How long till nicotine kicks in from vaping?
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What I've read is that you have to vape for over half an hour to get your blood nic level up as high as you would get from smoking one cigarette.
OTOH, I don't vape much nic these days, but when I do I can feel it after a few drags. I suspect if I smoked a cigarette I would be light headed very quickly.
OTOH, I don't vape much nic these days, but when I do I can feel it after a few drags. I suspect if I smoked a cigarette I would be light headed very quickly.
It's the light headed-ness that I miss from nicotine 
I get a sort of buzz when I set it to a higher voltage tho
I get a sort of buzz when I set it to a higher voltage tho
If im vaping a 6mg ill usually get that "lightheaded-ness" after about 3 or 4 deep lung inhales with an RDA at .2 ohms. IMO if you have an RDA with subohm coils and drilled airholes you can get a way better "nicotine buzz" similar to a cig.
6mg? I can't even get a TH with that! I'm on 12mg Lol... Scared to try 18... Are there techniques in terms of inhaling that will speed up the process?
Vaping is not nearly as efficient in getting nicotine into your system as smoking. I don't sub-ohm but my guess is that would be closer to smoking.
hmm, I started on 21mg, had a few times when I thought it was a bit too high, have been dropping down weekly, down to 11mg now, but not sure how fast the nicotine kicks in, a bit slower than an analog, but pretty quick. For me, I am sure it is mind over matter, I like to vape, therefore I don't crave a cig. Had to go three days with a really crappy clearo that tasted like plastic, but it sure tasted and smelled better than the real thing.
For me, after smoking two packs a day for years, slowly going down to ten cigarettes a day, then the eGO, it was easy to quit.
As far as technique, some people swear that the mouth inhale and the nose exhale gets the most nic in your system. I take a mouth hit, some goes into my lungs and once in a while I exhale through my nose. I know, I ramble
For me, after smoking two packs a day for years, slowly going down to ten cigarettes a day, then the eGO, it was easy to quit.
As far as technique, some people swear that the mouth inhale and the nose exhale gets the most nic in your system. I take a mouth hit, some goes into my lungs and once in a while I exhale through my nose. I know, I ramble
Don't be scared of 18 mg, when I started it took 36 mg for me to beat the nicotine cravings. I stayed at that level for over a year, and have since cut back. I use 15 mg - 18 mg now, but that's after almost 4 years vaping.
When you vape, if you hold it in your mouth for a second and also exhale through your nose, it should maximize your nic absorption.
When you vape, if you hold it in your mouth for a second and also exhale through your nose, it should maximize your nic absorption.
For me it seems like about 5-10 puffs before i start to feel it but i only vape 6mg juice
It's the light headed-ness that I miss from nicotine
I suspect at least some of the "light headedness" from cigs was not from nicotine. I've never gotten that buzz from vaping that I sometimes got from smoking, particularly that first ciggie in the morning buzz
No need to be afraid of it, I say just give it a try. Every vaper is different and we all prefer different levels of nic (and other variables) in our juice in order to satisfy each one of us. You just have to experiment and find what is right for YOU
For me, I'm an 18mg vaper, typically. Have been all along, though I did try 24mg early on. Going lower just doesn't give me the throat hit I need, so that's my own personal sweet spot
To me you will never get that ahh feeling of instant nic hit as you do with lighting up a cig. Vaping is different but with sub-ohm i guess it is different as i have never tried that. I find with vaping i am just not craving and feel much more relaxed then i did will cigarettes. I don't even vape when i wake up as i needed my morning smoke asap. It is kinda like i have that ahh feeling of relax all day long instead of just when i lit a smoke back in the day lol
If i go hours without a vape i find that it takes about 3-5 minutes to feel the nic.
If i go hours without a vape i find that it takes about 3-5 minutes to feel the nic.
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I think the nic absorption is slower for sure but it seems to build up and stay with me longer. I dont get that feeling that I need a cig like I use to because Im off the roller coastar. The habit becomes more of a hand to mouth, flavor habit vs. a nic habit. The down side is that I can get over nicotated before I realize Im over vaping I can get that OD feeling 20 min after a long vaping session if Im not carful. I could never do that with analogs because the absorption was instantaneous. Sure Im still addicted to nicotine but with vaping the blood nic level doesnt fluctuate up and down as quickly Thats my theory anyway. I could be wrong wouldnt be the first time.
