I have been a pack a week Marlboro Light Smoker (basically a social smoker) off an on over the years. I gave vaping a try a few years ago using e-juice with freebase nicotine (12mg I think it was) and didn't like it. For one I found the PG I was mildly allergic too (gave me mild asthma when I smoked it), going with a high VG fluid though solved that. But it still didn't "feel" as pleasurable for an occasional smoke as smoking a Marlboro Light.
Fast forward to more recent and I decided I don't want the all the crap in my lungs that comes with inhaling burning material. So I read up on nic salt based e-juice. I was a bit surprised you can't get it in anything less than 35mg/ml. Picked up an eGo AIO (using 1 ohm coils - equiv of 14-18 watts) and some 35mg salt e-juice, got used to the different throat hit feel compared to smoking, and I ended up loving it! No stinky smoke breath, lungs feel way better (even though I wasn't a frequent smoker.)
The downside is that with the vaping, especially since I use a mild tobacco flavored juice (American Patriot), it doesn't stink up my car or house so I can smoke it like pretty much anywhere, anytime. So I'm finding where before, I'd have to stop working and go out on my deck to smoke a cig, I can vape while sitting at my home office desk!
So I've realized, I'm actually smoking (vaping) a lot more than I smoked because of the convenience. But still not a lot. (Or at least I thought!) Currently I'm going through about 1 30ml bottle of e-juice every 3 months. I'm probably filling my eGo (a 2ml capacity) 1-2 times per week, lets say 1.5 times a week on average, so I'm probably going through about 3ml a week which is about right as then that is about 2 and a half months to go through one 30ml bottle or about my original estimate have how often I go through a bottle.
The thing I'm a bit freaked out about is the calculations I recently did which are...
Marlboro light have 0.8mg of nicotine per cigarette. I never smoked them down that far so I bet I smoked the equivalent of 0.6mg per cig. At 20 cigs in a pack, one pack a week, that's 12mg of nicotine a week.
With the 35mg e-salt juice, if I'm smoking 3ml a week, that's 105mg of nicotine or the equivalent of 175 cigs with 0.6mg each or 8.75 packs a week or a little over a pack a day.
HOLY CRAP! Is this really correct?
Now I know vaping is way more "healthier" than smoking, and moderate nicotine intake isn't all that bad from what I've read (similar to caffeine intake) as long as it's done in moderation, but does it boil down to that the majority of vapers that were smokers have probably not taken time to "do the math" like this and don't realize they are probably taking in WAY more nicotine than they did when they were smokers?
Fast forward to more recent and I decided I don't want the all the crap in my lungs that comes with inhaling burning material. So I read up on nic salt based e-juice. I was a bit surprised you can't get it in anything less than 35mg/ml. Picked up an eGo AIO (using 1 ohm coils - equiv of 14-18 watts) and some 35mg salt e-juice, got used to the different throat hit feel compared to smoking, and I ended up loving it! No stinky smoke breath, lungs feel way better (even though I wasn't a frequent smoker.)
The downside is that with the vaping, especially since I use a mild tobacco flavored juice (American Patriot), it doesn't stink up my car or house so I can smoke it like pretty much anywhere, anytime. So I'm finding where before, I'd have to stop working and go out on my deck to smoke a cig, I can vape while sitting at my home office desk!
So I've realized, I'm actually smoking (vaping) a lot more than I smoked because of the convenience. But still not a lot. (Or at least I thought!) Currently I'm going through about 1 30ml bottle of e-juice every 3 months. I'm probably filling my eGo (a 2ml capacity) 1-2 times per week, lets say 1.5 times a week on average, so I'm probably going through about 3ml a week which is about right as then that is about 2 and a half months to go through one 30ml bottle or about my original estimate have how often I go through a bottle.
The thing I'm a bit freaked out about is the calculations I recently did which are...
Marlboro light have 0.8mg of nicotine per cigarette. I never smoked them down that far so I bet I smoked the equivalent of 0.6mg per cig. At 20 cigs in a pack, one pack a week, that's 12mg of nicotine a week.
With the 35mg e-salt juice, if I'm smoking 3ml a week, that's 105mg of nicotine or the equivalent of 175 cigs with 0.6mg each or 8.75 packs a week or a little over a pack a day.
HOLY CRAP! Is this really correct?
Now I know vaping is way more "healthier" than smoking, and moderate nicotine intake isn't all that bad from what I've read (similar to caffeine intake) as long as it's done in moderation, but does it boil down to that the majority of vapers that were smokers have probably not taken time to "do the math" like this and don't realize they are probably taking in WAY more nicotine than they did when they were smokers?
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