What's the real deal equivalent to a cig?

[Dan Halen]

Ok so I have heard multiple things from multiple people. I started on 24mg, moved down to 18 and have now stepped down to 14mg (God help us all! lol, but its been almost 4 months) So how many puffs is equal to the nicotine in 1 cig for me at this point?

 

[Spazmelda]

This is pretty much impossible to say. Everyone smokes and vapes differently.

To know for sure, you'd have to have blood nicotine or cotinine tests after smoking a cigarette and after vaping.

Sorry, I know that's not what you want to hear. vape until you are satisfied and keep reducing the nic level if you are worried about it or want to cut back.

 

[jj2]

This is pretty much impossible to say. Everyone smokes and vapes differently.

To know for sure, you'd have to have blood nicotine or cotinine tests after smoking a cigarette and after vaping.

Sorry, I know that's not what you want to hear. Vape until you are satisfied and keep reducing the nic level if you are worried about it or want to cut back.

What he said unless you start feeling funny .

 

[Spazmelda]

What he said unless you start feeling funny .

Yes, thank you for that clarification. Look up the symptoms for nicotine overdose if you don't know them already.

Also, I'm a girl. LOL!

 

[fourtytwo]

Keep in mind that vaping is different then smoking.
With smoking, you light up and smoke it 'til it's gone. You next light up when habit tells you to or you have a craving for another.
With vaping, you can vape continuously by taking a few drags but more often.

 

[Kay1959]

In a nutshell, if you start getting a headache, you need to slow down on vaping. You're getting too much nicotine.
I went from 31 mg's down to 0 in the past 3 months, so it can be down...and has been done by several here.
You're doing GREAT! Go at your own pace....you'll get there.

 

[yzer]

Nobody knows. I vape until I feel that I've had enough nicotine to equal what I used to get from one or two cigarettes (I used to smoke one or two in a row). Basically, I vape 2-3 times as long as I did while smoking before putting the PV down. I take vape breaks at the same interval as smoking breaks throughout the day.

...Another magic formula. This worked for me.

1. Determine nicotine level of what you smoked.
Erowid Tobacco Vault : Info on Nicotine Content of Cigarette Brands

2. Multiply the nicotine value listed above by the number of cigarettes you smoked per day. This is mg of nicotine per day.

3. Use the value in step 2 to select the nicotine concentration of your e-liquid. Step 2 value equals mg nicotine per ml of e-liquid.

4. Vape 2-3 ml per day of e-liquid at the strength determined by step 3. Or, vape 4-6 ml of e-liquid per day at 50% of this strength or 1 to 1.5 ml of this at 2x strength per day.

 

[DaveP]

The generally accepted nic dose from an ecig is about 10% to 30% of what you would get from an average cigarette. How you puff, the voltage and resistance you use, and the atomizer efficiency play into the result, also.

I use juice at almost double the rate on a 3 ohm carto at 4.2v compared to a 2 ohm carto at 3.4v. It's crazy.