To all future mothers, let post26 be exhibit A in why you should hug your kids enough. If you don't there's no telling what they might grow up to be.
As to vaping, if you are using a 0.6 ohm coil that is right on the edge of what manufacturers are using for both DL and MTL vaping. Is your tank a MTL, or direct lung hit? Do you hit it like a cigarette, or are you directly inhaling the vapor like taking a big breath. If it is like a cigarette then you can step up nicotine if your 6% is not enough. By the way 6% means that it is 12mg liquid, which means there is 12mg of nicotine in 1ml of liquid. If you are using a direct lung sub ohm tank then that 6% is not good.
I cannot stress this enough, and anyone who vapes really needs to understand this. You cannot put any juice in any tank. Low nicotine juices are for lung hitting and sub ohm vaping, high nicotine juices (above 3% or 6mg) are for MTL vaping. If you put a high nicotine liquid in a sub ohm tank and lung hit you will make yourself very sick. Nicotine is perfectly fine, but like with everything, only if you use it correctly. Just imagine taking a handful of caffeine pills when you are use to drinking 1 cup of coffee a day, you are going to make yourself sick as hell.
As to nicotine salts, I personally never suggest people use them to start. They have no throat hit, and they come in nicotine levels that are way too high. You can use a 18mg free base juice and it will have a really big satisfying throat hit. That is what I used, but with a 50mg nicotine salt there was no hit, and I'd get all dizzy after just a few puffs. If you smoked a lot, and now want to vape at a comparable level until you get use to it, then a high 50mg liquid is not good. You are going to be sucking down a lot of nicotine and it won't be good. You'll probably end up getting more addicted which would be silly.
As to the mechanics of how a vape works. It is a coil. Imagine you have a piece of wire and you want to coil it into the shape of a spring. That spring is the coil which is attached to your tank's positive and negative. There are different wires, gauges, and coil types to produce different effects. For example my coil of choice is called a tri core clapton. It is 3 thin gauge wires forming a core, then that is wrapped with an even thinner gauge wire like a guitar string would be. That is then used to make a coil.
The coil is then stuffed with organic cotton, this would be like running a shoe lace through a small spring. The liquid then wicks up the cotton and into the coil. The vape mod then runs electricity through the coil which heats it up and vaporizes the juice. The cotton doesn't burn because it is drenched in vape liquid. There are different specifics depending on what type of tank, but that is the general principle. That doesn't even go into resistance, voltage, and wattage but that is the general way of it.
With DIY vaping, you mix up in bulk and then store in smaller bottles when using whatever liquid. For example right now I have 300ml of a chocolate doughnut, strawberry cheesecake, raspberry custard, and cantaloupe pomegranate. Those are in 500 ml bottles, but I also have normal 60ml LDPE unicorn bottles of those juices I fill my vape with. The bigger bottles are used for mixing and storage, the smaller are used for vaping. I have tried and have not found a way to mix being blind, it involves getting some measurements down to the hundredth of a gram. NO talking scales are sensitive enough. What I have done is buy all the stuff to mix juice, and I pay someone $10 a month to mix me up juice whenever I need it. It still is cheaper than buying it. The investment at the start is more, but afterwards I'm paying about $20 for 400 to 500ml of finished vape juice. I also use a RDA so no buying pre made coils. I just install my own wire coils, add my own cotton and can drip or squank until my heart's content.
if this is something you are interested in there is a big community of vapers on youtube, and watching their videos will help you way more than I ever could. Most importantly if you have a mod and tank that you enjoy use it, if you aren't smoking then it is good. If down the road you want to branch out and get into the more hobbyist parts then by all means go down the rabbit hole, a lot of us have. Just make sure you are using the right liquid for the right tank, and if you have external batteries stop what you are doing and go research proper battery safety, that is the most important.