Caffiene in e liquid

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Not enough e-liquid is used to deliver enough caffeine to make a difference. You would have to vape an entire cartridge of 20% caffeine just to get the amount in one cup of coffee.

If you want caffeine, you should probably stick to drinking it.

...or this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/
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What is "bumping a thread"? Has anyone else tried caffiene e liquid? I too am a caffiene shot junkie and am hoping this will be a cheaper way:p

Bumping is a courtesy, it's saying "I don't know but your question merits an answer so I'll push you to the top of the line". Things move fast around here, once a post has been pushed to page two, the odds of its being seen by someone with an answer to give drops pretty dramatically.
 

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What is "bumping a thread"? Has anyone else tried caffiene e liquid? I too am a caffiene shot junkie and am hoping this will be a cheaper way:p

"Bumping" just floats a thread to the top of the reverse chronological list. With the volume of new threads, a thread sometimes get buried and get no eyeballs/answer.

Vaping juice with caffeine by itself is no problem, some folks like to double and triple up, vape and drink caffeinated beverages at the same time, thus be moderate.
 

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Interesting idea, but I'm not sure the caffeine molecule would survive the atomizer.

I was wondering about that too, so I googled the sublimation temp of caffeine. It sublimates at 178°C which would be 352.4°F. It melts at 238°C. I don't know what temperature the atomizer heats up to, but it seems possible that it would survive the vaporization.
 

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I was wondering about that too, so I googled the sublimation temp of caffeine. It sublimates at 178°C which would be 352.4°F. It melts at 238°C. I don't know what temperature the atomizer heats up to, but it seems possible that it would survive the vaporization.

WOW 178? I thought it was much lower than that. Suddenly this seems worth checking into. Any sources of pharm-grade caffeine? :)
 

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WOW 178? I thought it was much lower than that. Suddenly this seems worth checking into. Any sources of pharm-grade caffeine? :)

I dunno. Double check that number, because that's just what some random article on da interwebz told me. :)

I'd imagine caffeine would be pretty easy to find from some sort of place that sells supplements and things like that.
 
I'm sure the caffeine would survive the vaporization process, but unless you use a ridiculously high amount of caffeine, it would be like trying to get a buzz from the vapor eminating from a cup of coffee. A good "americano" may have 200mg or more of caffeine, but 200mg is 20% of a 1ml cartridge and most e-liquids don't even use that much flavoring.
 

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I'm sure the caffeine would survive the vaporization process, but unless you use a ridiculously high amount of caffeine, it would be like trying to get a buzz from the vapor eminating from a cup of coffee. A good "americano" may have 200mg or more of caffeine, but 200mg is 20% of a 1ml cartridge and most e-liquids don't even use that much flavoring.

Look, nobody said it was going to be easy. :)

Seriously, somebody must have tried this already... I mean, I've already thought about trying to concoct a multi-vitamin carrot flavored juice for my hippie friend, and I'm just a moderately-twisted middle-aged white dude.
 

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I'm sure the caffeine would survive the vaporization process, but unless you use a ridiculously high amount of caffeine, it would be like trying to get a buzz from the vapor eminating from a cup of coffee. A good "americano" may have 200mg or more of caffeine, but 200mg is 20% of a 1ml cartridge and most e-liquids don't even use that much flavoring.

I agree that it probably wouldn't do much of anything, but it probably would survive the vaporization. That's all I was saying.
 

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I bought some powdered, pure caffeine. It was marked not for consumption, but I like being a Guinea pig lol. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the powder to dissolve into e-liquid enough to not clog up cartos. I had settlement in the bottom of the bottles I used. I gave up and still have a stash of the powder, and can add it to drinks for extra pep, but it's not easy to work with. The dust can be harmful if inhaled. I didn't really notice a great increase in energy or metabolism through the dissolved caffeine in the cartos. I guess (GUESS) vaping caffeine at 10% in e-liquid would give some increase over a day's time. I'm no doctor, tho, so I'll defer to anyone who has a more factual answer.
 
Look, nobody said it was going to be easy. :)

Seriously, somebody must have tried this already... I mean, I've already thought about trying to concoct a multi-vitamin carrot flavored juice for my hippie friend, and I'm just a moderately-twisted middle-aged white dude.

It can be done, it's just pointless. If you're determined, start with this stuff: Flavor West : Caffeine Crystal Powder

The problem is even using 1000mg per ounce is still only 33mg/ml...you'd have to vape 2-3ml just to get the amount of caffeine in one shot of espresso!

You have to keep in mind the RIDICULOUSLY small quantities we are vaping. Vaping 10ml a day is considered EXTREMELY heavy vaping, yet that is only 2 teaspoons!
 
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