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Are there statistics or studies on how much one average person consumes from an e-cigarette compared to a regular cigarette?

by yladiz 9y ago

dawnerd 9y ago
100% anecdotal but the few people I know that use e-cigs are using them all day long. I'm just glad a lot of places treat it the same as smoking and ban it. Nothing worse than being in line with someone that thinks its cool to vape and blow huge clouds.
- dmix 9y ago
  I smoke slightly more with ecigs than I did with cigarettes and I use the vape throughout the day. But whenever I have a real cigarette now I get a head rush and feel the nicotine quite strong, which is the feeling I would previously get with the first cigarette after the numerous times I quit smoking and started again. Clearly I'm using far less nicotine with e-cigarettes, which surprised me because I didn't notice any side effects (additional "niccing") when I switched to vaping last yr. So even if I smoke 30% more than I used to I'm probably consuming significantly less harmful chemicals in the end, including nicotine. Which means it will probably be easier to quit vaping than cigarettes, especially as I could taper the nicotine percentage from 6mg -> 0mg over a period of time without adjusting behaviour.
  - eyko 9y ago
    At 6mg -> 0mg I wouldn't say nicotine is a harmful chemical. It's a stimulant.
    - lloeki 9y ago
      I don't think the debate is that nicotine is harmful in such quantities, but it's a terribly addictive stimulant generally consumed with varyingly harmful chemicals, so easing it out to zero helps in quitting inhaling those chemicals altogether.
- Udik 9y ago
  Apart from the obvious bad manners implied by blowing huge clouds of smoke in a space where people are tightly packed, as in a queue; what problem do you have with e-smoke exactly? The smell?
  - andrewflnr 9y ago
    The smell is often quite overpowering. I think "cloying" is the word; sometimes I feel like my airways are trying to close up.
  - pm90 9y ago
    This is literally stuff that's been inside a person's body being ejected out into my face. Now, I kinda agree that everyone is doing this constantly by simply breathing, but I don't really smell other people's exhaled CO2 so I'm ok with it. If it has odor and is visible, I WILL find it VERY rude and disturbing, to say the least.
  - onetom 9y ago
    I also find people's breath smelly on public transport. The reason is not just cigarettes but bad oral hygiene in general. Not sure what to do about it though... On the other hand I hardly ever felt any vapour smell from e-cigarettes. Also... Smoke is a mixture of gas and solid materials, while vapour is a mixture of gas and liquid. I think using precise terms in a debate brings extra clarity into it, so instead of inventing poetic proxy terms, like e-smoke, let's just use the more commonly understood word "vapour" instead.
  - dawnerd 9y ago
    I also don't know what's in the smoke. It might be harmless, might be absolutely awful for you. Doesn't help that my friends have used the excuse "it's just vapor".
    - collyw 9y ago
      excuse?
  - WorldMaker 9y ago
iaw 9y ago
Anecdotally: my mother frequently smokes regular cigarettes, she'll light one for a few 'puffs' then put it out. To combat this, tobacco companies put some sugar on the filter tip and I believe better tobacco in the very tip of the cigarette, this way the first hit is better than all of the others.
- an27 9y ago
  If you smoke anything in parts, it's well worth it to learn to purge. It's a cigar trick, you basically slowly blow through the cigar for a few seconds and it improves the taste and slows the burn for a while. It might just be the placebo effect that makes it taste better after, but who cares?
bobabooey02 9y ago
I smoked cigarettes in the past and used ecigs to make cessation easier. When I switched, I used the vape more than cigarettes, but I also had a lot easier of a time quitting the vape(due to the lack of MAOI I believe). Even if people vape more than smoke, it may be worth it if they use it to successfully quit smoking altogether.
- thanatropism 9y ago
  What, ordinary cigarettes have monoaminoxidase inhibitors?!
  - xkcd-sucks 9y ago
    Yes, as a component of tobacco, and it's basically the reason that tobacco is addictive http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593 http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593
collyw 9y ago
In my personal experience more. I read a study showing that the absorption rate of nicotine is about half through an e-cigarette, because of other chemicals in normal cigarettes that increase the rate.

