How does the nic enter the bloodstream?

[cherrypopwizkid]

Sometimes I wonder if it does at all... But is it traveling through the lungs like a cigarette or is it actually transdermal? I can never feel it in the lungs, but then again it isn't smoke.

[gashin]

Someone posted earlier that it's mostly absorbed in the mucous membranes of your mouth..

Sometimes I wonder if it does at all... But is it traveling through the lungs like a cigarette or is it actually transdermal? I can never feel it in the lungs, but then again it isn't smoke.

[kishd]

The nic is being absorbed through the lungs. Nicotine absorbed through the skin takes about 5-10 minutes to reach the brain. Through the lungs about 2 secs. This is the reason the e-cig is much more effective at curbing the desire for anlogs than nicorette etc.