Thread: Giving up?

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I gave up 27 years ago, that is about 395,000 smokes ago.

How do you work out the cost over 27 years?

from 01 Jan 1981 averaged at $5 per pack and smoking 25 per day:


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.)

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

They were about $1.50 a pack of 20 when I gave up & I was smoking about 2 packs a day but how to 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.

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

Originally Posted by Groggy

...Note that according to the life estimate you have gained over two years of your life back

Not the way I drive.

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

Originally Posted by Groggy

Note that according to the life estimate you have gained over two years of your life back

Which two years? Not the two at the end stuck in a nursing home bed? ::EEEK::

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!

Originally Posted by Wood Butcher

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.

One year, four months. 12433 cigarettes not smoked, saving $4,144.11. Life saved: 6 weeks, 1 day.

Originally Posted by JMB

I've made 9mths and a couple of weeks, saved a few $1000, very proud of myself but workpants much tighter!

Nine months, one week. 7133 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,377.45. Life saved: 3 weeks, 3 days.

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.