Why Is It So Expensive To Quit Smoking?
July 12, 2010 by admin
Filed under Best Way To Quit Smoking
I know, it’s not expensive to “simply” stop, but it’s not that simple and I’ve tried it that way many times. It just doesn’t work. I go to buy stop smoking aids, which are conveniently right next to the cigarettes in most stores. I see $50 for a cessation kit, and $4 for a pack of cigarettes, and usually end up leaving the store with Marlboros, vowing that once I get a whole lot more money and can afford $50 in one shot, I’ll buy it and finally quit. I wish they could make cessation methods progressive like cigarettes, like each dose costs $4 per day. I guess it’s a psychological thing because overall, I know I’d end up saving money when I quit, but I can’t help but think what if it doesn’t work and I still need to buy cigarettes? Then I’ve wasted all that money when just $4 would have been a sure thing. Anyone else feel this way? Has anyone found a way around it or have you just gone for the expense and quit? Thanks for reading. I know it was long.
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I’ve honestly never tried to quit but I know I spend $150 to $200 per month on cigarettes (15 to 20 packs).
I totally get what you are saying. I won’t get down on you either, I’m an ex-smoker. I bought a couple of the quitting aids and they really didn’t work for me. Once, I quit for a month then started back up.
Honestly, one day I woke up and I couldn’t breathe. I threw my pack of P-funks in the trash and haven’t smoked since. It’s been 4 years now and I feel so much better.
I really think that it’s pure will-power. You really have to want to quit to be successful.
Yes…I’ve smoked for 3 years..and my whole family wants me to quit. It definitely is a whole lot cheaper to stay on the habit..at least that’s what you think. When it all adds up to it,smoking is way more expensive,it takes up more of your money than a quitting smoking aid. I’ve thought about quitting cold turkey,but it doesn’t seem to work out for me. I’ve bought the gum,which failed because it made me feel sick.
At the end of the day,I guess you have to realize you really want to quit…as I’m still struggling to pick which day i should quit,which in all reality is the wrong way of going about it. I do value my life,and smoking is a known killer. I have seen pictures of lung cancer,I have a grandma that is dying of emphysema,from smoking..and she urges me to quit. Even with that,it doesn’t seem easy..as the addiction outweighs all of the risks and dangers involved with smoking.
I WILL quit eventually,as I don’t want to end up like my grandma. I have pictured my future,not being able to breathe and how it may not effect me now,but it will sooner or later.
Good luck,I hope you are able to quit.
What you should really be asking is why is all the healthy stuff so expensive and the unhealthy stuff so cheap and always in great supply?
If countries like the US and UK are so concerned about the weight and health issues of their respective regions, why the heck aren’t they helping everybody live healthier lives??
I am lucky because although I have been smoking since high school (8 years) I can always easily stop smoking whenever I want. I make decisions to smoke when I do and put a time period on it (for example, when my b/f dumped me last August, I decided I was going to smoke until I settled down again–luckily for me, I did in January and am back on track in life and don’t smoke). Now I still smoke when I go out drinking, but that’s about once a month these days. (Tonight is one of those nights and I’m looking forward to it lol).
Maybe it’s easy for me to give advice since it seems that I don’t have an addictive personality. But if you could try to give yourself boundaries to smoke, say, only when you go out, or start with every other day or one or two less each day, it might work for you. Play little games with your habit, plus absence makes the heart grow fonder, which makes nights like tonight so much more exciting (for me) haha.
Whatever you do, good luck and it’s all about the will power!!
Drugs to interrupt addiction to another drugs (nicotine for example) are quite difficult to reasearch and develop. We are talking about the nervious system here, not just headache or cold medicines.
I’m an ex-smoker. I quit 7 months ago. I spent alot of money on all those products and they didn’t help me. Turns out, it doesn’t matter if you have those products or not. If you aren’t truly ready to quit and don’t have the will power to kick the habit, you won’t quit. I smoked from ages 13-32. i always tried and treid to quit, but never was successful until one day, I was like…this is it! And I have to be honest for awhile it was hard, but I was determined and I quit. And now, it’s like I never smoked all those years. The smell of smoke is gross to me and I feel 100% better. There is a new prescription though that I have heard alot about that has a high success rate. You may want to check into that. Trust me, when you quit, you’ll be glad you spent the money to quit if you quit using a product or prescription. It will be money well spent. Good luck!