Annual Cost of Smoking

I quit after 19 years of smoking. I used the nicorette gum,but quit using it after about a month due the side affects ( hair falling out, teeth falling out etc...). < luckily none of which happened to me. So now it's been 37 days nicotine free. It feels great. I can breath again. My cravings have almost become non existent, but when I do crave one they are pretty brutal, but I deal with it and they seem to pass fairly quick. I'm know I'm not out of the woods yet and may take a while to get there but so far this is the best attempt to date. Yearly cost for me here in ky, roughly 2k a year

 

My dad used to be a heavy smoker. when i was little i kept nagging him to quit so now i will never smoke

 

Just bought one of these bad boys. I had the blu's before, just werent cutting it. These definitely curb the cravin, best part is the battery lasts forever. Immediately I went to only smoking a cig occasionally to curb the craving. Usually one every day or two at most. Cigs taste like crap after this sweet taste.

 

Fanciest crack pipe I've ever seen!

 

4 year pack a day smoker...Quit, took me 2 weeks and I was completely off.

Thanks to Joyetech and the abundance of vape shops in SoCal, down to 12mg of nicotine (half the amount of a cigarette). No harmful carcinogens, just flavor, vegetable oil, and nicotine. Organic juice only, developed locally using locally grown fruits.

Joyetech eVic (electronic vapor intelligence cigarette), running at 7.0 watts (4.6 volts) with Cirrus long glass tank and 3.0ohms resistance cartomizer. I get about 500-600 puffs in per day, using about 1 tank of juice per day, and the battery lasts me about 3 days.

 

I don't smoke anymore but lets just do it for shitzngiggles.
1pack of camel filters a day= 5 bucks
5x365=1825$ a year

Got bronchitis 3 times in a row, said fuck this

now i use that money to buy food

 

If you factor in the decrease in your life expectancy which leads to decreased lifetime income, and the increased cost of healthcare when you are sick for the final years of your life, the cost of smoking is huge!!

I used to smoke 2 packs a day and I quit cold turkey 22 years ago. Smokes were around $5 a pack back then so I was spending $3650/year but that would be closer to $7500 now!

 

Cold turkey about 10 years ago. Had the cold sweats and shakes during my withdrawal period.

 

"I got bronchitis, ain't nobody got time for dat!"

 

I quit cigs cold turkey, but every few days i load up a good bowl of fine pipe tobacco.

 

My roxi habit killed me, my bourbon habits hurt, and my cig smoking was of least concern. Seriously though quit all but bourbon and I have tons of cash.

 

I started taking the Chantix 5 weeks ago. Haven't had a cigarette in 3 weeks, and the last 4 days prior I made a pack last all that time. I bought a Blu E-cig just in case and leave it in my truck so I have to get up, put my shoes on, go outside....makes me less likely to even touch it.

I started walking on my break at work instead of smoking. Gets me out of the office still.

Tired of smoking, started at age 14 and I'm coming up to 40. $8-something a pack (I was buying 2-3 a day for us both) and they are going up another $1 a pack soon. That and I had a cancer scare earlier this year..gave me a lot to think about.

 

I quit cold turkey with the help of those large red atomic fireballs.

 

I smoked for 25 years almost a pack a day. Never really wanted to quit. I enjoyed smoking. My mother was a smoker and died of cancer(related to smoking), then the following year my father died of bladder cancer (also related to smoking). Then I started to think about quitting. 3 month layer I had to spend a week in the hospital for back problems, got out of the hospital anc cached a cold. Tried a cigarette and tasted like shit and quit. Missed it for about a year, specially after a meal. I don't really feel better, but the smell .......Every time I'm next to a smoker , I can believe i used to smell like that.

 

I quit on 5-5-05 and have never had the urge to smoke again.

How you ask?

Well I tried a few times in my 20 year smoking career.

I tried cold turkey and tried with the patch.

Again I said I TRIED.

Then one day I got out of breath doing something simple and I said "THIS IS FUCKING STUPID". Once you find you fuck this moment you will have no problem quitting. At least TRY a few times before that moment or just go for it.

So I went to the Dr and got a prescription for Zyban (I did this because my mom did it and she never smoked again) and got some patches. Next thing I did give it some time to figure out a date to quit. I realized 5-5-05 was coming up so I picked that as my date and started all the crap. On the day I quit I also quit coffee and I got a bunch of Alive vitamins. So I did all of that. Vitamins for about 3-4 months and no coffee for about 9 months. That was the hardest part quitting the coffee. But luckily I am back on the coffee now

Good luck to anyone quitting. Its the best thing you can do for yourself.

 

quit cold turkey, 5 years ago. havn't touched one since. saved a bunch of money! not to mention your chances of cancer decrease dramatically the longer you quit.