30 mg in what? Confused about the nicotine mg content

[house mouse]

Does anyone know how the mg content breaks down to millilter of fluid? Or is it even calculated that way?

If a 5ml bottle is 30 mg, and a 30 ml bottle is 30 mg, what is the amount of nicotine delivered per drop?

If you chew a standard piece of nicotine gum it delivers 2mg of nicotine. Is there anyway to figure out the amount of nicotine you receive while vaping?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

30mg means per ml, not per bottle. So a 5ml bottle containing 30mg/ml liquid contains 150mg in total. How much is in each drop depends on the size of the drop - which varies depending on the dropper used. I've never measured how many drops in a ml or anything.

I don't believe there is a precise way to measure how much nicotine you receive while vaping, short of taking blood tests. The process of vaping is I suspect pretty far from 100% efficient in how it delivers nicotine. In my experience it tends to be that you regulate yourself. If you have to much, you feel a bit jittery, or get a headache. Thats a sign you need to back off, or use a lower strength.

 

[house mouse]

Thanks for the answer. I wasn't sure about the concentration. I agree that there's probably no way to measure what you're receiving vaping. One of the nurses I talked to about my ecig yesterday said that she had taken care of a gentleman recently in ICU who had "overdone it" (her words) on his ecig. But, it didn't stop her from being interested in mine.

 

[Mathew R Taylor]

Everyone is different as Papa Lazarou indicates house mouse - I was a pack a day smoker, and 18mg was too low for me, so I stepped up to 24mg, and I am good to go - my desire to smoke has complete disappeared. My wife on the other hand is somewhere around the 20mg range, as she's not satisfied with 18, and 24 is too much.

All personal tastes - I do know that some flavors are nicotine intolerant, that is that the taste will be masked or severely diminished by upping your Nic dosage.

 

[Liv2Ski]

Housemouse - if you have 30 mg/ml juice you can simply measure 1ml in a pipette and count the drops. as PG/VG ratios change so does the drop count. at 80%pg/20%vg I estimate about 30 drops per ml. Therefore 1mg per drop w/30mg/ml juice. Hope that helps.