Let's be honest, smoking cigarettes is far cheaper than vaping!

[GinnyTx]

That's so right. I was on a steroid puffer at $1 a pop and codeine cough suppressant med every night just to be able to sleep through the incessant dry coughing. Now I am FREE of all that. I consider that a saving you can't even start to quantify.

Like others have stated, mine is based off of how much I used to spend smoking. I also keep a spreadsheet with a running total of my vaping purchases and money saved from other incurred costs associated with smoking, such as Inhalers, insurance premiums, etc. Cost of cigarettes aside, I've saved money from the residuals alone. So, my total saved is actually higher than the signature bar suggests.

if I had a counter and it read something ridiculous like buying a freaking Provari every week...it'd still less than toting around an O2 concentrator everywhere I went..and that was in my future as I'm sure it was for y'all too.

I pull up at CVS and just get my TWO Rx's per month instead of the big bag with boxes and all kinds of stuff, new masks, tubing etc (the curse of the 50s *lol* norvasc and synthroid) the pharmacists tells me she's glad I vape now too.

 

[wheelie]

My wife has vaped for two years and has never even spent a nickel on anything. Whole lot cheaper for her. As for me, hmmmm, not cheap the past two years, setting myself up, wife, 4 of my five kids I supply for and have tons of backup. I am very stockpiled for what can happen down the road with DIY. But now I do not buy much, have the systems I want, wick, wire, batteries ect so it is becoming cheaper. Smokes $12 a pack, myself and wife about 3 packs a day versus about 3 to 4 thousand spent on vape gear over two years. Never really added the numbers or do I really care. Both feel better and doctor changed our files to non smokers and that is something after 42 years smoking I never thought I would live to see. CHEERS!

 

[JUDGMENT AFFIRMED]

The banner total is a guideline the wife uses in assessing her shoe budget.

T

That's good T. So glad mine doesn't like computers

 

[jpargana]

The op is right. No if ands or buts about it. Sure you can knock down the price considerably with DIY but you guys are leaving out all the hardware. Even if you buy all Chinese stuff. You are still looking at $100 or so for a setup that will give you a worth while vape experience. I vaped ego style and bought the cheapest juice I could find and I was still spending around $40-$50 a month on juice and coils. I was smoking on average a carton of Marlboro's a week before; so yeah, it was cheaper but then I was replacing tanks and batteries every few months. $15 here, $20 there... Then I was introduced to subohm vaping and have now spent upwards of $500 just on my two mods, ohm meter, RTA and RDA. i have also now started buying some more expensive juices... It's no longer "cheap" and I can feel it in my wallet.

Maybe, but I believe you may be comparing oranges and apples.
Of course it cannot be "cheap" if you buy more expensive juices. But if you do it, then you should compare your vaping expenses with someone buying premium tobacco as well. RYO tobacco expenses should be compared to DIY vaping expenses, to keep things at the same level.
Other people will tell me "Oh, I have spent a boatload of money on all the newest devices I could find... I have bought a dozen mecs already... It's NOT cheaper than smoking..."
Well. It is. Did you used to collect expensive pipes when you used to smoke? No? Then it's not the same thing. Because if you DID collect them, then smoking would be very expensive as well. As far as hardware is concerned, how many lighters and pipes do you need to simply smoke? One of each. To simply vape, without collecting stuff, you would only need ONE battery, ONE mod, ONE charger and ONE tank. See if that's not cheaper than smoking.
I could have been spending around 160 Euros/month. I am spending around 40 with vaping.
Sure, because of the new TPD, I have bought a lot more lately than I used to, just to stock up. I have bought mechs and regulated boxes. I have bought several identical Kayfuns, Goblins and Goliaths for spare parts. But I know some things:
- Those things will last for quite some time. Their initial cost will be diluted on the next several months, if not even years
- I cannot compare that initial investment with "normal", "everyday" vaping expenses
- And, most important: What I have saved in the last six and an half years is around (160-40) * 12 * 6.5 or 9360 Eur. That's stil way tooooo much than what I have already spent with vaping - even with my latest "shopping frenzies"

 

[crxess]

Hadn't spent a cent since Feb., until this month.
Picked up (2)Gal. V/G $25.ea and a Few bobbles from Fasttech $35.

