Nicotine mg comparison

[DVap]

Very interesting. No wonder the gum fails for so many people. Most smokers crave that "nic fix" that the gum just won't deliver in the way their craving wants it.

It's funny, when I smoked, I would be just fine lighting one up, taking a couple drags, then putting it out. I would be fine with this for a shorter period of time though. This data shows an excellent example of why. Odd though, now that I'm vaping, I don't crave it immediately upon waking, but vape constantly after I start. Also, I can put it down, as opposed to smoking, I would still want one after getting ready to sleep.

Thanks for posting that. I'll have to check out more of your info!

Quite welcome. Constant vaping makes perfect sense when looking at that graph in that the ecigs don't provide the intense spike of an analog, but due to their much slower absorption it takes much longer to build up a level, but once a level is built up, it hangs around longer (flatter profile as opposed to the saw-toothed analog profile) such that one gets accustomed to a flatter profile and is likely spared the acute morning craving.

 

[Mister]

Um... I am looking at the mg of nicotine in analogs, and they are coming up with numbers of .8 or 1.1.
I have 20ml of Marlbro eJuice that is 24mg of nicotine. How are these numbers figured out? Can they be compared?
Thanks
Harold

Note that the numbers you are seeing for cigarettes are for the amount delivered to the body, as measured by smoking machines. Almost all of that nicotine gets into your bloodstream. The cigarettes actually contain about 10 times that amount of nicotine but most of it is lost in combustion. The smoking machines, although standardized, are notoriously innaccurate. Especially for so-called "light" cigarettes, which you are probably using at numbers like .8 and 1.1. For light cigarettes the smoking machine numbers are usually substantially on the low side, 25% would be typical though it varies a fair bit by brand.

OTOH the numbers for eJuice are what is in the juice, not what is delivered to your body. The best estimate so far is that roughly 50% of that nicotine reaches your bloodstream when vaping.

An example of applying all of this: Suppose you smoked 20 "light" 1.1mg cigarettes per day and you are a "typical" smoker. I.e. not stubbing them after a couple of puffs or spending most of their time in the ashtray, nor smoking them quickly and down to the ..... Then you were probably getting 1.1 * 1.25 (guesstimate of smoking machine error) * 20 = 27 mg nicotine per day.

And if you use 24 mg eJuice then to get that 27 mg of nicotine per day you need to vape 27 / (24 * 0.5) = 2.2 ml of eJuice per day.

But don't rely on this math as an absolute. The way you smoked, the error in smoking machines for your brand of cigarette, your style of vaping, your reaction to the slower delivery of nicotine, and the things we don't yet know about vaping can all modify this calculation. At best I'd say this can provide a guideline for the eJuice strength and daily quantity which a user should start with before modifying up/down based on the results.