If you really want long term savings… how about ditch your nicotine habit? The estimates I’ve seen put the cost at $130,000 on average over a lifetime and that’s excluding whatever medical bills might pop up.
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months agoNo, I mean long-term as in costs. Over a year or two, won’t you be saving money?
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not habit, it’s an addiction. Telling people to just quit smoking or vaping as if it’s that easy is ridiculous. People spend their whole lives trying to give up nicotine.
skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I spend maybe $60 a year on vaping and I do it a lot. Key is though, mix your own juice and build your own coils.
A premade coil costs a few bucks. Replacing the cotton and wire in a diy coil is maybe a nickel. A bottle of premade juice is $20 these days where I am. Mixing my own costs at most, a dollar and that’s if I use more expensive flavor additives.
I won’t pretend it’s good for you, but if you’re gonna do it, no sense in half asking it and spending way more than you need. Plus it’s fun to experiment with new custom flavors.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Juice is sooooo easy to make too.
Where do you get flavors nowadays? I have a ton on backup from years back but when I looked online, prices at my normal places seem insane. I mainly need cap sweet strawberry and vanilla custard v2 (the one without diacetyl or whatever)
skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ve had good luck with nicotine giant, but pretty much everywhere has stock issues. They definitely carry both of those flavors but no stock at the moment.
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s absolutely flat out wrong and honestly concerning.
For a start nicotine addiction (vaping) has not been proven to have any long term health strain on the medical system. To say having a gambling problem is better is just crazy.
You realise the difference between nicotine addiction and gambling addiction right?
Feidry@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, in the long term you are saving money but if you have 20 bucks but not 100, what vape are you buying? That’s the point I’m making.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You just don’t vape then
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, smoke cigarettes again!
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s no cheaper, we’re talking about someone that can’t afford to spend 100$ to save money long term.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 months ago
Spoken like someone who never got hooked on nicotine.
"Why don't heroin users just stop doing heroin?"
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Was a smoker for over a decade but it wasn’t causing me financial issues.
Nougat@kbin.social 11 months ago
Honestly, even for twenty bucks, you can probably get a cheap rechargeable vape kit.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 11 months ago
You can definitely get a shitty one that will have you back on the disposables within a few weeks until you save enough for a good system. Source: been there done that lol
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 months ago
Personally, I can't keep a vape in one working piece for two years. Either the battery box fries, I shatter the tank, the USB port gets destroyed, or something else goes wrong. I'm very clumsy.
I have a box of backup parts and pieces at home because of this.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Goodness. I used the same SMPL+goblin tank for like five years straight. It’s still in great working order, I just got lazy and don’t wanna deal with wrapping my own coils anymore.
Froyn@kbin.social 11 months ago
$9 for the device - Vuse is the brand
Approx $7 per "cartridge"
$14 (on average) for a "Breeze Pro" disposable vape.
So it's cheaper, but about the same as regular cigarettes. Even worse, quality control on the cartridges is shoddy at best and I wind up moving the coil from a decent cartridge to one that failed less than 1/4 way through. At this point it's rare to have a coil last as long as it should.
Best way to save money is to quit. Dropped alcohol last year and THC before Thanksgiving.
Nicotine is next on the list, here's hoping for a cheaper new year.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nicotine is one of the hardest addictions to get over. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. I wish you good luck, but don’t blame yourself if you can’t quit.
I quit in 2000 and I think the only way I was able to quit was because I worked in a place where everyone smoked, so I got a ton of second-hand smoke. I doubt I would have been able to do it otherwise and it was still one of the harder things I’d have to do.
code@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nicotine isn’t the only addictive substance in cigarettes. As someone who has quit both cigs and vaping, it was by far easiest to quit vaping. It absolutely sucked - but nothing compared to going off tobacco. I still get massive cravings if I smell someone smoking nearby.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nicotine is one of the hardest addictions to get over. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. I wish you good luck, but don’t blame yourself if you can’t quit.
I quit in 2000 and I think the only way I was able to quit was because I worked in a place where everyone smoked, so I got a ton of second-hand smoke. I doubt I would have been able to do it otherwise and it was still one of the harder things I’d have to do.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lol comparing it to heroin.
It’s not the substance itself that is addictive, it’s cultural aspects and ease of access. When you can throw a stone in any direction and hit a store that sells tobacco, it’s going to be harder to quit. Even if you are far away from a store, if your near any significant group of people you can find someone who will give you a cigarette.
Now if I wanted heroin it would probably take me a week to bounce messages around some of my more downtrodden acquaintances before I found a dealer. And you won’t find anyone who is going to share their heroin with you. If you knew the hoops people would jump through and fire they would walk across to obtain heroin, you wouldn’t compare that to cigarettes. Hardly anyone would do all that shit just for a smoke.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s compared to heroin in terms of how addictive it is. And considering people have spent their entire lives trying to quit and failed, that seems right to me.
I bet you think I made that up, don’t you? I did not.
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