Once you get yourself under control even RYO is not cheaper.

As to Equipment Cost - It Prorates out. Good equipment can come down to pennies a month over time.
Then there are the health and Social expenses everyone seems to ignore.

 

[hashtag]

So far (around 7 months) I have spent about the same on vaping that I would on cigarettes. But most of the spending was unnecessary and more around being a hobbyist and learning the ins and outs of the gear than on feeding the nicotine habit.

With what I have on hand I could easily go a year or more without spending another cent. I won't but i could.

I smoked for over 15 years and only met maybe three people who roll their own cigarette's. I don't think it is nearly as common as the OP seems to think it is.

I also don't think OP understands that the entire point of vaping is to not smoke, not to find a cheaper way to smoke. You may spend less than I do but for the first time in my adult life I can officially say that I am a non-smoker and that is worth all the money in the world to me and my family.

 

[NathanielFT]

DIY Juice and only purchasing new hardware when it's needed will keep your costs far lower, especially if you know where to find the best deals/prices. The price comparison between vaping and smoking is usually based on a box of 20 and not DIY cigs, it also won't count for those who buy every new bit of hardware they see, and those who get suckered into expensive 'premium liquid'.

Saving money was just a bonus for me, I moved over to vaping only for the sake of my health and my young daughter's, and also because vaping tastes a lot nicer then cigs

 

[GeorgeS]

hardware is going down.

juice? I see this the same as ink for inkjet printers... sell you cheap hardware then keep you coming back for the consumables.

Forgetting for the moment the current unregulated and untaxed nature of vaping hardware and juice....

One of the other hats I wear is "geek" - I tossed my last 'inkjet' printer over 15yrs ago and have not looked back. The $80 B&W laser (on sale, normally $125) replacement pumped out nearly a case of paper with the stock toner cartridge and a cheap ~$10 refill kit. I needed something that printed on both sides of the page so after topping off the toner with another ~$10 refill kit I gave the printer to a friend (he's ran nearly 5000 pages through it) and its still going strong 15yrs later.

I can get color prints at my local Costco for as little as $0.13 or $0.39 for a 5x7".

I still can't fathom why anyone would purchase an inkjet printer.

 

[sc12]

I have definitely saved money by vaping instead of smoking. As of Jan. 2015, I save even more every month now that my health insurance company recognizes me as a nonsmoker.

 

[TraceyS]

I am new here and I am surely not the type to stir the pot, but something is bothering me. I see all these members with banners at the bottom explaining how much money they have saved thus far by not smoking, and vaping instead? I just have to shake my head and wonder what planet they come from.

Ten years ago I purchased a top of the line cigarette injector for $25. That same injector costs $35 right now, and it has been highly improved. I can buy top quality bulk tobacco wholesale on the internet, top quality filtered cigarette tubes, and produce world class cigarettes for just about $1.25 per pack. A few years ago it was less than a $1.00 per pack. These are first class top quality cigarettes, better than anything you can buy in any store. You can make them in any style or strength you like, regular or menthol.

A fumble fingered klutz with no practice can pump out one cigarette every 30 seconds, I can do 5 or 6 per minute, and I am kind of a klutz myself! I know poor people and rich people who make cigarettes this same way. Who still buys cigarettes in stores for $5 to $10 per pack? Seriously, who does that? Certainly not anyone with an IQ above 75.

Don't tell me it would have been to difficult for you to do, because messing with Mods, and e-juice, and batteries is far more time consuming and difficult than pumping out cigarettes on a tube injector. So my former habit cost me $1.25 per day for a pack. I can already tell that I will be burning far more than $1.25 in e-juice daily.

