How is vaping cheaper?

[VapingRulz]

I think that the savings varies widely depending upon your state. New York is out of control with the punitive taxes - I think Oregon is as well. Smoking will continue to get more expensive as states desperately seek more revenue in this depressed economy. Smoking is - very simply - a luxury I can no longer afford... financially or healthwise.

There is definitely a learning curve to vaping and it helps greatly if you can afford a few extras like different cartos and juices, batteries, whatever. This makes it easier to find your favorites in a relatively short period of time. If money is tight, the process is probably more difficult and stressful. You need a firmer resolve if you're not wild about the juice you have on hand.

My advice is to stick it out. You won't regret it.

 

[Trish342]

I have spent a LOT of money on all my stock pile. BUT....I love it so much. If you can make larger orders and wait for sales that will help. It will get easier and less expensive as you go. Good luck and keep vaping. If you want to try some new flavors pm me and I would be glad to send you some cartos to try. I have lots of fruit flavors and some samples that V4L sent me as freebees. Let me know.

 

[lonercom]

I don't see why not. If I have a flavor that I feel could produce more vapor, I add 1 or 2 drops per ml of VG and that seems to do the trick.

I get Wilton's Glycerin in the cake section of JoAnns Fabrics but you can get Humco Glycerin at wallyworld. I forget which section it's in. TIP: don't go asking your friendly pharmacist for Glycerin, they will invariably send you to the suppositories aisle.

 

[v1John]

I don't see why not. If I have a flavor that I feel could produce more vapor, I add 1 or 2 drops per ml of VG and that seems to do the trick...

I think Wow is a secret recipe. If it was not, people would be saying that Wow is the exact same thing they get with their 20/80 vg-pg juice, or 10/90 or whatever. So, depending on what the recipe is, I began to wonder if it's able to be mixed with ...premium juice, for example.

I've tried VG on atomizers, straight out of the bottle, and it does produce lots of vapor. Is that amount the same as what you get from Wow juice? more? less?

 

[researcheverything]

TJQ86,

Just a gee-whiz.... I have always been broke no matter how much I make. I am married after all! just a joke folks don't start smacking me yet....

I posted something before I broke even. I expected to spend more than I did and was nervous, but I had done my homework.

I read the forum for a month ish - then joined and read more - so after a couple months spent the money. It was 60 bucks. Now I want you to understand when I spent 60 and it was tough for me..... why. I have been rollin my own for 10 yrs. The initial investment of a 40 dollar machine to roll smokes scared me then too. Prices kept climbing and so you see since 2000 my costs went up too. Just not as bad as those who bought the completed smokes. I had to do a little extra work but if I could roll a couple cartons of smokes while watching a NASCAR race then it was OK by me.

I smoked 2 pks/day every day at 2 bucks a pack up until the 25th of May this year. I thought it would kill me trying to break even, 'cause I wasn't spending as much on smokes as most of ya'll were. My wife showed how much we all of a sudden weren't spending on cigarettes. UNREAL! Carts cost me 50 cents each to refill and I smoke 2 carts per day. I smoke zero acoustic cigarettes and that makes it now for me at -3 bucks per day.

The only reason it didn't take me forever to break even is I don't have a lot of money to throw down for testing. I had to read everything I could get my hands on. I drive a 30 yr old bike a 20 yr old van and I scrape by...... in rural town Texas. I aint dirt poor but close. I am retired military and make just under 20/hr in a full time job - career part 2.

If I had more free money I probably would have spent it elsewhere anyway. I would have been scared to death just like you had I spent more than I did.

The thing is..... just relax and wait for it. If you can afford to throw down that much money to "start" smoking..... then you will have to learn that the return on investment is directly proportional to the amount of investment.

My ROI on the 60 bucks I spent has come and gone. Yours will get here. But I also bet you weren't smoking two packs a day of roll your owns either.

as always and in every facet of every life ...... YMMV

 

[researcheverything]

Just a quick addition my wife is now vaping too. The Luci kit was a hand me down - zero cost. She stole one of my atomizers, there were no working attys. She stole one of my bottles of Snickerdoodle from MsT's Bakery, and has smoked maybe 1/2 pack of roll 'ems in the last 3 days. She was a 1 1/2 pk to 2 a day smoker.

This vaping stuff is contagious.

So now we are going to have to find a more expensive habit so we can stay broke.

 

[bwahahaha]

When I started, I said I wouldn't spend more on vaping than I did on smoking. I'm about to change that to I won't spend more than half of what I spent on smoking. Not necessarily to save more money, but because I just have too much stuff. I've been vaping since January spending roughly what I would have spent smoking. I could stop spending ANYTHING today and easily make it 3 or 4 months, and the limiting factor there is just blank cartos (maybe a battery or 2). Oh yeah.... And smokes are only $4.00 a pack here....

 

[Belletrist]

I think it really depends on how you see vaping. I don't see it as a hobby but something that keeps me from going back to analogs and nicotine. I don't go in for new models/mods all the time. I have spent a little more than I would have liked, trying new flavors but have settled on two...which is one more than the choice I had while smoking.

I've been vaping 5 weeks today and made back my initial investment (plus the money spent on the afore mentioned flavors) already. Utilizing a good sale and a coupon code, I have now stocked up on some extra batts, blank cool carts, and juice for the next six months. The cost for those six months is still less than one month of analogs.

Add in the health benefits, I'd say my ROI is more than I ever could have expected.

I hope your experience gets better.

