Do You Think You Get Less Nicotine From Vaping Than Smoking?

[AvaOrchid]

Do you think there's a standardization of vaping to cigarettes? For instance, what if, for example, 10 hits of 6mg were equal to one average cigarette in terms of nicotine crossing the blood brain barrier? How about 20 hits for 3mg liquid in an average sub ohm mod? Do you think you're delivering more nic to your brain than you were when you were a smoker?

I think that we're missing studies on how much nicotine is absorbed through vaping which we have on cigarettes and which in the United States anyway they are taxed on absorption rates which is a major lobbying effort that e-cigarettes do not have that benefit of when discussing taxes. In fact they're usually planning on taxing E-liquid by volume of complete ingredients rather than even just volume of nicotine anyhow it's hard to say. What I can say is I remained highly physically dependent on cigarettes even when I didn't have money and was homeless and maybe smoked a few cigarettes a day some days when I wasn't lucky enough to find a little odd job. And I was actually experiencing physical withdrawal symptoms not just a need to do something with my hands. Meanwhile with e-cigarettes at this point I'm using both 0 mg 1.5 mg and 3 mg just picking up whichever one I want at the time and I never experience physical withdrawals. Yes I want to vape and taste my e-juice but I never feel like I'm going into a nicotine withdrawal scenario. So at least it those milligrams there is no difference between me vaping 0mg all day long and 3. Now I still want to vape I like having something to do with my hands I like seeing the vapor and I like the flavor. I don't know what all that means and it's hardly scientific but I do feel that I am way way less physiologically addicted to vaping than I ever was smoking which makes me assume that the amount of nicotine that I'm getting at 3 mg per milliliter is negligible

 

[ShowMeTwice]

...and you also have to figure in absorption

Your yearly Halloween avi always gives me the creeps.

 

[Superuser187]

Us hoomans are not very efficient vape nicotine absorbing creatures....it's ok we produce nicotine waste and just polute the atmosphere with nicotine aerosol....

The particles of the aerosol that is produced by vaping devices is much larger than the cigarette smoking particles and they can't be absorbed as fast causing them to be exhaled...if we only had a device to shrink the particles into subatomic level we could travel back in time and get the stones and save humanity...

 

[classwife]

Your yearly Halloween avi always gives me the creeps.

 

[Plumes.91]

absorption vs amount is key. as is, well, the fact that our 3mg and 6mg juices are absorbed differently than cigarette nicotine is. Cigarette nicotine is fast metabolized via the lungs, whereas our nicotine freebase is more slowly metabolized. Does this mean that vaping freebase nicotine (not saltnic) is likened to... a time-release nic? If that's the case, the peak is never going to be as strong as a cigarette's peak, when it comes to freebase vaping... but the HALF LIFE might be longer, maybe.

This would mean that, well, when I'm smoking 1 cigarette every hour on the hour (1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm...) the effects last 10 to 15 minutes, but the peak level of nicotine is much higher than with vaping freebase. With freebase nicotine juice, the effects may last 45mon to 1hour, but the peak blood-nicotine level, or, the peak level of nicotine crossing the blood brain barrier, is never going to be as high as tobacco. I have heard that Salt Nic is more similar to tobacco in it's absorption.

So vaping our 3mg and 6mg freebase is almost like taking a time release tylenol as compared to an instant gel during a migraine. With the instant gel, your migraine is gone within 20 minutes. With a time release, you may continue to have a dull headache, but it'll get you through the night.

 

[AngeNZ]

I've been vaping for 2 1/2 years. I started at 18mg chainvaping my head off, and dropped that to 15mg after a few months, when I started getting nic sick from chain vaping my head off.

I've done other small drops over this time period, but only when my body tells me it needs less nicotine than it did before.

I used to chain smoke when I woke up, drinking coffee. So now I do the same with vaping - except I get to sit inside

Absorbtion wise - vaping is definitely slower than smoking. But once you are no longer craving all of the other crap in cigarettes, for me anyway, vaping is definitely more satisfying. You get the flavours of your fave mixes, the airflow of your fave RTA or RDA, and the hand feel of your fave mod.

 

[Plumes.91]

I've been experimenting with restricting myself to only having 10 puffs every hour. So if I vape at 8am, I take 10 puffs with my decaf coffee (big long puffs normally) and then I wait until 9am to take 10 more puffs, usually after breakfast for example. I try to maintain this throughout the day. (I know it sounds arduous and it is some days, especially days where I didn't get a good nights sleep - But it makes me feel like I am in control of my nicotine intake) When I am feeling brave, I sometimes go without vaping juice with nicotine in it for 3-4 hours after waking up, sometimes even to lunch. I find this actually sets me up for a good day. My body is deprived nicotine the 6 to 8 hours i'm asleep, and then another 3, 4, 5, 6 wakeful hours. That first vape after lunch for example, is always really stimulating/mind calming. I also do other things to taper or reduce my intake for a few days or a week, like, restricting myself to only using mechanical mods for nicotine vapes, but I allow myself to use regulated wattage mods for 0mg nicotine vapes. I sometimes crave the fullness and clouds of the regulated mod so much that I neglect the mechanical mod with nicotine in it lol.

 

[Jimi D.]

For best Nic delivery. Keep them coils clean. For some reason Anise flavorings stay clean the most. I don’t know why I don’t just stick to that flavor.