How many of us are saving money from vaping?

[JustaGuy]

When I started smoking Cigs were $4 a carton. LOL

Yeah, I remember 50 cents a pack at the convenience store, probably $4 or less a carton. That was marl too. I stopped buying them when they went over $30, stopped smoking altogether when taxes exceeded $2 EACH pack. A man's got to know his limitations.

 

[vocr]

I'm really excited to see people post they are reaching a break even point. For me, vaping, so far, is far, far more expensive than smoking. A rim costs PHP680. I'm at a bit over the 1 month mark with vaping and I've spent slightly over USD1500. Granted, a decent piece of that was in shipping costs, but I've spent about USD700 at Healthcabin alone, lol.

Of course, my goal is to try everything and I have no budget. Turning this into a new hobby is a key piece of the "quit smoking" puzzle for me and, if someone came up to me and said, "give me P1million and I will guarantee to have you quit smoking in a day". I would've gone to the bank and handed over the cash to that person on the spot. So, in those terms, I'm way under budget.

 

[Baldr]

The heavier you smoked before you switched, the easier it is to come out ahead on the finance sheet.

If you smoke a pack a month, or if you only smoke every now and then when you go out drinking, then it's very hard to justify financially. The up front costs take a long time to pay off if you're only "saving" $5 a month by switching.

If you smoke a pack a day, it's easier to justify. 2 packs a day, easier yet.

I smoked 3+ packs per day, until 3 weeks ago. My estimates are that I break even in 2 more weeks, which will be 5 weeks after I started.

My break even would have come sooner if I'd actually quit smoking right away. I've been moving over fairly slowly, but it's been going well. Only 4 cigs yesterday, none so far today. Until a few days ago, I'd cut down from 3 ppd to 1 or 1.5 ppd.

 

[Jaebihn]

Last fall, I made an excel program to calculate how much I actually spent on Ecigs vs analogs. Its not anything fancy as I created it for myself and my wife to use. Please feel free to use it as you like. If you don't have microsoft Excel I think you can open up the file in google docs but I haven't tried it so I can't promise it will work.

Because I order all of my E-cig stuff online it was easy to find the old receipts and calculate how much I spent.

I colored the boxes purple for where you enter your data. Hope this helps.

View attachment Ecig_Break_the_Bank_Calculator.xls

 

[SEWELLH]

I don't watch what I spend I just but what I want life is too short... I feel better and its only been 2mos for me. I have the support of my family so they also buy supplies to make sure I dont go back to cigs.. By the end of the year I may be out over 3 grand but right now I enough supplies to go the next 2 years without buying another thing. DIY is the way I went and have about 2000ml of 100mg/ml and all the flavors to mix at home... I vape at 18mg/ml so if you do the math I think I'm set for a while.. The new mod that come out are what will take the rest of my funds.. Happy vaping...

 

[Mindfield]

I know I've saved a ton of money -- even despite spending nearly $600 last month on stuff. A pack of smokes here is $10, $80 a carton. At a pack a day that's about $300 a month. My monthly average -- when I'm not stocking up because of sales and such -- is only about $50-100 depending on who I order from and what I order, so I'm still way ahead of the game.

 

[M_FactorX19]

right now im probably spending as much as i did when i smoked. if i stoped buying new juices and other things i want to try i could easily be saving money though. i have enough juice to last me a year right now but im sure ill be buying more soon. right now there are still to many things i want to try and a few PVs i want to buy. after those things are aquired i should be set to start saving. where i live cigs are around $5 a pack and my wife and I both smoked a pack a day. as long as im spending around that much or less on vaping im happy. its also much more enjoyable to spend that money on new juice we want to try, a new carto or tank, or even a new PV than it was buying a pack a cigs everyday.

 

[Madriz]

As a Noob I started out with an initial investment of $180 for my kit extra atties and juice. I went all out on juice $80 because I did not want to run out and head back down the analog highway to hell. So I broke it down to see if I would really save money in the long run. This is what i came up with:

Analogs: $3 a pack (When I am in central America) 1 pack a day = $90 a month (Not taking into account the extra pack when I would go to a party or drink)

E-Cigs: 50 ml juice (DK Menthol) $11.99 2 mls a day a bottle should last me 25 days.

That is quite a difference in the long run, now I have been Analog free 21 days I figure I have saved nothing so far but I am on my way to doing so.

