I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

We replaced the wife's $180/mo smoking habit with a $150/mo AT&T 2 line iPhone contract. Now we're both hipster douchbags instead of just her being a smoking douchebag.

The first and only time I tried to quit, I became such a miserable asshole (even more so) my coworkers banded together and bought me a carton.

/csb
//maybe I wouldn't spend so much on cigs if I tried to quit more often
///like once a week

A Terrible Human: You could also buy a cigarette machine,tubes and tobacco or quit and not possibly die of a horrible cancer.
/Decisions,decisions.

Let's turn this into an e-cig thread right here and now.

If i quit smoking i cant complain about not being able to afford health insurance for the shiat caused by smoking.

violentsalvation: I spend much less than that. I get a carton every few weeks duty free (only supposed to get one a month, but oh well) the rest I fill in with $7 packs. It is stupid, I know.

♪ You like to stop at the duty free shop. ♫

$7-9 a pack? Is that what it really costs these days? Damn, last time I bought a pack it was like $3.00. Even at a pack a week like I used to do that would add up.

This worked for me (new window)

jingks: I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

Really? Smoking makes you cooler? The brown teeth, bad breath, brittle hair, body odor, and burnt carseats are really cool, dipshiat.

My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

A Terrible Human: You could also buy a cigarette machine,tubes and tobacco or quit and not possibly die of a horrible cancer.
/Decisions,decisions.

A friend of mine took the former option. Another friend of mine only smoked for part of the year. She would quit with the full intention of starting up again in a few months, start up again and smoke for a few months, quit with the intention of starting up again, wash, rinse, repeat.

"For those needing a bit more motivation to quit smoking, a U.S. physician suggests focusing on the thousands of dollars a smoker will keep in his or her pocket."

Money is no object when it comes to pleasure, or addiction. Besides, the label on the smokes tells you that it will kill you, If i still buy smokes after that warning, a measly 1500 - 3300 dollars won't motivate me to quit smoking.

You could also cut out pretty much anything else that entertains you and that you enjoy and save just as much money.

/I enjoy smoking. I'll never quit.
//It may kill me, but so might a myriad of other things.

AverageAmericanGuy: My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

And that's how you found out there was no Santa Claus.

jingks: AverageAmericanGuy: My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

And that's how you found out there was no Santa Claus.

WHAT?

I've been spending my "I quit smoking" money on higher quality food/ingredients. Pork Diablo anyone?

A Terrible Human: You could also buy a cigarette machine,tubes and tobacco or quit and not possibly die of a horrible cancer.
/Decisions,decisions.

Or you could stop doing something you enjoy and get hit by a bus tomorrow.

I've never met anybody that made it out alive. Give me a quick death at 60 over a slow buildup of medical conditions any day.

I quit smoking because I didn't want to date a smoker and felt that was hypocritical of me. Been a few years, though I do still light up if I'm drunk and someone has a pack.

AverageAmericanGuy: jingks: I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

Really? Smoking makes you cooler? The brown teeth, bad breath, brittle hair, body odor, and burnt carseats are really cool, dipshiat.

My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

You sound not-cool.

Your father died because he was human. Could cigarettes have been a contributing factor? Of course! Do you know what would have happened if he never smoked? No.

Also from the sound of it, cigarettes provided everything you ever had that came from your dad. You should thank RJReynolds for the roof over your head and the food on your table when you were a kid.

dustlesswalnut: AverageAmericanGuy: jingks: I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

Really? Smoking makes you cooler? The brown teeth, bad breath, brittle hair, body odor, and burnt carseats are really cool, dipshiat.

My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

You sound not-cool.

Your father died because he was human. Could cigarettes have been a contributing factor? Of course! Do you know what would have happened if he never smoked? No.

Also from the sound of it, cigarettes provided everything you ever had that came from your dad. You should thank RJReynolds for the roof over your head and the food on your table when you were a kid.

A pallet of cigarettes fell on him.

or you could roll your own for about 8 cents a cig

AverageAmericanGuy: A pallet of cigarettes fell on him.

Ah, so a failure to adhere to OSHA standards killed him?

Gee maybe I should take up smoking. I spend about 6500 to 7000 a year on chewing tobacco.

I used to rationalize the cost (which was not nearly as much as described in the story) by saying, Hey, that's why I have a job - to afford stuff like that.
Then the ol' employment airplane swooped REAL close to the ground, if ya know what I mean.
That was a good motivation to quit right there.
Oddly, there were no ongoing health issues that figured into it. Only the vague fear of future ones.

/quit Dec 28, 2009.

ArkAngel: The healthy decision can also stop you from getting the flue

If you have a furnace you need a flue!

