You make several excellent points. As for disclosing my personal reasons or situation is nobody's business. I am not the only person asking these questions about the vaps. Many professionals who smoke like me are asking the same questions about them and are they a better alternative to smoking regular cigarettes.
They are also wanting more information concerning them since so many teens now have access to them.
I thought this was the place to get educated feedback on this topic from those using ecigs.
I guess I was wrong it seems to be a social meet up group of people who vap and do not have legitimate concerns about the long term health affects or what plans are in place to regulate this new industry better.
I was mistaken when I assumed this was the case on this website.
Look you are asking how many puffs on an ecig = 1 cigarette. The problem with answering that is there are too many variables. How long of a puff, what inhalation type (mouth to lung or direct lung), what strength of liquid, what type of coil and how many coils, wicking, watts used, was it salts or base eliquid, airflow, how long the puff was held in before releasing, was it exhaled via mouth or nose, individual absorption rates...ALL of these factors will CHANGE the answer and many of them will change the answer significantly. None of that even takes into account that there are nearly as many variables on the cigarette side. Such as, type and brand of cigarette you are comparing to, puff length, how long the puff is held, are you chain puffing or puff...wait...puff (letting a lot of it burn away unsmoked), individual absorption rates, etc.
So as others have said, you would have to define ALL of those factors to compare one specific set of
vaping factors to one specific set of smoking factors. Even then the only real way to get the exact correlation would be for YOU to let all nicotine to fade from your blood stream, smoke 1 cigarette in your normal style and speed, measure your blood nicotine levels (BNL), let it fade again, then vape a few puffs with your SPECIFIC setup and measure BNL and repeat until the BNL from
vaping matches the BNL from smoking and total up the puffs. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
Finally nicotine is non-carcinogenic and is considered "Generally Regarded as Safe" for long term use by the FDA. It has also been linked to PREVENTING Alzheimer's disease and other age related dementias. So really even if you are getting a bit more nicotine than smoking, it is not necessarily a bad thing. The important thing is that with
vaping you are NOT getting the tar, the carbon monoxide, and all the other carcinogens that are found in cigarettes smoke. As always though it is 100% YOUR decision. As for me, I think I am going to keep vaping to reduce my risks of cancer AND Alzheimer's.