Nicotine stains?

[sweetp]

One of the many reasons I quit smoking in the house years ago was the disgusting nicotine stains it seemed to leave on everything. Would vaping with nic juice eventually cause the same thing?

 

[Adam_S]

Some others might have a better answer for you, but what you are exhaling is mostly water vapor, so I highly doubt it. It seems to dissipate into the air within a few seconds. Smoke is entirely different from vapor, despite similarities in appearance to the naked eye.

 

[CamelKicker]

No, the e-cig is H20 vapor, so there is no "lingering smoke" in the air like analogs.

The staining comes from the combustion, tar and nicotine in analogs which hangs in the air.

 

[420GypsyGirl]

The stains that come from cigarette smoke are loaded with tar and 3,999 other chemicals and compounds. Tar is a very dark and binds with many things...very sticky. It can coat your tongue, your lungs, stain your teeth, and the smoke that has tar will stick to walls and months later mixed with humidity will start to actually form streaks on walls of rooms in your house. Yuck.

Nicotine is actually a clear liquid by itself. Also, the vapor that we produce when we take a hit from our PV's dissapates and is broken down very quickly in the air due to the nature of the PG and VG. So no...you will not see the same stains as you may have seen from smoking. No tar.

 

[sweetp]

Thanks people! These are the answeres I was hoping to get.

 

[mwahle1]

Yes, the stains are from the tar in the cigarette smoke. Do the “old” paper towel trick; blow vapor through a paper towel = no stain.

 

[Madame Psychosis]

Like others basically said... those aren't nicotine stains, those are tar stains. Ecig vapor has no tar. No teeth stains, no furniture stains, etc.

 

[sbphotog]

I once did a little experiment where I took two clean glass jars, put a white paper towel in each, in one jar blew vapor and in the other cigarette smoke (closed them up tight). Left them sit for 30 minutes....after the time was up the smoke jar still had smoke in it, the paper towel was yellowish and smelled terrible. The vapor jar...vapor was dissappated, paper towel was still white and the smell was very pleasant. It was proof enough for me.............