\

Very close to my own story. I'm at 3 flavors that I sometimes tailor with extra flavorings if I feel frisky. The eliquid I use costs me <$0.25/ml. When there are sales and I can get it cheaper, I'll stock up as much as expiration dates allow. Same goes for cartos--when the type of blanks I like are available at an awesome discount, I buy a few boxes. I know by now my actual daily cost is even lower than the last time I estimated.

 

[jeffree]

According to Webster's... amortization is the process by which the cost of an asset is distributed over the projected useful life of the asset. Thus, vaping will be cheaper if one resists the urge to buy more than necessary. But that's the hard part.

 

[Mary Kay]

I just added up my costs for vaping since Oct. when I started using V4L on an exclusive basis. Deducting my costs for what I used to pay for cigarrette cartons (back then) I am saving about $90.00 a month. At todays prices it's closer to $175.00. (that's in Fla.)
It is growing because I don't need as much "stuff" any more since my stash is well rounded. Now it's just upkeep and 'I wants".

 

[aubergine]

I spent a kazillion dollars initially. I mean, inSANE. Once I fell in love. I don't care. I was also spending a kazillion dollars on cigarettes. I hated them.

I am a VERY BAD EXAMPLE because I don't wash or dry or do anything but dispose of half of my cartos and top the rest until I get bored with them. And on weekends I fill blanks and experiment and stuff. I love the ease of "basically intended to be disposable" 'cause I'm also insanely busy.

I think at this point I'm spending much less than I did on cigs, I chain-smoked, but with @50 batts and a closet full of stuff I'm set. And no, I'm not rich. And in fact in almost every aspect of my life I'm quite frugal and must be.

Just, for me, this is still all one big no-more-cigarettes party that I've longed for for 40-odd years. I could have and could be spending a lot less and still be set. So could anyone. I like buying this stuff. I'm not smoking. Neither is anyone in my family any more, all vaping. Neither are a whole bunch of people that I give stuff to. And all that I wish is that I could resurrect my great and wonderful Mom, who chain-smoked herself to death, and spend a kazillion dollars keeping her around for a while.

Sue me.

(Addy, I know you'll appreciate the precision with which I have calculated cost benefit here...)

 

[rdytoquit]

I have to admit that I do spend a bundle on the V4L products and I'm sure
I'm not saving $$$ but......I am saving my life. That is worth every dime I have.


Aubergine, I watched my mother chain smoke herself to her grave also. How I wish V4L was around years ago.

To know that I'll never have another cigarette is the best payoff I could get.

 

[jeffree]

Beautiful post, Aubergine. I found myself nodding, thinking that your words reach a big part of me, too...especially the all one big no-more-cigarettes party. Some of us waited a long time, didn't we?

 

[mmcall12]

I can say it was hot while in my fishing and vaping in my boat didn't catch much but enjoyed the vaping and enjoying the breeze from the lake,,,,
can we say vaping is are life...... and I'm addicts to it,, and I loveeee itttttt. Do we need a vaping addict room i will be there with my V4L

 

[Trulife76]

Aubergene............
All I want to say is ditto ditto ditto.....
I know I've spent more than I "had" to but because V4L has so many choices I have just ordered enough of a variety to make sure that flavor, bad cart, etc. can't ever be the reason I fall back to analogs! It's not that I have unlimited funds, I don't. I just feel that this is an expenditure that will pay off in too many ways to even begin to count.
Have I mentioned how happy I am that V4L runs sales so often?
It will be 5 weeks for me tomorrow and I'm still pinching myself that after 38 years of that nasty habbit and trying everything under the sun to quit I am now happily vapeing away.

 

[Trulife76]

MM....please let me know when that room opens up! Maybe we should be founding members if it's not there..
Oh, wait.....We don't want that...
I don't want to quit this addiction!

 

[Tenebrae]

I used to buy 2 cartons a week for hubby and myself so wasn't much additional expenditure for us. The early phase when you are discovering your flavor favorites can get expensive but once you find what works for you it is way cheaper than cigarettes so long as you are capable of planning for your needs. Next day shipping would get quite expensive if you use is regularly.

Hold on to the flavors you don't like presently for a month or 2. Your taste buds are growing back and you do not know what will strike your fancy once they have healed. Stuff I found revolting early on it super tasty now.

 

[Klynn]

I understand the OP's message, I'm constantly walking the fine line of want vs need and how best to do this within my budget. I am spending more now than I did smoking analogs, but I smoked the least expensive analogs I could stand and cut down as much as I could.

I know that the upfront costs can be a bit scary, but once you settle into a vaping routine, your ongoing costs should drop considerably. (And don't forget the health benefits. This is the first time in years that a winter went by and I didn't get bronchitis.)

That quote pretty much says it for me...I'm hoping I'll settle into a routine, and I'm definitely healthier and more than a little confident that what I'm ingesting is healthier. That's worth a lot!
Not buying more than is necessary (wish I could though...there are 3 or 4 mods and juice fed boxes out there I'd love to have. And, the suppliers keep adding to their stock, so it's a constant want vs need decision for me.

 

[Klynn]

Oh, forgot to mention the investment in time. I never spent this much time smoking analogs, but...didn't enjoy that or feel good about that either, so ... I'm still ahead of the game.
ECF can be very time consuming.

 

[mmcall12]

MM....please let me know when that room opens up! Maybe we should be founding members if it's not there..
Oh, wait.....We don't want that...
I don't want to quit this addiction!

On this is a good addiction very good one....