Vapor - Monthly Cost
- Thread starter gariq2
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
Well I'm brand new to vaping and my understanding is that unless it becomes a full blown major hobby it should be cheaper.... I myself just spent $50 on a kit and approx $40 on at least two weeks worth of juice... just on juice alone, with a "former" pack a day habit I will have already recouped $30 easy on the kit after that same 2wk time frame... but what's most important is the money I'm saving on the cancer sticks....
A lot of it depends on the type equip you use. You could prob figure 2ml of juice a day of what your using. If you are trying new equip/juice a lot it will be more. Once you get a setup you like it will become easier to figure. The first couple mos are the most expensive. In the last year I have saved more than 50% of what I would have spend on cigs.
I started vaping over three years ago. I have saved a ton of money and I was a roll your own with an average cost of only one dollar a pack. However, to save money at only a dollar a pack I had to make my own juice and not go crazy buying new APV's all the time. So it really depends on what your goal is. If it's to save money you can, if you want to new hobby you might still save a little but then again you might spend more.
Totally agree with 18SixFifty. I smoked a PAD and got them at $30 a carton. I've been vaping since April and spending about $20 a week including all the hardware I wanted to buy. Didn't go crazy, kept my budget in mind and now have a bunch of PV's, cartos, tanks and clearos. I think I will not have to buy more hardware for months. I'm also getting into DIY juices and that will save me a lot more, so this whole thing is getting a lot cheaper going forward for me.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? We're supposed to be SAVING money by vaping? I'm doing this all wrong! 
Just kidding. We've been vaping for nearly 2 months and would have spent $585 on cigs in that timeframe. We've ended up saving a total of $45... which I'll probably spend next week. No, we haven't spent the whole other $540 on vape gear. He still smokes about 1/2 PAD, but we were both PAD smokers. I'd say we've actually spent about $390 or so on vape gear. I tend to forget our 2 Mistic kits and 4 packs of cartos or so that we bought before we got good gear and juices. I will say that I totally underestimated how much juice I'd run through. I was guesstimating about 2ml/day... I vape closer to 4 or 5ml/day. He vapes 1-2ml/day. Think I'm going to have to take up DIY juicing pretty soon. I hate waiting on new flavors to come in the mail.
Just kidding. We've been vaping for nearly 2 months and would have spent $585 on cigs in that timeframe. We've ended up saving a total of $45... which I'll probably spend next week. No, we haven't spent the whole other $540 on vape gear. He still smokes about 1/2 PAD, but we were both PAD smokers. I'd say we've actually spent about $390 or so on vape gear. I tend to forget our 2 Mistic kits and 4 packs of cartos or so that we bought before we got good gear and juices. I will say that I totally underestimated how much juice I'd run through. I was guesstimating about 2ml/day... I vape closer to 4 or 5ml/day.
He vapes 1-2ml/day. Think I'm going to have to take up DIY juicing pretty soon. I hate waiting on new flavors to come in the mail.
You should start to diy your own liquid. I find that its gonna save you a loooooooooot in the long run. The first month im vaping i spend a lot on juices just for flavor testing... 10ml of hanseng here cost around 4usd. After i bought some flavouring from tpa and started to diy, it cost me less than 1usd per 10ml...
For my first month I broke even. At the rate that I like to buy juices and equipment I dare say I'll be lucky to stay at the broken even level. I can see people saving lots of money vaping but for me, I quit to save me, not money.
I gonna hold on to these while making an offer for a Darwin... LOL
It's probably cheaper, probably several times cheaper, but you'll probably spend more money per month when starting vaping than later on when you've found what you like, what you don't, and when you're looking for specific products so you can work on getting the best price. You can save yourself a bit of trouble if you avoid the cheapest starter kits. Don't bother with ones that look like cigarettes. You need a big battery or a well regulated VV mod that can hold an output while you take a vape. So I'd say get a cheap 18650 tube mod of some variety. Spend about $15-25. Get a 2nd one or at least a second switch for a spare. You'll need a charger and some 18650 AW IMR batteries or the Panasonic 18650 hybrids and a charger. That's like $40 plus shipping if you don't get spare parts. But if you do get a spare, both of them will probably last you through a year of testing out juice delivery stuff, cartos, tanks, clearos, rebuildable attys maybe, etc.
