I must preface here, I drive a truck hauling very VERY large parts of airplanes and the company I work for just bought me a brand new $175,000 Kenworth so I decided to get a vape to use in the truck and only smoke while out of the truck. 2 days into the e-cig and I have quit the analog cigs completely. That was August 4th, exactly 2 months ago.
So here we go, initially $70 on some cheap Chinese kit and 2 bottles of juice from a smoke shop in Stanwood, WA. Still have them and still working perfectly as that setup is my walking around in the pocket vape. Then on my first trip home to Kansas I found a Vape shop in Wichita that is out of this world. That day was a $150.00 day because I bought a Smoktech SID, an Iclear 30, an eGo kit for the wife with a couple Iclear 16's, 6 different flavors of juice and 18650 battery and charger. In addition one of the owners gave me a Inno pass-through battery to try and let him know what I thought since I'm driving all day. He wanted real world feed back from every day usage. Well I added an Iclear 16 to it and it rocks, still have it too and as a result of my feedback the shop is now stocking it.
The next trip in was just for a couple bottles of juice (they mix everything right there in the store and it rocks). Wife bought another Iclear 16 and a lanyard then we both bought hard side cases to put our expanding collection in. I had looked at the Itaste 134 both times, held it, caressed it and put it back. So on our way home we stopped at the cell store to pick up a case for my new Galaxy S4 and while there I bought one for the wife. The next morning she said she's running to town to get a case for her new phone and two hours later she walks in the door with a case containing the Itaste 134, 2 more batteries and another charger all for me for getting her a new phone. (Yes I paid full price for the phone so she got off cheeeeep)
Then just this last week I got an Octopus RDA as well as a couple more bottles of juice.
All in, we're at about $500 in vaping but I haven't bought or smoked an analog in 60 days and I was smoking 1.5 to 2 packs of Marlboro. So at an average of 1.75 PAD at $5.50 each I have saved about $575.00 that I would have spent on analogs not to mention what the wife has saved although she still lights one a couple times a day.
Dollar for dollar, about a wash but I haven't felt this good in 20+ years and I haven't noticed how bad analog users smell in at least that long. My new truck still smells new and I don't use half a roll of paper towels and half a bottle of Windex every week cleaning the tar of the inside of the windows. Food tastes oh so much better but all of the sudden hot peppers or wasabi that wasn't so hot is almost too hot.