How many cigs is equal too....

[Newtothevapelyf3]

so I usually vape a tank or two of my aspire cleito a day. I'm vaping on 3mg nic of alien piss. How many cigs is equal to 7 ml of juice a day?

 

[StormFinch]

It's impossible to say. Everyone absorbs the nic differently, each tank uses the liquid differently. sub ohm and double coils go through it faster than, say a carto tank. What takes you 2 tanks of 3 mg might take me 3 tanks of 6. Even when we were all using practically the same devices at the exact same wattage, we'd have things like a pack a day smoker needing 15 mLs of 24 mg a day and a 3 pack a day smoker needing 10 mLs of 12. There really isn't a rhyme or reason to it except physiology.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

2.

Or 8.


Or was that 24?


You can not actually quantify the amount of eliquid used with a count on cigarettes. It is totally individual.

My 6 to 8ml a day of 9mg eliquids no way equals the 2 packs of swisher sweets cherry cigars I was smoking before I started vaping.

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[bwh79]

A very rough estimate says that a traditional tobacco cigarette, as I remember, contains about 7mg of nicotine, about 1mg of which is absorbed into the body when you smoke it. So if you're taking in 7ml x 3mg/ml = 21mg of nicotine per day, that's roughly (very roughly) equal to about a pack-a-day habit. That's assuming you absorb 100% of the nicotine in your e-liquid, on which I'm not sure there have been any conclusive studies yet.

 

[BrotherBob]

To save time and get the most complete/best answer, might want to try the search function in upper right hand corner of this post. Could type in "How many cigarettes".

 

[StormFinch]

A very rough estimate says that a traditional tobacco cigarette, as I remember, contains about 7mg of nicotine, about 1mg of which is absorbed into the body when you smoke it. So if you're taking in 7ml x 3mg/ml = 21mg of nicotine per day, that's roughly (very roughly) equal to about a pack-a-day habit. That's assuming you absorb 100% of the nicotine in your e-liquid, on which I'm not sure there have been any conclusive studies yet.

Depends on the equipment and familiarity of the user.

There actually have been a couple of studies at least, both that I know of by Eissenberg. The first one he got schooled on because he handed a bunch of smokers who'd never touched an e-cigarette in their life cheap, Chinese cigalikes and then told them they could only vape so much. When none of the test subjects showed any appreciable cotinine levels, he put out a report stating that vaping didn't do anything but placebo.

At some point, Eissenberg even ended up here on the forums and there is a thread dedicated to the discussion of what went wrong. It's probably buried in the archives. He later repeated the tests with real vapers using their own equipment. Some of the mods of that time were actually reaching the same cotinine levels as cigarettes for their users.

Edited to add:
Here's the thread on the second study: Preliminary results from Dr. Eissenberg's study (Yep, e-cigs deliver nicotine)

Here's the thread discussing the first study and where Eissenberg jumps in at post #128: From CNN.com Today/Eissenberg study with feedback

 

[djsvapour]

This is always an interesting discussion.

7ml of 3mg is 21mg before you vape it.

That would be the same as the Nicotine emitted from 21 burning tobacco sticks rated 1.0mg yield by the manufacturer, by law, in most countries. (They test using smoking machines...)

The good news (or the bad, depending on how you view these things) is you can't be getting all that 21mg into your system.

Therefore, the only conclusion you can draw is that you are in all probability getting less Nicotine than a 20-pack of 1mg smokes.

I suspect you might be getting less than half a pack, as it happens... but that's only an opinion based on some anecdotal questioning of vapers in 2014.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Nicotine delivery, retention and pharmacokinetics from various electronic cigarettes - St.Helen - 2015 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library
According to the paper (above) 90% of nic is absorbed. Looks too high, but... We should not dismiss possibility (and it is rather real) that vapers can consume more nicotine compared to time when they were smokers.