ok..how many do you have in a week? how much do they cost?

work out the weekly cost...then x4 for month then x12 for the year and lets see people post how much they spend a year (roughly)

:thumbsup: maybe it will put some of you off... its like a big pay rise if you stop :)

If you got the whole years money in one go it would be an incentive, but TBH when I stopped smoking I didn't find myself any better of money wise, you just spend it on something else.

Originally posted by nick2
If you got the whole years money in one go it would be an incentive, but TBH when I stopped smoking I didn't find myself any better of money wise, you just spend it on something else.

Similarly I don't find I have any less money because I smoke.

But I smoke because I still enjoy it. I'm conscious that I need to quit, and I will do so in the future.

Yeah I dont think quitting smoking will really make a big difference to my pocket. You could say the same about anything...

ie, if I walked to work everyday, Id save X amount of money, if I bought cheaper food id save X amount of money. Everyone can cut down somewhere, doesnt have to be smoking, and like nick2 says, If you had the money all in one go it would make a difference, but not when its just a weekly or monthly saving.

Gotta agree

Last time I quit I put a fiver in a pot every 2 days to "simulate" the money i usually spend on fags. However, 2 weeks in, bill comes in, bit skint so raided it.

So yeah I never really felt any better off as a non-smoker. Weird ain't it?

A friend of mine at home gave up smoking to buy a Ford KA. The money she saves on the smoking goes towards paying the loan back every month. She puts a fiver in a jar every day, then a few days before the money comes out of her account, she pays it all back in, and it pays for the car.

Unforunately, some ******** nicked the car two weeks ago, only three weeks after she had it, and she has to wait 4 weeks before the insurance company will cough up, and then another month before the car will be ready from the factory. :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:

Originally posted by liencam
But I smoke because I still enjoy it. I'm conscious that I need to quit, and I will do so in the future.

Don't even try to stop until you realy want to, it's 100 times worse if you still want to smoke, like I do, the niccotine craving has gone (I think) but I still want to smoke because it was something I enjoyed.

If they invented cigs that wern't bad for you I'd start again.

Originally posted by nick2
Don't even try to stop until you realy want to, it's 100 times worse if you still want to smoke, like I do, the niccotine craving has gone (I think) but I still want to smoke because it was something I enjoyed.

If they invented cigs that wern't bad for you I'd start again.

There's always the chocolate ones!!

Originally posted by nick2
Don't even try to stop until you realy want to, it's 100 times worse if you still want to smoke, like I do, the niccotine craving has gone (I think) but I still want to smoke because it was something I enjoyed.

If they invented cigs that wern't bad for you I'd start again.



I stopped and didn't notice the money factor which was disappointing. Thought I 'd be loaded.

After no ciggies for 16 months now ( just worked it out) I am glad my house and clothes don't stink of fags. I am glad I don't have that sore throat feeling after a late night and too many fags.

But still over a year later I still miss a fag when I have a pint or glass of wine.

Originally posted by samc
But still over a year later I still miss a fag when I have a pint or glass of wine.

I should think I'd miss most things after a pint of wine.

Stairs, Door handles etc.

pah lol.

out of the boat..into denial ;) haha


its obvious you would save lots of money....wether you spend it on other things or not...you are still saving.

i just dont know how people afford getting by with the money the spend on ciggies.

Originally posted by liencam
There's always the chocolate ones!!

I did try twiglets but the other half said smelling/tasting like Marmite is as bad as smelling/tasting of cigs.

Originally posted by nick2
I did try twiglets but the other half said smelling/tasting like Marmite is as bad as smelling/tasting of cigs.

I can only eat them when I am drunk. Otherwise I don't like them.

:confused:

Surely if you stop smoking it would be sensible to put the money saved into your pension fund ? No point in living longer if it's to be living on the breadline.

£4 a day over 30 years is almost £44k, - nice little nest egg :)

Originally posted by Greybeard
Surely if you stop smoking it would be sensible to put the money saved into your pension fund ? No point in living longer if it's to be living on the breadline.

£4 a day over 30 years is almost £44k, - nice little nest egg :)

As a financial adviser got to second Mr Beards idea - top marks old bean!

Weekly cost £00.00p

X4

Monthly cost £00.00p

X12

Annual cost £00.00p

(passive smoking is free. Those generous smokers):hihi:

Originally posted by Greybeard
Surely if you stop smoking it would be sensible to put the money saved into your pension fund ? No point in living longer if it's to be living on the breadline.

£4 a day over 30 years is almost £44k, - nice little nest egg :)

Of course you could stop smoking, put all the money in a pension and then drop dead the day before you retire.

Stopping smoking doesn't guarantee you will live to a ripe old age.

I say spend it now.

Originally posted by Hook
A friend of mine at home gave up smoking to buy a Ford KA. The money she saves on the smoking goes towards paying the loan back every month. She puts a fiver in a jar every day, then a few days before the money comes out of her account, she pays it all back in, and it pays for the car.

Unforunately, some ******** nicked the car two weeks ago, only three weeks after she had it, and she has to wait 4 weeks before the insurance company will cough up, and then another month before the car will be ready from the factory. :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:

With all that stress she might start smoking again.:hihi: :hihi:

Originally posted by nick2
Of course you could stop smoking, put all the money in a pension and then drop dead the day before you retire.

Stopping smoking doesn't guarantee you will live to a ripe old age.

I say spend it now.


Agreed, I like to live for the 'now', ive seen too many people die around me who havent lived there life. I dont want to go out of this world not having lived my life doing what I want to do 1st. Every day may be your last.

Now wheres my cigs.

Originally posted by slimsid2000
Weekly cost £00.00p

X4

Monthly cost £00.00p

X12

Annual cost £00.00p




The same as your condom bill then :hihi:

Originally posted by Greybeard
Surely if you stop smoking it would be sensible to put the money saved into your pension fund ? No point in living longer if it's to be living on the breadline.

£4 a day over 30 years is almost £44k, - nice little nest egg :)

or just smoke more and you wont need a pension?

Originally posted by nick2

Stopping smoking doesn't guarantee you will live to a ripe old age.


That must be in the small print, - I never read the small pint ;)

Originally posted by robbie
or just smoke more and you wont need a pension?

Strangely a lot of smokers live to a ripe old age. My grandfather smoked from 14 to 74 and died from a kidney infection, - totally unrelated to smoking.

£20 a week = £80 pcm = £960 a year. Well spent, I reckon ;)

i enjoy a ciggie, cost me 20 quid a month, get 6 bags of baccie and that does me for the month and half. so actually its less a month.