spydre

Look, I'll be straight up honest, as Joshua has. It's not the question that offends, although the entire first post was an offense. It's the way you have treated our more experienced members as well. We KNOW probably every single variable that can go into TH, between all of us. Some of us, frankly, don't purchase based on "the best" TH, but flavors that we like, and TH may be one of the factors that go into our decision, or maybe not. Another factor, for some, may be time of day. For me, certain flavors, I can't vape in the morning, especially now that I have sinus crap going on. Vaped the Vapor Talk store Caramel all night long. This morning it's just making me cough because of the way it hits my throat.

Too conservative or too liberal Bebop? Okay, so taking our fictional 50 pound dog, that's still 227 mg of nicotine, so 22.7 of juice.....right?

I should also mention, try different resistance coils. That can make a difference on TH as well (or so I've been told, I don't go after TH, and never really noticed it until my SO's Helios clone choked me).

Done.

Very sad. But while his reaction, while genuine, and out of grief, asking to regulate e-juice like tobacco or alcohol is also out of hand. You leave a bottle of vitamins or Tylenol or anything else (those yummy calcium chews anyone? gummy vitamins?) where a dog could reach them, the same thing happens. I don't understand why the vet didn't do a quick net search (all I had to do was enter nicotine poisoning treatment) to do a stomach lavage to absorb and get out the rest of the nicotine that was still in the dog's stomach that hadn't been instantly absorbed through the skin. All I had to do was look up nicotine poisoning treatment. First link was NIH's page, describing what will be happening, and second result was a wikipedia entry saying activated charcoal and then pumping the stomach was the standard treatment, and you would have to get A LOT of it to that much damage - 10 ml per kg of weight on a dog, so, say you have a 50 pound dog, that's, what, 50 mls of juice with an average of 1 mg of nic per ml, right? Or am I wrong on that, and it would be five HUNDRED mls of juice? Well, if you need 10 mg/kg of nicotine.....then it would have to be 500 mg of nicotine, right? Sorry, I'm doing my math out loud because my brain's still not working too well (therefore if necessary, someone can correct me), and I'm tired to boot from not sleeping well (which could have been the whole reason for the seizure to begin with). Anyway, we take the same precautions with this as we do with everything we don't want our kids or pets to get into. Nothing is where my huge furbaby can get to it, unless he figures out how to open cabinets with magnetic closures on it on my computer hutch, or grows oposable thumbs and his paws reshape so that he could open the latch on my tackle box - it's like a tool box latch. We found out with our last dog not to underestimate how high the dogs can get to get into stuff. Loth was....not that big, 35 pound dog. We thought there was no way she could reach the top of the old entertainment center....I mean, she would have to be not only standing on her back feet, but braced to keep herself up......and when my SO left a ziplock of his mother's home made beef jerky, that's exactly what Loth did when he put the bag on the entertainment center and left one day. Dodger's good about not getting things off the table, even though physically he COULD, but we don't leave things near the edge (where he wouldn't consider it wrong to lick it off the table), and we certainly don't leave things on the table overnight, just in case. If something needs to be left out of the cabinets or storage bins for whatever reason, and can't go on top of the fridge because of the heat that produces, then it goes in the microwave overnight. Well, except for fruit. Apples, oranges, bananas. He doesn't care about those until he sees you eating one, and then he's only interesting in the one you have in your hand. Edit: I should make it clear, the only person in our house to ever have a drug - well, not toxicity situation in our house, but swallowing meds that weren't mine on accident - I went to grab Tylenol, and a, *ahem* adult housemate had his prescription meds in the same cabinet things like Tylenol, ibuprofen, etc., were, and I was talking and went to get two Tylenol, and that particular script was in white stock bottle....and I grabbed it and took 2.....realizing AFTER I took it that it was not Tylenol. I called poison control, and said it wasn't anything to be concerned about, because it wasn't an overdose or anything, but because of the dose, and I'd not taken it before, things would get....weird....perceptionally. And it did.