Well, crap. There goes that.

/doesn't smoke.
//could definitely use an extra $3000 a year.

SumoJeb: Gee maybe I should take up smoking. I spend about 6500 to 7000 a year on chewing tobacco.

Wow, that's insane. Really? Is it just a matter of where you live?

metametameta: Well, crap. There goes that.

/doesn't smoke.
//could definitely use an extra $3000 a year.

Find someone who needs to quit but can't, and ask if you can be his "quitting coach" for a year. Charge him 1/2 of the $3300.

WildManBand: "For those needing a bit more motivation to quit smoking, a U.S. physician suggests focusing on the thousands of dollars a smoker will keep in his or her pocket."

Money is no object when it comes to pleasure, or addiction. Besides, the label on the smokes tells you that it will kill you, If i still buy smokes after that warning, a measly 1500 - 3300 dollars won't motivate me to quit smoking.

I found the best way to quit was not gimmicks or patches or whatever.. it was simply deciding that I was stronger than the urge to have a smoke. I quit a pack a day habit cold turkey and never went back.

and that happened years and years before watching my dad die of lung cancer...

qitty: I found the best way to quit was not gimmicks or patches or whatever.. it was simply deciding that I was stronger than the urge to have a smoke. I quit a pack a day habit cold turkey and never went back.

Similar for me, though I went cold-turkey for a year before I started allowing myself one here and there. In the three years since I quit, I've smoked about a pack and a half. If I get through the rest of my life on 15 cigs a year, I'll be happy.

dustlesswalnut: qitty: I found the best way to quit was not gimmicks or patches or whatever.. it was simply deciding that I was stronger than the urge to have a smoke. I quit a pack a day habit cold turkey and never went back.

Similar for me, though I went cold-turkey for a year before I started allowing myself one here and there. In the three years since I quit, I've smoked about a pack and a half. If I get through the rest of my life on 15 cigs a year, I'll be happy.

Awesome! If people could keep it to a reasonable amount, I'd be ok with it. I still love the smell of a nice cigar or pipe. Do not partake though, I'm a mom now, setting a good example :)

Smokes were about 8 bucks a carton when I started. 25 years later, they were pushing $30 at indian smokeshops and were considerably more on the street. For most of that 25 years, I smoked 2 packs of bare-ass Lucky Strikes a day (filters are for girls and gays). I quit in 1999 because I was told by a Phillip Morris executive that in tobacco states a pack of smokes is worth about a nickel at the factory door. By the time it gets to a store on the other side of the country, the price difference is all middlemen and government taxes. I decided to quit giving my money away to those assholes.

I figure the money I saved over the next decade paid for the Las Vegas condo I bought in 2009.

To all the heroic "I'll never quit" people - Have fun with your $9+ a day habit, suckers.

/ no, you don't "enjoy" smoking
// you're a junkie, stupid

I don't smoke, much less like a chimney. Can I have $3,300?

Or say fark the taxes and buy from cigoutlet.net.

You're welcome.

I love smoking. Maybe I'll quit some day, if I feel like it. I'm afraid all the whining and self righteousness of non smokers acts like a motivator to keep smoking, though. A smoke is nice, but a smoke that pisses off some whiner who just want to make you do what they want is wonderful.

I buy whole leaf tobacco for $10 a kilo and process it myself. That's $40 a year for a product that's better than anything you can buy in a store. I spend an additional $20-30 a year on papers, and my biggest expense is importing Swan extra slim filters from the UK, which runs me about $80 a year, postage included. And those aren't a necessity, as I smoked Lucky Strikes before I decided to be cooler than you.

Mofo_Jones: I don't smoke, much less like a chimney. Can I have $3,300?

Sure! Take a sealed box and put it on your dresser. Put $9 in the box every day. This time next year, open the box. Tadaa! (or, you know, just leave it in the bank and let interest accrue...)

Looks like I picked the wrong day to start smoking.

I'm down from 2 packs to 8-10 cigs a day. I'll quit in a few weeks. I kicked a mild painkiller addiction 25 days ago and I figure if I can do that then I can stop being a pussy and quit the smoking too. My motivation is purely financial. I did the math and realized I can buy a new car with what I've been spending on percs and smokes.

/Wellbutrin helps

pinchpoint: I'm down from 2 packs to 8-10 cigs a day. I'll quit in a few weeks. I kicked a mild painkiller addiction 25 days ago and I figure if I can do that then I can stop being a pussy and quit the smoking too. My motivation is purely financial. I did the math and realized I can buy a new car with what I've been spending on percs and smokes.

/Wellbutrin helps

Good for you for kicking the painkiller addiction :) You can kick the smokes too. It just takes attitude.