Just did some math...

[WichitaLineman]

I compared the cost of getting a milligram of nicotine (the average amount that actually is ingested from smoking one analog) into your brain between

1. Smoking average "strong" filtered cigarettes

versus

2. Buying the largest size (500ml) of the strongest (100mg/ml) juice of a popular distributor here, and diluting it into to PV e-juice.

A bottle of 500 ml of 100mg/ml juice contains 50,000 mg of nicotine

Cigarettes contain about 10mg nicotine per cigarette. That's 200mg per pack.

So it would take 250 packs of analogs to equal the amount of nicotine in one bottle of 500 ml of 100mg/ml e-juice.

At my local $8 per pack, that's $2000.

The e-juice costs $166.95.

That a more than eleven to one ratio.

Bottom line is that for the amount of nicotine you'd get spending a dollar on using deadly burning tobacco as a delivery system, you'd only have to spend LESS THAN 9 cents on using bulk hi-test diluted e-juice.

(27 hours since last smoke, 27 hours into vaping, feeling great!)

 

[Darkwitless]

Yea!! More proof that vaping just makes good sense...if your math works, but I'm too lazy to test it. lol

 

[MXBNW]

Got to love it......

 

[BatemanZ]

And yet my friends think I'm the weird one- that I'm using an electronic cigarette! That is some money math!

 

[dynasty]

yes and no. the supposed absorption rate of e-cigarettes (from what ive read) is some where between 10 and 40% so that brings a comparable dosage of e-juice to be between 417.35 and 1669.50. depending on which number is more accurate. regardless it still saves money, but not the huge amounts you would think. to me the more important aspect is how much it improves your quality of life, which can not be expressed by dollar figures

 

[Whistle_Pig]

I don't worry about the math much, I'm just glad to be not paying tobacco taxes, and getting off the pyro sticks. But I gotta ask ...

Are you still on the line? (Gawd, I crack myself up!)

Depending on where up in the Rockies you are, you might be interested in the Colorado Vaping Enthusiasts social group.

 

[WichitaLineman]

Northern New Mexico - and I agree, the big picture (better health while still getting teh nic) is what matters. Even if it cost MORE, it would be worth i!

 

[scott58]

In real world vaping over a 1 year period, I've spent about $1500. Cigarettes would have been about $4300. I don't care about absorption rates or anything else. Dollar for dollar vaping is better all the way around.

 

[WichitaLineman]

yes and no. the supposed absorption rate of e-cigarettes (from what ive read) is some where between 10 and 40% so that brings a comparable dosage of e-juice to be between 417.35 and 1669.50. depending on which number is more accurate. regardless it still saves money, but not the huge amounts you would think. to me the more important aspect is how much it improves your quality of life, which can not be expressed by dollar figures

Do you mean that the absorption rate is 10% to 40% of the absorption rate of nicotine in tobacco smoke?

The nicotine absorption rate of the nicotine in tobacco smoke is itself about 10% (depending itself on a variety of factors, such as how much ammonia etc has been added to make the nicotine available in a more basic form, whcih can increase the bio-availability to between 15-20%).

If so, that would put the bio-availability of vaped nicotine in the 1% to 4% range.

A rough and ready test would be to get the home testing cotinine saliva test (the good one that has a rather difficult administration) that can measure seven detectable levels of cotinine, ranging from barely detectable (second hand smoke from a bar), to near-overdose levels (chain smoking of strong non-filtereds), and measure how many vaped mgs of nicotine have to be vaped to get a mid-range cotinine test result.

*don't mind me folks, I just like sciency things*

 

[dynasty]

from what i can tell, the amount of nicotine you inhale that is absorbed is 10-40% via e-cig and somewhere along the lines of 90% for cigs due to the fact that the nicotine particles are smaller from analogs. read it somewhere, cant site the source, but ran across it somewhere. it could be wrong, but i know i don't get as much nicotine from an e-cig as i do from an analog, which is why i have to vape higher doses more frequently

 

[Col. Gaunt]

I would have to say I am probably spending way more on e-cigs then analogs because I keep seeing new mods that I like! DAMN IT!