There is never actually TRULY getting rid of ANYTHING on the internet. Sometimes coil POSITION affects it, too. Example, my SO got a helios RDA clone to play around with building coils for. It came with a coil installed, I think .8 ohms, and man, he had me hit off of it.....while it was a flavor I gave him because it was just meh/bleh for me, the throat hit that came out of that thing had me choking. I literally could not do a lung inhale, even after holding it my mouth for a second, that's how intense it was.....in which case, I couldn't taste it, either. He said there was tons of vapor when he was doing mouth hits (there was, and there was with me as well), but he wasn't getting much vapor back out at all if he did lung hits (the th didn't choke him, but came close). So he lowered the coil down towards the deck more. It made a world of difference. He had me try it out the next day. I could do lung hits without choking, still a butt ton of vapor, and he was getting vapor back after he exhaled a lung hit. I could actually TASTE the juice, and if it tasted like that with a regular tank, I might not have given it up.

LOL

Congrats, Wizard! Just think of the years you've added BACK ON to your lifespan!

*shakes finger at Troy*

Like Joshua said, there is no "best". It's all in the eyes, or throat, of the consumer. What's good th for one may be too much th for another, and nic levels and taste are definitely subjective - you don't want to chase a higher nic level than you are used to just for a mythical th that may end up making you, but not the poster, choke. Same with "flavor notes". What I taste may or may not be what you taste, and vice versa. For example, I tried LOTS of Irish Cream (Bailey's) flavored juices that all the reviews said tasted exactly like having a Bailey's in your hand. I haven't found a single one, yet, that to me tastes like that. Your best bet is to try flavors out, try different ratios, and see what you like.

You'd be surpnrised. My MIL, who can't even be around some cosmetics or hair sprays, seems to do fine around paint, wallpaper adhesive, stripper/stain remover, wood stain, etc. My point being it just depends on the person, their particular allergy, and their particular triggers.

70/30 PG shouldn't be a slower draw - it's thinner than 50/50. My SO had it flood out a couple of 2 hole punched cartos.

For about two months, I kept a lighter in my pants pocket still. Another reminder of where I USED to be, plus a lighter comes in handy sometimes. Now, well, I KNOW I have a lighter in my bag somewhere, there are a couple hiding on my desk, and then a couple in the bedroom. But for function around the house, we have one of those long lighters that you would say, use for lighting a gas burner if it won't light (we had that problem with our old stove - if you turned the burner off, and then tried to turn in back on immediately - say because you turned the flame down too low and it extinguished itself - it didn't want to light) or for lighting candles (which is the original reason we bought it, those candles in a jar) and lighting the grill when the ignition button doesn't work.

There CAN be a + or - .2 ohm difference (sometimes more) in the resistance stated, and the resistance actually in the product. Also, I've had a coil make a .1 or .2 ohm drop over the usage of the coil. One tenth of an ohm doesn't really make a difference, unless you are running sub ohm, which, you aren't.

To the OP, it's completely normal to start coughing up crap after you quit the analogs for a while. Your lungs are working their way back to functioning, and they have to clear the crap out. I've got.....something going on. For the first time in what, 7, 8 months since I put the analogs down, I've felt like I did some mornings at the end of my analog days.....take a deep breath and hack. Not bringing anything up yet, except when I bring out post nasal drip from my throat, which has been going on all winter (thank you sinuses, I mean, really, just thanks, you're super).

Ugh, sub, that sucks rocks. Or rather, sucks an inhaler (the I need to suck on this albuterol so I can breathe kind?)?

Just because it's BDSM establishment doesn't mean the owners have any less of a responsibility to run it as "healthily" as possible. It's their business, they can allow in what they want.....but if someone goes into respiratory arrest because of an allergic reaction to the vapor or smell from the flavoring, that IS there business.....and can make their insurance rates go up, and being bdsm, their insurance rates are high enough in the first place. Oh, as far as "compromise"? For most people with these types of allergies, for most of the things that CAN set them off, when they go out in the world, they are at the mercy of the world.....but some business owners do what they can to protect them in the little ways they know how.

