Grim Reaper knocking
To date I've saved over $43,000-00 having quit 1933 days ago.
Last year I had massive heart attack and ended up with major heart surgery (CABG X 4). I had previously been a smoker since the age of 12 (for 55 years). The only reason I survived was the fact that my lungs and circulatory system had enough time heal itself before operation - I am first to admit I pushed it to the limit but, so will anyone that doesn't quit NOW, before they have to hear the Grim Reaper knocking.
Red-67, It literally was a waste of time and money - Back in the Fifties cigarettes were costing around one cent each, currently in Australia they cost over one dollar each. In todays money it works out at over a quarter of a million dollars that I've spent on polluting the World around me, with the only one to benefit being the Tax man by around two hundred thousand dollars - As you said we were stupid.
I understand this. Big time. I reckon I spent more than $50,000 over 50 years of smoking. That's a new car! So far I've saved a hub cap. I'm hoping my body recovers too. When I lived in China the cigarettes I smoked cost $2.50 a pack and cost was never an incentive to quit.
I figure I've paid the cost of a few operations in taxes.
Hi Pall Mall & Moonbeam, I have been quit 277 days, I smoked for about 45yrs, I am saving heaps, I don;t have to go to the bank, I go when I need to, & not because I need smokes, I am so happy I found this site, & people like yourselves. Although some day's I feel like my body will never recover from the abuse of smoking, I will never go back to smoking, but some days I think I felt healthier when I smoked, & that is scaring me, Is my whole body trying to rid itself of the nicotene addiction. xx
Kath55, you've done the hard bit now you just have to keep it up. I personally believe the Nicotine addiction a "State of Mind" rather than a chemical dependence. The body will recover from the years of abuse to a certain point, although the circulatory system and skin (largest organ in the body) will never be the same as a non-smoker. Fortunately my lungs had recovered enough to allow the Doctors to jump start me again. But I was extremely lucky to have survived against the odds.