How is Nicotine Measured in Juice??

[mrspenn]

So a cigarette is measured per stick
Patch is per day assuming you're wearing it either 16 or 24 hours

When an e-juice says 16 mg, how is that measured? How much juice equals 16 mg?

 

[.gregory]

I believe it's per ml. So, 1ml of 12mg liquid is equivalent to 12mg nicotine; a 10ml bottle of 12mg liquid contains 120mg. As far as mg per drop, I'm not sure, but the math would be pretty simple if you knew how many drops were in a milliliter.

 

[Eddie.Willers]

However, a straight comparison with regular tobacco cigs doesn't quite work.

Let's assume a tobacco cigarette has a stated nicotine content of 1mg. Smoke a pack a day and you are absorbing 20mg nicotine - actually less as not all the nic is absorbed.

Now, nicotine absorption from vaping is far less. So if you vaped 1ml of juice per day with a nic content of 20mg/ml it should, in theory, equal the nic content of the tobacco cigs, right?

In practice, it's far less. How much less? No one is sure what the percentage of nicotine in vaping is actually absorbed by the body. Some say only about 20%, hence, by that number, you may have to vape up to 5ml of 20mg juice...it's a very gray area and YMMV.

 

[base234]

When an e-juice says 16 mg, how is that measured? How much juice equals 16 mg?

16mg is 1.6% nicotine per ml. 24mg is 2.4% nicotine per ml and so forth.

 

[Valsacar]

12mg is short for 12mg/ml, so for every ml of liquid there is 12mg of nicotine.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

However, a straight comparison with regular tobacco cigs doesn't quite work.

Let's assume a tobacco cigarette has a stated nicotine content of 1mg. Smoke a pack a day and you are absorbing 20mg nicotine - actually less as not all the nic is absorbed.

As I understand it, with tobacco cigs the stated nicotine amount is the amount collected (using a standardised test with a smoking machine) and not the nicotine content of the cigarette. So a 1mg cigarette might actually contain many times that amount of nicotine, but most of it is burnt, lost in sidestream smoke etc It's quite an inefficient method of delivering nicotine. If you smoke differently from how the machine did - longer or shorter puffs, more or less puffs or whatever, you will absorb different levels of nicotine from that stated.