E Cigarette – E Cigar
E cigarette

Owning and using an e cigarette is a little different than hopping down to your local convenience store for a pack of smokes. First there is the planning that has to be in place to make sure you don’t run out of liquid or refill cartridges. You also have to charge your batteries and make sure everything is working correctly. I am not trying to make it sound like a huge deal because it isn’t, but it is a little more involved than lighting a match.

I want to talk about the price of tobacco cigarettes first, not the health price or total cost of ownership there, which is probably to high to actually measure, just the price of buying a pack of cigarettes and smoking them. In my part of the country cigarettes cost about $5.50 a pack which is going up very soon which you can see on money central. I am not even going to use the $5.50 price for myself. I used to smoke about a pack and a half a day, but I bought my cigarettes in New Mexico for $35.00 a carton, or $3.50 a pack. So that is my reality. I smoked 10-1/2 pack a week so it was costing me about $2002.00 a year to smoke cigarettes. It cost me $38.50 a week or $165.55 a month figuring 4-1/3 weeks a month, all of that to smoke 210 cigarettes a week.

Our refill cartridges are about the equivalent of ½ a pack of cigarettes and cost .80ea. So for me just the cost of refills would cost $16.80 a week or $72.24 a month or $873.60 a year. A savings of $1128.40 but that doesn’t take the price of the device and replacement parts into account. Lets say that every year I need to buy a super mini e cigarette kit at $50.00 and I go through 6 atomizers at $9.50 each and 2 extra batteries at $15.25 each. Total device and parts would cost me somewhere around $137.50. If I add in those costs I am still only spending $1011.10 a year and saving about a grand. I don’t know about you but for me that is almost a house payment. (Or a trip to San Diego) which is what I prefer.

I believe my costs will be even lower with the Johnson Creek smoke juice but I haven’t been using it long enough to tell you for sure. Early indications are that there will be a difference and maybe even close to half. But I will still need to buy refill cartridges once in a while because they do wear out even with the juice. I have no idea how much you smoke or how much you would save, but for me even if it cost more I would still use it. At this point my family would insist, they love not smelling smoke in the house.