a pack a day smoker will save $4000 a year

[*mrgrizz*]

the add on the radio is telling me

where do they buy these $10.95 packets from?

they cost more than that when i quit years ago

[j*oono]

They must be talking about the days when people bought a pack of 20 or even 10.  

[*mrgrizz*]

wouldn't advertising the true cost be more effective?

what are they now $20 a packet? thats over $7000 a year

[j*oono]

Mr Grizz, I have an app that I put on my phone not long after I quit.  I was kind to myself in stating how much I was smoking.

Since I gave up 2 years and 3 months ago, I have saved $24,485.  Of course I haven't really saved it but that's what it tells me I would have spent on ciggies in that time.

I was a 50 a day smoker.

[*mrgrizz*]

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@j*oono wrote:

Mr Grizz, I have an app that I put on my phone not long after I quit.  I was kind to myself in stating how much I was smoking.

Since I gave up 2 years and 3 months ago, I have saved $24,485.  Of course I haven't really saved it but that's what it tells me I would have spent on ciggies in that time.

I was a 50 a day smoker.

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cool.

when i first quit i put a lot of stuff on lay buy.

i used to buy a carton every week, so paid that every week towards the lay buy instead. so i sort of had something to show for it.

[harley_babes_hoard]

yeah they cost me more than that when I gave up 4 years ago they were 12.00 a pack of 25

[boris1gary]

mate of mine started a "how many extra years in aged care" account when he gave up.

[jenni200011]

my workplace sells packets of 20 ciggs sometimes around ten dollars & we have a new pack now of 25 cigs for $13 and lots of people are switching from more well known brands to new brands to save  as they are nearly half the cost of more well known types..

[imastawka]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

the add on the radio is telling me

where do they buy these $10.95 packets from?

they cost more than that when i quit years ago

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  Only a 'never smoker'  would say  'a pack a day'

  Some packs are 50.  That's a lot of ciggies

[electric*mayhem*band]

And I'll bet the people who have packed in smoking, still crave a cigarette. I've heard many people who have been a non-smoker for as many as ten, twenty years or more, say they could kill for one.

Does the yearning for a smoke ever go away ?