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[–] [email protected] 292 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Good intentions, implementation, and results here, but seriously folks, think VERY carefully about what you're doing when you tamper with something someone's putting in their body.

Do not try at home to the nth degree.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago (10 children)

implying anyone on 4chan gives a shit about consent

this made me really uncomfortable too, also its extremely fake, you can't 'take apart' a vape juice bottle (theyre a single piece of plastic), and no one on 4chan has a girlfriend (lol)

[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can take apart juice bottles.
The least realistic part is that anon managed to get to and dilute every bottle their gf used.
Cause if they miss one, their gf is gonna have a serious shock.

So, lack of consent and extremely controlling?

[–] Evotech 34 points 5 months ago

Or, as everything else, is fake and gay

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

That's a very good point. The fictitious gf is the one buying the bottles. So if they are used to 1% nicotine and pick up a regular strength one, they're going to use it, and immediately notice the difference...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I take apart mine every time I buy one. To add nicotine. Maybe there are different kinds of bottles? I’ve never seen one where the top is not detachable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Juice maker here: the tops are all detachable.

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[–] cosmicrookie 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Maybe the ones you use can't be taken apart but dont assume the whole world aligns to your image of it

Just be open to things possibly being different to what you experience them to be

[–] Makhno 11 points 5 months ago

also its extremely fake, you can't 'take apart' a vape juice bottle (theyre a single piece of plastic),

What sketchy cheap shit are you using? I've used a vape for a decade now, and you can remove the nipple cape on every single bottle.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

Instructions unclear. Afraid to cook for gf now.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

yeah using some random "cutting solution" is how you end up with Honey Cut 2.0

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Just as a thought experiment, what you'd really wanna do is change the salt nic formulation, i.e. the acidic compound which is added to freebase nicotine to convert it to a salt. This directly shapes the pharmacokinetics of the resulting nicotinic effect from vaping it, which is what leads to the common knowledge that salt nic hits harder, but doesn't last as long as freebase. That isn't universally true at all, but is a result of the salt formulations that are popular in the market.

I worked with a scientist that once formulated a 20mg/mL solution for me that had similar throat hit to the 40mg/mL products I was using & had a very steep onset curve, and I found it to still be very satisfying even immediately after swapping. It wasn't a successful product though because for the consumer, 20mg = 20mg & 40mg = 40mg

Guess my point is that the novel ways of using tech to improve weaning off nicotine using vaping do legitimately exist, but they don't have a place in a free market so we won't have it while regulators stay luddites on the issue

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

This is BS. By the third or fourth bottle shed be like wtf is up with this juice?

(This reduction method helped me quit, but it's not imperceptible like that)

[–] chemical_cutthroat 80 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I tapered off vaping using the same method, and there is a clear difference in the feeling of a pull when you cut the nicotine down. Also, you can't just "cut" the nicotine, you'd have to find some way to enhance the flavor of the diluted mix otherwise it will just get more bland. All of that being said, this is a valid strategy for kicking it. Just buy lower nicotine content bottles until you get down to 0% nic, and if your your experience is like mine, you just wake up one day and don't reach for the vape on the nightstand.

[–] Zekas 8 points 5 months ago

Mixed my own until I quit. You have to be vaping the exact same shit constantly to have the taste so dialled in. If it's this slow a taper you're never going to be notice from one week to the other. And while I didn't use a ton, shortfills seemed fine to use with or without nicotine added. Just add less or replace with unflavoured liquid.

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[–] Omgarm 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's also BS because it is 4chan and a lot of their posts are untrue and homosexual.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If they were vaping a whole 30ml bottle @ 50mg/mL per week, yeah probably. That's a pretty extreme dependency. I don't know anyone ingesting that much nic, after 7 years in vape industry / over a decade vaping myself. I'm not in the US though, Juul kinda fucked things up over there

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is literally how I quit, except I did it intentionally.

But this is fake because the jump from 0.001 to 0.000 was like the ground disappearing beneath my feet.

For the previous week I was only using 0 nic juice in a pod that previously held a tiny amount of nic (we're talking trace amounts near the end - I wasn't feeling a thing).

Anyway I thought I was going through withdrawal so hard with the 0 nic in the used pod, but NOPE switch to 0 nic in a fresh pod and it was like "welcome to withdrawal 2."

