So I decided to Google last night, how much nicotine is in a single analog cigarette... and I first found a link saying that 1 cigarette equals approximately 1mg of nicotine....
At that point, I kinda freaked out. When I started vaping again about 2 months ago, I had been trying to cut down on my smoking... forcing myself to stick to about a half-pack of analogs a day, so roughly 10mg of nicotine a day.
When I got my first bottle of e-liquid, I went medium-high (based on the levels available at the store), a 26mg bottle. My consumption ranges from 1.5 - 3 ml a day.
Now, I knew I was getting more nicotine from vaping, no doubt... I didn't constantly feel like I was depriving myself like when I was forcing myself to only smoke 10 a day (I was a 2-pack a day for years) and I figured it was no big deal for me to have an initial spike in my nicotine intake while I got off the analogs, and I could start tapering myself down (I'm now alternating between 24mg in the morning/day, 18/17mg in the afternoon, and 11 in the evening/night, so I don't vape myself into insomnia....)
But I did the math, and if it's 24mg per ml and I'm having a heavy vape day where I go through 3ml, that means I'm vaping 72 mg of nicotine, or nearly 4 packs of analogs worth?!?!?
I have only felt over-vaped a few times... little headache, slight nausea... usually it's just a little insomnia if I stay up late writing or watching a movie and chain-vaping on a high nic level... but am I really getting 35-70mg of nic in a day if I vape around 1.5 -3ml?? That seems crazy.
So then I did more research, and found this:
Is there a similar sort of absorption ratio with e-cigs? I simply cannot believe that I went from 10mg to 30-70mg in a few days without having any kind of reaction.
Knowing my body, and having a long history of wavering between heavy smoking and trying to cut back, I feel like my nicotine intake on an average day right now is probably more like 1 to 1.5 packs of analogs, and frankly I trust my body a lot more than I trust some calculations based on some numbers I found on the internet.
Is there any kind of cheap home test for checking the nicotine level in your system? Knowing how I've felt when I've over-vaped, I am confident my body will let me know when the levels are getting too high for comfort, but these initial calculations have me a little tripped out....
Either way, I feel 10 times healthier than I did 2 months ago, so I know I'm not changing anything anytime soon... but your input would be greatly appreciated!
At that point, I kinda freaked out. When I started vaping again about 2 months ago, I had been trying to cut down on my smoking... forcing myself to stick to about a half-pack of analogs a day, so roughly 10mg of nicotine a day.
When I got my first bottle of e-liquid, I went medium-high (based on the levels available at the store), a 26mg bottle. My consumption ranges from 1.5 - 3 ml a day.
Now, I knew I was getting more nicotine from vaping, no doubt... I didn't constantly feel like I was depriving myself like when I was forcing myself to only smoke 10 a day (I was a 2-pack a day for years) and I figured it was no big deal for me to have an initial spike in my nicotine intake while I got off the analogs, and I could start tapering myself down (I'm now alternating between 24mg in the morning/day, 18/17mg in the afternoon, and 11 in the evening/night, so I don't vape myself into insomnia....)
But I did the math, and if it's 24mg per ml and I'm having a heavy vape day where I go through 3ml, that means I'm vaping 72 mg of nicotine, or nearly 4 packs of analogs worth?!?!?
I have only felt over-vaped a few times... little headache, slight nausea... usually it's just a little insomnia if I stay up late writing or watching a movie and chain-vaping on a high nic level... but am I really getting 35-70mg of nic in a day if I vape around 1.5 -3ml?? That seems crazy.
So then I did more research, and found this:
Is there a similar sort of absorption ratio with e-cigs? I simply cannot believe that I went from 10mg to 30-70mg in a few days without having any kind of reaction.
Knowing my body, and having a long history of wavering between heavy smoking and trying to cut back, I feel like my nicotine intake on an average day right now is probably more like 1 to 1.5 packs of analogs, and frankly I trust my body a lot more than I trust some calculations based on some numbers I found on the internet.
Is there any kind of cheap home test for checking the nicotine level in your system? Knowing how I've felt when I've over-vaped, I am confident my body will let me know when the levels are getting too high for comfort, but these initial calculations have me a little tripped out....
Either way, I feel 10 times healthier than I did 2 months ago, so I know I'm not changing anything anytime soon... but your input would be greatly appreciated!
I don't think I really need to know, since I understood the point of the sentence perfectly otherwise, but it's going to drive me crazy if I don't ask -- What does CW stand for?
Duh. I can't believe I didn't get that.
