I don’t know. There are some taxes on it of course, but you’d figure they’d bump up the price a bit.
When I quit 7 years ago I had to throw out about 3 or 4 packs I had kicking around at work and at home.
That never would’ve happened if I’d quit back in Canada. Even 10 years ago it was about $7.00 a pack in Canada, though in Canada the packs carry 25 cigarettes. I think in most parts of Canada it’s now almost $11.00 a pack!
It’s also my theory that high prices don’t always make people smoke fewer cigarettes. I think it may make people then see cigarettes as even more precious and I’ve seen my mom and sister, who still smoke, butt out a cig halfway to save for later. Jesus does that stink!
If you want to quit, the price, either expensive or cheap, should not be a factor.
I love the quit meters. Highly recommended. I got one, SilkQuit I believe, that stayed on my computer screen on the lower toolbar. It would just tick along like the national debt, but in a good way. It would remind me that I had momentum going and not to f*%k it up.
The meter dropped off over the years, I guess through computer upgrades and what not. I just ran my numbers again out of curiosity…I’ve been smoke-free for 3,249 days. Not smoked 81,229 cigarettes. Saved $19,699.
The money is significant but what really gets me is the 81,229 cigs not smoked! Holy Crap! I can’t get my head around that one!
[quote]Sweet Revenge wrote:
I love the quit meters. Highly recommended. I got one, SilkQuit I believe, that stayed on my computer screen on the lower toolbar. It would just tick along like the national debt, but in a good way. It would remind me that I had momentum going and not to f*%k it up.
The meter dropped off over the years, I guess through computer upgrades and what not. I just ran my numbers again out of curiosity…I’ve been smoke-free for 3,249 days. Not smoked 81,229 cigarettes. Saved $19,699.
The money is significant but what really gets me is the 81,229 cigs not smoked! Holy Crap! I can’t get my head around that one![/quote]
Yea the number of smokes gets me. I can’t think of anything that I’d do 283 times in a month, or that one would do 81,000 times over the course of a certian number of years.
I guess you never realize how you really smoke until you see it laid out…
[quote]Sweet Revenge wrote:
I love the quit meters. Highly recommended. I got one, SilkQuit I believe, that stayed on my computer screen on the lower toolbar. It would just tick along like the national debt, but in a good way. It would remind me that I had momentum going and not to f*%k it up.
The meter dropped off over the years, I guess through computer upgrades and what not. I just ran my numbers again out of curiosity…I’ve been smoke-free for 3,249 days. Not smoked 81,229 cigarettes. Saved $19,699.
The money is significant but what really gets me is the 81,229 cigs not smoked! Holy Crap! I can’t get my head around that one![/quote]
Yea the number of smokes gets me. I can’t think of anything that I’d do 283 times in a month, or that one would do 81,000 times over the course of a certian number of years.
I guess you never realize how you really smoke until you see it laid out… [/quote]
Reviving old topics! Been 32 days today since I’ve quit, how are you holdin’ up Irish? I feel alot better, although it’s not the first time I’ve quit. I found myself walking to the shop this morning (seriously stressful work-related exams coming up, fail and you’re fired) to buy some cigs. Broke into a jog around the block instead. Needed some motivation when I got home not to go buy them, and found it here. Cheers guys, keep up the good work and FU phillip morris.!
Hey dude- good for you! Yea I’ve been done since June 1 completely. Haven’t slipped up, even when I’m drinking.
What helped me out alot is I joined a gym around here (as opposed to working out in my basement as I was). It’s kind of a fighter’s gym, so I would feel like a douche if I was training my ass off there only to have a cigarette outside afterwards.
My work capacity and wind has gone through the roof. I used to be dying after a minute on a 100 lb. heavy bag- now, I can go three minute rounds on a 150 lber. at a pace I never could achieve before.
[quote]brutalmouse wrote:
Smoking doesn’t affect your strength as much as most people think…some people smoke and they’re still strong as a bull…[/quote]
I believe the common consensus is that smoking has a rather significant effect on endurance and cardiovascular health.
[quote]brutalmouse wrote:
Smoking doesn’t affect your strength as much as most people think…some people smoke and they’re still strong as a bull…[/quote]
I believe the common consensus is that smoking has a rather significant effect on endurance and cardiovascular health.
Not strength.[/quote]
Yup.
But hey, justify it how you like, that shit isn’t going to help anyone.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
I’m still going strong man. Yesterday was a month wihtout one… I ain’t going back. I feel wayyy better.
And I enjoy telling all my friends that they reek like cancer and death when they come in from smoking hahaha. [/quote]
Nothing worse than a reformed smoker!! It will get worse as you go. Pretty soon you"ll be an anti smoking ad. Good job man.[/quote]
I quit 7 years ago and have tried to not be one of those ex-smokers that tells off current smokers.
Though I can’t stand the smokers that say they only smoke 5 or 6 a day like that’s OK, or that they should get some sort of little trophy for that or the ones who quit and when they tell you how much they used to smoke it’s always 2 packs a day.
Also, when I’ve talked to someone that wants to quit, I get a little excited to help them, in the way that many of us will happily discuss training and supplements/nutrition if someone sensible asks.
I tell them that I chewed the nicotine gum for 3 or 4 months after and they give me a look like I cheated or that the gum is for weaklings. Hey fucker…I’m the one that’s quit. You want to go cold turkey? Great. The only way to be sure if it works for you is to check back in a few months.
I’m also a member of www.quitnet.com and it keeps track of how many cigarettes you’ve NOT smoked since you quit and how many days of your life you’ve saved and even how much money you’ve saved from not smoking.
I smoked about 12 to 15 a day, so now I’ve not smoked 34,651 cigarettes, saved 8 months 24 days of my life and not spent about $5, 788.[/quote]
Yeah, but your lifes been hell for 7 years. So it might as well been dead for 7 years ;).
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
I kid.[/quote]
I gotcha.
The funny thing is that’s what many people who are thinking of quitting have…a fear that they will constantly be in a state of withdrawal. Which surprisingly goes away. I can drink and not even think about smoking and I can still easily remember before I quit thinking that there;s no way in hell I’d be able to drink without smoking, but you have to remember that there may have been a time before you started smoking that you drank a lot and that was OK.
Like when I was 9.
I just logged back in at quitnet.com to check and since the last time I posted on July 3rd (in the post that Brother Chris quoted) I was at 34,651 cigarettes NOT smoked…now it’s at 36,114 not smoked.
That’s about 180 cartons of cigarettes not smoked in 7 years! And I ‘only’ smoked about 12 to 15 a day.