Nicotine strength for e-cigs

What nicotine strength for my e-cigarette?

It is essential to choose the right nicotine concentration for your e-liquid: we have developed a brief questionnaire to help you choose the nicotine concentration you need.

If the nicotine level in your e-liquid is too low, you may not get enough nicotine, you may experience nicotine withdrawal symptoms and you may start smoking again. In addition, you will expose your lungs to excessive amounts of vapour, as you will vape more to achieve a satisfactory level of nicotine in your blood and brain. You will also need to buy more e-liquid to get the amount of nicotine your brain needs.

With too high a nicotine level, you will experience throat irritation that will prevent you from inhaling, but there is no risk of overdose, as you will automatically stop inhaling when you have obtained the necessary dose of nicotine or when you feel signs of excessive dosing.

The amount of nicotine you get from an e-cigarette:

There is no simple calculation to convert the number of cigarettes you smoked per day into mg/mL (milligrams of nicotine per millilitre of e-liquid), because the amount of nicotine you get from your e-cigarette depends on the interaction of 3 factors, the liquid, the hardware and yourself :

The liquid:

its nicotine concentration,
the chemical form of nicotine (salt or freebase),
the flavor (people tend to vape more if they like the flavor),
the amount of liquid you use per day,

The hardware:

the battery, its tension measured in Volt (V), its duration,
the coil, its composition, its resistance (R) measured in Ohm,
the power of the device measured in Watt (W)
the wick.

Yourself:

your level of nicotine addiction, as your brain acts as a thermostat and regulates the amount of nicotine you need,
your behavior: the number, frequency and volume of puffs, the depth of inhalation, how long you hold your breath between inhalation and exhalation,
your social interactions (people tend to vape more if they are around other smokers and vapers than if they are around people who disapprove of their vaping).

A questionnaire to calculate the amount of nicotine you need:

You can use our short questionnaire to help you calculate the optimal nicotine concentration for your e-liquid, this concentration will be determined by the number of point you obtain. Vapers who successfully quit smoking and answered our questionnaire and obtained :

0-4 points used e-liquids containing 10 mg / mL
5-9 points used e-liquids containing 10-12 mg / mL
10-14 points used e-liquids containing 12 mg / mL
15-19 points used e-liquids containing 16 mg / mL
20-25 points used e-liquids containing 18 mg / mL

The amount of nicotine you get from smoking a cigarette:

The amount of nicotine you absorb when smoking a cigarette depends largely on your own behaviour, not just on the characteristics of the cigarette itself. Each manufactured cigarette contains between 6 and 17 milligrams (mg) of nicotine, but smokers only inhale between 1 and 2 mg of nicotine per cigarette. The number of nicotine mg indicated on cigarette packets is not useful, as it is obtained from machines that do not perfectly replicate your own behaviour. As a result, these figures often underestimate the amount you absorb when smoking a cigarette.

Furthermore, the relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the concentration of nicotine in the blood is not linear (it does not increase significantly beyond 20 cigarettes per day).Therefore, you cannot use your number of cigarettes per day and the nicotine concentration indicated on your cigarette pack to calculate or deduce the amount of nicotine you absorb each day with your e-cigarette.

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