to your mum for doing so well, despite her bad set back.

[Raffles]

... escapee

Really well done on getting your Mum off the fags. I'm not qualified to answer your question re PG/VG ratios and the effect they have, but I'm more than confident there will be others on here that will chip in with their advice. But for now, we all wish your Mum the best.

[phiant101]

Hi & Escapee, great to hear that your mum has beaten the cigs with vaping, hope she gets the juice that suits her

[Gilly]

  escapee

And to your mother and you for helping her

cheers

Gilly

[escapee]

Thanks everyone for the really warm welcomes so far... I tend not to register on many forums due to the back-biting and trolling that seems ever more present nowadays.... as yet I've not seen anything like that on here and these welcomes just prove what a fantastic forum AAEC is!

I think you've just adopted another stray.... lol

[DiscoDes]

[fred]

escapee

Well done to you and your mum - hope you both get the PG thing sorted

No trolls here due to this ->

[moonraker]

& good luck to your mother

[chuck]

Hello and escapee.
Glad your mums managed to stay of the cigarettes.

[Raffles]

Aug 14, 2013 21:31:47 GMT escapee said:

Thanks everyone for the really warm welcomes so far... I tend not to register on many forums due to the back-biting and trolling that seems ever more present nowadays.... as yet I've not seen anything like that on here and these welcomes just prove what a fantastic forum AAEC is!

I think you've just adopted another stray.... lol

escapee... don't worry about that... you'll not find it here. The first inkling of something going awry is snuffed out very quickly. It is run by women after all, and reminds me of my ex-wife.

[rich64]

I ve read a few posts on pg intolerence now and mulled the idea of a mix of 100% vg(or near as possible excluding nic of say 1.8% and mixing it with menthol crystal .

Idea being to totally eradicate all pg for say two weeks to confirm it is pg.

Anyone any thoughts or drawbacks? (other than getting bored with menthol )

Ps I think the crystals would break down in a little vodka to avoid crystalising the mix?

[escapee]

from what I've ready rich64 - the main two drawbacks of 100% VG is a thicker mixture that some cartomizers struggle with (burning out the wick too quickly) and the potential for a build up of phlegm/catarrh which apparently high doses of VG can have a tendency to cause in some users.

I'm hoping my mum has an intolerance to higher doses of PG and not PG in general as I've purchased 30/70 and 80/20 eliquid to trial.... failing this I do have one bottle of 100% VG in reserve.

Do you believe that you have an intolerance to PG?

[rich64]

Aug 14, 2013 21:56:45 GMT escapee said:

from what I've ready rich64 - the main two drawbacks of 100% VG is a thicker mixture that some cartomizers struggle with (burning out the wick too quickly) and the potential for a build up of phlegm/catarrh which apparently high doses of VG can have a tendency to cause in some users.

I'm hoping my mum has an intolerance to higher doses of PG and not PG in general as I've purchased 30/70 and 80/20 eliquid to trial.... failing this I do have one bottle of 100% VG in reserve.

Do you believe that you have an intolerance to PG?

The first point should easily be sorted out by adding distilled water to thin the vg down a bit but i was nt aware of the second point of catarrh buildup.

Im not intolerant to pg although we do think my wife may struggle with pg as she just has nt taken to ecigs at all im afraid(no real side effects but it does seem to tighten her chest )

I do hope the 30/70 or 20/80 sorts it out for your Mother though as shes doing so well