While I would generally agree with you on that, nicotine is highly addictive for most, even in small doses. If the OP were to go from, say, one or two cigarettes every few weeks, to one a night, they're going to get hooked 99% of the time. I think a simple 510/808-style cigalike with refillable cartos and 0mg nicotine is better in the long run, and will still work out cheaper, as even at one cigarette's worth of puffs in a night, or more, a 30ml bottle of juice should last the better part of a month, maybe even longer, I know I could burn two cartos (1ml/ea) in a night, but I'm a heavy vaper..so if they're really only taking a few drags here and there, a 30ml could last up to three or four months in a proper glass bottle. Also DIYing nic-free juices is incredibly easy, as much as I shouldn't say it for risk of being yelled at, I'm helping a friend of mine get into zero-nic vaping to satisfy an oral fixation similar to my own, and she's already able to DIY pretty good mixes that even I enjoy after only a day or two, I just split her bottles and add nicotine to half for myself.
I was a pack/day smoker, and a 30 ml bottle lasts me nearly a month. And if the OP were smoking 1 cigarette/day, my response would be completely different. But if someone is smoking 1-4 cigarettes a month, they're not doing any real damage to themselves. And if they buy any e-cig starter kit, it would take over a year to pay for itself. As opposed to someone like me, whose starter kit + juice paid for itself in less than two weeks. I spent over $100 in July, and I'm still nearly $50 in the black vs. smoking.
For someone like the OP, I fear that vaping would become more than social, and significantly more expensive as a result.
The following is not trolling, just the result of extensive research:
The effects of vaping have not been fully researched. While I believe without reservation that it is less harmful that regular smoking, we do not know the long-term effects of using PG/VG as inhalants. We DO know that someone who smokes as little as the OP does is more likely to die WITH cancer, rather than FROM cancer. So with the known health effects of smoking, and the unknown health effects of vaping, I would still recommend that the OP just smokes 1-4 cigarettes per month.
"The devil you know..."
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