How many vape puffs a day

New to the vaping world? Think you might be over or under using your products? We sought to answer questions regarding how many puffs you should use a day, to equate to one cigarette, and more.

How many puffs of your vape do you use at once? That’s the question we want to answer today. We know that too many puffs at a time can dry out our coil and lead to a burnt tasting hit. We also know that those who switch to vaping from cigarettes have cravings to fill – but don’t know when they have gone overboard.

How Many Puffs On a Vape Should I Use Per Day?

Let’s talk about vape juices for a moment. Vape juice bottles average 10 ml here in the UK thanks to restrictions. A 10ml bottle contains enough vape juice to give you 1000 puffs at about 100 puffs per 1 ml. If you vape 100 puffs, that’s about the same as 10-15 cigarettes. The difference is that the vapour is far less toxic.

How Many Puffs is Heavy Vaping?

If you are puffing more than 10ml of liquid a day, you are vaping heavily. That’s more than a thousand puffs. There are different methods of vaping, too, which can impact how many puffs is considered heavy vaping. A sub ohm device will produce far more vapour than a pod device. This means your clouds of steam are larger. This leads to a heavier vaping experience if you take the same number of puffs.

To put heavy vaping into perspective, to vape 10 ml per day using a pod device with 2 ml cartridges, you would need to use five per day. That’s a lot of packets of pods.

How Many Puffs Equals a Cigarette?

If you have switched to vaping from smoking, you will need to know how many puffs equals one cigarette. Although vaping can feel better for your lungs, you don’t ‘end’ a vape like you end a cigarette. This means you can become carried away.

Typically, manufacturers advise that 10 puffs on your vape are about the same as 10 puffs on your cigarette. They further speculate that 10 puffs are all you take on one cigarette. Of course, this varies based on how big your puffs are, how strong your vape device is, and how much nicotine you are using.

Some device manufacturers claim that their vapes and juices are equal to 15 puffs per cigarette. If you are unclear, you can find a vape device and juice that specifies exactly how many cigarettes equals how many puffs.

Can You Take Too Many Puffs?

Yes, you can take too many puffs. If you vape too quickly using multiple puffs, the vape juice doesn’t have enough time to saturate your coil. The coil is the part of the device that heats up the e-liquid and produces the vapour. If it isn’t saturated when you take the hit, you will experience what is known as a ‘dry hit’. You can learn more about dry hits, and how to prevent them, in our previous article.

Secondly, you can take too many hits and make yourself feel unwell. When we use a nicotine strength that is too high for us, we may experience symptoms of nausea. Vaping gives us a nicotine rush and a little buzz when we use it but get the strength too high and persist in using that vape juice, and you will only make yourself dizzy and/or sick. It is similar to the feeling of smoking a pack of cigarettes without eating any food.

Nicotine Poisoning and Vaping

There is such a thing as nicotine poisoning. It is as difficult to contract nicotine poisoning from vaping as it is to contract it from cigarettes. The CDC advise that between 30mg and 60mg is a high enough dose to kill half of all people, i.e. any adult under 150lbs. In some cases, it might take more than that to kill you, based on your biology. You should be safe from nicotine poisoning through vaping. If you accidentally ingest vape juice, however, you should head to the hospital.

How Long is a Puff on a Vape?

A vaping puff does not last longer than a second. An average puff researched by scientists showed a typical minimum puff duration of 0.75 seconds. This is difficult to measure as the person using the vape. You can see the full study here.

Where Can I Buy E-Liquid?

If you are short of vape liquid you will find some in our online store. You can come and see us in our Stacey Bushes or Milton Keynes store, where we will be happy to talk to you about choices. Remember, if you are finding you are dry hitting too often, you may need to decrease to a less powerful device. Similarly, ex-smokers who aren’t getting the hit they need might want to upgrade to something more powerful. You can brose our vape devices here, and our vape liquids here.

In the past couple of years, vaping has become popular. Much has been said on the topic. Some say it’s entirely safe for use without any side effects. Others say that vaping is even more dangerous than smoking.

Sadly, people talking about vaping and cigarettes are usually biased and aren’t interested in the truth. They represent “one side” and simply follow their agenda. So, we’ve decided to give you a comparison between vapes and cigarettes to show you where they stand against each other.

We won’t talk about things that are still unknown and focus just on cold facts. People are tempted to switch to vaping, some don’t know if they should smoke or vape, and some are just curious about how they compare. So let’s see.

Do You Get More Nicotine From Vaping or Smoking

It all depends. There isn’t a universal rule. First of all, you should bear in mind that cigarettes and vapes come in different strengths and flavours. Simply put, not all of them have the same amount of nicotine. How much you get is up to your preference.

With cigarettes, the nicotine amount on average goes from about 6 mg to 12 mg (Source: NCBI). Since smoking includes burning, the amount of nicotine inhaled from a single cigarette goes from 1 mg and up to 2 mg. Simply put, the differences aren’t that drastic, and there aren’t any cigarettes without nicotine.

On the other hand, vapes can have from 0 mg of nicotine and up to 36 mg. However, these values are always for 1 ml of juice. Therefore, you aren’t getting that much nicotine per hit. It can be challenging to calculate the average nicotine level from a single vape hit.