Now here is the kick in the pants: I am l now looking into the more expensive mods for that great flavor and throat hit. I figure my next investment will be in the $150 - $200 range. Now this is just me but I think it was really well said that "What I am saving is my health" says it all for me!!

Madriz

 

[FantWriter]

One of these days, I'm going to get around to putting all my orders onto a spreadsheet so I'll know just how much I've spent/saved by vaping.

Suffice it to say that I was spending upwards of $100 a week to smoke, and I'm closing in on the 90-day mark of not buying anything because my finances tanked and I had, without realizing it, created a large enough stash of juice to get me through.

 

[Zombitedesade]

I've spent a ridiculous amount of money on vaping and probably will spend a load more!

So many juice flavours! So many new devices and delivery methods to try them out on!

I don't care though. I have fun doing this. I genuinely enjoy vaping and knowing I'm not stuck to a brand of tobacco sticks which would kill me in the end. For that freedom and level of choice no price is too high IMO.

 

[nastos.]

not only am I saving myself money but also a few new vapers I have turned on to the sport my friend mike is the newest addition and hes been vaping for 3 days now. Now I get to watch him have all the new found fun and excitment and flavor testing.

 

[nastos.]

even if I bought a 10 ml bottle of juice a day I would still be spending less weekly than I did on analogs.

 

[guitarmeetsjake]

not only am I saving myself money but also a few new vapers I have turned on to the sport my friend mike is the newest addition and hes been vaping for 3 days now. Now I get to watch him have all the new found fun and excitment and flavor testing.

Always love to hear about smokers converting to vaping

 

[CloudCuckooMan]

even if I bought a 10 ml bottle of juice a day I would still be spending less weekly than I did on analogs.

i second this. I am pretty surprised to hear so many people are spending the same or more on vaping! I thought it would be mostly people saying how much they've saved. Then again now that I've started I can see how buying new devices can be addicting but I'm hoping once I get my Ego tomorrow I won't need anything else except atty's cartos and juice. Maybe some months down the road I'll get a bottom feeder or something but I was paying $6 a pack and smoking two packs a day. I could buy two top of the line mods a month with that! I still haven't figured out how much juice I'm going to need every month but I can't imagine it will be more than $50 unless I'm going crazy trying new flavors. Now that I've tried Bounty Hunter and RY4 I'm good to go! I'll prob buy a sample bottle of something new every once in awhile. Now that I'm vaping it's like I got a huge raise!

I hope I don't have to eat my words a few months from now. Watch me go nuts and blow my paycheck on juice

 

[Iffy]

Watch me go nuts and blow my paycheck on juice

Ya wouldn't be da first nor da last!

 

[LadyLynx]

I spend more, but only because my partner bought all the analogs and I'm the internet purchase queen.

 

[tattoogirl]

I typically spend 325$ ish on analogs. My main goal in quitting was that my lungs felt like pewp, i didnt want my kid around smoke and I wanted to pocket that 325$ in smokes so i can make my car payment on my new dodge challenger lol. So far this month I am over my analog budget. I have bought an overpriced smoke shop kr808d1 set 65$ (which my family is fighting over who gets dibs on it) a joye 510t kit and finally my favorite- 2 kgo sets with a shcrapton of dual coils. I would say that I have spent 150$ on liquids and have finally found some favorites.
My estimation for next month is 50$ for 2 people and that will go mostly to larger bottles of my fav liquids. That said I still have 2 weeks to go with no spending to make up the rest of this month lol

 

[Taniger1]

HONESTLY I dind't NEED the mods I bought this weekend. I bought a Reo Mini to to keep my Old Goat company, and a Chuck for my other half whom is still smoking. But I've saved quite a bit of money honestly. I think since March, I've bought 4 starter kits (2 eGo and 2Echo-e) one for me, one for daughter, one for mom, one for friend. 2 Old Goats and not even THAT much juice. I'm in Washington so at about 120 a week for me and the sig other to smoke, well I'm probably still ahead.

 

[Jaebihn]

Even if you're not saving money its still better for you. And the best part is that your money is going to local families and such not the big tobacco companies. I'm not against big companies, I just like helping out my neighbor when I can.

 

[benetay]

I spend about $300 on analogs a month, i just spent $610 in 4 days of vaping. I'll ultimately start saving. I hope.

Cheers!