Be careful when you advise your friends that vaping is cheaper

[Ryedan]

Hello,

In the years that I have been exploring this ever- and rapidly evolving world of vaping-- I have found many profound changes from the SAFE-Cig days when I thought I had discovered a secret worth its weight in gold.
You have probably noticed that there are more kinds of Marlboro out there than you have fingers and toes. IF you no longer smoke ( I do when I am stuck at a party and find that my not-so-trusty coil has chosen this moment to stop working without warning. I smoke one of the new Marlboros and I laugh-- the only thing that has changed is the box. What else can they do? What is inside is still a stick that when lit smells like dirty feet and makes you, your clothes. your hair and your breath smell like the sock that covered the foot.
So early on I encouraged people to change to e-cigs. It is still cheaper -- it is not cheap to have a supply of liquids, coils, back-up tanks, batteries, chargers, cases and a back up for all of your back ups. It is very expensive to get started and NOW--THAT is what I tell them-- and then I tell them to take a look at me and ask the pretty girls to take a sniff of me... I ask them to smell the aroma that comes from my vape and then I ask them if indeed I DO-- LOOK better, smell better, act more energetic and even happier. {I had a 3x bypass when I was 50 and had not smoked for over 15 years! The surgeon simply did not believe me. He said I had the cardiac system of a 70 year old one pack a day smoker.!!}
When they are honest.. they say yes.. You are much better in all ways. Then I tell them. And my friends it IS cheaper than the burning plants you breathe into your lungs and I will live much longer. It is the truth. I have seen three of my friends make the switch-- they made all of the mistakes. the same ones that I made-- trying to cut costs they find they have to spend more.
So now I am honest-- I tell them it takes a few hundred bucks to get started but it does not kill you and when you have the basics with a couple of back-ups-- it is cheaper than the dirty socks you smoke..
They laugh and so do I but I am not kidding. I just do not want to judge or condemn. I had quit for16 years and suffered a personal loss. I was only inches away from buying a pack when a friend gave me a few "safe cigs"...It has been the least expensive miracle I could have imagined. I have cut my nicotine from about 24 to 12 and now I am going to 6. MY God! I can sleep again!! I am so glad to be among you. Only you can understand what I am talking about. WJ

I agree with a lot of what you posted, but I feel you're missing an important point. People don't need to spend hundreds of dollars to try vaping with good enough equipment to see if they like it. With some good advice, they should be able to do that for under $100 and still be able to use that gear if they decide to stay with vaping.

If they do decide they want to continue to vape they can then decide how much they want to invest in it and it can be done for less than a few hundred bucks total if they want to. OTOH, it can also be done for a few thousand bucks, at that point it all depends on the individual.

 

[Ryedan]

And that bacon wick does NOT taste like bacon. What a ripoff.

I know! I was really disappointed at that too !!!

 

[eLefAdEr]

Was a 1/2-PAD smoker before I started vaping. I have a moderate case of Shinyitis and it's still roughly 2/3rds the cost.

Can't really put a price on reducing the various risks to personal health, IMO.

 

[Completely Average]

$100 a week in B&M juice isn't a NEED to quit smoking, it's a "luxurious" desire.

That's why I DIY my own juice. I figure my cost is between $0.02 and $0.03 per ml. A 30ml bottle costs me less than $1.

The last time I bought DIY supplies I spent less than $150 and got enough to make roughly 12,000ml worth of juice. That's enough to last both me and my wife around 4 years.

 

[vapero]

That's why I DIY my own juice. I figure my cost is between $0.02 and $0.03 per ml. A 30ml bottle costs me less than $1.

The last time I bought DIY supplies I spent less than $150 and got enough to make roughly 12,000ml worth of juice. That's enough to last both me and my wife around 4 years.

I didn't start DIY because of the price (but it was a great bonus!!!) but the fact that I was disappointed with almost everything I bought

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I didn't start DIY because of the price (but it was a great bonus!!!) but the fact that I was disappointed with almost everything I bought

Same here, the chemical taste and aftertaste and bitterness.... I am sure there is good juice for me out there but I am not trying 2,000 of them to find it. And it is mostly my fault with the "bitter Gene" and all that.

 

[Completely Average]

I didn't start DIY because of the price (but it was a great bonus!!!) but the fact that I was disappointed with almost everything I bought

Been there, done that.

I don't even want to talk about the number of bottles of juice I've dumped out because I found them unvapable. The only juice I've ever bought that I was REALLY happy with was Nicoticket's Custards Last Stand (After letting it age a month before using it). Everything else was either unsatisfying to downright disgusting.

At least I had the foresight to keep the bottles though. Cleaned them out and had a couple of dozen bottles all ready to go when I started to DIY.

 

[OcalaFlGuy]

And it is mostly my fault with the "bitter Gene" and all that.

