Consumption Stats - Combusting vs. Vaping

The NYC aquarium visual in my head just half way sold me on getting a launch box. The unsold part is based on paranoia of driving back on the belt parkway vaped. Not that it would present any difficulty, except that driving buzzed is the same as driving drunk in the eyes of the law and that would ruin an otherwise splendid day. Actual risks do make me paranoid and it's a sense of blessed relief when I arrive, when I do drive. I understand what you're saying about smoking make you self conscious & paranoid; not so much with vaporizing. I'm not sure how the high I get from edibles makes me feel in that sense - I just don't remember to be honest. And if it does, it's simply one of a myriad of sensations and thoughts I'm experiencing. I know that when I do feel those things I've grown up enough to welcome them and see them as an opportunity for greater self understanding. I don't think the vaporizing high is lighter than the smoking high, but it is cleaner and it climbs, it is more floaty than debilitating. I find resolving complex dilemmas sometimes effortless, I find that when I'm doing a creative project especially with a friend that solutions effortlessly unfold in my mind as a visual, as opposed to when I'm straight and everything is intellectual and shallow.
I don't really take serious note of my combustion vs vaping consumption differences except that when I'm using the PD it blows me away how little I've used.
Three years into it and it still blows me away. Realistically when I'm using a whip vape there is definitely less herb used than when combusting but it's not as dramatic a difference as with the PD and there's also the factor of how much you milk the load with the whip vape - meaning, how many times do you stir it, do you raise the heater level as you go along - at what point do you acknowledge that the bowl is spent? That said, I may treat myself to a launch box and one of Ed's luxury launch box stems to go along with it.

measured the amount i typically use in a sesh today. the grand total is 0.035 grams.
which means that a gram lasts nearly a month if i use 1 sesh per day.

Ok, so go read my post on the MFLB forum, things have changed !

LOVE the MFLB + PA

I'm a dedicated vaporist, but I have no intentions of giving up combustion. The two disciplines live happily together in my practice- combustion used mostly for the speed of effect and minimal prep, while vaping is for more relaxed and savory sessions. I have a Model419 pipe that is so fucking awesome I would cry if I had to be without it and the same goes for my mflb, Kia, and Incognito.

Consumption-wise, I estimate vaping uses approx 1/4 less to achieve equivalent effect. The difference for me is not very large and I might even be overstating it, because I try to be as efficient as possible when smoking with my shiny lidded pipe (really, I can't overstate how sweet the 419 is). I can take an equivalent amount in either my pipe or my vape and get where I need to be, combustion is just faster, particularly when using ground material. That's not to say that it is "better", since clearly there are a lot of undesirable components in smoke, but hey, no one lives forever.

BAMF. I find myself huffing my vapor bong much more then I ever found myself conbusting. I would say I'm higher for more of the day while using pretty much the SAME amount of tree with vapor then opposed to combustion. I wish I could give exact weights but to be do truthful my scale's batteries have been dead since the start of the new year.

Just a thought, there are people who feel more difference between vaping vs combustion in a negative way, meaning they feel better with the combustion high, and there are does who have the exact opposite reaction, resulting in using more or less herbs.

Could it be that the ones who feel the "negative difference", are the ones who usually smoked with tobacco or who have/had a tobacco habit?

What do you guys think?

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I smoked tobacco mixes for 35 years, until the day my Solo arrived 6 months ago. I have not used any tobacco since, and my herb consumption has dropped by half. However, I do think vorrange has a point. That first day, I vaped the last of the tobacco mix I had, and got quite a quick kick from the nicotine. This leads me to think that much of the fast hit from a smoke is from the nicotine and combustion products like carbon monoxide. Former tobacco users could well miss this and feel they are being less affected, and so use more.

I have found though that while the vaping effect can feel less intense at first, you have to watch it; really it is as intense or more so, but it takes a little longer to build up. So I would have a couple of bowls, think "hmm... not much happening" and have another couple, by which time the first ones are really starting to roll and next thing I'm dozing off .

Well my usage has decreased a lot since i start vaping but also the prices and the amount i posses "_". In my combustion time i've had stashes 3 + KG(20 $ a kilo.. LOL good old times ). .. No it is not more than a gram usually .

My usage increased with vaping but only because I enjoy it so much more. I was a joint a night kinda guy for years with maybe a few bowls in between here and there. Now, shit....I hit the vape once an hour or so throughout the evening. I would say between my wife and I we cash about a grammy to a g and a half a night. By the way....I am totally OK with my usage increase - my wife says im much less of an asshole when stoned!

In my combustion days, i would easily go through 2g every 3 days, 20g/month.

Right now, its 4-5g a month on average. A 75-80% difference.

I'm dosing 3-5 x daily... Each dose is about .3 grams. I doubt I'm saving from not combusting, it's a wash. For a precise readout I vaped a QP, 4 ozs, in 73 days... That's 1.53 grams per day.

The main reason I bought the DBV was to decrease usage through increased efficiency. I was hoping I could reduce my consumption from 3-3.5g/day to about 1.5g/day.

My expectations have been exceeded. With my modified set up of using an 18mm/14mm reducer with a 14mm/14mm m/m adapter as the bowl I am vaping less than a gram a day, and getting higher than when I was smoking 3-3.5g/day.

Vaping is definitely the future. From conservation to health to ABV theres nothing about vaping I don't like,