Month: August 2021

The ingredients used in DIY e-liquid are the same ingredients that are used in market products. DIY Vape juice is the easiest and cost-saving version. But in DIY, there is more flexibility and more customization.

If you are using e-vape juice for a long time, you may feel tired of spending money. So you are finding a way to learn the art of making your e-liquid at home. With little trial and error, you can make the perfect and suitable Vape Juice for yourself. You have control over the flavoring of your DIY vape juice. You can decide to have mild, intense flavors, and as per your choice, and can blend the flavors. Mixing and making e-juice can be a fun and lengthy process. It also depends on how much you know.

This article contains information about making DIY vape e-liquids. For DIY e-liquid, you will need ingredients, essential equipment, and some instructions.

 

Methods to mix DIY e-juice:

There are most preferred two ways to mix DIY e-juice:

1. Mixing by weight: In the weight method, you need to measure the ingredients by weighing with the help of a scale.
2. Mixing by volume: In this method, you have to measure the volume of each ingredient with the use of syringes. The volume method is easiest as you need to measure liquids.

 

The easiest way to make vape juice:

Making your e-liquid is a process that involves the mixing of leading elements. There are three base liquids: PG, VG, nicotine, and flavor concentrates. In contrast, you can prefer nicotine-free or even unflavored.

 

• Step 1. Prepare Nicotine

The overall volume of the e-juice depends on the required amount of nicotine. So you need to determine the importance of necessary nicotine in the e-liquid. Use diluted nicotine in milligrams. Getting nicotine proportion is a crucial factor. You can use online e-juice calculators or apps to make it easy. Avoid using less than the amount recommended by the e-juice calculator.

 

• Step 2. Prepare Flavor

This step is essential if you want to make a new flavor. Remember that flavor makes or destroys your e-liquid. You can choose only one flavor or mix the flavor. But if you are trying for the first time then go for using one flavor and add a little at starting. Trials will make you choose what you want. You can add more flavoring if you need it after testing. Be careful while mixing the flavor.

 

• Step 3. Prepare Base

The base proportion can be done based on recipes. You can refer to any VG/PG blend, and usually, it can be between 50/50 and 80/20. Also, point to remember that diluted nicotine contains some levels of PG or VG. So it is also vital to consider nicotine volume.

 

• Step 4. Mix the Blend

Once you are ready with ingredients, mix all ingredients, pour in a bottle, and shake it well. The ingredients used in E-liquid are more likely to be thick, so blend them properly.

 

• Step 5. Steep

Steep depends on your preference. The time of steepness can vary from a few days to months. But many e-juices will taste much better when steeped, just like good, aged wine.

 

In the steeping process, the cap is kept off, letting oxygen go inside. After the steeping process, the flavor and color of the liquid will change. Even the color change is a sign that E-Juice has steeped.

 

• Step 6. Testing

Once you have completed the steeping process, you can test the e-juice. Use the drippers or rebuildable atomizer. Also, remember that temperature affects the e-vape juice taste.

 

• Step 7. Storage

Make sure to store the E-juice properly. Protecting from sunlight, heat, and oxygen, so it is preferred to keep homemade juice in a cool dark place.

E-juice calculators: an essential tool:

If you want to find the exact amount of ingredients for the mix, you can try the E-Juice calculator. The calculator helps to make your DIY process easier and accurate. The calculator helps to find how much from each ingredient you will need. Once you get all the required elements, the equipment, you can start doing e Juice.

 

There are many e juice recipes:

Learning the process of making DIY vape juice is something interesting. Following are the sample e juice recipes.

 

1. Menthol e Juice Recipe:

The creator of this juice recipe has spent a lot of time and effort to make the trial and finalize different combinations.

 

Following are the ingredient measurements:

 

• 80 ml of nicotine juice in 100% PG at 100 mg strength.
• 88 ml of PG dilutant.
• 18 ml of VG dilutant.
• 45 ml of French vanilla cream flavor.
• 15 ml of kool ade 10% flavor.
• 15 ml of menthol flavor.
• 75 ml of milk chocolate flavor.
• 53 ml of peppermint flavor.
• 30 ml of vanilla custard flavor.

 

Make sure to use the same brands provided of flavors for optimal results.

 

2. Herbal e Juice Recipe

You can also use herbal flavor but avoid using aromatherapy essential oils. Essential oils are not that safe for vaping for many reasons. Also, do the proper research on making Herbal e juice.

 

3. Versatile CBD Juice

CBD Juice is made from botanicals.

 

Following is the basic recipe:

• 99% Pure 500 mg of CBD isolate
• 15 ml of PG dilutant
• 12 ml of VG dilutant
• Preferred flavor or terpenes 3 ml

 

Take a total of 3 ml of flavoring. If you want to mix two flavors, then both should be measured at a capacity of 3ml.

 

Points to remember:

• Do the proper research and use online resources.
• At starting try to be useless.
• Use the brand’s concentrations instead of replacing between brands.
• Keep an eye on the Potent Concentrate; it varies with brands and flavorings.
• Make notes after testing. Try to keep detailed notes that will help you to make the proper e-juice.
• Start with a single flavor and then go on mixing.