Are there statistics or studies on how much one average person consumes from an e-cigarette compared to a regular cigarette?

by yladiz 9y ago

Are there statistics or studies on how much one average person consumes from an e-cigarette compared to a regular cigarette?

dawnerd 9y ago

100% anecdotal but the few people I know that use e-cigs are using them all day long. I'm just glad a lot of places treat it the same as smoking and ban it. Nothing worse than being in line with someone that thinks its cool to vape and blow huge clouds.

dmix 9y ago
I smoke slightly more with ecigs than I did with cigarettes and I use the vape throughout the day. But whenever I have a real cigarette now I get a head rush and feel the nicotine quite strong, which is the feeling I would previously get with the first cigarette after the numerous times I quit smoking and started again. Clearly I'm using far less nicotine with e-cigarettes, which surprised me because I didn't notice any side effects (additional "niccing") when I switched to vaping last yr. So even if I smoke 30% more than I used to I'm probably consuming significantly less harmful chemicals in the end, including nicotine. Which means it will probably be easier to quit vaping than cigarettes, especially as I could taper the nicotine percentage from 6mg -> 0mg over a period of time without adjusting behaviour.
- eyko 9y ago
  At 6mg -> 0mg I wouldn't say nicotine is a harmful chemical. It's a stimulant.
  - lloeki 9y ago
    I don't think the debate is that nicotine is harmful in such quantities, but it's a terribly addictive stimulant generally consumed with varyingly harmful chemicals, so easing it out to zero helps in quitting inhaling those chemicals altogether.
Udik 9y ago
Apart from the obvious bad manners implied by blowing huge clouds of smoke in a space where people are tightly packed, as in a queue; what problem do you have with e-smoke exactly? The smell?
- andrewflnr 9y ago
  The smell is often quite overpowering. I think "cloying" is the word; sometimes I feel like my airways are trying to close up.
- pm90 9y ago
  This is literally stuff that's been inside a person's body being ejected out into my face. Now, I kinda agree that everyone is doing this constantly by simply breathing, but I don't really smell other people's exhaled CO2 so I'm ok with it. If it has odor and is visible, I WILL find it VERY rude and disturbing, to say the least.
- onetom 9y ago
  I also find people's breath smelly on public transport. The reason is not just cigarettes but bad oral hygiene in general. Not sure what to do about it though... On the other hand I hardly ever felt any vapour smell from e-cigarettes. Also... Smoke is a mixture of gas and solid materials, while vapour is a mixture of gas and liquid. I think using precise terms in a debate brings extra clarity into it, so instead of inventing poetic proxy terms, like e-smoke, let's just use the more commonly understood word "vapour" instead.
- dawnerd 9y ago
  I also don't know what's in the smoke. It might be harmless, might be absolutely awful for you. Doesn't help that my friends have used the excuse "it's just vapor".
  - collyw 9y ago
    excuse?
- WorldMaker 9y ago

iaw 9y ago

Anecdotally: my mother frequently smokes regular cigarettes, she'll light one for a few 'puffs' then put it out. To combat this, tobacco companies put some sugar on the filter tip and I believe better tobacco in the very tip of the cigarette, this way the first hit is better than all of the others.

an27 9y ago
If you smoke anything in parts, it's well worth it to learn to purge. It's a cigar trick, you basically slowly blow through the cigar for a few seconds and it improves the taste and slows the burn for a while. It might just be the placebo effect that makes it taste better after, but who cares?

bobabooey02 9y ago

I smoked cigarettes in the past and used ecigs to make cessation easier. When I switched, I used the vape more than cigarettes, but I also had a lot easier of a time quitting the vape(due to the lack of MAOI I believe). Even if people vape more than smoke, it may be worth it if they use it to successfully quit smoking altogether.

thanatropism 9y ago
What, ordinary cigarettes have monoaminoxidase inhibitors?!
- xkcd-sucks 9y ago
  Yes, as a component of tobacco, and it's basically the reason that tobacco is addictive http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593 http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593

collyw 9y ago

In my personal experience more. I read a study showing that the absorption rate of nicotine is about half through an e-cigarette, because of other chemicals in normal cigarettes that increase the rate.