They say your taste buds will change.... Caution

[Borescoped]

IMO, spend what you would have spent on analogs until you find out your best set up. You would have burnt (literally) through that money anyways. Initial cost up front might seem like a lot, but as others have posted, over time, your costs should start coming down. That is, if you aren't buying the next new "ooohh!! Shiny!!!!" All the time.

 

[rogergendron1]

Cheaper at first. . . No. . . until you find the right deviCe and the flavors that you like it is definitely not Cheaper.

But as of now I have found my spot I use a hyBrid Dripper with cotton 28 gauge kanthal and aBout 3 different juices from mbv
my devive was about 100$ the juice i buy bulk 30$ that cotton was free and enough to last a lifetime and the kanthal was 7$ for 100 feet, I have enough supplies to rebuild my hybrid for a very very long time and as of now $30 but me enough juice to last the next 3 months.

I also keep an eye taste MVP and a large boge f16 tank around I use it for work we're bringing my hybrid is not feasible. A box of 2 on cArtos is only $5 And becAuse I only use it At work the lAst A very long time.

So now it is fray cheaper but in the beginning it was a little more expencive. Smoking cost me 10-12 bucks a day. I dont think i ever spent more than 70-80 bucks a week on vaping lol now i havent spent a dime on vaping for over 2 months. And i still have plenty of juice and wire and coil.

 

[Diogopm]

The initial cost is high. But I think people buy too much stuff. I bought an ego-c starter kit and some evod's. Two weeks from now I will be buying a provari mini. Hopefully I will stop buying hardware and focus on buying e-juices.

When it comes to e juice I have seen sample packages of twenty four liquids for a very cheap price. And even if you don't buy sample units, a single bottle of ejuice is quite cheap (arround 5€). I already have an "All day vape" and other liquids that I do love, but I want to try even more since I just found dessert juices! =)

 

[Borescoped]

I wouldn't say "Caution", sounds alarmist. While it is true your taste buds will change, they change for the better when you stop smoking.

 

[mkbilbo]

Cheaper at first. . . No. . . until you find the right deviCe and the flavors that you like it is definitely not Cheaper.

Ya know, that too depends. Even down here in anti-tax Texas, they boosted taxes on cigs so high, the prices doubled (the state jumped in when the feds boosted taxes, tacked theirs on top). An average carton is around $65 which is pretty close to a mid-range starter kit in the vape world. I'm on a pretty tight budget these days (one really good source of work was in Spain and, man, that fell apart badly, the whole country almost went). So I kept track of my spending fairly closely and it more or less a wash. Since the smoking came down so much even the first week, I spent more or less the same amount I would have smoking even though I floundered a while trying different set ups.

Like you say:

Smoking cost me 10-12 bucks a day. I dont think i ever spent more than 70-80 bucks a week on vaping...

Yeah, even at the beginning when I was buying a lot of different juices and trying different things, I wasn't really spending more than I used to with the smoking. In fact, not too far into this vaping thing when I realized it was going to take some experimenting, I deliberately set my "budget" at "no more than the cigs were". And that bought a lot of stuff.

Now I spend very little. $43 last month. Nothing this month. Thinking of $20 of flavorings soon. But no rush. Have some stuff I haven't tried in a while, I should go back and retry some of the juices I didn't like since your tastes change as you get further from the cigs. Still, it's dirt cheap up against what I used to spend. Two packs a day here, you're talking $13 a day. Easily over $300 a month.

Urk.

I wonder if it looks "expensive" is because it's new? I mean, as smokers, you just buy the cigs. You don't really pay much attention to how much you're spending. It's just habit and routine. A kind of "constant". And, heh, you probably just don't wanna know. Vaping is new so you're more aware of what you're spending.

But when I forced myself to sit down and add it up, I realized I'd have to work at spending more than I did on smoking. Like join the "Provari of the month club" or something.

(And, well, wouldn't you spend just about every dime you had on treatments trying to survive cancer? While vaping doesn't mean you're "guaranteed" not to get the various very bad diseases smokers risk, it's a pretty good bet at a dramatic reduction of your chances of getting those diseases. Cancers being among them. So... maybe it's worth spending some cash?)