Here’s a tip for new users of e-cigarettes: buy cartridges or e-liquid with lower doses of nicotine—as precaution against chain-smoking. Gradually increase the doze until you find the amount of nicotine you are used to.

Chain smoking is a problem often discussed on e-cigarette forums. Many e-cigarette users are apt to continuously smoke their e-cigarettes until the battery dies. One reason for this could be the feeling of closure associated with putting out regular cigarette into an ashtray. Every long-time smoker knows this feeling. E-cigarettes don’t burn out, so putting out a cigarette, an important part of the smoking experience, is out.

And e-cigarettes are more available than regular cigarettes: you can smoke your e-cig at places where you have never though of smoking before—the living room, the bedroom, the mall. You don’t have to go outside anymore.

I often chain-smoked myself. Once in my hand, I couldn’t let go of my mini e-cigarette, until the cartridge was dry. That’s why I started counting my drags—now I stop after 20 drags. Though I was an e-cigarette chain smoker, I rarely felt any of the discomforts of regular smoking. On one occasion, after a night of continuous e-smoking, I remember I had difficulty breathing.

Difficulty breathing, as I learned, was a nicotine overdose symptom. In forums, I found many e-cig smokers who have experienced nicotine overdose. Nausea, diarrhea, weakness, sweating, pallor, stomach pain, and seizures are other common symptoms of nicotine overdose.

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