that's awesome!! I never did the cost savings kind too much. I should check one out, but for the last two years that I smoked, I smoked racers. It was 15.50 a carton after tax. Marlbs were 45 cents a pack from a vending machine when I started smoking. I think they'd gone to about 50.00 a carton when I started smoking racers. Dunno how you would average that over the 36 + years.
You just calculate from when you quit as to how much you've save since then. This is the one I used for my latest tally.
Track the time you've been smoke-free, the money you've saved and the cigarettes you have avoided since quitting It is an eyeopener and I was floored the first time I used one, 3-6 months into
vaping.
That's really good! Congrats on that. When I quit in January my cost was 3.40 a pack. Not bad compared to what some people were paying. I smoked the cheap cigs too.
I figure the cost of my diy
juice averages around .09 cents a day. Not too shabby, lol.
I am still running in the red column. I bought everything I needed for diy and then everything I needed to build coils. I can now do both! Then there is mods to try...glad I bought the Pico first, really like it. Most cost for me is finding the right atomizer with best airflow and flavor you like. Also the stocking up part because of the possible gloom and doom coming our way.
I am glad I am off the cigarettes, that was my first goal. Hopefully at some point I will save money too
Congratulations, you are doing very well! $3.40, wow. But yes, you will eventually save money. And don't forget the cost of lighters, ashtrays, burn holes in stuff, dental and medical costs due to smoking. You will have to buy more bug spray because vaping doesn't keep 'em away like cig smoke did.
I know I am at a point where I am saving money. I spent less this past year (going on 4 yrs)
First year spent buying gear and trying to figure out what I liked and could figure out ;( (and of course juice, lots of it tossed in the BLECH pile)
Second year spent upgrading to better gear and learning to build (and of course juice and now it is getting out of hand)
Third year spent perfecting gear (all RBA and RTA now) researching and buying good gear for the long haul (juice, daily, out of control and am I even saving money???)
Fourth year finally got around to DIY and love mixing and am buying so much lessjuice and that is good because I was PIF'ing tons of juice (money) because it was going bad before I could use it.
(that was OK because I found a Recovery/rehab residence where vaping was allowed and most folks were poor and needed juice)
I am pretty well set gear wise, the buying of flavorings has now taken on the extreme that buying juice once did but I am still saving as my cig habit was ridiculously expensive. About $250-300 at a time and every 3-4 weeks. YIKES
Very awesome about donating the juice, what a wonderful thing to do!
I got extremely lucky the last time I started, and succeeded, at vaping. I don't have the hobby or tinker drive that many here do (and I envy the hell outta them) but I almost blindly landed on gear that my husband's coworker recommended and I got it to work to my full advantage five months later.
The gear (should) could be considered a ripoff but I quit smoking with it so it was worth its weight in gold (and maybe I should have had a more solemn ceremony for it/them rather than simply chuck the lot in the recycle barrel at Lowes). Also lucked into a good (expensive) juice that I loved (and stained my teeth) which helped immensely in the quitting process.
I've probably spent $100-$150 on things that didn't pan out for me. Some of that I was able to PIF, dreaded stuff I junked, and other stuff I hang onto in hope I can stalk me a smoker and make 'em quit.

In the end that was what I'd have paid for smoking for just over a week or so, or a week of doctors/medications during the cold/flu season. I miss seeing my Dr., we have whacko dogs in common.
That is so kwel, thanks for helping others.
Being able to vape outside is nice. I have been spending time in my workshop the last few days. Made a couple more pens and doing a load of cleaning. I'm now taking a brake on the porch of the workshop and vaping my ADV. I just got a notice on my tablet telling me that we are under a severe thunderstorm watch. It's a good thing I allow myself to vape in my workshop.LOL
Vaping outside is nice, unless it's hay-fever season. Only downsides to vaping I can think of is cigs were better at dealing with bugs and pollen than vaping is.
PAGING
@Diver9543 - Are you okay? We had a severe thunderstorm warning and tornado warning recently (we're at 3,000' in the mountains, go figure) and it turned out they weren't kidding. For once. Hope you are okay and suffered no damage or inconvenience. You bought the kayak, right?
My shipment of flavours has been released by biosecurity, and will come on the next ups run. I'm hoping it was only the 2 documents. Can't believe they charge the recipient of parcel (me) 30$ For every document they process during the process of evaluation. What malarkey.
Glad your shipment is progressing but that's BS. At the least you should only pay if they found something wrong with the shipment, not because they got a wild hair and decided food flavoring might be illicit.
newp, legs said he counted 40 something one time on the BP. That mighta been a record, but I dunno, cuz I don't count them
See, that's why it's no contest.
