$$ Vaping $$

[Stephaniems]

About 60.00 a month. About the same a day as what I spent on cigs but I quit them before the tax raise.

Wouldnt care cause its worth it everyday I stay off tobacco cigs.

 

[chuckie]

3-4ml juice@ 35cents per ml.=1.40$
1 atmz every 18 days avg @ 6.00$ = 30cents per day
1 battery @ 1.75 a month = about .06 cents per day . So an estimate of about 1.75-2.00$ per day. That's just daily use, it doesn't include PV purchase price.

 

[BullyBoy]

Well... there's this:


"Dow calls itself the world's largest producer and marketer of propylene glycol. Another propylene glycol producer, Huntsman Corp., has said it is exploring making the chemical from glycerin. In addition, the agribusiness companies Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland have both announced plans to make propylene glycol from glycerin."

Ok, forget those stupid windmills Boone Pickens has been hawking. I'm betting the house on ADM.

 

[Kent C]

Ok, forget those stupid windmills Boone Pickens has been hawking. I'm betting the house on ADM.

Lol. Boone already has given up the windmill project. He's going natural gas full speed ahead. GE/NBC may still be on the windmill thing though. You know that was originally an Enron project and GE bought it out.

 

[four2109]

Down to $5.02 a day after 5 months... But I don't need anything at this point, and won't for awhile.

 

[one_raven]

juice alone - between $2 and 3$/day (73¢/ml of Krystal).

 

[martha1014]

I am averaging 12.07 per day but I have enough on hand to last 6 months.

This is still cheaper than analogs since I smoked 3 packs a day which would be 15.00.

 

[elpasobob]

$500/120 days = $4.17 a day average so far including startup costs. But I have enough juice and supplys to last 2 years easy without buying anything else so it'll average about $0.65 a day for 2 year supply for me.

 

[Nate]

Generally, the longer you vape, the less expensive it becomes. Until yesterday, my cost YTD was about .80-.90 cents/day (pair of DSE-701 cigars from Puresmoker in February and a few extra carts and bottles of juice since = $170.)

One of those original cigars died last week (nearly 7 months ain't bad for an atty, no complaints!) so my YTD expenditure roughly doubled yesterday when I spent another $135 on a pair of shiny new platinum 701 cigars and a few extree batts.

Of course, before I quit smoking to vape, I was spending at least $4/day...
so I'm still in the black... and my lungs aren't.

 

[greenie]

The cost? I shudder and I just keep telling myself one can't put a price on good health.

 

[KDinKC]

The cost? I shudder and I just keep telling myself one can't put a price on good health.

I do the same.

I've been trying to get off analogs for years but everything only seems to work for a few months at a time. No telling how much I've spent on the lozenges that ended up just being a nic filler during meetings... I will hopefully get my first 510 in today and can try vaping. I've read throughout the boards and it sounds promising.

 

[Coriakin]

I spent $116 on my startup kit and enough juice to last me two months seventeen days ago. Figuring in my startup cost, I'm paying $6.87 per day, a bit more expensive than my pack a day habit of analogs.

If you look at it in terms of consumables alone, I'm vaping an average of 2 ml per day, with an average cost of $0.40 per ml, I'm spending a whopping $0.80 per day. That's a seventh of what I used to spend on analogs.

If you factor in atomizers and batteries and empty carts... empty carts for a 510 are $0.60 each and I figure I'll go through 10 a month. Atomizers are about $8 each and I'm sure I'll kill at least 2 per month. Batteries are around $12 and I'll be buying 1 a month. Averaged together, I'll be spending $1.93 per day.

That is considerably cheaper than my old pack a day habit of smoking analogs. I also can't quantify the health benefits, or put a price tag on the joy of being able to smoke inside.

 

[Snarkyone]

I make my own juice and I dip, I don't jack around with filling carts unless I am going out somewhere for the day that won't make dipping practical like an amusement park or something. I did buy Fluval @ $7 for a lifetime supply for polyfil if I need it though, $12 on PG 16 oz which should last about 3-5 years, Lorann Flavors $25 lifetime supply case, I reuse the original filter tips from the carts that came with the kit and from the spare packs of carts I have picked up here and there when needed. The price varies for unflavored PG with nic so that price is hard to pin down but for under $75 you should be able to get enough supplies to make your own juice for years. I haven't bothered to break it down into per day but I figure I spend $75 in a matter of a couple months for tobacco so the savings is considerable. Factor in the better health and the conversion is worth every penny out of pocket to start up that I spent. That's including the $50 or so in premixed juice to get going.

I think that's the part that throws a lot of people off when they first see an E-cig advertised or for sale. Gee, $60 for a gizmo I ain't sure will work, plus my regular tobacco cost (nobody plans on the amazing success they see) makes a lot of folks pass. It's a shame too because if they were educated on the long term financial benefit I think a lot of them would start a riot trying to get their hands on one. Without a doubt these are more economical than tobacco cigarettes. The only way it could be more expensive in my eyes is if you bought your carts prefilled for some reason.

 

[greenie]

I do the same.

I will hopefully get my first 510 in today and can try vaping. I've read throughout the boards and it sounds promising.

yay for you! I am happy for you.

 

[Moonstruck]

So far since 8/28/09 I have spent $381.24 which includes 2 901 start-up kits, 4 extra batteries, 4 extra atomizers, 1 recent KR808D-1 kit & extra cartomizers for my mom, approx. 20 10-ml sample bottles of juice and an order last night for 50ml of juice. I started vaping 9/3/09, but won't count that day since I had to charge up the batteries first. So starting 9/4/09, I would have spent $3.30/pack for Misty Lites, approx. 2 packs/day X 22 days = $171.60. So my true cost so far: $381.24 - $171.60 = $209.60. $209.60 for 22 days comes out to $9.52/day EXCEPT I have enough juice now for the next 3-4 months. Using a conservative estimate for 3 months plus the 22 days I've already been vaping: $209.60 for 112 days = $1.87/day.

If you don't count what I was spending on analogs, then the daily cost is $381.24 for 112 days = $3.40, still a very significant savings over analogs.

So far I am still using the same atomizer. Plus the above figures include my mom's new kit and cartomizers. So I'd say that's pretty good, and I'm really happy.

Of course the real savings is my health, and that is priceless.

 

[alvitae]

if you count start up - $5.77 a day.

If you don't - $1.50 a day.

After 9 or 10 days...