Giving up?

[Honorary Bloke]

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

How do you work out the cost over 27 years?

In $$ or in lost satisfaction?

[Groggy]

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.

[Black Ned]

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!

[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 do you come up with an average price per pack over the last 27 years? (not that it matters that much anyway.)

[Groggy]

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

[Cliff Rogers]

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

Not the way I drive.

[DJ’s Timber]

Been about 4 yrs since I've given the smokes away and I've only had 1 beer in about 2 yrs

[Sebastiaan56]

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

[Rocker]

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

[wayfarer]

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.

[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.

[JMB]

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

[Groggy]

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.

[Groggy]

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.

[Groggy]

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.