Blood test lab results for nicotine levels!!!

[Tori]

As with anything worthwhile you really have to want it and TRY for it to work... for those of us who did and won, it is wonderful

[Kate51]

Originally Posted by Stubby

Not quite sure why this would be good news, or even unexpected. It just another piece of evidence that shows how e-cigs are not a very good nicotine delivery device. From the research that has been done, puff for puff, e-cigs deliver about 1/10 the nicotine of analogs. Except for the cotinine your blood work shows it. it. Doing 3 mm a day of 36 mg liquid is a whole lot of vaping. And that’s about the strongest liquid out there.

That may work for some people but for others it’s easy to see how e-cigs are not the answer to analogs.

So explain again why this is good news.

Would it help to think of it this way? It's a plenty good delivery system!
Apparently, the thousands of people using a PV will speak to that. However, I can speak only for ME: I have been perfectly content since stopping all analogs from day one after my e-cig arrived. A little on the jittery side for the first couple months, and after I switched away from PG to VG, I am now really content, no more jitters, if fact, so content that almost 3 weeks ago now I dropped the nicotine density of my juice from 24mg/ml down to 18mg/ml, with no side effects whatsoever! I find that fascinating, how can that happen when it never happened that way with analogs...if I cut down, I was a physical and mental MESS!!!
So what is the secret? It's just a bad system? Tell that to the Doc that just published that article in the Wash Times! She seems to think it's a great idea.
AND, that is why these tests have been valuable to me. I wanted to know the truth about what I was actually pulling into my body. And oh yes I was pulling nicotine into my body, and true to the testing done by Ruyan group, it is exponentially lower than when compared to a tobacco cigarette! That was the whole idea! And, if it quenches the god-awful withdrawal side effects of conventional and FDA approved NRT's (nicotine replacement therapy) PLUS gives the person using the options each individual needs to be able to stop smoking cigarettes, Lo and Behold, it has proven itself to be the very BEST kind of NRT. We're happy, this bunch, for some it may be just something new to do, but for me it was for quality of Life and removal of toxins and poisons that I knew and have known for a long time would eventually cause my death! That's pretty powerful, to me. I am now feeling more alive than I have at any time during my 44 years of smoking tobacco cigarettes. Thousands and Thousands of them. So for people that have never smoked, it's not a good thing to use PV's at all, just as it would not be a good thing to start smoking tobacco cigarettes. In another 29 days and 9 hours, I will be 6 months without a cigarette in my mouth.
NOTE:
I have just posted this entire post in the Washington Times "comments" in response to article :By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan | Thursday, August 6, 2009. Looked pretty good!

[happily]

This would be good news for those of us who have quit analog's completely using e-cigs. If e-cigs don't work for you, then they don't work for you. That's something you'll have to tackle on your own. Everybody is attached to a different part of an analog. Now you have some more information to decide what's best for you. So you win

and thanks to kate51 and joanna for initiating the idea

[Kate51]

Originally Posted by happily

This would be good news for those of us who have quit analog's completely using e-cigs. If e-cigs don't work for you, then they don't work for you. That's something you'll have to tackle on your own. Everybody is attached to a different part of an analog. Now you have some more information to decide what's best for you. So you win

and thanks to kate51 and joanna for initiating the idea

You're more than welcome, but was Joanna1010 that posed the question, Tom09 was tremendously helpful from there to get the ball rolling, I just tried to let everyone know what a valuable thing a testing method could be, it was something I have been at issue with for a long time, DO NO HARM to me, to my family. It just happened to turn out to be a very good thing, and for you as well!

[QueenInNC]

It has worked wonders for me. I really wanted to quit smoking though. I never vape anything over 16mg so my levels should be even lower. I think that the test results are indeed good news.

[Kate51]

Originally Posted by mistake

this was great info to use to tell people about vaping. My boss tried it for awhile and quit when this FDA madness started, I'm forward this to him now.

