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Hah! Each to their own, I quite like the look of it now, if only I could get the damn thing to wick with any consistency...

It's the only way to do it - try little bottles of various bits and see what takes your fancy. It might be quite expensive in this first week while you get set up, but it gets cheaper once you find a juice or two that you like.

That is, as long as you don't catch shinyitis and start buying lots of fancy vaping gear (no harm in having a little!) - I speak from experience

I completely understand the want for a familiar flavour. Having said I won't advise on tobacco, a few thoughts are below in case they are useful

In my experience the golden virginia style juices can be a little sickly sweet (coming from someone who likes sweet juices) - they smell right, but they taste a little like unburnt tobacco, if that makes sense!

however, a few places do a juice called golden rollie that you could try. Maybe get a darker flavour as well, like a USA mix (like Marlboro apparently) that has a real savoury tobacco flavour as well. And get a little bottle of something fruity that you like, just to see what it tastes like - a strawberry or something, just to experience it.

if you're getting the myepack starter kit, they also do dekang juice which isn't great but is perfectly acceptable, and comes in various tobacco and fruit flavours. 

Hello wabbitwabbit and welcome - good choice of starter kit. 

I dont vape tobacco flavoured juice so I'll let others advise on that, but what I will say is that it is very difficult to recreate the taste of burning tobacco well. It will be similar, but not exactly the same. 

As as for strength, I'd go with either 24mg or 18mg to start with, and reduce when you're ready to. This could be weeks, it could be months - don't worry about it, you'll do it when you're ready. 

Don't worry about PG/VG levels to start with (that's the ratio of ingredients in the juice), but if you find yourself with a choice go for something with a little more PG as that will help recreate that throat hit from smoking. 

I was a roll-up smoker and I said exactly the same as you when I started vaping, I only wanted tobacco flavours. My taste buds soon changed, and now I vape deserts and fruit pretty much exclusively. The same might happen to you, so stick to small bottles of juice until you work out what you like - and what you like now might not be the same as what you want in a months time. 

Good luck - you're going to love it. 

Hello jonty1, welcome to AAEC!

Thanks tominmids - I've gone with my calculations above, once I checked them through the mix calc. So the final mix is:
13ml nic at 54mg
2.67ml PG
16ml VG
8ml flavour
Giving me just shy of 40ml at just shy of 18mg.

Panic averted, unless I've missed something - which is entirely possible, my rational head has returned but I'm way out of my depth here!

Thanks @freefromsmoking - but i was planning a 12mg mix, so I've added 5.33ml too much nic, my recipe above was wrong. So I'd need to add another 80% of the other ingredients to make it 12mg, and I don't have enough flavouring.

Measure twice, cut once and all that...

so I have 3ml of flavouring left. Just doing the maths for checking...