Any other ecig users?

While ive never really been a heavy smoker, i did start smoking the real cigs as 'medicine'. back in the day, 3 cigs a day made the uc almost disappear for me, at least the urgency part. however, it soon became less effective and ended up being more of small habit. even at its worst, i still only smoked a pack a week. so after getting off the pred, all the allergies and asthma symptoms came back. ugh. smoking was a no go as 'therapy' now. what i did find was that the ecig, or personal vaporizers, give me that nicotine dose without the nasty smoke and other chemicals. the first week at 18mg/l nicotine made a world of difference for me, but the effects are not as good a few weeks into it. i am thinking of upping the strength to 24mg/l on the juice to see if that improves it or not. just curious if anyone else has been thinking about vaping or is a vaper here?

I was a moderate smoker, then went straight to e cigs, unfortunately, it ramped up a year long flare.
I went back to smoking 3 cigarettes a day, after almost a year of ecigs only and supplementing with the e cig. Thats the perfect plan for me, Im symptom free.

Everyone is different.

Carlie

Hi Carlie,
So you are currently just smoking 3 cigs a day and that is keeping you symptom free? Do you take any other meds?
Thanks,
B

I quit smoking after 35yrs easily, with the aid of ecigs in Jan-'11. I had, and still do stomach problems which I was treating with Omeprazole(Prilosec).

I started with 24mg. but was tapering down and in Nov. had my first flare.I read about the connection with smoking and UC and immed. increased my nic up to 12 from 3mg.

Could've been the ecigs, could've been the meds- but my flare has stopped and I'm fine now.

As different as UC is from person to person, I wouldn't think that there would be a certain MG of nic that prevails. Maybe there is. We are pioneers.

Hi Sharoro. I'm active in this Ecig forum, if you'd like to visit.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/
The forum has stores to buy from, and info to help use.
I think the "1.6ml" is 1.6mgper ml. It's 16 compared to your 12 for your lozenge. That's not enough of an increase to be concerned about tho.
I vape all day long ( smoked 1 1/2 pk aday for 35 yrs.) -6ml of 12mg nic.
The studies that I've read seemed to point to nicotine helping increase remission time. Not bring someone out of a flare.
Quite possibly it may only help those that got UC after quitting smoking.
I've used ecigs now for 2yrs, and wouldn't conceive of going off my meds to just using them. Not sure they do anything at all.
You can puff all day to your hearts content, if you use too much, you'll just get a headache and feel weird.

Ya know Sharoro, I don't think anyone really knows for sure how much nic your body gets when vaping ecigs. You can ask on the forum.
It is confusing with the amounts:) I know many of us vape 18 to 24mg all day long- about 4-6 ml worth. Your cartridge only holds maybe 1ml. Sooo, I don't know if you're getting the whole 16mg of nic from that cart, or if you're body is absorbing all that you vape.

Not sure what I'd do in your situation, not sure smoking would put you into remission. I do Highly recommend using the ecigs to get back off them.

Please let us know however this works out?

I Really hope that you feel better soon!! I thought that Remi takes a bit to start working??