I'm in the black now...! :)

[lachesis]

It's been a while since I posted here. Gosh, maybe 3 months or so since my last post? Lots of new people, I see... which means more and more new people are now being converted to e-cig. Good for them!

To be honest, and with all due respect to the fine folks that I had chance to talk on this board, I had a fall-out from this board. After finding a e-cig that I could stick to (in my case, it's an SD), plenty of attys and juice in stock, I had lost interest in many parts of this forum. I wasn't much of a vocal advocate regarding smoking to begin with... and only place I'd visit for last few months was occasional check-up on the news part, and mostly, being discouraged by the slew of bad news.

But in a way, it wa a good thing. When I used to smoke, 3/4 pack a day for past decade+ or so... I wasn't really thinking about smoking. I just did it. Now, e-cig has completely subbed smoking - to the point that I don't even think much about my e-smoking now. It always felt a bit of hassle to charge and keep track of all the attys, juice etc... but for some reason, such eagerness is all gone from me.

Now, I just realized that my last bottle of RY4 from PS was running low. I have completely used up all my juice for the first time - and I just ordered another batch of juice from another vendor. I remembered that I had kept track of all the expenses with someone's e-cig expense sheet xls file... and just realized that I'm in the black now. So far, I spent around 800 dollars for all of my e-cig needs (juice, equipments, etc) - and according to the calculator, if I had smoked, the money that I'd have spent by now would be over 900 dollars!

I've been cigarette free since last April 9th.. (well, not 100% - I still bum off a real cig when I hang out with my friends once in a while. no more than 1 cig, though - as I just enjoy e-cigs more.) At one point, when I was trying out various e-cig models, I was rather certain that e-cig being cheaper than regular cig might be a myth, only possible in theory. Boy, was I wrong.

So.. little kudo to myself, and much thanks to all the people on this board who helped me out on my e-cig quest! Maybe next year or so, I might look into buying another e-cig for a change.

lachesis

 

[jj2]

Hope you reconsider and stick around and help fight whatever the battle may be in the future---for the sake of all those people that could be you---tobacco free.

 

[epluribus_vapor]

Great to hear lachesis. There's hope out there for all of us!

 

[FRESH]

I was in the black after just three months. But a $10 a day analog habit makes that pretty easy. When I look back on it, I really wasted a bunch of money, too, trying to find the right setup and juices for myself. At 10 bucks a day, I hit $900 in just 3 months. That buys a LOT of e-cig supplies. Going forward, my expense shouldn't be more than about $35 a month. Seriously. About a bottle and a half of juice, an atty, and 2 14500 batts. Beats the heck out of $300 a month!

Getting in the black, without blackening my lungs.....priceless!

 

[sprtydave]

Nice to meet you lachesis I'm one of the new ones you mentioned but for the same reasons and lurking this forum for a while before joining and reading about eveyone changing thier lives I had to try it I have already lost my grandmother, my aunt, and last year my biggest loss of all my Dad. I know emphasema and lung disease runs in my family and I didn't want to go through what they did. I was smoking almost 3 packs a day and tried everything else to quit with no luck till I tried e'cigs and listening to ya'll. So Thank you and everyone else on here for saving and adding to my life and I hope you stick around and keep on posting because it was posts like yours and all the others, the news, the help, the people and ya'll are helping people even if you don't relize it, again thanks to all, David been analog free 2 months 5 days!!!