Congratulations on choosing the electronic cigarette in place of a regular smoke and chemical filled tobacco cigarette.  The decision to do so is probably one of the best decisions you can make to improve your health. After you’ve chosen your e-cigarette starter kit, you’ll have to decide on what nicotine level to fill your e-cigarette with.  Choosing the right e-liquid nicotine strength is essential in your success with transitioning from regular cigarettes to e-cigarettes. 

Choosing Nicotine Strength for Electronic Cigarettes

Once you’ve chosen your e-cigarette starter kit, the next step is to choose the e-cigarette nicotine strength.

Most health professionals recommend that when choosing a replacement nicotine product, any product, is to choose one that contains the same amount of nicotine as the original product if possible.

Smokers using e-cigarettes to receive the best benefits when the eliquid nicotine strength is as close to the tobacco-based cigarettes for two reasons:

Smoking to Compensate:

Because your body has become used to having a certain amount of nicotine in it, choosing a lighter replacement than the original tobacco based product will typically result in compensation smoking. This means that you will wind up smoking (or vaping) more to make up for the nicotine your body needs and craves. For example, if you smoke a regular strength cigarette and you choose an e-cigarette that is lighter in nicotine strength, you will unintentionally smoke (or vape) more than before to compensate for the nicotine loss and withdrawal.

If you choose a lower nicotine level than what you are used to, your body will still crave it’s normal amount of nicotine and therefore you may think that the e-cigarette doesn’t work for you and you’ll go back to smoking regular cigarettes.  When, in fact, it was just a matter of customizing and changing your eliquid nicotine strength.

Too much throat hit

On the other hand, if you currently smoke a light tobacco based cigarette and you choose a full strength e-liquid strength, you will overload your body with more nicotine than it is used to while you were smoking tobacco-based cigarettes. The throat hit may be too intense for you.  This can result in not liking the e-cigarette, when, in fact, you just have the wrong eliquid nicotine strength.

Eliquid Nicotine Strength Guide

We hope that this e-liquid nicotine strength guide will help your transition to vaping e-cigarettes easier and more successful.

To read more inspirational stories on how people are using the e-cigarette, please visit our e-cigarette testimonials.