Can You Use Shortfill Without Nicotine?

Shortfills are bottles that are underfilled with nicotine-free e liquid and that provide room to add nicotine shots. For instance, a 60ml shortfill bottle will contain 50ml of e liquid plus room to add one 10ml nicotine shot. If you are not addicted to nicotine and so don’t need nicotine to feature in your e liquid, you can vape the e liquid from a shortfill without adding the nicotine shots. Nicotine-free e liquid is identical to any other e liquid except for the absence of nicotine.

It is important to remember that most shortfills feature bases that have a high ratio of vegetable glycerine (VG). These are suitable only for sub ohm (low resistance) devices. High VG e liquids are not suitable for high resistance mouth to lung (MTL) e cigs as they will quickly clog the coils. If you wish to vape the e liquid from shortfills and your coil has a resistance of 0.7ohm or greater, you should look for shortfills which are at least 50% propylene glycol (PG).