Ive been reading up on how much nicotine you get out of e-cigs. Since i'm a constant vaper i often wonder if I am getting more nicotine with ecigs. Well here is a little information to help you figure out how much nicotine your are taking in.
There is about 1mg of nicotine in an average tobacco cigarette (give or take some depending on what type it is)
I use 16mg juice so that's what I will be using as an example. (if you use a different strength insert it where i use 16)
juice strength (mg) X amount of liquid (ml) = total nicotine in the bottle
16 X 30 = 480mg of nicotine
So how much per drop??
(drops are very hard to measure and can vary greatly so all of this info is estimated)
There are about 20 drops of e-liquid per ml. In 16mg eliq there would be about .08mg of nicotine per drop (16 ÷ 20).
so if you are dripping directly onto your atty...
20 drops should contain about the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigs.
but...
Nicotine is not absorbed 100% with each hit, you could be absorbing anywhere from about 50%-80% of the nicotine each inhale. Cigarettes contain ingredients that maximize the amount of nicotine absorbed eliquid does not.
How much per puff?!?
(puffs can vary from person to person, and also from different ecig models)
Cigarette
with a tobacco cigarette (about 1mg of nicotine) you can get about 10-12 puffs
amount of nicotine (mg) / puffs = amount of nicotine per puff
1/10=.1mg of nicotine per puff
1/12=.083mg of nicotine per puff
E-cig
.08mg per drop
about 5 puffs per drop(estimate)
.08/5= .016 mg of nicotine per puff
hopefully this post is helpful (and hopefully all of my calculations are correct
), a lot of this information is hard to come by, so i figured I'd do the dirty work and put it all in one spot for everyone!
There is about 1mg of nicotine in an average tobacco cigarette (give or take some depending on what type it is)
I use 16mg juice so that's what I will be using as an example. (if you use a different strength insert it where i use 16)
juice strength (mg) X amount of liquid (ml) = total nicotine in the bottle
16 X 30 = 480mg of nicotine
So how much per drop??
(drops are very hard to measure and can vary greatly so all of this info is estimated)
There are about 20 drops of e-liquid per ml. In 16mg eliq there would be about .08mg of nicotine per drop (16 ÷ 20).
so if you are dripping directly onto your atty...
20 drops should contain about the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigs.
but...
Nicotine is not absorbed 100% with each hit, you could be absorbing anywhere from about 50%-80% of the nicotine each inhale. Cigarettes contain ingredients that maximize the amount of nicotine absorbed eliquid does not.
How much per puff?!?
(puffs can vary from person to person, and also from different ecig models)
Cigarette
with a tobacco cigarette (about 1mg of nicotine) you can get about 10-12 puffs
amount of nicotine (mg) / puffs = amount of nicotine per puff
1/10=.1mg of nicotine per puff
1/12=.083mg of nicotine per puff
E-cig
.08mg per drop
about 5 puffs per drop(estimate)
.08/5= .016 mg of nicotine per puff
hopefully this post is helpful (and hopefully all of my calculations are correct