Your Opportunity Cost

Vaping Cost Calculator ($)

What does vaping cost you?

What you buy

Use what you actually pay.

You throw the whole vape away when it runs out.

Disposable vapes

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That's $0 a week at today's prices.

Over the next 10 years, vaping will cost you about

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this year
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a month
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a day
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Chipotle bowls you could buy instead

That's also about 0 hours of work at median U.S. full-time pay ($31.28 an hour).

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This year$0$0$0
Next 5 years$0$0$0
All 10 years$0$0$0

If you invested it instead

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Ways to cut what vaping costs

Every dollar you don't spend on vaping is a dollar that can grow for you instead. Small changes add up over years.

Get free help to quit

Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW for free coaching, or use the free quitSTART app from Smokefree.gov.

Text for support

Ages 13 to 24 can text DITCHVAPE to 88709 for This is Quitting, a free program from Truth Initiative.

Talk to a doctor

A doctor or pharmacist can help you build a plan, including options like nicotine replacement.

Track what you spend

Seeing the weekly total in writing makes it easier to cut back and stick to it.

Move the money

Set up an automatic transfer of what you used to spend into savings or an index fund.

Set a quit date

Pick a day, tell someone you trust, and plan for the times you usually vape.

Disposable or rechargeable: what's the difference?

  • Disposable vapes come filled and charged (or with a small charging port). When the liquid runs out, the whole device is thrown away. They cost the most over time because you keep buying the battery and the electronics, not just the liquid.
  • Rechargeable vapes with prefilled pods (like JUUL or Vuse) use a battery you keep and charge, plus sealed pods you replace when they run out.
  • Refillable vapes use a battery you keep, plus a pod or tank you fill with bottled e-liquid. The coil inside, or the whole empty pod, wears out and needs replacing every week or few.

For prefilled pods, enter the pods under "Refills" and leave coils at 0. For refillable vapes, enter the e-liquid under "Refills" and add your coils or empty pods.

How this calculator works

Your results are estimates based on these assumptions:

  • Same habit every year. You keep buying the same amount for all the years you enter.
  • Prices rise 2% a year, the Federal Reserve's long-run inflation goal. Vape prices have recently risen faster because of taxes and tariffs, so this is likely low.
  • Investments return 7% a year, roughly the stock market's long-run average after inflation. Real returns vary a lot from year to year, so treat it as an illustration, not a forecast.
  • A Chipotle chicken bowl costs $10.75 today and rises with the same inflation.
  • Hours of work use median U.S. full-time pay before taxes ($31.28 an hour), rising with inflation.
  • Health costs aren't included, such as medical and insurance bills, so your true cost is higher.
For reference: a 2023 national survey found U.S. adults who vape spend an average of about $82 a month on it, or roughly $990 a year. Heavy users pull that average up.
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