Disposable vapes are some of the hottest vaping products on the market these days. Compared to buying a traditional vape kit, though, buying disposable vapes comes with an added challenge because you need to know how long you can expect the devices to last. If your last disposable vape runs out of vape juice unexpectedly, you might have to resort to buying another vape that isn’t your favorite. If you don’t have a local vape shop, you might even feel tempted to buy a pack of cigarettes while you wait for your shipment of vapes to arrive. You don’t want that to happen, so it’s important to plan correctly. To do that, you need to know how long disposable vapes last.
To understand how long a disposable vape should last, you must first understand what the puff counts on the devices mean. How long, for instance, can you expect a vape with 5,000 puffs to last? That’s where we’ll begin.
Many of the best vapes on the market today have the capability of potentially lasting thousands of puffs. It’s important, though, to have realistic expectations because the number of puffs that you’ll get out of a device will depend in large part on how you vape. The reason is because the expected puff counts for disposable vapes are determined using automatic smoking machines that puff on the devices for just one second at a time until they run out of e-liquid. So, based on the amount of e-liquid it contains, a 5,000-puff disposable vape can be expected to last about 5,000 puffs if each puff is exactly one second in length.
If you have some vaping experience, you can immediately see the potential problem here: Few people puff on their vapes for exactly one second at a time. If you time yourself with a stopwatch, you’ll probably find that your average puff is more like two seconds or potentially even longer.
Knowing that the advertised puff counts for disposable vapes are calculated based on a puff length of one second, it’s possible to estimate how long a disposable vape should last based on your own real-world vaping patterns. If your average puff is two seconds in length, you will most likely get around 2,500 puffs from a device that’s advertised to have 5,000 puffs.
Whether a disposable vape gives you 2,500 or 5,000 puffs, though, what does the puff count really mean in terms of how long it’ll last you – particularly compared to cigarettes? That’s what we’ll discuss next.
The question of how long a disposable vape lasts isn’t really best answered in terms of a certain number of puffs. What you really want to know is how many days a device will last before it runs out of e-liquid. That way, you can determine how many devices you need to buy each time you stock up on vapes – and that’s not all. By dividing the cost of a disposable vape by the number of days that you use it, you can determine how much vaping costs you per day. You can also compare the prices of various vaping devices to determine which one is the best deal.
So, how long should a 5,000-puff disposable vape last in terms of days? When you smoke a cigarette, you typically puff on it about 10 times over a span of five minutes before putting it out. Therefore, you’ll get approximately 200 puffs out of a full pack of cigarettes. Does that mean a 5,000-puff disposable vape will last as long as two and a half cartons of cigarettes? That’s unlikely, given the fact that your average puff length will likely be longer than one second. It's definitely fair, though, to expect a 5,000-puff disposable vape to last a fairly long time.
To truly understand how long a disposable vape should last, it can be useful to think of the device in terms of its nicotine content and compare it to cigarettes on that basis. We’ll turn to that topic next.
The question of how much nicotine is in a cigarette is not an easy one to answer, and we’ve devoted a full article to that topic elsewhere on this site. The question has no simple answer because cigarette brands differ in their nicotine content. Also, there can be a significant difference between the amount of nicotine in a cigarette and the amount of nicotine that your body actually absorbs when you smoke. The same is true of vaping – not all of the nicotine in the e-liquid will actually end up in your bloodstream – but it’s possible to make some broad generalizations.
Based on the above calculations, a disposable vape with 800 mg of nicotine should last about as long as 3-5 packs of cigarettes if the bioavailability of the nicotine is similar.
As you can see, there’s no easy answer to the question of how long a disposable vape should last. If you look at in terms of the nicotine content, the expected life if the device is much shorter than it would be if you were only comparing disposable vapes to cigarettes in terms of how many puffs you get out of them. The true answer is probably somewhere in between those two extremes. Therefore, the really important thing isn’t knowing how long disposable vapes should last – it’s understanding how to make them last longer.
We’ll conclude this article with a brief overview of the things that you can do to make a disposable vape last as long as it possibly can. As we explained above, you can calculate how much you pay each day to vape by dividing the cost of your favorite vaping device by the number of days you use it. Therefore, the more days that you’re able to get out of a device, the lower your daily vaping expenses will be. So, how do you get more days out of a disposable vape? All that you need to do is follow these simple rules.