My Success: Results of quitting smoking

goonas · November 2012

Great job! My boyfriend and I quit about 3 months ago, also. It's the best thing I ever did and I wish I had done it sooner as it was not nearly as hard as i thought it would be. We have not specifically been saving the money from it, though. Maybe we should.

I'd encourage it, as when you start to feel you have a moment of weakness it helps to refer back to what you've achieved and the money is an immediate thing you can see.

This post was made just over a month ago - now I am a further 250 UK pounds richer too

goonas · December 2012

So thats now £2,550 saved up...

Just put in an order for a new high spec bike too, and my cigarette money has just paid for it

So me giving up is making me even more healthy.

Wol5894 · December 2012

Well done you! As an ex-smoker myself, I know how damned hard it can be but it was using the kind of image you have posted that finally got me to stop - that and a boyfriend who had the courage (and to me, riches) to take a £10 note, roll it up and set light to it to show me what I was doing to my hard earned money.

Thanks for the graphic with the money - now all I need to do is to apply the same principles to my weight! it helps to imagine it but with weight as the image instead (sorry bags of sugar, flour or blocks of lard/butter just don't do it for me), so has anyone got a couple of suitcases full of clothes for me to carry around permanently? Why? Because that is what I am doing to myself with every extra pound/kilo that I am overweight.

Currently managing to toss out the equivalent of a couple of t-shirts (maybe a little more) each week, so with luck I will have shed a whole suitcase full of clothes by the end of June 2013 (enough for a trans Atlantic flight at 32kgs luggage limit).

Oh, and I don't smell like an old ash tray any more - yay!

tishajo · December 2012

There's motivation! Very well done. I am on day 9, tobacco free. I am going to steal that idea. Thank you for the post!

lenniebus · December 2012

That is AWESOME!!!!!!!! Congratulations--and not only are you saving money, if you could see your lungs...they are doing a happy dance too!!

p.s.--I know this for I quit 2/12/12--almost at the 1 year mark--hooorayy

Jenn728 · December 2012

That is great!

I quit smoking in 2009 and just went and found an online calculator to tell me my stats.

I have been quit for 1189 days. In that time, I have not smoked 23,782 cigarettes. I have saved $4,756.58!

WOW!

Too bad I didn't put my savings in a jar too.

yaddayaddayadda · December 2012

Congratulations!! You have done two of the best things you can to to ensure a bright future!!

I quit a two pack a day habit in 1986 cold turkey... At the time cigs cost $1.25 per pack -- I can't believe how much people pay for them now!!

Living a healthy lifestyle and having a little money in the bank are two habits that will serve you well!!

Never go back to smoking, and keep saving:bigsmile: :bigsmile:

links_slayer · December 2012

So incredibly awesome.

Now go make it rain!!!!

Never2Bz · December 2012

Great Job! I quit January 6, 2007 after 40 years. Wishing now I had done the same thing with a savings. Congrats!

NCchar130 · December 2012

Great job OP!! Quitting is one of my goals for 2013. The money factor has always been a motivating one for me (the last 5 times I quit :bigsmile: ). Now I'm just trying to convince myself that I WON'T regain the weight. Got to get my head right before I make another quit attempt since I can easily imagine myself giving up on both (quitting smoking, losing weight) if quitting contributes to a weight gain.

patty1063 · December 2012

Advice on quitting? Anyone? Best way?

lenniebus · December 2012

Patty--not sure if it's the best way or not, but I used nicotine gum for about 2 weeks, and then decided to just stop all nicotine. The nicotine gum helped give me the courage, and then I realized I didn't really like smoking--was just addicted. You have to really want to quit and believe that you can--and trust me--you can if I can!!!

Koshkaxo · December 2012

I am currently 3 and 1/2 days smoke free! I've started and stopped so many times before but this time I really want it to be for real. I'm not sure, but I think because I'm telling myself there's no going back, it's been really hard this time.

I'm going cold turkey, maybe for bragging rights tbh, but I also kind of believe that if you actually want to stop this is the way it should be. I created this situation to be experiencing withdrawals, I deserve to go through this misery. The faster nicotine and poison is out of my body the better!

Amanda21202 · December 2012

I've been smoke free for a year and half, i wish i would of saved up all the money i used to "burn"............damn!:grumble:

EDIT:
just to boost myself up a bit i also just went cold turkey after about 5 years of smoking 10-20 a day :bigsmile:

elisa123gal · December 2012

clever and cool perspective. one of the best "after pics" i've ever seen. you've done amazing things for your health..and hopefully inspired someone out there to kick the habit too. The money saving idea was brilliant.

bikinibeliever · January 2013

What's your address? :laugh:

Seriously, great job giving up the smokes!

DesertDriver · January 2013

Well done on giving up the smokes! I am just about to start myself and trying some tablets called Champix. Quite a few of my mates have successfully given up, so it's worth a go and mentally I'm now ready to give it a go too!