 

Conclusion:

Making e-juice DIY is simple and can be a complicated process. It depends on how you attempt the process, how you use the tools and do research. Remember that it’s not necessary that your first attempt will be successful, and don’t stop; go on, have fun with it.

“One American Journal of Public Health article is proving to be a watershed moment in the vape debate. It has singularly pushed the World Health Organization to the complete outer when it comes to considered international opinion and research,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA).

CAPHRA’s comments follow 15 past Presidents of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) publishing an article titled‘Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes’ in the AJPH.

The authors state: ‘While evidence suggests that vaping is currently increasing smoking cessation, the impact could be much larger if the public health community paid serious attention to vaping’s potential to help adult smokers, smokers received accurate information about the relative risks of vaping and smoking, and policies were designed with the potential effects on smokers in mind. That is not happening.’

“The authors confirm what we’ve been saying all along: Overblowing youth vaping issues has only led to overall public health being harmed. This is because pressured politicians feel forced to reduce the appeal and availability of safer nicotine options, meaning fewer adult smokers successfully quit deadly cigarettes,” says Ms Loucas.

CAPHRA believes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) corrosive and corrupted view against safer nicotine products is forcing more and more prominent international experts to speak out.

Ms Loucas says this authors’ crystal-clear statement that ‘vaping can benefit public health, given substantial evidence supporting the potential of vaping to reduce smoking’s toll’ directly challenges the WHO’s determination to whip up baseless hysteria and ban safer nicotine products.

“Given the well accepted influence of billionaire foundations, like Bloomberg Philanthropies, on the WHO’s public health guidance, this latest intervention by the 15 former Presidents of SRNT is truly significant,” she says.

She says the individual authors’ credentials are exemplary. Further, SRNT is a globally respected organisation dedicated to evidence-based research on tobacco and nicotine use.

“The fact that this latest piece of work is receiving worldwide praise will be rattling the WHO. They know they’re on the wrong side of both the scientific evidence and ex-smokers’ successful experiences. The WHO is increasingly isolated defending their indefensible position against products which are saving millions of smokers’ lives every year,” she says.

CAPHRA says it is significant that the AJPH article has been backed up by an editorial from Martin Dockrell and John Newton of Public Health England (PHE), welcoming this latest work.

The PHE duo reinforce that: ‘These eminent authors conclude that the singular focus of US policies on decreasing youth vaping’ has been a distraction from the larger goal of tobacco control, namely reducing smoking and its harms’.

Ms Loucas says the SRNT article represents a significant line in the sand. It helps to rebalance the debate as well as highlight the mounting research proving the substantial benefits of adult smokers switching to vaping.

“Outrageously, for an organisation tasked with protecting the world’s public health, the WHO has been the key driver of misinformation on vaping. That has been detrimental to the health of over one billion adults who smoke globally,” she says.

Science has proven vaping to be 95% less harmful than smoking, so it’s beyond all belief that the WHO continues to try to banish the world’s most effective smoking cession tool, she says

“Thankfully, we’re seeing more experts in very high places calling for greater balance in the vape debate and for its benefits to be championed. The WHO’s poisoned positioning looks increasingly precarious,” says Nancy Loucas.

Now live and boasting nearly 14,000 testimonials, CAPHRA is calling on those who’ve quit cigarettes through smoke-free nicotine alternatives to tell their story on www.righttovape.org

Consumer groups in the Asia Pacific region have also launched a petition at change.org/v4v-petition that urges the World Health Organisation (WHO) to respect consumer rights and to stop demonizing Tobacco Harm Reduction options ahead of the next biennial meeting of the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in November.

For a free digital media repository on tobacco harm reduction in Asia Pacific – including media releases, images and graphics – please visithttps://apthrmedia.org

(HealthDay)—More than half of youth current electronic cigarette users report intention to quit vaping, while more than two-thirds report past-year vaping quit attempts, according to a study published online Aug. 18 in Pediatrics.

Hongying Dai, Ph.D., from University of Nebraska in Omaha, used data from the 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey (1,660 adolescents, typically aged 11 to 18 years) to assess the prevalence of youth intention to quit vaping, past-year quit attempts, and the frequency of quit attempts.

Dai found that 53.4 percent of current e-cigarette users reported intention to quit vaping, while 67.4 percent reported having tried to quit vaping. Girls had a lower intention to quit versus boys (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.7), as did users of a modifiable system (versus disposable e-cigarettes: aOR, 0.4) and dual or poly users (versus sole e-cigarette use: aOR, 0.7). There was a positive association between e-cigarette harm perception and intention to quit (aOR, 2.2) and past-year quit attempts (aOR, 1.6). Higher odds of past-year quit attempts were seen among adolescents who vaped because of curiosity (aOR, 1.4), whereas those who used e-cigarettes to disguise vaping had a lower likelihood of intention to quit (aOR, 0.4) and past-year quit attempts (aOR, 0.7). The average number of past-year quit attempts was 5.3.

“The study findings inform the development of multifaceted vaping cessation programs to take sex, e-cigarette devices, vaping reasons and patterns, harm perception, and nicotine dependence into account,” Dai writes.