I did a little research on the nicotine intake issue. Nowhere will you find how much nicotine is in a pack of cigarettes from the tobacco companies, but I did find some answers from some independent labs. For Marlboros there is an average of 1.89 mg of nicotine in EACH cigarette!!! That's almost 38mg per pack times two for me puts me at 76mg a day for smokes. I'm puffing on the Red Dragon e-cigs and I get almost a full day on one 16mg cart, and I puff on it alot through the day. I may have to start another one after dinner and that's it.So by my calcs. I'm cutting my nicotine intake quite a bit.
Hmmm I think we need to be a it careful here, it's rather confusing, but I think there is a difference between how much nicotine is in a ciggie and how muh you inhale.
I beleive I read somewhere that most of of the nicotine in a cigarette is
actually burnt so you don't inhale it as nicotine but it's combusted components which will probably be CO2, H20, NO2 or whatever so it similar to petrol in an engine, most of it is burns and CO2 and water come out the exhaust, with perhaps a little uncompusted petrol (very little in a modern engine).
But then again I don't know if the figure is the nicotine figure is what is in
the ciggie or the ammount they assume is inhaled.
All rather confusing.
Anyway I stumble upon some thing else from wikipedia.
Research suggests that, when smokers wish to achieve a stimulating effect, they take short quick puffs, which produce a low level of blood nicotine. This stimulates nereve transimssion When they wish to relax, they take deep puffs, which produce a high level of blood nicotine, which depresses the passage of nerve impulses, producing a mild sedative effect. At low doses, nicotine potently enhances the actions of norepinephrine and dopamine in the brain, causing a drug effect typical of those of psychostimulants. At higher doses, nicotine enhances the effect of serotonin and opiates activity, producing a calming, pain killing effect. Nicotine is unique in comparison to most drugs, as its profile changes from stimulant to sedative/pain killer in increasing dosages and use.
Technically, nicotine is not significantly addictive, as nicotine administered alone does not produce significant reinforcing properties. However, only after coadministration with an MAOI , such as those found in tobacco, nicotine produces significant behavioral sensitization, a measure of addiction potential. This is similar in effect to mphetamine.
Basically that when you go to the doctors for anit-depressants, pain killers, sedatives or whatever, he might as well hand you a pack of 20 and say "try these and see how you get on with them!!"
Infact it seem 90% of modern pharamcy is derived from tobacco!!!!!!
I recognise all of those cos I have a book on medicines, seretoin is asicaly Prozac.
However there does seem to one ingrediant missing and that is MAOI,
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors, so you won't get that from vaping cos it is not in nicoteen! Maybe some people find there is 'something' missing when vaping? (I have not tried yet).
And a very interesting thing about MAOI is...rum roll.......
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are a class of powerful antidepressant drugs prescribed for the treatment of depression They are particularly effective in treating atypical depression and have also shown efficacy in smoking sessation.
Smoking cessation eh? Of course you brain is still getting the same chemical!
I was actually on anti-depresants for a while but I asked to come of them because "I didn't like all those hemicals in my brain", which seems very ironic now, of course my doctor should have said "Well why the hell do you smoke then!!".
I have always taken he view that people who smoke are effectively self medicating, same goes for any drug, but I never knew quite how true that was!!
Anyway a bit of a long waffle, I forgot what I was talking about in the first place!!
oops! No wonder I feel like sh*t
