A few questions from a noob!

[Danny]

Also, can anyone tell me about how much it will cost per month to e-smoke?

I plan to use e-liquid and cartridges as well. I will order a box of cartridges and once they run out use my e-liquid in them until they die.

So using that method + batteries + atomizers...

How often do batteries need to be replaced? And lets say I smoke 20 cigs per day (a high estimate) how many cartridges will I go through per month and how much liquid will I need per month? And atomizers?

I'm sorry if I'm asking silly questions... I'd just really like to know how much it will cost me and I feel better asking people who have been doing this and are experienced e-cig users rather than just blindly jumping in.

[slianfoxob]

Hey Danny -

I'm going into my 4th week now and minus the extra liquid I just bought over this past week, I've only spent a little over a $100. That's for Katy's Ultimate Starter Kit at thesmokelessshop and for a sampler from Johnson Creek and that's last me this long. I smoked roughly 30 cigs a day.

The tough thing to work out is how much you'll end up vaping and the quality of the parts you get. A best case scenario is that you vape only 1-2 ml. a day and none of your atomizers or batteries go wonky. However, it's highly recommended to stock up on spare parts (which I still have yet to do. but I have three batt and two atts from my ultimate kit).

Hope that helps a little. I'm sure someone else will come along and give you some better numbers.


Foxy

[Bellinghamster]

Danny, it really depends an which route you take:

1) Reasoned and researched purchases coupled with really great luck can provide e-smoking at a very small fraction of the cost of analog cigs.

2) Becoming a "hobbyist"... Those of us who constantly chase the "next big thing" in e-smoking. I don't know if we're chasing the idea of perfect replication of smoking but not incurring the health risks, but I know I've been vaping for about 3 1/2 months, and I own 7 e-cigs and about 40 bottles of juice. It will take a VERY long time for me to break even...

I hope you fall closer to #1...

[Dukeboy08]

there is actually a Thread with Coupon codes on here to:
Here is the coupon code thread.
In case you guys and gals didn't know

[ainako]

I have been vaping a little over a month and I only use the penstyle. I always wonder why the penstyle is not recommended over the mini as it has better battery life and every supplier I talked to said the same thing. I can attest that the penstyles from either puresmoker (rn4072) or ecigmall (dse801) are great. Granted that I only have tried the ecigmall atomizers but the parts between the 2 are mostly interchangable anyway. Also atomizer performance as well as battery life is what really counts in my opinion, and the penstyle has the best of both worlds without upping to a cigar or pipe. but if you are one that would sacrifice battery life over form factor I guess you can opt for any of the other models others have suggested.

[spyderuk]

Again we see the obsession of "It must look like a cig" hmm.

Grab that 901, you choice of colour. If you are using carts and juice I simply top off the cart with a few drops of juice when vapor drops off. Carts can be topped off for 2 or 3 days or so and some vapers will wash out the filling and dry it out to use again. Me, i'm lazy and bin em after a few days. Save the ones that are a tight snug fit in the attomizer though!

Vaping this way, 5 carts and 15ml of juice should see the average 20 a day smoker through around 10 days. Your milage may vary.

Good luck!

[Myk]

Again we see the obsession of "It must look like a cig" hmm.

I don't understand that. You're just as likely to be told that you still can't smoke it because other people will think it's real and light up because they see you "smoking".

[Danny]

Thanks for all the advice! It's really helping a lot. And, Dukeboy08, thanks for the coupon code link!

[Danny]

I was hoping to get my Health mini today.... but no.. I didn't.... I hope it doesn't take too much longer.

I think I'm going to order the ultimate 901 kit and the usb passthrough this friday.... hopefully...

Now I'm just trying to find the best place to get liquid. If I was choosing between kick juice or johnson creek smoke juice which do you think I should go with?