How Many Vape Puffs A Day Is Safe?

When it comes to puff-count there is no standard “normal” or “safe” amount, as this is heavily influenced by lifestyle factors from individual tolerance to stress and activity levels. As well as this, you may take more or less puffs on your vape depending on the nicotine strength of your e-liquid. Read on for a look into the average Britons vaping habits and see how you compare.

How many puffs is considered heavy vape usage?

Previously vapers struggled with keeping track of their puffs, having to operate on ballpark estimates and guesses. Nowadays many vape kits feature puff counters, allowing you to track your nicotine consumption more accurately. Puff counters have also had the effect of causing increased anxiety among some vapers, who worry their vaping habit is abnormal. 

Generally puff counts can be classed in three different ways:

• Average use: 100-300 puffs a day. Recent vaping converts are likely to be somewhere here.

• Moderate use: 200-500 puffs a day. This level of usage keeps nicotine cravings at bay.

• Heavy use: 500-1000+ puffs a day. Although this sounds like a lot, heavy vapers usually vape with lower concentrations of nicotine. 

Regardless of where you fall on this scale you don't need to panic! Even if you are at the heavy usage end this may be for a myriad of reasons, from being very physically active, stressed, or due to social occasions like a night out.

What do I do if I think I vape too much?

Because vaping is thought to be up to 95% less harmful than smoking, you should continue to vape, even if it feels like a lot at first.

Additionally, vaping slowly tops up the amount of nicotine in your system, whereas with smoking you get an intense hit at once. This means you may reach for your vape more often than you would smoke a cigarette. Don`t worry though, the NHS says several puffs on a vape does only a fraction of the harm a puff on a cigarette does. If you're worried about taking too many puffs you could try increasing the nicotine strength of your e-liquid, choose salt nic for a fast acting option. 

However, it is possible to overdo the nicotine, which can sometimes result in nicotine overdose. Nicotine overdose is not always a medical emergency but can have some unpleasant side effects and can sometimes cause nicotine poisoning which can be deadly:

• Headache

• Nausea

• Vomiting

• Dizziness

• Seizures

• Rapid heart rate

• Abdominal pain

• High blood pressure

• Shallow breathing

If any of these are present, seek immediate medical attention. However, nicotine poisoning is very rare in vapers as you would theoretically have to chain vape at least 25ml of 20mg e-liquid for 2 consecutive hours to be at risk. As well as this, nicotine's half life when vaping is just an hour so it is difficult for it to build to dangerous levels.

Additionally, you would begin to feel unwell before getting to poisoning levels, which is a clear sign from your body to give the vaping a break for at least a few hours, this is why nicotine poisoning is so rare in adults.