Nicotine Tolerance, hows does it differ in vaping and smoking.

[DerpMeetsTF2]

It seems with cigarettes, the more and more time that passes as you smoke, the more and more nicotine you'll be able to handle increases (and how many cigarettes you smoke a day goes up because of it). Basically your tolerance getting higher and higher. But with vaping it seems the longer you vape, the less nicotine you can actually handle and resulting in you dropping your nic level instead of increasing it over time like you do with cigarettes. What's the difference with nicotine in cigarettes and the nicotine in vape juice that causes this?

 

[dennism]

Maybe it's the things, other than nicotine, that have people smoking more and more.

 

[bombastinator]

Maybe it's the things, other than nicotine, that have people smoking more and more.

I’ve heard there are three addictive chemicals in cigarettes, but only the one in vapes

 

[DerpMeetsTF2]

Maybe it's the things, other than nicotine, that have people smoking more and more.

even still, it doesnt make sense. Every addictive drug I know will make you want and need more and more of it as time goes on using it. which in cigarettes case that exact thing happens. In vaping it doesn't. If nicotine is a drug and especially if it's an addictive one it doesnt make sense to me. I know theres more addictive chemicals in cigarettes than vaping but the fact that theres still one of them in vaping should still result in wanting more and more over time instead of the opposite, even if to not as great of an extent.

 

[bombastinator]

even still, it doesnt make sense. Every addictive drug I know will make you want and need more and more of it as time goes on using it. which in cigarettes case that exact thing happens. In vaping it doesn't. If nicotine is a drug and especially if it's an addictive one it doesnt make sense to me.

Different drugs behave in different ways. Different mural downsteoping of different chemicals with different half-lives

 

[Rossum]

with vaping it seems the longer you vape, the less nicotine you can actually handle and resulting in you dropping your nic level

I've not experienced that personally. If I drop my nic, I just vape more.

 

[leftyandsparky]

I’ve had to up my nic after lowering it because I was vaping more like @Rossum.

 

[Fredman1]

nicotine is a drug and especially if it's an addictive one

Nicotine is not as addictive as its made out to be. Big tobacco knew that. That's why they started loading tobacco with more addictive chemicals. Nicotine alone in tobacco don't assure enough returning customers for them.
There is a wealth of information here on ECF to educate yourself about nicotine. Do some searches

 

[Letitia]

With nic usually once you find a level that works you simply don't need more. I don’t understand why so many are in a hurry to lower their nic. The stress of quitting smoking was bad enough, why add to it by lowering what helps you get over the hump.

 

[Frenchfry1942]

I lowered mine by steps over a two year period. I don't see nicotine as a much of a harm. I still do about 3-4%. Sometimes my stress will call for it, but sometimes I forget if I am comfortably busy.

 

[sdennislee]

I was a 3 to 4 PAD smoker, I began with 24mg 6+ years ago, slowly over time I just needed less nicotine. I'm now at 0 to 3mg and find it very satisfying. 24mg was MTL, 0 to 3mg is DL. I vape 16mls per day.

 

[vapdivrr]

I must be different because out of the 30 years I smoked, about 29 of them I smoked a consistentl 1.5 pad. At least for me , I never increased my cig consumption after maybe the first 2 years, from then on till I quit, pretty much the same....same with vaping, I started at 24mg mtl over 7 years ago and still vape pretty much exactly the same...

 

[Beamslider]

I have not noticed that effect either. I vape 4 mg nic. I consistently vape about 12 to 15 ml a day of it. If I use a device that give lots of vapor, I vape fewer hits and if I use a device with lower vapor output, I vape more frequently. But still the same volume of juice used.

 

[evan le'garde]

It seems with cigarettes, the more and more time that passes as you smoke, the more and more nicotine you'll be able to handle increases (and how many cigarettes you smoke a day goes up because of it). Basically your tolerance getting higher and higher. But with vaping it seems the longer you vape, the less nicotine you can actually handle and resulting in you dropping your nic level instead of increasing it over time like you do with cigarettes. What's the difference with nicotine in cigarettes and the nicotine in vape juice that causes this?

I suppose with Tobacco it's about looking like a tough guy. There is a lot more to smoking cigarettes than an addiction to nicotine. If there wasn't then the marlboro man was a complete waste of time !. Smoking used to project a certain image, and probably still does to some. Whereas Vaping projects an image of someone who wants/wanted to quit smoking.

 

[untar]

I don’t understand why so many are in a hurry to lower their nic.

It's because the mainstream narrative suggests nicotine will kill you. They might not say it directly but you have nic along tar on the package, "low nic" cigarettes etc.

That for most people once you found a level you don't need more should be a hint as to how hard a drug nicotine is...

 

[charlie1465]

Addiction isn't like the op is saying. It's true you could increase your nic slowly with vaping but you don't need that strength to satisfy the craving. For example i vape 18mg liquid in a low ohm device so at the end of a days vaping I have ingested x amount of nicotine. However in the morning when I take my first few hits that is enough to satisfy.

So even a small amount of the addictive substance will cure the itch. And nicotine just isn't the type of effect that would lead to you wanting more and more of the feeling. Just my view...hope it food for thought.

 

[NolaMel]

even still, it doesnt make sense. Every addictive drug I know will make you want and need more and more of it as time goes on using it. which in cigarettes case that exact thing happens. In vaping it doesn't. If nicotine is a drug and especially if it's an addictive one it doesnt make sense to me. I know theres more addictive chemicals in cigarettes than vaping but the fact that theres still one of them in vaping should still result in wanting more and more over time instead of the opposite, even if to not as great of an extent.

Compare nicotine to caffeine.

 

[vapdivrr]

With nic usually once you find a level that works you simply don't need more. I don’t understand why so many are in a hurry to lower their nic. The stress of quitting smoking was bad enough, why add to it by lowering what helps you get over the hump.

I kind of agree, but suppose it's dependant upon how one looks at it....I suppose alot are vaping but plan to eventually quit, where as some , maybe older individuals, don't really plan to stop and are just happy to not be smoking....myself, I love vaping and have absolutely no plans of stopping, plus I can see myself vaping for the next 20 years, so I see no reason to reduce my nic and worry about it. But if your perhaps 30 years old, it's hard to imagine that you might be vaping another 45 more years, so you might implicate a plan. If liquid nic becomes outlawed , I will simply quit all together, as I feel it won't be all that much harder to stop, even at 24mg , 2mls per day. I say this because I don't think I will suffer that much, as I have stopped for a whole 3 days a couple times and it didn't bother me.

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[tgs3]

I smoked for over 40 years and assumed the prime cause was an addiction to nicotine. When I began vaping 15 months or so ago, I vaped 24mg. I dual used for about 9 months and reduced both cigarettes and nic level. My last cigarette was on May 11 and at that point I was vaping (and stll am) 12mg. I am thinking of reducing to 9mg. The argument against doing so is that I will vape more. But I chain vaped at 24mg and still chain vape at 12mg. Might as well chain vape at a lower nic level it seems to me. Whether nicotine is addictive or not? I don't know. But it does have some negative effects (vasoconstriction) and I might as well continue to reduce those harms. After all, I can always up the nic if it becomes an issue.

 

[Gregjl]

Now that I think about it there's a big difference in the way I feel when I have to go a couple / few hours before i can vape as opposed to the way I felt waiting for a window to go out and smoke. Not as intense," jonesing" or really not much of any feeling now.