Just going to respond to this part right here, because I know why some businesses continue to bar it, even it's legal. People with allergies, asthmatics, etc.....even scents can set them off. That's why people that work in hospitals are banned from wearing perfume or cologne or using scented lotion. I haven't been able to wear perfume around my mother in law since I was 18 (when we were dating), and her lungs went down so hard and so fast - she was hit with the crash cart multiple times during a 21 day hospital stay......I think the only time she'd been hospitalized since I'd started dating my SO before was 5 days in February of that year. But this day, she was out shopping with her mom, was fine, and then all of the sudden within hours pneumonia took her down. But she's been around me when I'm vaping. It's the scent, or maybe an allergy to inhaling pg or vg that sets her off, but even smelling it sets her off. I go over there (which every time I have a seizure, if the next day is a day my SO has school, I'm over there the entire time the SO is gone for at LEAST one day), I don't vape in their house, I go outside. If the weather is agreeable, like it was in September and October, she would come out and talk to me while I did, I just stayed far away from her. Think of it like this - there are people in this world that just the smell of certain types of make ups, lotions, perfumes and colognes, definitely, cause to wheeze, or, wheeze/cough/hack, and if it's bad enough, go into respiratory arrest. My mother in law's last hospitalization she had to kick three separate caregivers (one a respiratory tech) out of her room because they were wearing perfume or scented lotion in defiance of hospital policy, and it was pushing her toward respiratory arrest when she was hospitalized because she had pneumonia to begin with. They have to be able to guarantee the safety of every person in the place - employees AND patrons. Which means, unfortunately, that some businesses will choose not to take the risk of it setting someone's allergies or asthma off. Which, I guess is why even though Red Lobster allows vaping, my SO wouldn't vape in the restaurant Friday night, and he told me he'd leave if I did. Plus, he doesn't want to "appear" like we were smoking, and cause other patrons to ask questions, I think. EDIT: Haven't read the whole thread yet, just the first couple posts, but cut the guy who told you this some slack. Sounds like he's an employee informing you of the policy, that doesn't mean he agrees with it.

What vendor did these come from? I had juice sitting in my cabinet for nearly four months before I got back to where I could stand it again, and it never went "bad", and I've never heard of juice separating, unless it wasn't properly blended. I would look for a new vendor, or at least contact them and ask them why would have separated, especially to the point that shaking vigorously would reincorporate them, after only two months. Heck, I have sample bottles sitting here that are up to 7 months old without that problem. EDIT: Oh, check the bottle to see if there is a born on date, at least an indication of what month/year it was packaged/mixed.

I agree with everything Tam said - but with the Spinner, I start at "standard", which is 3.7 volts, and only go below that if it tastes burned at 3.7. I would also try out fadoravapor.com, and flatlineliquids.com. I recommend those because they are both VIP members here, I myself vape liquid from Fadora, and I've heard wonderful things about Flatline as well from members of this forum. I don't know about Flatline, but Fadora you can order a sample size as well.

Comp isn't using a test machine to test things he orders.....he's been doing the DIY thing for YEARS, and has opened his own online shop. So obviously, he has to know how to get to the target nic level and the percentages, and he has to test every order he makes - and he fine tunes PG/VG ratio finer than any other vendor I've seen.

Nicotine is actually a stimulant. I have MS....I've been told my by MS specialist to quit smoking because smoking leads to a much earlier and worse decline with MS patients. So, when I started thinking of making the switch back in July, I contacted her office. And she was THRILLED. She said absolutely the nic wasn't the issue with MS decline, but analog cigarettes/cigars most definitely WERE the issue. She's over the moon with me just for that.

This wasn't a federal bill. This was a STATE bill, applying only to Hawaii - hence the interview with the owner of Volcano. You know, I don't mind if they end up taxing it. I mean, we paid taxes on the analogs we smoked for YEARS. As a matter of fact, since we live in a border town, we crossed the river into Missouri where the STATE tobacco tax was lower to get analogs cheaper.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/24698753/e-cigarettes-exe In Hawaii, there is a bill up for consideration banning ALL flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes (which the FDA still allows under the flavoring ban.....for now, but research has shown that menthol analogs are worse for you), including flavored e-cig juice. As the linked article says, this would essentially kill e-cig juice sales in Hawaii, because ALL e-cig juices are flavored, as you buy them. But they changed their minds, for now. The article quotes the owner and CEO of the Volcano brand, and also quotes a Type 2 diabetic who vapes 0 nic, and from his quote, seems to vape in order to get the flavors of sweet things, without dealing with the repercussions of EATING these things, other than the comparatively minor blood sugar rise (and yeah, vaping something like a bread pudding would be significantly less increase in blood sugar than EATING bread pudding - mmmmm, bread pudding). Their goal with e-cigs, and any - hence the ban on flavors - is too keep them from being "desired" by minors. However, the State Senator quoted at the end of the article was wrong - he said there is no law prohibiting minors from purchasing them in their state, when in fact, there is. The important thing I got out of this article, is becoming acutely aware that e-cigs and analogs, that any laws that apply to e-cigs need to be drafted separately from traditional cigarette legislation.

Funny, I was going to say the same thing about the mile high city.