Still really happy I quit though. It's so great not going into a panick whenever I misplace my vape for like 42 seconds. That was always so fucking humbling.

[–] Asidonhopo 27 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Finally, some hard evidence for homeopathy

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've also done this to quit vaping. I've quit cold turkey a couple times, but diluting like this was by far easier for me. Still difficult, especially when going to zero nic, but it worked.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (2 children)

50% nic lmao. Fake as hell.

[–] drmoose 63 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OP probably means 50mg which is standard high concentration nic salts (freebase is most commonly 3mg). People often mistake mg for percentage in vaping.

[–] papalonian 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

But they claimed to have used dilution formulas to achieve these percentages. Pretty sure it's BS.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (4 children)

everyone i know calls 50mg "50%"

everyone.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've vaped since 2013 and have literally never heard of this. Could be regional 💁‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

probably is. personally never heard anything other than percentages

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

50mg is also a metric fucton of nic in a vape. My strong mixes are 13mg, and low nic is 4mg.

[–] spaceguy5234 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My wife uses 50mg saltnic, it's crazy. I tried hitting it once and dear god my head was spinning.

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[–] Chippyr 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Other than being blatantly fake this is really nice.

[–] Xanis 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is okay to assume something is real when it doesn't hurt anyone. :)

Cause maybe, juuust maybe, this story will help someone else.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (21 children)

Anon sounds like a genuinely good partner

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And then the gf decides she wants to try a new flavor, buys her "normal" nic strength, and fills her vape up with it before anon has a chance to dilute it.

[–] Psythik 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This would actually work out fine because she'd get he new bottle, hit it as hard as she did with her diluted bottles, then to proceed to throw up. The nausea alone from nicotine overdose should be a decent deterrent.

[–] efstajas 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

As someone who "quit" nicotine and picked it up again later multiple times... The first hit after a while felt amazing every time. Unfortunately. No nausea at all.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Isnt fine tuning tour dosage literally the point of vapes? There are a lot of fluids with different levels of nicotine. Also from 50% you would fucking die. Its probably 50mg.

[–] JiveTurkey 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't she just use it more often and ultimately get roughly the same dose?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

It's possible, but frequency is determined by more factors than simply relief from nicotine withdrawal. It's also possible that reducing concentration very slightly doesn't change the overall equation enough to actually drive behavioral change. But I'd agree that outcomes are better secured with conscious intent. I think quitting successfully and meaningfully means learning resilience against compulsion to engage in behaviors driven by chemical reactions in the brain, which this approach doesn't do at all.

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[–] venoft 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Diluting 50 times you'd need one hell of an amount of "dilution formula".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Pure water will work for a couple of percentage points but above that will not work properly because atomisers expect a certain range of viscosity or they won't wick properly. It's generally a mix of propylene glycol, glycerine, and water. More glycerine means more clouds, natural sweetness, and annoying hygroscopy (i.e. you'll get a dry mouth), while PG is an aroma carrier, less sweet, quite a bit less hygroscopic. It's also the standard solvent for nicotine and aroma, not just vape aromas most food aromas are PG-based, too. Water is there to make the liquid less viscous and/or reduce hygroscopy of the overall mixture.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's eazy to buy:

10 liters - you will never need to buy again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

For those who literally just got a pic in Russian - this is a 10L (12,5kg) canister of 99,8% pure food-grade glycerol

Автор, не забывай, что по-русски тут почти никто не говорит :D

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How long does it takes to vape a bottle?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

How big a bottle and how efficient the vape? When I did regularly if I recall a 30 ml bottle would last about a week. That switching from a pack/day smoking for comparison of volume.

[–] steeznson 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The story is a bit controlling/manipulative in my opinion. Even if the net outcome is good I'd feel like I was overstepping a boundary if I did this to my partner.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It sounds so freaking fake too.

Tbh, I hope it's real and this woman is free from vape addiction. There's a question here about boundaries but what strikes me the most is that I can't take it seriously. The tone is just so characteristic of these 4chan green texts. No details, no heart. Straight to the point. Short enough to get a bunch of upvotes.

He wrote it like it's a simple story that happened within a week. It just feels manufactured

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