Liquid bad but vapor isn't?

[xdimebagz]

Hey guys I am pretty new to e cigs and was wondering something. This may sound completely stupid but, why is nicotine poisonous when it enters your body as a liquid but not as a vapor? The three states of water or the liquid is gas liquid and solid so isn't it pretty much the same thing. I know it's obviously not poisonous as a vapor I just want to know why when it is poisonous as a liquid.

[doots]

I think it just boils down to concentration. If the concentration was enough it would kill you also.. lol

[xdimebagz]

lol yea that makes sense

[Sign-Man]

1mg of nic injected in a vein will cause a heart attack, but when inhaled only a minute quantity is absorbed, the majority is exhaled with the vapor.

[Madame Psychosis]

Like so many things in life...it comes down to dosages and points of entry.

Many things are poisonous in sufficient quantity or taken in the wrong way. In high enough concentrations, nicotine is a pesticide, after all.

When you vape, you're consuming very small amounts of the liquid. People tend to vape 1-4ml a day -- 20-80 drops. What's more, estimates vary as to how much of the nicotine we're actually absorbing from the vapor, but it's far less than 100%. If you let your mouth absorb that much, or swallowed it, you'd likely get a lot more, much faster, hitting your bloodstream. Nicotine patches top out at 21mg released slowly into your bloodstream; twenty drops of 24 mg/ml straight in your mouth is risky territory to say the least. The chance of overdoing it is pretty great.

When you're inhaling nicotine from cigarettes or ecigs, you're getting it into the lungs and then straight into the bloodstream. If you swallow nicotine liquid, it'll probably give you a stomachache or nausea. There's a good reason nobody has used "nicotine pills" as a form of smoking cessation; patches, gum and lozenges are all meant to be absorbed into the bloodstream. The digestive system gets irritated by nicotine (and there's probably pretty poor bioavailability to swallowed nicotine, but that's just a guess).

Just my understanding.

[Chefdeuce]

You could get enought nicoine from vaper to cause an OD. Though it would be very hard. But people have complained of racing heart rate which is the start of your body telling you there is something not right. Don't worry though I don't think you can even buy liquid strong enough to harm you. Just don't drink it!

[breakfastchef]

1mg of nic injected in a vein will cause a heart attack, but when inhaled only a minute quantity is absorbed, the majority is exhaled with the vapor.

Cite the source of this information. It would be a shame to mislead new vapers.

[breakfastchef]

You could get enought nicoine from vaper to cause an OD.

Cite you source for this information. To my knowledge, there have been zero reports of serious complications from vaping.

[AFireInside]

This is a funny thread to come across, because having just received my 510 earlier today I have been vaping a hell of a lot, and just had a bit of an overfill issue and got some liquid in my mouth and on my fingers from an it leaking. I washed my hands and mouth out, and have had no problem but got to thinking how ....ty it would be to get nicotine poisoning =P

[a2dcovert]

This is a funny thread to come across, because having just received my 510 earlier today I have been vaping a hell of a lot, and just had a bit of an overfill issue and got some liquid in my mouth and on my fingers from an it leaking. I washed my hands and mouth out, and have had no problem but got to thinking how ....ty it would be to get nicotine poisoning =P

It would be difficult to do with the activities you just described. Nicotine poisoning would probably make you very sick if you were able to get enough of it into your system unless you were doing all that you described using "pure" nicotine. Luckily "pure" nicotine is hard to come by and should be handled very carefully. Normal nicotine eJuice is a lot lower in strength. Add to this the relatively short half life of nicotine and you really would have to try hard to get an fatal OD. Even then like I said you would get very sick before reaching the point of fatal OD.