HA! Maybe THAT's my problem.

I was leaning towards PCS myself. (Premature Curmudgeonal Syndrome)

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

 

[HipGnosis]

it depends on what you want to vape with..
I use clone mech mods $10-$20 (perfect quality)
clone rda /rta $8-$15 (perfect quality)
and DIY juice $.05 /day (better than any bought juice I've tried)

it really can't get any more cheaper than that

Where do you get the clones??

 

[sd3614]

It is absolutely not cheaper IMO (especially in the beginning), but neither is eating healthy. A burger from McD is cheaper than a salad.

I have only one regret, listening and buying too many e-liquids online for the hype. Experimentation on hardware is what it is and once you find what you like it may be natural to want to "stock up".

I do believe it can be cheaper if someone can be satisfied on a starter kit like an Ego One (worth the cash over a $25 Evod IMO) and stick with an affordable supplier (can't recommend MBV, probably the worse I have tasted) but if you have local try there. Small samples also.

 

[3mg Meniere]

Where do you get the clones??

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[Completely Average]

It is absolutely not cheaper IMO (especially in the beginning), but neither is eating healthy. A burger from McD is cheaper than a salad.

I have only one regret, listening and buying too many e-liquids online for the hype. Experimentation on hardware is what it is and once you find what you like it may be natural to want to "stock up".

I do believe it can be cheaper if someone can be satisfied on a starter kit like an Ego One (worth the cash over a $25 Evod IMO) and stick with an affordable supplier (can't recommend MBV, probably the worse I have tasted) but if you have local try there. Small samples also.

I can't imagine ever spending as much on vaping as I spent on smoking.

I smoked a pack+ per day. At $6.25 per pack that comes out to $2,281.25 per year. My wife smoked the same so combined we were spending $4,562.50 per year on smoking (Not including the cost of lighters)

I wouldn't have the slightest idea what to spend $4,562.50 per year on vaping. Not only would I have to start buying a lot of things I didn't need, I would have to resort to buying stuff I didn't even want.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Ahh but some of us got cheaper smokes. $33/carton of smokes is what I was paying at a bit over a catron a week so under $140 per month. I still save money though been buying a lot of stuff and still 30% under my cig budget at 4 months into vaping vs cigs. But then I buy egos , evod clones and such after moving up from cigalikes. I do make my own juice or I would be spending as much as I was on cigs at this point. I also recoil/rewick my Evods for pennies.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Vaping is much cheaper than smoking. I've bought nothing in half a year. I bought $250 worth of vaping merchandize recently (additional 1L of 100 mg nicotine, 3 RTA, 2 box mods, some spare parts). Now I am ready for not just for vapocalypse but for apocalypse also (is vaping allowed in Heaven? I am more sure about Hell...)

 

[sucram]

Smokes are $25 aud per 25 in Australia currently and still going up. You can get the cheaper brands, rollies etc which work out cheaper.

I quit over 3 years ago and they were still $16.50 per pack.

 

[sd3614]

Well to be fair I'm looking 90 days getting started over 90 days of normal smoking for me. I'd smoke about 2 to 3 cartons tops @ 5 per pack. I'd say an average of 125 monthly.

I know diy is the ticket. I'm just starting to play with this by flavoring an affordable base and I just created a pretty good Unicorn Milk that will save me 50%.

I fall into a category of wanting many setups for different flavors. Plus at home setups and on the go setups. If I look at it strictly annually it will come out for less over time.

However one can do it for less. Especially if you like menthol cigs. The ejuice band aid flavor that hides all things nasty on the cheap.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I keep all my different flavors in different tanks. I have all the colors of Evod tanks and have several T3S's labelled with flavors. I also enlarged the air holes in my tanks so that they vape much better.

 

[AndriaD]

I can't imagine ever spending as much on vaping as I spent on smoking.

I smoked a pack+ per day. At $6.25 per pack that comes out to $2,281.25 per year. My wife smoked the same so combined we were spending $4,562.50 per year on smoking (Not including the cost of lighters)

I wouldn't have the slightest idea what to spend $4,562.50 per year on vaping. Not only would I have to start buying a lot of things I didn't need, I would have to resort to buying stuff I didn't even want.

Same here, though I didn't spend quite as much on smoking, though close, for one person -- about $176/mo, $2112/yr. There may have been months in which I spent that much on vaping, but mostly less, and often FAR less -- and it didn't all turn to ashes as soon as it was used, I still have 95% of it! (minus juice, wick, wire, cartos, etc). Granted, I have a whole herd of kanger BCC tanks that I'll never use again, but that was the price of learning -- and they weren't costly anyhow.

Andria

 

[Bayakomo]

If you buy a high end mod, yes vaping much much expensive.

 

[vapero]

Where do you get the clones??

here

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