Newbie Question - Am I making myself sick?

[Kate]

To work out your consumption of nicotine with esmoking you need to know the quantity of juice you vape in a day. Most people use about 2ml or 2 x classic cartridges.

eliquid potency is measured as nicotine mg per 1ml, eg 16mg nic per 1ml juice.

If you used to smoke 40 x 0.5mg cigs, that equals 2ml of 10mg juice required to deliver the same quantity of nicotine.

 

[Mommyshann]

Uhhhh, yeah - what she said!

To work out your consumption of nicotine with esmoking you need to know the quantity of juice you vape in a day. Most people use about 2ml or 2 x classic cartridges.

Eliquid potency is measured as nicotine mg per 1ml, eg 16mg nic per 1ml juice.

If you used to smoke 40 x 0.5mg cigs, that equals 2ml of 10mg juice required to deliver the same quantity of nicotine.

 

[Kate]

Sorry Shannon, I don't know how to make the calculations clearer.

If you know that the potency of eliquid is measured in milligrams per millilitre and you know how many ml of juice you use per day, it's possible to work out how much nic you're taking in with vapour.

So if you vape 2ml of 10mg juice you are taking in 20mg of nic.

Does that help?

 

[Mommyshann]

Sorry Kate, you're fighting a losing battle here. You couldn't possibly make it any clearer so it's not you, it's me. I flunked Chemistry and barely made it through the required Math classes to graduate. While youre examples do make sense to me, my ability to put that into practical use based on my own usage is nonexistant...lol. I'm more than happy to allow others to work out the Math and Science stuff and I'll stick with creative words and worthless wit! Thanks for trying though!

 

[Kate]

Creativity and wit are great assets, much more interesting than maths

 

[bghouse]

Thanks Kate, I sort of get that explanation.

I've order a few different things to try, some super low in the 5 to 6 range and some low (or medium depending where you look) in the 10 to 11 range.

In trying to scrutinize my habits, I realize with my Ultra Lights that I don't smoke the whole cigarette always and will often smoke 2 in a row on a "smoke break". With the e-cig, I was also not going outside with the other smokers and taking hits at my desk - so with the 18mg cartridges I think this was way too overkill for me.

I'm really trying to switch to e-cig completely, so I'm going to have to experiment over the next couple months to figure out what works best. All I know is that what I was doing made me lose my voice for a half day and slurred speech for sure. Forgot to check my pulse but I'm sure it was racing.

I'd plead the ignorance of youth, but I'm too old to get away with that one