What % nicotine is the equivalent of a real cigar or cigarette?

I generally vape 3% or 6% eJuice @ 50 watts. Anymore nicotine than that and I feel like I'm getting a buzz, and I just don't like it.

Anyway, I always wondered what the equivalent of a real cigar or cigarette is. I assume it's higher than 6%, but I really don't know.

So can anyone offer any insight and facts here? Thanks in advance.


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I generally vape 3% or 6% eJuice @ 50 watts. Anymore nicotine than that and I feel like I'm getting a buzz, and I just don't like it.

Anyway, I always wondered what the equivalent of a real cigar or cigarette is. I assume it's higher than 6%, but I really don't know.

So can anyone offer any insight and facts here? Thanks in advance.


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there is no exact measurement as the introduction of the nicotine into the bloodstream is a bit different with a cigarette vs vapor its a great question without an exact answer many things affect this

It's hard to say for me, because I chain vape. If I smoked this much I'd be dead from emphysema. The only time I didn't chain vape was 36mg in a Boge Leo 7 years ago.

This is such a specious comparison for a lot of reasons.

First, some research accounts for the amount of nicotine in a cigarette. IE: The amount of nicotine contained in the tobacco preparation itself. That could be, roughly between 6 mg and over 11 mg per cigarette.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905555/

People sees those figures and think they are getting a bazillion mg's of nicotine from smoking - which isn't correct.

That does not equate to the amount of nicotine you actually absorb from a cigarette. Extraction tests show the mean figure for nicotine extracted from smoking a cigarette is less than 1.0 mg.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1476-5381.1949.tb00555.x/pdf

Then you have all sorts of "fun with maths" issues going on trying to compare intake of mg's/ml in liquids consumed to mg's per cigarette. And since you don't absorb the nicotine in liquids at a 1:! ratio - you might only absorb between 25 to 33% of the nicotine in liquids - take that into consideration as well.

So - what was the question again?

You are trying to compare apples to ocelots - it's not worth puzzling the question. If your setup is making you nic sick drop the nic level or drop the frequency of vaping or both. There is no real answer to be found in looking at "cigarette equivalency."

It's hard to say for me, because I chain vape. If I smoked this much I'd be dead from emphysema.

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Ouch

Some say that it's around 18mg a stick, but remember that there is a big difference on how nicotine enters the body from smoking and vaping, and as far as I know, there isn't any sufficient data available to know how much we exactly absorb from both.

I will be honest, I haven't read much into the amount of nicotine in Cigarettes, but 11-18MG a cigarette?

Are cigarettes in the US stronger than overseas? I only ask as I remember when I used to smoke, on the side of the pack it said the amount of tar and nicotine per cigarette, and remember it being about 0.8-1MG a cigarette, depending on the brand.

Or is this a false kind of label, making you think you are receiving less nicotine than you really are?