Please send him this also:

3 News > Video > Lifestyle > Row breaks out over safety of e-cigarettes

There is more good news on the horizon for us, the FDA is giving us all stomach cramps right now, but I feel confident it will all be sorted out, thousands of us PV users cannot be wrong! And we cannot be stopped either...not if we keep getting our word out to the public who has been confused and fooled by recent FDA reports. We're NOT fooling!

[Tom09]

It absolutely great that happily took the opportunity and made the first real blood test lab results after day long vaping available to all of us. While it’s only a report of his personal case, we still have to wait that anything comparable will be made known to the public from professional research.

I just picked up the following link in a cursory Google search: Figure 1 shows some curves of nicotine plasma concentrations. Happily’s nicotine level (13 ng/ml) appears to be in the range of what would be obtained from chewing nicotine gums over the day. Ten hour use of 2 mg gum caused plasma levels rising to ~ 10 ng/ml; 4 mg gum would be at ~ 20 ng/ml after ten hours. So, intensive vaping (~ 3ml * 36 mg/ml) seems to have similar physiological effects, in this example.

Compared to cigarette smoke, the vaping process delivers only a relative small fraction of nicotine, considering the apparently enormous amount ~ 90mg ingested here. Running with a 1/10th figure just to give the idea: ecigs are not a bad delivery system because you might get ~1/10th of the nicotine that’s in the fluid. Analogs give ~1/10th of the nicotine that’s in unburned cigarette tobacco - plus some stuff from combustion which we may not be fond of. And not forget that nicotine is perhaps not the only factor that keeps on smoking, or keeps away from smoking in case of NRT. I'm thinking of Ruyan’s study where relief from craving appeared to be quite similar for vaping 18mg or 0mg, or thinking of users reporting to be well in their comfort zone by vaping low strength fluids.

Thanks again, happily, for this new piece of information.

[Stubby]

Okay, you guys and gals can pat yourself on the back all you want, but I'm still not buying it.

It appears as if you have to chain vap the strongest liquid out there to get your nicotine level up to 2 mg nicotine gum. That sounds a whole lot more like a smoking cessation program rather then a smoking replacement program. It's the real achilles heal of e-cigs.

It would also point to a high rate of failure. It's just not enough nicotine to be a good long term replacement for cigarettes.

Try not to take this the wrong way, though you already have, I'm not against e-cigs. I just don't think it's a good smoking replacement for the masses. The average Jane and Joe just doesn't have the time to suck on an e-cig for 8 hours a day to try and keep there nicotine levels up to acceptable levels. Most people actually have to work for a living.

If anyone actually took the time to read the link I posted above you can see that I'm not alone in this. Until the manufactures can make some liquid that has a much higher absorption rate e-cigs are doomed to a second rate niche product. Not-quite-ready-for-prime-time. It's very easy to cut back on nicotine if that's what you want to do, just cut your nicotine level or use it less often. Unfortunately, with the current state of the art in e-cigs, you can't push it any higher if need be.

I think the e-liquid manufactures need to get on the ball and give the rest of us what is needed.

[Vince1]

I see this as a good end to all the claims being made about how e-cigs can lead to stronger nicotine addiction by building tolerances up to a higher level.
When I started that was a concern. People were saying they vaped a lot more then they smoked so they must be using more nic.
This is just not the case as we can clearly see now. Some used a lot more just to reach comparative levels at first but then tapered down.
I started with a lot of 36mg and have went down to 24mg and cut my usage in half.
Blood testing just sheds light on some things a lot of people have been wondering about.
I think if you compare success rates of vaping to NRTs like the patch and gum, there would be a big increase in the percentages of quit rates with e-cigs on top.
Still waiting on that study.
But as you say, there will always be a percentage of people that NOTHING will work for. Some people will smoke until they die and that's just a fact of life.
But for some of use(more then a few)it has worked and I for one am very thankful for it.

[Kate51]

Stubby People who are cigarette smokers usually don't go around sucking on a cigarette all day, either, work-place rules etc., or maybe they do go around sucking on a cigarette 24/7, been there! But here's another choice, I'd rather be doing what I know to be a little healthier alternative, that's all I want. Maybe it's not for everyone. Naysayers abound here!