Nicotine: On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine

Re:Nicotine: On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine by dml2135 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:04PM (#38232091)

I dunno about that. Personally, I smoked cigarettes for about 5 years, then quit for about a decade, and then picked up vaping a few years ago.

I’m definitely just as addicted to the Juul as I ever was to cigarettes, if not more so, and it definitely seems like it will be harder to quit. Cigarettes are so gross it’s almost a benefit, you need to go outside to smoke, the vape is just so easy and so much cleaner, I’ve definitely found it much harder to cut down.

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Re:Nicotine: On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine by xorbax on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:15PM (#38232214)

My friends who took up vaping (esp in pandemic) ended up vaping near-constantly

It's not the 80s, so vaping allows one to sit around the house and duff it in a way that most people wouldn't do with cigarettes.

I feel like nicotine intake can dramatically increase with vaping.

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Re:Nicotine: On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine by jtriangle on Saturday November 11, 2023 @02:10PM (#38233448)

Mathwise it's about 6mg of nicotine adsorbed per cigarette. That gives you a way to compare dosage of nicotine to vaping a certain concentration of juice.

Probably not a great 1:1 because there are other things in play with smoking, but, ballparky enough.

If you wanted something closer, you'd need to figure out how the other compounds in cigarette smoke affect nicotine adsorption and activity.

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