Smoking Cessation

Oopsie Daisy

(5,564 posts) Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:04 PM Feb 10

Nine Years Smoke Free!

I'd smoked a carton (or more) per week. When I stopped smoking the price was $6 a pack. Now they are over $15 a pack.

A rough estimate of how much I've saved is $49,140... just for ME.

My husband also quit at the same time so we can double that to $92,820 that we DID NOT BURN.

Quitting is hard, but staying-quit is easier when I think of how much we've saved. Every time I see that cigarettes in Maryland have gone up again, I'm hopeful that the price makes it too hard for some someone to continue smoking, and impossible for some kid to start-up.

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Nine Years Smoke Free! (Original Post) Oopsie Daisy Feb 10 OP

Congratulations! LoisB Feb 10 #1

Congratulations underpants Feb 10 #2

I will never understand Sector 001 Feb 10 #3

Good for you! I know how hard it is to quit. jls4561 Feb 10 #4

Both of my parents were heavy smokers 7im Feb 10 #5

I feel bad for having exposed my children to our cigarette smoke... Oopsie Daisy Feb 10 #6

Congratulations! BBbats Feb 10 #7

BRAVISSIMI !!! fierywoman Feb 10 #8

Congratulations. I smoked a pack and a half a day for 40 years. Started when they were 50 cents from a sinkingfeeling Feb 10 #9

Very cool! Rver Feb 10 #10

Congratulations!! I quit about 6 years ago MiniMe Feb 10 #11

Congratulations MustLoveBeagles Feb 10 #12

LoisB

(9,891 posts)

1. Congratulations!

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:06 PM

Feb 10

underpants

(189,675 posts)

2. Congratulations

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:09 PM

Feb 10

I’m going to quit AGAIN soon.

Sector 001

(111 posts)

3. I will never understand

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:10 PM

Feb 10

How people get started on that nasty habit.

jls4561

(2,140 posts)

4. Good for you! I know how hard it is to quit.

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:11 PM

Feb 10

7im

(44 posts)

5. Both of my parents were heavy smokers

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:22 PM

Feb 10

My father passed from a heart attack, and my mother passed from emphysema.

I myself never smoked.

Oopsie Daisy

(5,564 posts)

6. I feel bad for having exposed my children to our cigarette smoke...

Reply to 7im (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:32 PM

Feb 10

... we just never considered or thought about it. I even had an ashtray in the baby's room (for myself, not the baby of course).

BBbats

(184 posts)

7. Congratulations!

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:33 PM

Feb 10

Tobacco is hard to kick! Good on YA!

fierywoman

(8,258 posts)

8. BRAVISSIMI !!!

Reply to BBbats (Reply #7)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:52 PM

Feb 10

sinkingfeeling

(54,814 posts)

9. Congratulations. I smoked a pack and a half a day for 40 years. Started when they were 50 cents from a

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:58 PM

Feb 10

vending machine. I quit, cold turkey, 16 years ago.

Rver

(134 posts)

10. Very cool!

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 02:07 PM

Feb 10

I'll be hitting 29 years later this month. I was spending $5 a day/2 packs. It's not just the money spent on cigs It's medical savings as well. Keep after it.

MiniMe

(21,848 posts)

11. Congratulations!! I quit about 6 years ago

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 02:31 PM

Feb 10

Mine was due to health reasons. Had a bypass and by the time I got out of the hospital, I had gotten over most of it. I started when they were 35 cents a pack. Glad I'm done with it now.

MustLoveBeagles

(13,157 posts)

12. Congratulations

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 10:10 PM

Feb 10

I'll be smoke free 4 years in March.

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