The recurring costs for really nice equipment appears to be low, but often requires some ability to tinker to see those savings, replacing wicks, being able to make sure the coils you wrapped are the right resistance, and many other steps that I don't venture into yet. As mentioned though, the best way to save the biggest amount is to make your own D.I.Y. liquid. The cost markup on ejuice is very high. I'm certain it's profitable in the order of a several hundred to a couple thousand percent, versus hardware which is about a 10-40% markup. If you make your own you'll save the largest amount of money you could right there.
The recurring costs for really nice equipment appears to be low, but often requires some ability to tinker to see those savings, replacing wicks, being able to make sure the coils you wrapped are the right resistance, and many other steps that I don't venture into yet. As mentioned though, the best way to save the biggest amount is to make your own D.I.Y. liquid. The cost markup on ejuice is very high. I'm certain it's profitable in the order of a several hundred to a couple thousand percent, versus hardware which is about a 10-40% markup. If you make your own you'll save the largest amount of money you could right there.
as the others have already said - it largely depends on how you vape if you will save money or not.
but let me float this by you - saving money is a LOUSY reason to vape. "saving money" is really an illusion because no matter how much you "save" that money is already out the door on somethng else. The money will never sit in your sock drawer accumulating. and the money "saving" will be a short term sense of satisfaction - it will last only until you feel broke again.
I am not discouraging you from vaping. Rather to get you thinking about other motivations for vaping so that you stick with it longer. With your level of smoking you probably wont save much money at all on vaping unless you DIY your juice and use a refillable system like clearomizers or a rebuidable atty.
So you will want to come up with other reasons to give vaping a serious go. Like - freedom from the nasty cigarette smell, not having to run off to buy smokes all the time ( huge time saver), less stigma, better health, more emotional ease. In the long run these things are really what makes vaping worth while.
I bring it up because I have seen people get discouraged with vaping when they realize, for them, the financial rewards are not very good.
but for someone like me - a 2 ppd smoker, financially the rewards are very worthy. My equipment cost and juice (DIY juice) is roughly 1 tenth my monthly cigarette costs. Still - I dont even count the financial rewards because in the larger view of things my real satisfaction comes from knowing I am living longer and with more life satisfaction than I would if I smoked those 2 ppd.
but let me float this by you - saving money is a LOUSY reason to vape. "saving money" is really an illusion because no matter how much you "save" that money is already out the door on somethng else. The money will never sit in your sock drawer accumulating. and the money "saving" will be a short term sense of satisfaction - it will last only until you feel broke again.
I am not discouraging you from vaping. Rather to get you thinking about other motivations for vaping so that you stick with it longer. With your level of smoking you probably wont save much money at all on vaping unless you DIY your juice and use a refillable system like clearomizers or a rebuidable atty.
So you will want to come up with other reasons to give vaping a serious go. Like - freedom from the nasty cigarette smell, not having to run off to buy smokes all the time ( huge time saver), less stigma, better health, more emotional ease. In the long run these things are really what makes vaping worth while.
I bring it up because I have seen people get discouraged with vaping when they realize, for them, the financial rewards are not very good.
but for someone like me - a 2 ppd smoker, financially the rewards are very worthy. My equipment cost and juice (DIY juice) is roughly 1 tenth my monthly cigarette costs. Still - I dont even count the financial rewards because in the larger view of things my real satisfaction comes from knowing I am living longer and with more life satisfaction than I would if I smoked those 2 ppd.
- Status
Similar threads