A 16 mg nicotine per millilitre vape is equivalent to an average cigarette. So, many vape options let you get less nicotine than cigarettes (Source: NCBI). At the same time, you also have options for vape juices without any nicotine.

How Many Puffs of a Vape Is Equal to a Cigarette

We know all of this sounds confusing but don’t worry; we’ll explain it so that you can understand. An average e-juice bottle is 1 millilitre. A single millilitre contains around 100 puffs. One hundred puffs are about ten cigarettes.

So, 2 millilitres of vape juice is the equivalent of a single pack of cigarettes in terms of smoking/vaping. However, bear in mind that we are talking about puffing, not the amount of nicotine or “throat hit” you will get.

For example, we mentioned earlier that vapes could have a much lower amount of nicotine or no nicotine at all. This means you would have to vape far more juice to take in as much nicotine as you would from a single pack of cigarettes.

Still, these are average projections. Some people take bigger hits when vaping, and a single bottle of e-juice might last a shorter amount of time. On the other hand, some people will find it lasting longer. These numbers are just there to give you a rough idea, but you need to try it out in practice to see how it works out for you.

How Many Puffs of a 3mg Vape Equals a Cigarette

As we mentioned earlier, 16 mg of nicotine per millilitre juice is the equivalent of a single cigarette. This means that you will have to vape the whole bottle to take as much nicotine as you would from an average cigarette.

With that in mind, a full bottle of a 3 mg juice is about a 5th of an average cigarette. It would take many puffs of a 3 mg vape to get as much nicotine as an average cigarette. You would have to vape five vape juice bottles to get as much nicotine as you would from a cigarette

When we transfer it into puffs on average, it means that you will have to take 500 hits of vape to smoke as much nicotine as you would with a single cigarette. This is a big difference in nicotine intake! Bear in mind that there are e-juices with even less nicotine.

So, you could further reduce the amount of nicotine intake. This lets people vape more often without having to worry about  in their bodies.

How Many ml of Vape Equals a Pack of Cigarettes?

A typical vape juice bottle is 1 ml. This is one thousandth of a litre. In terms of puffing and smoking, one millilitre equals 100 hits. This is about half of a cigarette pack. Therefore, you would need two bottles of e-juice for a pack of cigarettes.

If you are considering switching to vaping from cigarettes, this is good to know. It can give you an estimate of where you should start. On the other hand, if 1 ml of 16 mg juice equals a single cigarette in terms of nicotine, you would have to vape 20 bottles to puff as much nicotine as you would from a pack of average cigarettes.

These numbers should say one thing, vaping is probably a lot safer in terms of nicotine. Even those stronger variations of juice are far less harmful than cigarettes. Even the strongest juices aren’t as strong as cigarettes in terms of nicotine.

Yes, it might seem that you are getting less for your money, but this isn’t the case. When you consider the price and how much less harmful vaping is, it becomes clear that vaping is a better option.

Is It Ok to Smoke and Vape at the Same Time?

In terms of how harmful they are, smoking comes first. Apart from the fact that it has more nicotine than vape juice,  This leads to the release of various chemicals and toxins that you inhale into your lungs.

Smoking and vaping simultaneously is a better option, but you still have the significant adverse effects of cigarettes. If you just add vaping on top of your smoking habit, you aren’t doing anything good. Still, introducing vaping in your routine can help you reduce smoking and quit altogether.

Your end goal should be to quit smoking and switch to vaping if you cannot stop smoking altogether. Vaping is a far less harmful alternative that you can use to keep your smoking habit without all that nicotine. As we said earlier, you can always switch to a nicotine-free juice.

Using vaping to cut down on smoking is a good thing as vapor isn’t as harmful. However, you shouldn’t just add vaping on top of smoking. Ideally, you should quit smoking and vaping altogether.

Using Vapor Equals Quitting Smoking

People who are addicted to cigarettes are usually addicted to that smoking sensation. On top of that, they often have a nicotine addiction. These two problems combined can make it difficult to quit smoking. After all, most smokers would like to quit, but they cannot do it no matter how hard they try.

Vaping is popular with younger generations as it gives a better taste, customisation options and lets you set up your taste and feel. Many people who are vaping have switched to e-cigarettes because they wanted to quit cigarettes.

First of all, vaping is good for this purpose because it lets you get the same sensation as when smoking a cigarette. By adjusting your gear, you can get the throat hit you want and the sensation. At the same time, you can start slowly reducing the amount of nicotine in your vape juice.

Over time this will make it easier to get rid of nicotine altogether in a gradual manner. Once you’ve got rid of nicotine, quitting vaping and smoking altogether will be far more manageable.

Bottom Line

Vaping is not healthy. However, compared to cigarettes, it’s a far better alternative. Your end goal should be to quit smoking, but vaping can help you go through this whole process.

Check out The Fog Works store and browse from over 1200 vape products. With or next day delivery, you get exclusive product delivery at your doorstep. Check out our site and find some of the most affordable vape starting kits or Juul e-cigarettes.

Find the one that will let you simulate your smoking habits while reducing the number of adverse effects. Over time, reduce the nicotine level and quit smoking altogether! 

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