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I have no science to back up anything but here is my opinion…
Fast enough.. I am at 8mg now and just a touch over a month.(started at 12mg) I'll be dropping to 6mg soon. I am of the opinion that your gear has a lot more to do with the nic you actually get into your system than the juice. I find my ehpro kayfun clone WAY more satisfying than my Pro Tank 2 when the craving kicks in.
From what I have experienced in my vaping history albeit short is better gear results in more efficiency which allows you to drop your nic levels faster and go nic free sooner. Which means you can give your gear to another in need and save a fellow smoker.
Fast enough.. I am at 8mg now and just a touch over a month.(started at 12mg) I'll be dropping to 6mg soon. I am of the opinion that your gear has a lot more to do with the nic you actually get into your system than the juice. I find my ehpro kayfun clone WAY more satisfying than my Pro Tank 2 when the craving kicks in.
From what I have experienced in my vaping history albeit short is better gear results in more efficiency which allows you to drop your nic levels faster and go nic free sooner. Which means you can give your gear to another in need and save a fellow smoker.
Please correct me if im wrong, but it seems that the device you use has alot to do with the efficient delivery of nicotine via vapor. So this would also translate to throat hit and bodily absorbtion. When I started with ce4s, I could vape 24mg easily. When I moved to protanks, I almost instantly started rebuilding with cotton, and could no longer tolerate 24mg, it was just too much, so i moved down to 16-18 which was almost too much still. Now I use a kayfun and 12mg is a bit too much, so i custom order 10mg and its perfect.
From personal experience, when I hear that someone vapes 36mg liquid, I automatically associate it to crappy tanks with muted flavor and inefficient coils. Can people really vape 24 or 36 in a kayfun with a 1.2ohm coil, at 12watts? That seems insane to me, but its my personal experience leading my assumptions.
From personal experience, when I hear that someone vapes 36mg liquid, I automatically associate it to crappy tanks with muted flavor and inefficient coils. Can people really vape 24 or 36 in a kayfun with a 1.2ohm coil, at 12watts? That seems insane to me, but its my personal experience leading my assumptions.
Everyone is different. I've known a couple of people that vaped 48 mg nic (not advised) and it worked for them. I started with 18 mg and lowered that after a couple of months and that worked for me. Some people have lowered nic to 0 mg after a month and that worked for them. Then there are the WTA juices.
We're all different. The nice thing about vaping is that we can experiment and find what works for us
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Nicotine absorption from vaping is much slower than from cigarettes. However, the type of gear one uses as well as vaping technique can significantly affect this. Dr. Farsalinos just did a study, Nicotine absorption from electronic cigarettes, comparing nicotine uptake from cig-alikes compared to using a VW device/Evod at 9 watts using 18 mg eliquid.
So the key findings here are that, consistent with prior studies, electronic cigarettes that are the same size and shape as a regular cigarette are capable of delivering nicotine but at much lower levels (less than one fifth, or 20%) than delivered by smoking a regular cigarette.
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...but even the advanced model used in this study delivered nicotine much more slowly and at less than half the levels obtained by smoking a regular cigarette. To put it another way, it took an hour of puffing on even an advanced electronic cigarette to obtain the same blood nicotine concentration that could be obtained by smoking a cigarette for 5 minutes.
So the key findings here are that, consistent with prior studies, electronic cigarettes that are the same size and shape as a regular cigarette are capable of delivering nicotine but at much lower levels (less than one fifth, or 20%) than delivered by smoking a regular cigarette.
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...but even the advanced model used in this study delivered nicotine much more slowly and at less than half the levels obtained by smoking a regular cigarette. To put it another way, it took an hour of puffing on even an advanced electronic cigarette to obtain the same blood nicotine concentration that could be obtained by smoking a cigarette for 5 minutes.
Efficiency may be a misnomer, a different device or topper often simply delivers more eliquid consumption. Vaping 2-3 mL of 36mg liquid is no more nicotine than using 4-6 mL of 18mg liquid. And if you're vaping 10-15 mL of 10mg, you are actually consuming more nic.
From personal experience, I used 36mg for quite some time, mostly dipping a 306 atty or dripping a 510 or 901 atty, about 3 mL per day. Newer RDA may allow more eliquid use, so a reduction in the strength is possible, but the increase in volume negates any real reduction in nicotine usage.
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