All I am saying is that vaping is more expensive than smoking for anyone with common sense, so stop bragging about how much money you saved, that is disingenuous. Brag about why you are doing it for your health.

I paid just over $300 for the two mods I own (REOs), less than $100 in attys, my bulk unflavored eliquid is $16 for 4 ounces, which lasts me around a month. I buy batteries when I need them. Because I've already purchased what I know I want with devices and purchase eliquid once a month, it is costing me a little over $4 a week to vape.

Tracey

 

[AndriaD]

That's good T. So glad mine doesn't like computers

ROFL... my husband HATES to take me in Microcenter... he knows we're not coming out of there without spending SOMETHING. I've bought 2 full computer systems there, the last one a real nice laptop. Now when we walk in the door, all the sales associates smile.

Andria

 

[OlderNDirt]

I am new here and I am surely not the type to stir the pot, but something is bothering me. I see all these members with banners at the bottom explaining how much money they have saved thus far by not smoking, and vaping instead? I just have to shake my head and wonder what planet they come from.

Ten years ago I purchased a top of the line cigarette injector for $25. That same injector costs $35 right now, and it has been highly improved. I can buy top quality bulk tobacco wholesale on the internet, top quality filtered cigarette tubes, and produce world class cigarettes for just about $1.25 per pack. A few years ago it was less than a $1.00 per pack. These are first class top quality cigarettes, better than anything you can buy in any store. You can make them in any style or strength you like, regular or menthol.

A fumble fingered klutz with no practice can pump out one cigarette every 30 seconds, I can do 5 or 6 per minute, and I am kind of a klutz myself! I know poor people and rich people who make cigarettes this same way. Who still buys cigarettes in stores for $5 to $10 per pack? Seriously, who does that? Certainly not anyone with an IQ above 75.

Don't tell me it would have been to difficult for you to do, because messing with Mods, and e-juice, and batteries is far more time consuming and difficult than pumping out cigarettes on a tube injector. So my former habit cost me $1.25 per day for a pack. I can already tell that I will be burning far more than $1.25 in e-juice daily.

All I am saying is that vaping is more expensive than smoking for anyone with common sense, so stop bragging about how much money you saved, that is disingenuous. Brag about why you are doing it for your health.

It seems to me this post boils down to "anybody that didn't RYO cigarettes is a disingenuous idiot with an IQ of 75 or lower". To that, I would ask:

Dial up, DSL, cable, or fiber?
Bicycle or auto?
Tracfone or smartphone?
Rent or own?
Over the air, cable, or satellite?
Reel or power mower?
Bush or Heineken?

Need I go on? We all make our own choices on how to spend our disposable income and those choices in no way reflect our intelligence, or lack thereof.

I have a friend who told me he saved over $25k by buying a Kia instead of a Cadillac and he was quite proud of that. I told him had he not bought a Lamborghini, he could have saved upwards of half a million.

 

[SF0059]

I live in tobacco country now, so the price of cigarettes was always reasonable (unlike my native California). I chose to vape because I was making healthy changes; exercising, sleeping, eating right, cutting alcohol out... yet I still smoked. And nothing could match my fav Parliaments, so I bought the expensive tobacco.

Truth is, I didn't care about vaping being cheaper or more expensive. I needed to quit and I found something that worked after trying patches, gums, meds, cold turkey, etc. So, for me, it is not the cost... it is the success. And I don't have to try to hide the smell unsuccessfully around friends and coworkers. Oh, and my non-smoker wife doesn't make me shower and brush my teeth before I give her a kiss goodnight.

If vaping is more expensive than smoking, it is the best money I've ever spent.

 

[AndriaD]

I live in tobacco country now, so the price of cigarettes was always reasonable (unlike my native California). I chose to vape because I was making healthy changes; exercising, sleeping, eating right, cutting alcohol out... yet I still smoked. And nothing could match my fav Parliaments, so I bought the expensive tobacco.

