Welcome to the forum.
Personally, I'd stay away from lowering springs only.
From my own experience, you'll only wear out the stock shocks faster, because they are manufactured to be used with the factory springs.
Sure they will work with lowering springs, but you'll have to change the stock items sooner rather than later due to the usage.
Save up your pennies and get either a full suspension setup or coilover system, Tein setups have my seal of approval, had a set of Tein coilovers on my previous car (Honda Prelude 2.2 VTEC JDM)