It's true, I vape way more than I smoked as it's so nice and easy to do. Been trying to cut back a bit.
But it's not smoking, if I smoked as much as I vaped, my throat would be shot to hell after a day or two.
As long as you get a good vape I think it's pretty damn effective at stopping people from smoking.
You dislike the taste, smell and harshness of cigs after vaping for a little while.
I make my own flavours, it's pretty easy and very cheap. Make my own wires, (only need like 1 set of coils every few months, as long as you can dry-burn them - this is for the dripping atty's). Quite a lot to read on if you want to do things manually, otherwise it can get pretty pricey. Very do-able but there's a few stages to go through learning resistance, skill in making the coils, knowing how to make ejuice flavours that come out to your taste - but it's worth it in the end. You get pretty self-sufficient. Now, it costs me very, very little to maintain.
But I bought shitloads to get to this stage
Mostly because I was really into it.
Even spent hours practicing certain coil designs with wires and a drill plus some other tools to get the most flavour out of each puff.