Smoking Guide

• E-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes, are battery-operated vaping devices that are often used to deliver nicotine to a user system the safer way. They might look like cigarettes (or have other shapes/sizes) but they work differently. Using an e-cigarette is called vaping.
• The user puffs on the mouthpiece of a cartridge or a tank. This causes a vaporizer to heat the e-liquid inside the cartridge.
• The e-liquid might contain nicotine and/or flavourings. The heated e-liquid turns into the vapour that is then inhaled.
• There is no Smoke or Tar in vapour. But you should be aware that it is Not 100% safe to inhale vapour.
• The final goal of a vaper should be quitting both smoking and vaping.

E-liquid (also known as e-juice) is the substance inserted into a vape which gives vapour its flavour and nicotine (if the vaper is using nicotine e-liquids with flavour). When the vape is in use, the battery will provide the energy to heat up the e-liquid, turning it into a smooth vapour when inhaled. Offering complete versatility, e-liquids allow vapers to experiment with e-liquid flavours in a choice of non-nicotineor nicotine strengths.

At Vawoo, our e-liquids are offered in different nicotine strength options starting from 0% (nic free e-liquids) up to 6/12/20mg nicotine e-liquids. Nicotine strength selection largely depends on how much nicotine the vaper is used to inhaling (while smoking/vaping).

See our product pages for information on nicotine strengths included in e-Liquids and prefilled/disposable pods sections of the platform. Make sure to visit our e-liquids for sale Page as well (link) to pick up the best tasting e-liquid for your needs.

The vaping industry has seen a massive amount of innovation in a short space of time.

Nicotine salt e-liquids (or nic salts, to use their mainstream abbreviation) have been used in e-liquids for a few years now. However, the rise in popularity as a major vaping innovation has been fairly recent on the UK market.

Nic salts are particularly popular in the US, which is linked to the closed vaping pod system which, in America, is sold with a punch-packing 50% nicotine salts based e-liquid. The more recently available EU version is sold with the maximum 20% nicotine level allowable by the TPD regulations.

Due to the rise in popularity and demand, we’ve recently increased our range of nic salt e-liquids on Vawoo UK platform.

Before we get into explanations about nic salts, it’s important to understand a bit more about the more common form of nicotine - Freebase.

Cigarettes, nicotine replacement therapies (gum, patches, etc.), and traditional vape liquids contain freebase nicotine. It’s been the norm since the 1960s when Phillip Morris (of Marlboro fame) fronted the research which discovered that by freebasing nicotine, they could make their cigarettes stronger and, therefore, more addictive.

Freebasing is achieved by converting nicotine from its naturally occurring ‘salt’ state into its base ‘pure’ form. It’s a way of increasing potency without increasing the dose. Ammonia is used to strip protons from the nicotine salts which increases the pH level (alkalinity) and returns it to a deprotonated ‘freebase’ state.

In chemistry, a salt is made up of a chemical reaction that has a positive charge (acid) and a negative charge (base).

Nicotine found in tobacco leaves has the chemical composition of a salt. In fact, tobacco leaves contain nicotine ONLY in its salt state. It is these exact same nicotine salts that are chemically altered to create freebase nicotine.

However, the chemical make-up of nicotine salt has a weak base which seeks out positively charged particles (protons) in order to become stable (ionized). Because ions have a hard time moving through our cell membranes, they don’t travel easily to the nicotine receptors in our body.

If unadulterated nic salts were added to the VG/PG that comprises e-liquid, it would need to be vaped at extremely high temperatures for the nicotine to be effective. Even then, the nicotine would still not be as easily absorbed (bioavailable) as its freebase counterpart. So, in order to make it effective, the nic salt requires a little chemical modification of its own.

The clever scientists behind vapable nic salts theorized that if you increase the acidity of the nicotine salt, you could deliver much higher doses of nicotine without the nastythroat hit.

Acids bond well to nicotine, and there are certain acids that are naturally occurring in every cell of the human body, which have been found to make nicotine salts particularly effective when vaped.

The most commonly used is Benzoic acid, with Citric acid following closely in prevalence.

• It gives the nicotine a chemical structure which is far more rapidlyabsorbed by our bodies
• It enables the nicotine salt to vaporize at lower temperatures
• It lowers the pH level, resulting in a much smoother throat hit

By modifying nicotine salt in this way, it can deliver a concentration of nicotine to the blood that is comparable to combustible cigarettes, in roughly the same amount of time.

Nicotine salt e-liquid might be the right fit for you if you fit any of these criteria:

• You want to quit smoking
• You’ve tried vaping before but without success
• You’re not looking for an overly technical vaping device
• You want higher nicotine levels than regular e-liquid can provide

Hopefully this guide has provided you with everything you need to know in order to make an informed decision about which version of nicotine e-liquids are right for you. However, if you want to know even more details about Nic e-liquids - natural and synthetic ones, please check this blog article: https://vawoo.co.uk/vaping-information/synthetic-nicotine-in-vaping/

• We have some of the best e-liquids and nic salts on the UK market in allsizes - 10/30/50/100ml on the Platform.
• You can pick from cheap e-liquids (of a decent quality) or fancier brands(supreme quality) if you wish.