That stupid study...

[Thornak]

That Eissenberg study showed such low nic in the blood after smoking an e-cig, but does anybody else on this site have the medical means to do a test? I mean they used such low nic juice, plus analogs are engineered to get nic into the blood very very fast, so maybe some more time is needed. Also, maybe it was faked.
I would love to see more tests..

 

[DC2]

There are a number of people in the CNN thread doing nicotine tests.
DVap is already done with his, and he maxed out the test strip.

I received my Nicalert kit today to test for cotinine in urine.

My ecig use has been a steady ~2.5 mL/day of 15 mg/mL with a 510 at 3.7 volts.

Result: Level 6 (max reading)
1000+ ng/mL

One thing that we should be aware of, and perhaps Dr. E might be willing to confirm, is that while plasma and saliva cotinine levels correspond 1:1, urinary cotinine is concentrated approximately 5X over plasma/saliva, this suggests my plasma cotinine level is 200+ mg/mL (using plasma conc = urine conc/5).

To put it another way, if you're going to find cotinine with a home test kit, urine is the place to look.

 

[searcher]

Why are we really concerned with this study? To me it would be great if we did not get nicotine. I am pretty sure that we do but to me nico is no different than caffeine. Thing is vaping works with or without much nicotine. There is a slim possibility that the size of the molecule from vaping would cause nico not to readily enter the bloodstream. I know that many people testify to nic poisoning. I never saw it myself and I chain vape 24 mg.