Quit Smoking and eventually save big bucks.

[Fran Glad]

I have smoked cigarettes for over 45 years. Tried everything to quit, then I found vaping.
I read the other day that it is not nicotine that hooks you. It's all habit. That's why nicotine patches and gum fail. I guess I am hooked on vaping. Why, because it's a fun habit.

I haven't had a cigarette in over a year. This is an amazing feat considering I had a triple bypass 5 years ago and still kept smoking.

When I first stated vaping I kept a pack of smokes in my garage just in case. I kept thinking about going and getting one but I kept saying to myself give it 5 minutes and vape a few puffs instead. It worked. Baby steps.

After 3 weeks of vaping with 18 - 24 mg of nicotine I started cutting down. After a year I started making my own juice to save money. I get 4 times the juice for the same price. This was a new fun thing to keep me vaping. I am doing no nicotine for 4 months now. Again baby steps.

I swore I would never quit smoking. Even if I couldn't vape now I still would not light a cigarette ever again.

 

[leftyandsparky]

Congratulations!

 

[bnrkwest]

Great job, congrats!!!

 

[BrotherBob]

Welcome and glad you joined. Ditto, only longer smoking. If more folks quit the way you described, maybe vaping would be free of government interference. Good for you.

 

[OhTheAgony]

Congrats!

Nowadays it's really just a hobby for me rather then something I depend on, which makes the "saving big bucks" part of your thread-title a bit difficult sometimes, lol

 

[PaulBHC]

Welcome and good for you. Two smokers here have spent a lot on vape stuff but saved many thousands on cigs.

 

[lynn508]

When I first started vaping after 47 years of smoking and spending 250.00 a month on 5 cartons at the indian casinos. I decided to spend half on ecigs each month for awhile then it went to 1/3 now I may spend 50.00 every few a months just because I am stocking up. I figure I have saved about 9000.00 in the last 5 years and still bought every thing I wanted. No wonder the gov't is going to ban this.

 

[Alter]

Congrats on loosing the Nic.
Ciggys are more expensive in Canada but I smoked 35 years and my wife 25 years at around $600.00 a month for both of us to smoke. Now a premium carton costs $120.00 at the grocery store at minimum of 4 cartons per month for 2 smokers
I do say over the last 3+ years of vaping I've bought a couple thousand worth of gear experimenting with what works best. Between rebuilding attys and DIY juice so with all our gear already bought its costing less than $20.00 a month on juice for both of us. I still buy some gear just to keep up with the times but its peanuts compared to the cost of smoking. We are working on weaning off the nic, 24 when we first started with the clearo's and now with good gear my wife vapes 3nic juice and I vape 9 with lowering even further on the horizon.

 

[sofarsogood]

I have smoked cigarettes for over 45 years. Tried everything to quit, then I found vaping.
I read the other day that it is not nicotine that hooks you. It's all habit. That's why nicotine patches and gum fail. I guess I am hooked on vaping. Why, because it's a fun habit.

I haven't had a cigarette in over a year. This is an amazing feat considering I had a triple bypass 5 years ago and still kept smoking.

When I first stated vaping I kept a pack of smokes in my garage just in case. I kept thinking about going and getting one but I kept saying to myself give it 5 minutes and vape a few puffs instead. It worked. Baby steps.

After 3 weeks of vaping with 18 - 24 mg of nicotine I started cutting down. After a year I started making my own juice to save money. I get 4 times the juice for the same price. This was a new fun thing to keep me vaping. I am doing no nicotine for 4 months now. Again baby steps.

I swore I would never quit smoking. Even if I couldn't vape now I still would not light a cigarette ever again.

A familiar story. For me it was $3,000 a year for a carton a week to $30 a year for DIY. If it wasn't for stockpiling my annual cost to vape would be under $100. Vaping is less expensive than the cheapest quality cigarettes in the world. All the discussion about vaping is health issues but I think the economics is at least as important. Being healthier is fuzzy, nebulous. Everybody understands saving money, especially when it is a lot of money.

Then ecig technology is super robust. There are a lot of approachs that work and all of them are dirt cheap compared to the cost of cigarettes, which are high only because of taxes. But ecigs are less expensive even if there were no taxes on cigarettes. It will be the cost advantage that crushes tobacco, not health issues.

 

[DixieDawn]

Congratulations! It's such a wonderful feeling, isn't it?!?! I do admit, I miss holding that skinny little cigarette in my hand, rather than these large devices, and do wish that someone could emulate a cigalike that actually lasted that I could vape that let me "hold" like a cigarette, I really miss that "feel" for some reason too.... but man-oh-man, I do NOT miss all the down sides of smoking!! *So* glad you are here!!! Welcome!

 

[subwayaznm]

Great Deal there

 

[Fran Glad]

Congrats!

Nowadays it's really just a hobby for me rather then something I depend on, which makes the "saving big bucks" part of your thread-title a bit difficult sometimes, lol

My Son-In-Law only vapes on occasion and my daughter has totally quit after 6 months.

 

[leftyandsparky]

I've been smokefree since October 28th and I still have a pack of cigarettes in the freezer!

 

[gingertalk196]

Fran Glad, welcome and good to have you here! Congratulations on being free of cigarettes for one year Isn't vaping great???

 

[Racehorse]

I can't think of ANYTHING that has ever come onto the market that didn't eventually somehow get "tied" to the price of the thing that it was improving/replacing.

Its like those light bulbs that are supposed to save you money, but they are 5X or more expensive than regular light bulbs.

In Arkansas, everybody brags about how low our property taxes are, esp. once you apply your $350 homsteading credit. What they dont' talk about is that there is sales tax on everything, even groceries. If they stopped having taxes on groceries then the cost of my driver's license and registration would go markedly up. (still very cheap here for now).

"They" get the money, and I have always been realistic about that being true.

I would have vaped even if it were more expensive than cigarettes. I still would, if I had to go back and do it over again.

I like solar panels. They are expensive. But I like what they do but it would take me a long time to recoup my initial $$ outlay to actually start saving money.

 

[ReikiHealer]

That is awesome and I love hearing that you were able to quit smoking! Congratulations!

 

[champions]

Welcome!! Congrats. I've been vaping for over 6 years. At 6.50 per pack and a pack and a half per day I would have spent over $23,000 on cigarettes.

Even if I spent $90 on every mod/atomizer combo I'd have well over 200 mods and all the juice I could ask for. Of course I have found other ways to spend that money, but... I'm healthier!!

 

[Fran Glad]

I've been smokefree since October 28th and I still have a pack of cigarettes in the freezer!

Thru mine away 6 months ago. Had to defrost the fridge. LOL

 

[Fran Glad]

Welcome!! Congrats. I've been vaping for over 6 years. At 6.50 per pack and a pack and a half per day I would have spent over $23,000 on cigarettes.

Even if I spent $90 on every mod/atomizer combo I'd have well over 200 mods and all the juice I could ask for. Of course I have found other ways to spend that money, but... I'm healthier!!

WOW That's the price of a nice car.

 

[Fran Glad]

My husband calls this a hobby. I rather have a hobby than a habit. LOL