How many mg of nic do you vape daily?

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I know, or can tell, that much of the nicotine is carried out of the lungs when we exhale, but I would say it all depends on how long you hold your breath when you vape as to how much is absorbed. For each vape, and vaper, it is going to be different.
 

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I read somewhere that you have to chain vape 15 or more minutes to get a similar amount of nicotine as one cigarette. I read this four years ago; when sub ohm vaping was not as popular and the nic content was more in the 12 to 24 range for most new vapers. I can smoke two cigarettes in a similar amount of time. I know the latter part because I would smoke two cigarettes on a 15 minute break at work!

I have vaped as high as 30 nic content in my Vapor Zeus Cart with 18 or 24 being what I finally settled into. Right now with the sub ohm, I am at about 5 to 6 and looking to get that down to 3 next year. On work days 10ml easily last me all day; off work, its more like 15 to 20ml a day.
 
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There is the 25mg per day I was looking for. Getting by on 1 ml a day is also nice. How many cigs a day were you smoking when you quit? As far as feeling better, vaping is more stress than breathing air. Less vaping is better than more. To figure out your daily ml with dripping count the drops from your usual bottle into a syringe to 2 ml and divide by 2. Then as the day wears on record the number of drops. The sized of drops can vary. A typical number of drops might be 40-45. I use a 3 ml syringe to do that. Almost any pharmacy should be able to give you one without the needle. Explain you are measuring an ingrediant.
Your amount is close enough to 25mg to count. May be the absorbtion of nic in vaping is about the same as from smoking. The unburned nic in cigarette smoke is about 1 mg per cigarette, some percent of that is absorbed by the body. I wonder if the absorbtion rate of nic from vaper is similar. I suspect it is.
I can feel the amount of juices used are of similarities to cig smoking


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My wife and I go through 50ml of 100mg nic a month so thats @600mls of juice a month to my calculation, since I vape 12nic and my wife vapes 4 nic(recently cut back from 6nic). My records indicate that she vapes roughly 50ml a week of 4nic in a subtank mini so she vapes 200mls and I must vape the other 400 in a month. She tootle puffs a 1.6 build in her subtank and I like subohm builds so I can easily vape double, if not more than my wife vapes.
Its great to DIY juice so I don't have to keep track so you don't run out before mail order shows up or have to vape green partially steeped juice and best of all in my circumstance...no more anxiety of customs when ordering juice to come over the border. I spend the extra bucks to source my nic in Canada.
 
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My wife and I go through 50ml of 100mg nic a month so thats @600mls of juice a month to my calculation, since I vape 12nic and my wife vapes 4 nic(recently cut back from 6nic). My records indicate that she vapes roughly 50ml a week of 4nic in a subtank mini so she vapes 200mls and I must vape the other 400 in a month. She tootle puffs a 1.6 build in her subtank and I like subohm builds so I can easily vape double, if not more than my wife vapes.
Its great to DIY juice so I don't have to keep track so you don't run out before mail order shows up or have to vape green partially steeped juice and best of all in my circumstance...no more anxiety of customs when ordering juice to come over the border. I spend the extra bucks to source my nic in Canada.
I agree about DIY. I like the convenience, the mony saved and I'm more comfortable vaping something I mixed. It also seems like the taste is better and I think the main reason for that is the companies use too much and too many flavors for my taste. And I'm seeing there are former pack a day smokers who are comfortable with 25mg a day in their vape.
 
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I agree about DIY. I like the convenience, the mony saved and I'm more comfortable vaping something I mixed. It also seems like the taste is better and I think the main reason for that is the companies use too much and too many flavors for my taste. And I'm seeing there are former pack a day smokers who are comfortable with 25mg a day in their vape.

I smoked a pk or more daily, and I'm currently using, what did I say, 23.some odd mg a day. But here's the thing -- I smoked ultra-lights for more than 20 yrs -- I think that's why when I first started, I had to use such a low level to avoid nic sick, and that low level served me very well. Plus, I was puffing pretty much constantly when I first started, and when I first quit the smokes. By the time I was up to 9-10mg, I had calmed down a good bit, not so constantly puffing.

The thing that has surprised me the most about reducing my nic recently is that my frequency of vaping hasn't increased, I'm not going thru any more liquid -- still somewhere between 30-40 ml a week; since I've been dropping/mixing weekly, it's easy to check that, and it hasn't changed. I'm really glad though, because days when I vape just a little more, I can really tell it, by my asthma. But that's why I say that reducing nic is as easy as falling off a log, if you do it slowly enough. Drop 1mg or .5mg each week, and your body/brain really can't tell.

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6-8mls of 3mg juice daily. I prefer mouth hits to lung hits and have downgraded from a Herakles tank that ran a .2ohm coil at 50W to my old KangerTech Subtank Mini running the RBA @ .55ohms with 24W.

With the Herakles I was going through almost 15ml a day, as well as 2-3 18650's in my Sigelei and I absolutely hated it, so I went back to the Subtank. Now I don't go through nearly as much juice and maybe only have to swap out a battery once. Feels better, Man!
 
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6-8mls of 3mg juice daily. I prefer mouth hits to lung hits and have downgraded from a Herakles tank that ran a .2ohm coil at 50W to my old KangerTech Subtank Mini running the RBA @ .55ohms with 24W.

With the Herakles I was going through almost 15ml a day, as well as 2-3 18650's in my Sigelei and I absolutely hated it, so I went back to the Subtank. Now I don't go through nearly as much juice and maybe only have to swap out a battery once. Feels better, Man!
I was doing direct lung hits for the first three months then realized I preferred MTL which also reduced daily ml's. From reading these posts clearly there are vapers who used to smoke the same as me but vape a lot less so it can be done.
 
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If nic from vaping is absorbed as efficiently as from smoking then vaping 70 mg of nic would be similar to 3 packs of cigs a day which a few people do. If I tried to smoke that many it would make me ill from all the other chemicals, not the nic. I can feel more nic in my system than when I was smoking and that could happen because there aren't the other chemicals making me feel bad and discourage more smoking. Having said that, if I got it down to 25 mg a day my stash would last 3 times longer.
 

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5-7 ml of 15mg, so 75-105 mg/day.

Threads with this question have been done before and there results were a bell curve that looked centered around 50-ish mg/day.


Absorption from vapor is less efficient than from smoke. I have a fuzzy recollection that at least one study was done that found that people self-titrate to lower nic levels in the blood when they vape rather than smoke.


Or you could just get a bigger freezer. :D
I took part in an earlier thread asking this question but wondered if anyone has ever rallied the results or posted a curve, I'll search for it.
 

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I took part in an earlier thread asking this question but wondered if anyone has ever rallied the results or posted a curve, I'll search for it.

I think the curve would show a definite rise over time, since so many devices are so much more vapor-productive than they used to be, so they need a lot more juice to make such extravagant vapor.

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I think the curve would show a definite rise over time, since so many devices are so much more vapor-productive than they used to be, so they need a lot more juice to make such extravagant vapor.

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Maybe, but in looking at the numbers I've seen, folks that vape smaller amounts of eliquid (translates to lower power) use higher nic, and folks that vape large amounds of eliquid (translates to higher power) use lower nic, and the nic totals seem to come out in the same ranges :)
 
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