As you prepare to quit you calculate how much you spend but that’s not the real cost of vaping.
Smoking is not only device and liquid. Your gains from quitting will be much larger than that and I’m not talking about spiritual and health here. So what is the real cost of vaping?
The first part of this calculation is e-cigarette and liquid. This is the easiest to calculate expense as you can feel it every time you go into store or order it.
When I switched I noticed that e-cigarette was hurting my wallet much less compared to regular cigarettes. I liked to test different vaporizers so that was additional expense but still using e-cigarette is cheaper.
It is cheaper and even as it gets taxed more it will still remain comparatively cheap. So money wasn’t important motivating factor.
The real cost of smoking appears only when you start to consider the impact nicotine addiction has on your health and on your life.
Some employers aren’t very happy about smokers because they are ill more often and they take more brakes. Every time your boss is passing by your desk and he sees that it is empty he puts a big minus for you in his mind.
You probably heard about employers encouraging their workers to quit smoking by giving them additional holiday days or bonuses.
They do this not because they care about your health. They do this because your smoking is costing them money. You can be sure that all vaping brakes are being noted.
You are considering two candidates for a promotion. Both are performing more or less the same but one is a smoker. Every time you look at her/his desk it seems that he/she is either away on a smoke brake, coming back or going for a break.
Who would you choose?
And that’s the problem with that advice to calculate how much you spend on smoking. What you spend on e-cigs, liquids, accessories and shipping is not the full cost you are paying for your habit.
The real cost of smoking is much higher and it involves money you spend on missed opportunities and other expenses you encounter due to you slavery to nicotine.