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Nicotine and flavour to your liking, ethyl maltol is often added as a sweetener. | Nicotine and flavour to your liking, ethyl maltol is often added as a sweetener. | ||
Nicotine strength is highly individual and will depend on how much you smoke, the recommended strength of eliquid is as | == Nicotine strength == | ||
Nicotine strength is highly individual and will depend on how much you smoke, the recommended strength of eliquid is as follows. These recommendations are just a starting point, and assume an average starter kit. You will need to experiment to find your own 'sweet spot' generally if you find yourself 'chain vaping' or still craving a cigarette, then you need to increase the nicotine. If you find the inhalation 'throat hit' too harsh, or you feel dizzy, nausious, or develop hicups, then you need to reduce the nicotine. | |||
Note it is not uncommon to require more nicotine to start with, when switching from smoking to ecigs, the author uses 48mg/ml liquid for example (but finds himself an outlier, at the high end). | |||
Yet others have found it helpful to use a nicotine patch, plus vaping. The patch provides a background nicotine level, and the ecig is used to top up, for example when cravings strike. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Table of nicotine strength vs number of cigs smoked | |||
!Number of Cigs per day | |||
!Suggested nicotine concentration to start at | |||
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|1-5 | |||
|0.6% / 6mg/ml | |||
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|5-10 | |||
|1.0% / 10mg/ml | |||
|- | |||
|10-15 | |||
|1.6% / 16mg/ml | |||
|- | |||
|20+ | |||
|1.8% / 18mg/ml+ | |||
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The author finds unflavoured, sweetened eliquid to be acceptable and it leaves no residual smell, other than faint cotton candy, that dissipates in minutes. The percentage of PG can be increased, to provide an even more stealthy experience, with less exhaled vapour. Going the other way and increasing the VG content will increase the density and thickness of exhaled vapour. | The author finds unflavoured, sweetened eliquid to be acceptable and it leaves no residual smell, other than faint cotton candy, that dissipates in minutes. The percentage of PG can be increased, to provide an even more stealthy experience, with less exhaled vapour. Going the other way and increasing the VG content will increase the density and thickness of exhaled vapour. | ||