Tobacco Extraction and More Nicotine

[xitheron]

I've been toying with the idea of extracting my own tobacco flavors.. Would that not increase my nicotine level by doing that?

 

[LucentShadow]

You might want to check out the tobacco extraction sub forum at the top of this forum.

Here's a good thread from there:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/liquid-extraction-tobacco/99774-vg-pipe-tobacco-essense.html

As I recall, Kurt, who is an esteemed chemist in this community, finds it unlikely that his method would extract any significant amounts of nicotine.

That said, I would also say that other extraction methods could quite possibly extract higher amounts of nicotine, but it would not be likely to be dangerous. Research how much nicotine (in milligrams) is in whatever amount of tobacco that you wish to extract from, and divide that by the amount of liquid yield (in milliliters.) That would be the maximum possible mg/ml that the extract could contain, but it would be unlikely to be anywhere near that much unless you were specifically trying to extract alkaloids, IMO.

 

[unloaded]

I've done a couple of cigar extracts in PG. We tested one of the extracts and it was less than 1mg/ml. If you use alcohol or some other solvent you might get a lot more but with PG or VG you won't get much, if any.

 

[hairball]

I've done several extractions and have only had it go up roughly 2mg after a 3 month steep.