Tobacco smoking has become the ultimate antisocial pastime. Nasty carcinogenic smoke has been sent outside, with smokers huddled around a glorified bus shelter in the rain to get their nicotine fix. The once sultry pastime of the 1920’s is now a kiss of death to your love life: The money spent of cigarettes that could be better used for a romantic candlelit meal or even a weekend away, ashtray breath, unattractive yellow brown teeth and fingers and the worry you cause a loved one over your health. Maybe it’s time to fall out of love with tobacco and direct your passion for your cigarettes elsewhere?
Electronic cigarettes are fast becoming the favourite way to give up the nasty side effects of tobacco smoking but without the strain of a nicotine withdrawal. The health benefits of electronic cigarettes over tobacco cigarettes are obvious, the tar and other harmful chemicals are absent from e-cigarettes, only a vapour agent and nicotine remain.
So, we all know e-cigs are better for your health, but did you know they will also have a positive impact on your bank balance? The cost of tobacco cigarettes is rapidly rising with an average pack of 20 setting you back around £7.50. With the average UK smoker getting through 14 tobacco cigarettes per day, a whopping £36.75 per week of your household budget is quite literally going up in smoke.
The way you chose to vape with e-cigs can vary, from disposable e-cigs to e-cigs with cartridgesor chambers that can be refilled very cheaply with e-liquid or e-juice. Even flavoured e-juices are available, from a traditional smoky flavour to pina colada and every variation in between. If we have a look at the set up costs of becoming an e-cig user, the cheapest starter kit comes in at only £19.99, nearly half the cost of your average weekly tobacco cigarette bill, and the only extra cost you will have is the e-liquid to refill your cartridge or the cost of pre-filled cartridges. If you prefer to keep it simple for starters, a disposable e-cig comes in at only £4.99 and contains the equivalent of 30 tobacco cigarettes. If you already have an e-cig, a prefilled cartridge is the popular refill choice for an e-cig novice. A pack of 5 cartomiser refills is around £10.00 and all 5 refills are the equivalent of 200 cigarettes, a massive saving of around £65.00 in your pocket.
Once you know e-cigs are for you a more technical piece of kit can be purchased, if you choose,with useful features such as a chamber so you can see how much e-liquid you use, extra rechargeable batteries, case and USB connector to charge your e-cig with. Even these can be purchased for as little as £50.00.For the e-juice connoisseur, a 10ml e-juice refill is a poultry £5.00 and, depending on how often you vape, will last around 2 weeks.
So if you are fed up of spending your evenings out stood in the rain (e-cigs are legal to smoke inside, as they produce no smoke), handing over more than the minimum hourly wage for a pack of cigarettes and you want to score some brownie points with your loved one this year, give e-cigs a try for yourself and start planning on what to spend your extra cash on!