An electronic cigarette with a limited service life includes a battery, a switch assembly and an atomizer, and further includes a control module and a smoking trigger module. The control module includes a counting sub-module and a main control sub-module the counting sub-module is connected to the main control sub-module, and is configured to record the number of puffs according to a monitoring signal transmitted from the smoking trigger module to the main control sub-module and the main control sub-module is connected to the battery, the switch assembly and the smoking trigger module, and is configured to control the electronic cigarette according to the number of puffs and the monitoring signal, and permanently disable the electronic cigarette in a case that the number of puffs reaches a preset value.
