Does anyone else having trouble breaking even?

[AndriaD]

True.

And also.... I am not embarrassed to take work people or customers in my car (smoke smell goes away suprisingly fast), my clothes don't stink (save a bit of $$$ on dry cleaning), I don't need to chew a pack of gum a day.... oh, and I have a better chance of seeing my 3 year old daughter grow up.

vaping is obviously not 100% without risk, but regardless of what the long term effect of vaping is, I'm pretty confident that smoking is many times worse. A much healthier option IMO.

Umm... *smoke* smell lingers for a looooooooong time.... maybe you mean *vape* smell goes away fast?

Andria

 

[martsumoto]

Ive saved almost 5 thousand dollars so far. I'm not sure how much I've spent on juice tho since here it is expensive at $25 a 30ml a bottle which lasts me around 5 to 6 days.
At least with my rta's Im saving a lot on coils. Also buying top notch gear helps. I recently stop using my Provari 1.5 after three years of daily abuse because it can´t handle sub ohm but still working like a champ it payed itself loong looong ago.

Anyway even spending a bit more than you would smoking since in your country cigs are cheap, the benefits to your health are priceless.
So vape on

 

[MorpheusPA]

Umm... *smoke* smell lingers for a looooooooong time.... maybe you mean *vape* smell goes away fast?

Andria

Yeah, I should probably add the (minimal) cost of having to wash every single piece of clothing I owned (twice), steam cleaning the rugs, and scrubbing the walls to the cost of vaping. Once I quit smoking, the entire house smelled terrible.

Of course, the cost of the high-powered antibiotics I didn't need to kill the sinus infections I haven't gotten since I quit more than cancel that out...

 

[AndriaD]

Yeah, I should probably add the (minimal) cost of having to wash every single piece of clothing I owned (twice), steam cleaning the rugs, and scrubbing the walls to the cost of vaping. Once I quit smoking, the entire house smelled terrible.

Of course, the cost of the high-powered antibiotics I didn't need to kill the sinus infections I haven't gotten since I quit more than cancel that out...

Actually, the first sinus infection requiring antibiotics that I've suffered in a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time (decades) was just a couple months ago. Haven't had any colds or flu since I started vaping, but I think the drying effect of PG made me vulnerable to a really stubborn sinus infection that I just could not get rid of, till I spent $365 at the doctor and took those antibiotics for 10 days.

Andria

 

[Kevin littell]

I'll take it a step further....


I USED to spend a fortune scratching Shiney-itis TILL I found the vape I wanted. For the last 2 years I've kept a sub 50 dollar variable volt box around with a Kayfun Lite V2 on it that hits just the way I want it too....Rebuild cost's are wire and cotton.....About 30 dollars a year. JUICE!!!! get away from the vape shop juice, the house blends always suck and the Nation gourmet stuff is WAY over priced. I found a bulk vendor I like ( www.ecblendsflavors.com and there are many more like them ) where juice is 14.65 dollars a 50ml bottle......


Recently the VV box has been dropped by grandbaby 3 times and the top is loose. I spent 37 dollars on a box mod that got rave reviews from some people here I trust.


I dont cloud chase.

Once you find a vape you like quit going to vape shops and browsing the vendor web sites....You'll be suprized how affordable this gets.

 

[BreSha6869]

Umm... *smoke* smell lingers for a looooooooong time.... maybe you mean *vape* smell goes away fast?

Andria

Nope. I am actually very suprised how much better my truck smells after just a few weeks of not smoking in it. Still a bit of a smell, but way better than when I smoked. The vaping as likely helping as my current juices are a bit fruity smelling.

 

[AndriaD]

Nope. I am actually very suprised how much better my truck smells after just a few weeks of not smoking in it. Still a bit of a smell, but way better than when I smoked. The vaping as likely helping as my current juices are a bit fruity smelling.

Exactly... a few *weeks*... but the smell of vapor is gone in minutes.

Andria

 

[Vapez]

Oh, crud, I didn't even bother looking at the location.

This weekend: 10 degrees celcius and sun. The snow arrived two days ago, was gone before midnight.

Vapez

 

[therussellv]

I broke even 2 months after starting, and been positive ever since. I have a good collection and plenty of stuff, i have just focused on div and rebuildables, so if the money runs short one month or another, im good.

Last stinkie 10/15/2013

 

[sofarsogood]

I was below the cost of cigs after a couple months and it stayed that way. In a rational world a frugal vaper can get it done for about $100 a year. But the latest vaping craze is stockpiling and I'm a slave to fashion. So the vape budget gets some extra stress because I'm buying things I don't need--yet. This morning I finally settled 10 years of vape specific supplies.

$200 3 liters of nic plus amber glass bottles, caps, argon, a couple of erlenmeyer flasks and syringes
$200 TC mods, 4-5 at about $35 each
$100 clone rda's, Ti wire
$500 Total

The only things left to buy are some extra mods, may be a couple more rdas and one more roll of wire.