Nicotine amounts question

[Traijan]

Hi,

I use eliquids that have 12mg of nicotine. Unfortunately the local vape shop was out of the 12mg of one of my favorite liquids and only had the 6mg in stock.

I bought the 6mg liquid as something is better than nothing but I'm just rather curious as I don't know how the nicotine is actually getting into the body and how that whole process works so I'm just curious...

1. If I were to vape twice as much as normally vape on 12mg liquid using 6mg liquid, would my body get roughly the same amount of nicotine that it would get if I were vaping the 12mg that I normally vape?

2. Do e-cigs deliver as much nicotine puff for puff as analog cigarettes?

3. How many average sized inhalation puffs on an e-cig is the equal to smoking a analog "100" cigarette? (by 100, I mean, we used to smoke the camel blue 99's or 100's).

4. Lastly, does holding the vapor in your lungs after taking a drag on the e-cig deliver anymore nicotine than if you were to inhale on the e-cig straight to lung and then immediately exhale?

Thanks very much for any info on this.

 

[Ryedan]

Hi,

I use eliquids that have 12mg of nicotine. Unfortunately the local vape shop was out of the 12mg of one of my favorite liquids and only had the 6mg in stock.

I bought the 6mg liquid as something is better than nothing but I'm just rather curious as I don't know how the nicotine is actually getting into the body and how that whole process works so I'm just curious...

1. If I were to vape twice as much as normally vape on 12mg liquid using 6mg liquid, would my body get roughly the same amount of nicotine that it would get if I were vaping the 12mg that I normally vape?

I believe that's true.

2. Do e-cigs deliver as much nicotine puff for puff as analog cigarettes?

No, they generally deliver less.

3. How many average sized inhalation puffs on an e-cig is the equal to smoking a analog "100" cigarette? (by 100, I mean, we used to smoke the camel blue 99's or 100's).

It depends. Generally, it takes 20-30 minutes to get our blood nicotine level as high from vaping as it is after smoking one cigarette in about 5 minutes. The hardware we use and the nic levels in our juices are a big factor in this. Also, nic from vaping seems to be a bit more effective for us than nic from smoking. It's really hard to quantify nicotine from vaping compared to smoking.

4. Lastly, does holding the vapor in your lungs after taking a drag on the e-cig deliver anymore nicotine than if you were to inhale on the e-cig straight to lung and then immediately exhale?

I don't know.

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[twizted]

1. Yes, I believe if you use more lower nic strength then you did the higher nic it would come close to balancing out.

2. I think I seen where it was discovered the nic amounts puff for puff are lower using e-cigs. But that depends greatly on you juice's nic strength too.

3. I have no clue.

4. No. Atleast from what I read, you absorb most of the nic from vapor in your mouth while drawing the vapor into your mouth.

I have no actually data to back these answers up but these are the things I've read during my 5 years of vaping.

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[Sarin]

1) Yes by smoking twice as much liquid at half the strength will deliver the same amount of nicotine although you will notice the usage and expense.

2) Hard one to work out but e liquid will deliver a more consistent nic dose than analogs.

3) No idea but you should look towards inhaling enough to stop the craving rather than trying to make comparisons, it's too difficult.

4) Delivery is controlled by the length and force of the drag, absorption is the word you need here. Vapour from e-liquid is much larger than the particles from smoking and hence they cannot reach the deep parts of the lungs like smoke from analogs do. Therefore using e-cigs you have to learn to "smoke" differently. The most efficient way of absorbing the majority of the nicotine is to mouth inhale, hold it there for a few seconds, inhale to your lungs and then exhale out through your nose. This is because your nasal passage and mouth are more efficient at absorbing bigger particles than your lungs.

 

[Stosh]

The responses have been spot on, nothing to add to them. But if you're interested in reading more about how and how much nicotine is absorbed from vaping, here's an actual scientific study that tries to answer that question.....Nicotine absorption from electronic cigarette use: comparison between first and new-generation devices

 

[Baldr]

When I first started, I had been a heavy smoker, and I was using 24mg juice. That helped me cut way, way back, but it didn't get me off the cigs.

Sometimes, mostly right after meals, I had to have a cig. No matter how much I vaped, I still wanted a cig, and the feeling wouldn't go away.

After a couple of months of that, I got some 30mg juice. I'd use it after meals and any time I really wanted a cig, and I continued to use the 24mg juice as my "all day". That solved my problems, and as soon as I got the 30mg juice, I quit smoking.

The reason for explain this is that I'm not convinced that if you vape twice as much 6mg juice, you'll get the same effect as if you were vaping 12mg juice. It certainly didn't work that way for me, when I was vaping away as fast as I could on the 24 and couldn't get rid of the "I need a cig!" feeling. But going to 30 juice, suddenly it was easy.

The difference between 30 and 24 is 6mg, and the difference between 12 and 6 is 6mg. But as a percentage, going from 12 to 6 is 50%, a much bigger difference.

I do think every person is different, and you may not have a lot of issues moving to 6mg. (I've gradually moved to 0mg, for instance.)

Your local vape show sounds odd to me. Here, almost all the shops mix their own juice. They don't have to order each flavor in each nic level, they mix it in shop.