aliscampbell
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Post by aliscampbell on Mar 7, 2014 17:45:55 GMT
Hi poppydaisyjulia and I smoked about the same amount of baccy and moved onto 18mg and found it worked perfectly for me. We are all different though. How much e-cig liquid are you using a day? I ask because it might make it clearer why you are having headaches. I wonder if you are going a little two low on nicotene or it could be that your body is just clearing out all the other chemicals from smoking. Either way keep drinking water, I drank loads in the first 2 weeks, which is going to help flush out all those other chemicals.
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Post by DiscoDes on Mar 7, 2014 17:55:27 GMT
poppydaisyjulia I consider myself a "seasoned vaper" of over 4 years and what you've described with the headaches is typical for someone coming off Tobacco, there's more than just nicotine in tobacco to get addicted to. I'd say 18mg is NOT high, as recent scientific studies show the amount of nicotine absorbed when you vape is different to tobacco typically you get only about 30% of the nicotine when vaping so I don't think you are "over dosing" on nicotine. I think you're probably dehydrating by taking more puffs to get the level of nicotine that you would have got from a roll up and all that puffing/sucking will probably contribute to a headache! You don't mention the type of E-cig you are using either, as the amount of nicotine and vapour varies wildly with devices. What e-cig are you using? Any way, one thing I can assure you is that Vaping is thousands of time more safe than smoking.
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Post by Steve (VapeStorm) on Mar 7, 2014 18:57:02 GMT
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Post by djs on Mar 7, 2014 22:28:50 GMT
.. I think I have had all three of these so far and think that 18mg is for heavy smokers, I should be on a much lower dose of nicotine. In fairness, I don't think my 15 a day made me a heavy smoker. You are a light smoker (6 or 12mg) I was a medium smoker (18mg) and people on 30 a day use 24mg or more. Also, the quality/size/power of the e-cig is important. Some of the rip-off e-cigs are 24mg. In these devices, they are no stronger than a Silk Cut.
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