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Are you an ex-smoker too?
Here endeth the lesson.
Sounds like Fred Nile of the anti smoking lobby...................................not that I disagree.
Good onya adrian.
Shoulda seen my post: my first censored post, and I'm not even a reformed smoker. Just a witness to some of its effects.
12 days...so far so good.
Hmm, at a pack a day, costing around $10 a pack, that should be the first tool purchase worth $120. That'll get you a H.N.T. Gordon special or a Lee Valley, another two weeks and you're a contender for a Lie Nielsen award :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AlexS
Good going, keep it up!
Yep! It's been about 9 years. I've given up quite a few times but the only effective way I know to stay a non smoker is to acquire a pathalogical hatred for smoking. Which I have done with relish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gingermick
As for being the "Fred Nile of the anti-smoking lobby" if that's what I have to be labeled then I don't mind. It's in a good cause.
AlexS
Keep it up. You are over the worst. Just remember when you want to light up again that you are going to have to put yourself through what you have gone through for the past 12 days, again. I found that getting angry at myself for the stupidity was enough to keep me away from them.
I know it sounds like a lecture but if a lecture can change just one person's attitude then it's worth being thought of as a wowser.
I find it makes it easy to hate it with a vengeance. And you've been bagging every smoker you know, so you're too sh!te scared to start again too.
Apart from the fact the it does nothing for you, except get you addicted.
Not quite. was just (?) having 2 cigars a day, at about $2 each. Still, $120 a month's not to be sneezed at.Quote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
Stumbled across this thread while looking for something else so I thought I'd update it. I hope the people who gave up are still on the wagon :2tsup:
Six years, one month, one week, one day, 10 hours, 33 minutes and 2 seconds.
55760 cigarettes not smoked,
saving $18,587.00.
Life saved: 27 weeks, 4 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes.
I gave up 27 years ago, that is about 395,000 smokes ago.
How do you work out the cost over 27 years?
In $$ or in lost satisfaction? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
:D:D:D
from 01 Jan 1981 averaged at $5 per pack and smoking 25 per day:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
Twenty-seven years, one month, one week, one day, 10 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds. 247511 cigarettes not smoked, saving $41,251.91. Life saved: 2 years, 18 weeks, 5 days, 9 hours, 55 minutes.
Attention: Cliff Rogers
Benson & Hedges cigarettes were $0.72 (pkt of 20) on New Years Eve 1979 when I gave smoking. Have not smoked since.
Equal to $0.036 per cigarette in 1979
Average this out with cigarette cost now and make a huge guess!
They were about $1.50 a pack of 20 when I gave up & I was smoking about 2 packs a day but how do you come up with an average price per pack over the last 27 years? (not that it matters that much anyway.)
Just a guess Cliff, that's all, no science behind it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
Here are some rougher figures, allowing for your smoking rate (almost double my estimate) and increases:
$1.20 packet for, say, 15 years packets of 20 - $13,239.73.
$5.00 packet for 6 years packets of 30 - $14,863.71.
$10 for 6 years packets of 30 - $29,727.44.
Total: $60, 000 (ish) - My guess was a lot more conservative based on 25 per day. Although allowing for the 40 per day vs 25, the estimate was not too bad! Whatever the figure, it is a heck of a lot of tools. It is the equivalent of burning a complete kitted out workshop. Makes the arguments about the cheapest tablesaw or whether to buy an old Stanley or new Lie Nielsen sound a bit silly.
Note that according to the life estimate you have gained over two years of your life back :2tsup:
Not the way I drive. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
Been about 4 yrs since I've given the smokes away and I've only had 1 beer in about 2 yrs
11 years, 2 months smoke free, I was a pack of drum every two days man. Havent had a beer for about 20 hours, hmmmmmmm
I am fortunate that, apart from a week or two attempting to smoke a pipe 50 years ago, I have never smoked.
However, I have had open-heart surgery two weeks ago (for a congenital defect that was only recently discovered). The experience of heart surgery is literally traumatic; you are likely to have 750 mm of painful wounds. For me the surgery was inevitable, if I was to avoid a rapid decline to an early death. But, if you have the choice of avoiding it by giving up smoking before it is too late, I strongly suggest that you do so. Smoking is one of the principal causes of heart disease.
Rocker
Which two years? Not the two at the end stuck in a nursing home bed? ::EEEK:: :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
I gave up 10 years, 1 month and 11 days ago... about $41K if I'd invested each year @ 5% @ avg $7 per pack (smoked 40 a day)
hmmm.. i wonder where all that money went.
I used to love smoking, still wish I did. But glad I don't.
For me it has been 16 months and a few days. One of the better things I did in my life and wish I had done it sooner.
I've made 9mths and a couple of weeks, saved a few $1000, very proud of myself but workpants much tighter!
One year, four months. 12433 cigarettes not smoked, saving $4,144.11. Life saved: 6 weeks, 1 day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wood Butcher
Nine months, one week. 7133 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,377.45. Life saved: 3 weeks, 3 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMB
Put the money you normally spend on smokes into a jar. Every now and again buy a tool.
JMB, you can afford quite a few hand planes, a Hammer bandsaw or a pretty good tablesaw. WB, you're up for a Sawstop on your way to a Felder.
Just thought I would mention that my grandfather and my father both smoked thick, black shag tobacco all their lives; Grandad died three weeks short of his hundredth birthday and my father drank himself to death at ninety eight! I gave up cigars about twenty years ago, (except for one at Christmas for old times sake), after smoking since about nine years old, and I'm still going strong at almost eighty.Quote:
Originally Posted by zenwood
Anyway, it's not any government business what I do. We all choose our own way to go to Hell- or Heaven if we're lucky.
That's my twopennorth.
Dennis,
I don't agree that it is not the government's business whether you smoke. The government provides free medical treatment for sufferers from lung cancer, heart disease, and other serious illnesses caused by smoking. You and your relations may have been lucky to have avoided any serious consequences from smoking, but the fact remains that smoking imposes heavy costs on taxpayers, which are not covered by taxes on tobacco.
In my view, government should tax tobacco so heavily that smoking would become an expensive luxury.
Rocker
Yes well. Your family seems to have cast iron lungs, but how many did you all help along to an early death through passive smoking over the equivalent of 275ish years? It mightn't be anyones business what you do, but it is if your second hand smoke is engulfing all and sundry around you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dennis Millard
It always seemed a weird way to rebel against society to me. Some of the biggest corporations in the world are making money selling cigerattes. Some say bug corporations run the world behind all that so called democracy. And your family helped them, but without a say in it. And after you are addicted to the nicotine, you have even less say in it.
And living for cigarettes just seems a little too pathetic to me. Fancy having to live to nearly 100 with no other pleasures in life!! :no:
The last smoke that touched my lips was as I entered the Emergency having a heart attack at age 44.
Never again, I know I cant touch one smoke or I'll be back on themin a flash, and DEAD.