See subject. I don’t, but assume I did.
Another stupid thought while freezing my butt off while I catch a smoke.
Lots of things influence how much nicotine you get from a cigarette or ecigarette, including your draw style (some people pull the smoke/vapor into their mouths and then inhale it into their lungs, some pull it straight into the lungs), your hold time, how thoroughly you exhale before taking another drag, and how much mucus/gunk you have in your throat and lungs. Probably a few other factors we don’t know about or I’m forgetting. Sciencey info here if you’re interested: The Psychopharmacology of Smoking - Mangan, J. F. Golding - Google Books
The wide variance in how much each individual smoker is absorbing is why they can’t advertise “light” cigarettes as being lower in nicotine anymore. Turns out that most people just unconsciously alter their smoking technique to get their same dose of nicotine, no matter how much nicotine is in the cigarette when you test it in a lab.
I’m not sure why you think you’d get less in winter, though. Can you say more about that train of thought?
I think that I exhale more nicotine because I can’t tell which is exhaled breath and which is exhaled smoke, so I exhale until I almost pass out. By then, my fingers are numb because it’s fourteen degrees outside. I’m sure my neighbors think I’m an idiot and probably take bets on the coldest it can be and still seeing me out on the patio. Six degrees is my record, so far. Death by smoking and hypothermia.
Stupid physics question on heat sinking of cold air temperature (wind, humidity, etc. considered equal) versus warm air temperature.
Have you been smoking something?
No - if you smoke the same in cold weqther as other weather, there’s no reason to think your intake from each cigarette is different since your are using that nicotine delivery device in the same manner.
The colder air is denser and supplies more oxygen to the fire so I would think you might get a tad more nicotine.
I was wondering if the cigarette would burn faster between puffs due to more rapid heat transfer.
I would think you get less nicotine when it’s super windy. I’m a former smoker now, but in my smoking days I was always greatly annoyed by windy days.
If that were the case, wouldn’t you be smoking faster? Your OP says it take the same amount of time.
Not only is this not true, but it doesn’t even make any sense.
Fires burn faster in hot weather - less of the fire’s energy is spent warming up the combustable material to ignition temperature. This is why one always hears about firefighters hoping for a break in the hot weather when fighting forest fires.
Leo Bloom: Off topic, but one thing I recall from someone who used to be a tobacco researcher before she was selected to head up the lab I did IT work for - to decrease the number, or maybe it was the quality of carcinogens in the smoke, you should strive for as complete combustion as possible.
Now this information is a couple of decades old so I don’t know if it’s still valid, but according to her, as bad as smoking is, incomplete combustion apparently aggravates the problem - just don’t ask me why.
I’m a nicotine junkie myself but I much prefer the nasal spray. Although I did order this from overseas and it isn’t bad either - and much more convenient than gum or lozenges. Plus the nicotine concentration in the smokeless e-cigs is so high now (if you shop around) that you should be able to get the same “draw” off of one of those whereas that wasn’t really possible just a few years ago. (apologies for preaching at you).