Introducing myself -
Diagnosed with COPD in 2008 and quit smoking immediately. Been vaping for 14 years now and doing the mad scientist thing for about six months less than that.
I don't experiment with flavors any more, having created my go-to flavor and I've been using it for > 10 years. Still got a box full of itty bitty Lorann bottles I used when experimenting :)
I mix by weight, not volume - I use a $30 scale that can measure .01 gram and I know the specific gravity of my ingredients and use an Excel spreadsheet to calculate how much of what to put in there - I just input how much I want to make and at what nic level and the spreadsheet spits out a recipe.
My body doesn't care much for PG so I use VG as a base and the only PG in my mix is what's in the flavoring.
Anyway, I read the sidebar, decided to say hey and am now going to do a little more reading here.
cheers -
Mad science for about 2 years here. The discovery of my intolerance to PG is what expedited me starting DIY and the minor problems dissipated completely after i started mixing my own max VG liquid. The ability to make exactly what i want and the cost savings have both been game changing. I did stock up on high nic base in the freezer and if i keep consistent, i should have enough to last for decades. No regrets, just wish common sense retail rules could be established.
Same here, pg wrecks my lungs so started thinkering and getting nic in glycerol only and bot adding any flavor with pg (which is kinda limiting to mostly menthol or vanillin) and been this way for like 3-4 years. Been trying some candy flavourings that state no pg on them with mixed results, the fact that creamy flavouring are all with pg is annoying. Btw not in the US so is hard to get supplies from dedicated vendor for DIY juices.
Hows the copd with vaping?
I don't mess around with different recipes either, really. I normally just vape the same 1 or 2, though I've had to improvise since I decided to stop getting anymore flavorings and ran out of most of what I'd been using. If I decide to not quit vaping I'll buy the appropriate ingredients.
Doing it by weight makes it so easy and quick. Sure beats counting drops.
Anyways, welcome.
> Hows the copd with vaping?
Manageable. I take a pulmonary function test every year and the one I took a year after I quit smoking showed lung function had improved by about 10%. It still gets a tiny bit worse every year but that's the nature of the disease.
So after 14 years I still don't require O2 yet and that's good.
Welcome to the sub.
14 years, that's about 2 lifetimes in the vape world! Would love to know what your current favorite setups are, and the ones you look back fondly on
> Would love to know what your current favorite setups are, and the ones you look back fondly on
Believe it or not I was still using punched cartomizers in homemade tanks until about a year ago. I can make tanks out of 5ml plastic dropper bottles so saw no real reason to change until i started not being able to get cartomizers any more :)
Current setup is a Smoktech Big Baby Beast with an 80w eleaf iPower. I've got enough extra coils for the Beast to run it for another year at least and then we'll see.
If you bought the tank by itself it should have an rba; it's my main tank. Actually I have 3, but I can't really get coils anymore (none locally and no vape shipping here). The rba works very well though.
How is your breathing and copd after 14 on the vape?