Ack!
So I really am sucking down 60 mg of nic a day.
I think that's more than when I was smoking.
You'd have to absorb that all at once for it to do serious damage, correct?
The effect on someone with no nicotine tolerance would be pretty bad.
I believe 60mg(volume) being the lethal dosage meant administering it intravenously and getting the full blown effect into your bloodstream almost instantly. To visualize it, 60mg(volume) is about 2-3 drops. Your 10ml bottle probably had one fifth of a drop of free base nicotine in it.
Before I switched to vaping the cigs I smoked contained .2 milligrams of nic per cig. That's .2 x20 = 4. Correct?
So I was getting 4 milligrams of nicotine a day on my brand?
Holy crap, no wonder I get headaches.
Nicotine, Tar, and CO Content of Menthol Cigarette Brands
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Well if it's labeled nic 0.2mg on your label then yes you're taking 0.2mg per stick. But that's the absorb rate, a cigarette stick contains 15-25mg of nic, or 0.2~0.3% percentage against the weight of tobacco per stick.
Looking at it I think your trying to feed your ex 4mg/day intake with 6mg of vaping but somehow you found out yesterday you were actually vaping 60mg(volume) of nicotine per day? Taking absorption rate of nicotine in vaping to be 50%, you're in fact consuming 30mg(volume)/day which is roughly equivalent to 7 packs/day of your brand. It's no wonder you get headaches at the end of the day lol. Anyways it's your body so I'll reserve my comments on your current intake of 60mg nicotine per day.
He's talking about spilling an entire bottle onto his skin.
If you are smoking 10 ML at 6mg/ml then no you are not taking in 60mg of nicotine per day only that bottle of liquid contains 60mg of nicotine. Not all of it is vaporized, and not everything that's vaporized may necessarily be absorbed.
I can't recall the numbers but there were a few threads that allowed you to come to a rough mathematical estimate between your cigarette intake and vaping intake. General consensus was that most require some certain amount and will end up self regulating into the zone their body desired to be in. i.e. if you vape 1ml per day of 12mg/ml, and you switch to 6mg/ml you'd likely end up vaping 2ml per day without even realizing it.
Also I'd like to say if you smoke 10 ML / day, I think that's really excessive.
Yes I mentioned a spillage of an entire 10ml bottle of 6mg nicotine concentration, though entire of it = 3/4 tablespoon. Doesn't sound like a lot now isn't it. Although there is 60mg(volume) of nicotine in a 10ml bottle with 6mg/ml concentration, it's not as dangerous as pure free base nicotine 60mg(volume) if we consider the flux factor.
I vape 36/ml 3-4ml daily...I was a pack a day smoker....I must metabolize/absorb differently than most. No headaches or ill effects...
I think how much nicotine is inhaled via vaping has a great deal to do with how your vape, like drawing rate, resistance of coils, humidity, hold off, etc.
1)Obviously, the longer you hold that vapor in your lungs, the more nicotine in it gets absorbed into the system.
2)Shorter intervals between puffs puts more nicotine into the system in a shorter amount of time, hence the buzz. I remember few days ago I was vaping non stop with 6mg concentration. I vaped approximately 0.3-0.5ml in less than 1 hr. An hour later I had bad stomach aches and other unmistakable symptoms from nic OD. It works out to be about 3 fags in 1 hr. I concluded that the symptoms were due to
how fast nicotine gets absorbed ,not so much by how much. The difference could be in seconds, like how much a difference 5mins of exposure to pure nicotine make as compared to 3mins.
3)Style. I was doing french inhalation, exhaling through nose while dragging, smoke rings and all sorts of stupid things.
4) Evaporation rate. Having a large tank might not necessarily be good. Hate how bland the last few analogs taste like? Love the TH off a fresh pack when you were a smoker? I do notice a lesser TH as my cartos depletes. How fast nicotine evaporates in different concentration and mixture is yet another field to be explored in e cigarettes, I think.
An e cigarette is as good as how you use it, hence why so many smokers still turn away from it.