Truth is, I didn't care about vaping being cheaper or more expensive. I needed to quit and I found something that worked after trying patches, gums, meds, cold turkey, etc. So, for me, it is not the cost... it is the success. And I don't have to try to hide the smell unsuccessfully around friends and coworkers. Oh, and my non-smoker wife doesn't make me shower and brush my teeth before I give her a kiss goodnight.

If vaping is more expensive than smoking, it is the best money I've ever spent.

Yeah... I see the money savings as just a really nice side-effect...

Andria

 

[93gc40]

Bought Cigs for the wife yesterday cost $6.35 per pack. Vaping Costs me, Less than $3, per day. That leaves a saving of $3.35 per day. Vaping is $1200 per year less expensive for me.

 

[BrushyHillGuide]

It's an individual thing. Why slam those who use banners just because they may not apply to you! Not here to "stir the pot?" Yeah right! Lol!

Most of us bought our favorite brand in a store and had ZERO interest in rolling our own - not because we couldn't, but because we didn't want to. The amount we have "saved" since switching to vaping is simply a measure that motivates us to keep off analogs. We quit for many reasons and the cost (of analogs) is usually WAY down the priority list. How we choose to blow our money on vaping gear and juice is, for most of us, not a direct reflection/comparison of vaping over analog smoking. It's like doing some energy saving modifications to your house, using the savings to go on vacation and someone trying to tell you that, "your savings are all BS because you blew them (and then some) on a vacation!"

"Savings" doesn't JUST mean you set that much aside in a bank account! Lol!

Why all the animosity towards a silly banner. Me thinks thou dost protest too much, sir!


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[Alien Traveler]

Vaping can be incredibly cheap. I use mod for $25 (iStick 30) and a topper for $25 (Kayfun 4 clone). I need less than $5 monthly for DIY juice and coils.

Granted, I've bought recently two other mods ($25 and $36) and two toppers ($10 and $25) as a preparation for vapocalypse, but it's completely different story.

EDIT: I will not buy grossly overpriced "authentic" things; I see vaping gear as anticancer devices which should be accessible to people with all levels of income.

 

[jseah]

When I decided to quit smoking and start vaping, it was not because of the health benefits. Even though I was a PAD smoker for over 30 years, I didn't have a lot of the health issues of other smokers. I play softball in the league during the summer and can still leg out a shot to the gap and make it from first to home and I can play 18 holes of golf without needing a cart. No hacking cough in the morning, no shortness of breath climbing stairs. My only health issue is high cholesterol, which my doctor suspects is genetic and it taken care of with 10mg of Lipitor (which I understand is the lowest strength) which dropped my cholesterol by almost 60 points.

My wife and kids have been nagging me to quit smoking ever since my kids were born. Even if I don't save a penny, it is still worth it to no longer hear nagging about riding in my car because it smells like smoke, or my clothes smelling like smoke, etc.

 

[hashtag]

When I decided to quit smoking and start vaping, it was not because of the health benefits. Even though I was a PAD smoker for over 30 years, I didn't have a lot of the health issues of other smokers. I play softball in the league during the summer and can still leg out a shot to the gap and make it from first to home and I can play 18 holes of golf without needing a cart. No hacking cough in the morning, no shortness of breath climbing stairs. My only health issue is high cholesterol, which my doctor suspects is genetic and it taken care of with 10mg of Lipitor (which I understand is the lowest strength) which dropped my cholesterol by almost 60 points.

My wife and kids have been nagging me to quit smoking ever since my kids were born. Even if I don't save a penny, it is still worth it to no longer hear nagging about riding in my car because it smells like smoke, or my clothes smelling like smoke, etc.

I've seen your mod collection, I don't believe your savings numbers in your signature

 

[jseah]

I've seen your mod collection, I don't believe your savings numbers in your signature

That's why I'm still in the red.

By my guess, considering buying more juice and coils, I should break even by the end of the year....give or take a few months....or a year....depending on how many cool looking mods comes out later.