Question for people who live where cigarettes are CHEAP

[chinolofus]

i rolled my own filtered cigs with a machine. its about $7 a carton and i smoked 2-3 packs a day. i buy my adv in bulk from mbv and it comes out to about $6 dollars a month. i usually go through 2-3 atties a month on my iclear 30's. so yea much cheaper for me even though i didnt pay much when i smoked.

 

[Oberon75]

i rolled my own filtered cigs with a machine. its about $7 a carton and i smoked 2-3 packs a day. i buy my adv in bulk from mbv and it comes out to about $6 dollars a month. i usually go through 2-3 atties a month on my iclear 30's. so yea much cheaper for me even though i didnt pay much when i smoked.

Same for me although I could no longer get mine that cheap after my state put a tax on RYO tobacco. RYO manufacturers did find a way around it by selling pipe tobacco instead but I always found it harsh and disgusting. But even rolling regular tobacco was still only $17 a carton after the tax.

So yea. Vaping does cost me more then Smoking. Especially when the only thing that has kept me 100% cigarette free has been Sub-Ohming.

So I guess it frustrates me when vendors sell for what they do. People think they are getting a great deal because all an ex Marlboro or Newport smoker knows is "Cheaper then Cigarettes" but the markup on so called premium juices like Halo and even Nikoticket is absolutely ridiculous. If people only knew what their juice actually costs to make.

The only time I pay that kind of price anymore is from the B&M because I have the convenience of not waiting for vape mail and not needing to steep. Since my B&M chain runs so many coupons, I can generally get a variety of juices for even cheaper then the actual vendor charges. I might actually go in the morning and snatch up another 45ml of Cuttwood for $24. They are also doing Halo for $10 for 30ml which is half the cost of what Halo charges.

Otherwise I'm now using ITC Vapes which is the absolute best juice on the market for the price after steeping. I'm sorry but these other vendors juices are not even close to $90 to $125 better then the 240ml I'm buying from them for $36. Everybody should be charging what ITC, Vape Wild, Vista Vapors and Mt Baker is charging.

If regulation and taxation happens to the point where vaping costs even close to the cost of traditional cigarettes or Vuse Ciga-Likes, an a former RYO smoker, I will not be able to vape unless DIY products are left untouched. If I can't quit from there, back to RAVE Tobacco, I go.

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[dhood]

When I switched to vaping, I was smoking 2 packs a day at $51 a carton for Marlboro Menthols. My tag below shows what I would have spent on cigarettes in the 6 months I've been off. I actually added up, a couple of days ago, what I've spent the past 6 months on liquids, tanks, and batteries. The total is around $1400. So, yeah. I'm ahead of the game. And I've moved into building on Kayfuns and started accumulating DIY juice supplies to start attempting my own blends. Just in case. That will really save some money.

 

[HauntedMyst]

Back when I smoked, I'd drink. When I drink, I'd get drunk and get into fights. When I'd get into fights, I'd get my ... kicked and get tossed in jail.

Night of Smoking
$10 Pack of Smokes
$60 Bar Bill
$500 Bail
$1500 Dental Bill

$2070 Total

Day of Vaping
$1 DIY at most

Yeah, vaping is cheaper.

 

[bwh79]

I didn't even smoke that much (4 packs/week at about $5/pack, I think it worked out to around $2.85/day) and vaping is still cheaper for me than smoking ever was. Maybe not "ever" -- was a time when I smoked a pack a week and they cost $2.25. But those days are long gone, now, in more ways than one.

 

[Technonut]

I recently posted this in response to a member attempting to "justify" a vape purchase...

I don't need to justify a damn thing in any of my vape-gear purchases.. Over 4 years ago, I spent around $255.00 each and every month on cigs / cigars for many years. When I made the decision to start vaping a little over 4 years ago, I saw it as a reduced-harm substitution to tobacco smoking.. I figured that I didn't deprive myself of tobacco, and the $$ it cost, why should I deprive myself of vape-gear for the same cost?

Come hell or high-water, I had my tobacco every month. Other things sometimes went on the back-burner because of it. To this day, $255.00 a month remains my vape-budget. Whatever I don't spend on gear, goes toward other budget expenses.......

Works out well for me. I'm not vaping for sport here, or fooling around. I'm doing it entirely for better health, and hopefully tack a few extra years onto my life. Money does not figure in to the equation. Even after vaping for over 4 years now, I know damn well if I were to quit vaping today, within a couple of days I would be right back to my local tobacco shop buying cigs / cigars, and spending that $255.00 a month again. At least I have nice gear to show for the $$ spent now instead of a mountain of empty packs, wrappers, ashes, and butts. How could I have ever justified that? Thousands of dollars over the years just to wreck my health, and have absolutely nothing to show for it..

When I substituted vaping for tobacco smoking, I didn't hit the lottery or suddenly have extra money. It's the same addiction with reduced-harm benefits, which deserves the same money and attention as my tobacco smoking did. I only purchase quality vape-gear, and have managed to avoid the trap of constantly blowing cash on the majority of junk devices currently available with numerous QC issues just because they're cheap..

 

[NightSky]

I could easily vape for less than smoking would cost. I'm definitely a collector though and chase new hardware and like having multiple mech mods, multiple boxes, multiple ego style vv's, multiple rda/rta/clearomizers, etc. Comes out at a lot more.

 

[Alter]

I just asked at 711 this morning to a buddy who was having a smoke outside. Cigs are $15 bucks for a 25 pack. They have gone up 2 bucks since I quit 2 years ago. He asked me what I was vaping and I said menthol less wintergreen custard I made myself. All I can do is laugh to myself and have another vape.

 

[OlderNDirt]

When I started vaping, it was to quit thee cigs and that was it, so I never even thought about keeping track of the cost. Even though I thought I was spending more, it didn't matter since I managed to quit smoking. Well, this thread peaked my interest in how much more I had spent, so went back through my credit card statements. To my surprise, I have not spent more on vaping! Pretty much even, but I have enough gear and juice to last me probably 6 months without spending another dime.

And it is nice, as another poster stated, to look at all the gear I've accumulated rather then all that money just going up in smoke!

 

[somdcomputerguy]

..all that money just going up in smoke!

It's been 4 1/2 months that I've been vapin', and that's about $490 bucks not spent on nails!

 

[AndriaD]

I discovered a couple days ago that I had been smoke-free for 200 days; at a pk a day, that's 4000 cigarettes not smoked -- 20 cartons! They're somewhat over $50 a carton here, so that's over $1000 saved on cigarettes. I KNOW I haven't spent anywhere near $1000 on vape gear; probably about $600-ish -- and most of what I've bought, I still have -- less ejuice, cartos, etc -- the consumables. Some of what I have, the stuff I bought early on, I no longer use, so that was kind of a waste, in terms of money, but not wasted at all, since it was what I used when I first quit smoking. By any standard of measurement, I've spent less on vaping than I would have on smoking.

Andria

 

[BulletStopper]

I live in KY, the third lowest cigarette prices in the county (How much a pack costs)

Even here, I was just under a pack a day smoker so an annual cost around $1900.

I use a Provari 2.5, beauty ring and currently a Squape Reloaded (not a clone). I also rotate 2 Kayfun Lite Plus (neither are clones), with batteries and a charger, my hardware costs are $650.

I vape 3 - 4 ml of juice daily, at ~0.70 an ml average.

Even if I purchased new hardware every year that still puts my total costs for vaping over $300 savings.