The standard size of vape juice you can buy in any one the several VAPE SHOPS you'll find in any UK town these days is 10ML, and the strength of juice varies from 3MG of nicotine (the lowest nicotine strength) to 20 MG of nicotine per ml of liquid.
If you take one of these bad boys, the Voopoo Drag X...
Which has a vape juice receptacle with a 2ML capacity and assume a vaper gets through a good bowl a day then:
- The LOWEST strength liquid = 3MG * 2ML = 6MG of nicotine in a day.
- The HIGHEST strength liquid = 20MG * 2ML = 40MG of nicotine in a day.
That is a staggering difference, which I think in cigarette terms could well range from party smoker to a 40 a day habit!
How much nicotine is in cigarettes...?
It's quite difficult to get accurate stats on this as there is such a variety of strength, but according to healthline...
"On the low end, a single cigarette may contain about 6 milligrams (mg) of nicotine. On the high end, about 28 mg"
However, a lot of that burns off and the site estimates that you'll inhale somewhere between 1 and 1.8 grams of nicotine per cigarette.
Taking the average of this... 1.4 that means with...
- 10 cigarettes a day you're on 14MG of nicotine
- 20 a day = 28MG
- 30 a day = 42MG
So vaping COULD INCREASE you're addiction to nicotine if you're not careful!
If you're turning to vaping to quit smoking, you need to really careful about how many you smoke on average a day. If you're a 20 day person, which sounds like a lot these days, then you want around a 12MG vape juice.
If you're coming off only 10 a day, and hitting the 20MG and doing a bowl a day you could be more than doubling your nicotine intake!
Of course it all varies
I imagine wattage of the vape, and how long you keep the smoke down plays a role too, of course, as it would for nicotine consumption and cigarettes.
I guess the point, is you probably don't need to go anywhere near the 20MG juice unless you're a serious 20+ a day smoker.
Not point risking getting MORE addicted to nicotine via tech!
And there are 0 nicotine juices, but I can't really see the point in that! Unless you're Gen Z in which case do what you like, the world will have gone to shit by the time you develop any smoking or vaping related illnesses, and nothing any of you do makes any sense to me anyway!