how much nicotine am I getting?

[firtle]

Hello!

As a previous casual cig smoker I would like to know opinions (or indeed facts!) On how much nicotine is being delivered compared to a cigarette.

I ask this because I don't want to become addicted to nicotine and it's quite easy I find to chain vape, without the "baccy buzz" ha. I think this may be a North East colloquial term!

At the moment I am just having a bit vape on either 16mg carto or 11mg on an evening (cig a like) and a bit more on a weekend

Cheers guys

 

[hvac999]

It is hard to directly compare the two because you are using two different delivery methods. Sure, you inhale both but vaping absorbs less into the bloodstream. The best rule of thumb is vape until you are OK with it. In other words, don't vape just to be vaping. At first, it is common to chain vape.

 

[firtle]

It is hard to directly compare the two because you are using two different delivery methods. Sure, you inhale both but vaping absorbs less into the bloodstream. The best rule of thumb is vape until you are OK with it. In other words, don't vape just to be vaping. At first, it is common to chain vape.

Cheers! Yes I think with me just starting out it's sooo easy to just vape away, although it's never for more than say 15minutes at a time

 

[ronjamesmajor]

I think generally speaking your dosage depends on how many ML you're going through in a day.
11mg is 11mg per ml of juice.

I haven't personally seen any hard evidence on how many exact mg of nicotine you're getting PER cigarette, though the average estimation is something like 1mg per cigarette.

If you look at say 11mg juice and you vape let's say 2 ml per day you're looking at 5 and a half cigarettes per day. Unless I did my math wrong. Which is also a pretty good possibility.

 

[ronjamesmajor]

It is hard to directly compare the two because you are using two different delivery methods. Sure, you inhale both but vaping absorbs less into the bloodstream. The best rule of thumb is vape until you are OK with it. In other words, don't vape just to be vaping. At first, it is common to chain vape.

I would also have to agree with this school of thought. I was a 25 a day cigarette smoker before I switched to vaping. I have since escalated my usage considerably but I vape until I feel comfortable, and while my level of nicotine in my bloodstream is probably a lot higher, I don't have any of the negative effects of smoking.

 

[firtle]

I havent even gotten through 2 cartos in about a week and a half so I'm assuming my nicotine intake has been quite low

 

[hvac999]

It does sound low to me

 

[ronjamesmajor]

I would agree with that. Typically cartos hold between 1 and 2 ml of juice I guess depending on size or filler material, and a number of other things but if you're using that little in a week and a half I would say you're probably getting as much nic as eating a hole bunch of peppers and tomatoes.

 

[firtle]

Cool well seems I have been worrying a bit for no reason!

 

[Caridwen]

This might help

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ette-vs-e-cigarette-nicotine-equivalency.html

 

[firtle]

This might help

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ette-vs-e-cigarette-nicotine-equivalency.html

Thanks this looks interesting I will be sure to give it a thorough read!

 

[Caridwen]

Abbreviated version- no way to tell.

If you aren't a smoker, I would definitely recommend staying away from liquids with nicotine. Pick up some zerio nicotine liquid.

 

[BlueMoods]

Exactly, if you only smoke socially then have one low nic juice for those times and, a bunch of zero nic just to enjoy vaping, you might find you are happy with 0 nic all of the time and just want the flavor.

 

[djsvapour]

I'm surprised everybody sits on the fence on this question.

Best empirical assumptions (i.e. based on observation and, in this case, multiple users over for a variety of forums) would suggest that the yield is somewhere between 30-50% of the total liquid vaped. It could be more or less depending on the vaping style.

In short, or put another way, it is unlikely from 1ml of e-liquid you are getting less than 30% or more than 50% of the strength of the e-liquid.

I know I'll get flamed off the forum for this, but 1 carto with 18mg liquid will probably yield somewhere in the region of 6.5mg of nicotine.

(0.9ml x 18mg x 40% ave.)

Another reason why the look-a-like makers lie in their marketing. 6.5mg of nicotine is comfortably less then 10 standard cigarettes.

and yet people buy them in the belief that if they say "40" and actually do "20" they stand a chance of matching their nicotine habit. Not a hope in hell on that score.

Silk cut - anybody?

 

[glowplug]

I vape for fun and pleasure as well as nicotine. I find that I can get too much nicotine and actually feel some palpitations. No biggy. I do have some funny heart rhythms at times so I just drink more water (helps kidneys flush out toxins you know as well as offset the dehydration of vaping) and grab one of my PVs that is set up with lower nicotine for awhile. I vape around 16mg (always mixing strengths and flavors so I estimate the nicotine concentration) in the mornings, around 11mg in the afternoons and 6mg or lower in the evenings. I do chain vape sometimes and sometimes I let them sit for hours. I have three PVs set up with the different levels and different flavors with three more clean clearomizers as back up for changing flavors quickly.

If I were an occasional smoker, I would choose no more than a 6mg nicotine concentration. I was a 1.5ppd smoker and find that I can actually feel pretty good with the lower nicotine except first thing in the morning and when I am stressed. Right now I am relearning the accounting program I use for my trucking company and I am STRESSED! So, 12mg it is!

I guess I am saying that I personally don't worry about nicotine addictions cause I am already addicted! I know I am getting less nicotine than when I smoked cigarettes and that makes me happy.

 

[firtle]

Cheers, yeah I am going to purchase some nicotine free liquid to try and stay away from the nicotine all together if I can

 

[firtle]

Thanks for the advice peeps I have took on board and have some low nic liquid and zero nic liquid on the way QUDOS B-)

 

[Bill's Magic Vapor]

This might help

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ette-vs-e-cigarette-nicotine-equivalency.html

Yeppers. The previous calcs are way off, absorption is so entirely different, plus I have yet to meet a smoker that knows how much nicotine they absorb from smoking, so there's no baseline anyway. Most of us know if we're getting enough, too little, or too much. We establish a vaping baseline and then reduce from there over time. Every VapeQuest is different.

 

[Bill's Magic Vapor]

I'm surprised everybody sits on the fence on this question.

Best empirical assumptions (i.e. based on observation and, in this case, multiple users over for a variety of forums) would suggest that the yield is somewhere between 30-50% of the total liquid vaped. It could be more or less depending on the vaping style.

In short, or put another way, it is unlikely from 1ml of e-liquid you are getting less than 30% or more than 50% of the strength of the e-liquid.

I know I'll get flamed off the forum for this, but 1 carto with 18mg liquid will probably yield somewhere in the region of 6.5mg of nicotine.

(0.9ml x 18mg x 40% ave.)

Another reason why the look-a-like makers lie in their marketing. 6.5mg of nicotine is comfortably less then 10 standard cigarettes.

and yet people buy them in the belief that if they say "40" and actually do "20" they stand a chance of matching their nicotine habit. Not a hope in hell on that score.

Silk cut - anybody?

I hear you, but what was your smoking baseline absorption? No one I know ever knows that. Sure they know how many mg are in a pack, but that doesn't convert to absorption either. So no starting baseline, no known actual vaping absorption baseline, pretty hard to weigh in definitively on this, and, therefore, the reluctance to "guess."

 

[Christopher Diego Allen]

I smoke with no nicotine