That’s just what’s bothering me. I understand PG is a throat hit and flavor carrier while VG is a cloud chasers’ dream… But I’m fine with the 50/50 VG/PG in my pods.
I don’t recall the % of nicotine in that pod juice, it’s been a good 9 months or so since I mixed it. Those bottles are long gone.
When I first mixed the juice I have in my pod today it was harsh as hell. I set it aside and planned to forget about it, but I forgot to forget about it and stumbled across it a few months ago. Sheer curiosity when I stumbled across it made me take a hit. By the time I hit it, it had been steeping for at last 3 months.
Memories not so good so I could be talking 6 months, but the point is, it needed more than the usual 2 weeks to steep.
I’ve been hitting it every couple three weeks for no reason I can think of. Like I say, the flavor is all but non existent and any throat hit is perfect. No cough at all.
To be clear, I have a Smok Mag 18, 0.15 ohms. That puppy and her coils like 80 + watts. I’ve cranked her down to 40 watts and even that causes me to cough. We’re not talking a mild cold cough, we’re talking pick my lungs up off the filthy garage floor, grab my pneumatic staple gun to reinstall them.
Little back ground to help put things in perspective for ya’. 3 or 4 years ago, one of my grand kids came out for a visit, saw me huffing on one cigar after another and called me an idiot. Told me to take a hit off of his mod. Some kind of menthol fruit, I dunno what but nasty and I said, hell no!
We found a smoke shop nearby and he grabbed some brown sugar. HELL YEAH, said I. don’t recall the nic content, but I had no problem with it. Then California decided kids were vaping for the flavors and took away all my candy’s and what not. Why let parents’, parent when the government will do their thinking for them?
Back to the cigars. 3 or 4 more years later of the equivalent of 5 packs/day stinkies and obviously my lungs have gotten a lot more filthy in that time.
Little more background. (Sorry, my memory is like that of a computer. Accessed randomly.) 'Bout 10 or more years ago I met a WWII vet at our mailboxes, we hit it off swapping dirty jokes and was invited over to his porch for coffee and a cigar. We’d sit there for hours on end, and I’d smoke 2, MAYBE 3 cigars in a day.
Before I knew it, I was buying some for myself to smoke at home. Not just when we sat on his porch. After he passed on is when I realized I was smoking at LEAST 10/day. And, that’s when the kid turned me onto vaping. But like I say, some 6 months later there were no good flavors.
It soon occurred to me that I can’t be the only one in that boat, and as I can make my own Alfredo sauce, I must be able to make my own vape juice. That was February of 2025.
To me it stands to reason that the heavy cigar smoking, even for only a few years has destroyed those cilia beyond recognition.
I have wild hair growing from the outside of my nose, my mustachio comes from my nose, there’s wild hair growing from my eyebrows and I do the Donald Trump comb over from the hair growing out of my ears. I chew on it hoping to create some new cilia.
Wow! I remember a question I wanted to ask, just in time before hitting reply!
If PG is a flavor carrier and a pod is 50% PG, not 30%, why do I need to INCREASE the flavor ratios for a pod?