MoneySavers don't smoke!

queensway_boy

Eagle_1 wrote:

Almost a year for me :j :j

Well done,ex a 40 a day man i jacked them in 7 years ago now,saves a few bob:money:

barbara22

Tyranny wrote:

Hi, I have just done Allan Carr's cd rom, and as of 5 minutes ago i'm a non smoker! Does anyone know of an online calculator thingy, that will keep a running total of how much I would have spent and how long i've not smoked?

Good luck with giving up, I think the thing you are looking for can be found at https://www.silkquit.org

It's fairly easy to install, although I've never actually used it myself - give it a go.

hussaint

4th Nov 2006 - On impulse, I decided to quit again. First time I'd tried in about 8 years. I wondered what could stop me relapsing this time. I realised I needed to try and educate myself, to work out how to keep the reasons that I was quitting fresh in my mind, how to stay quit. I found the answer, quite an obvious website address in hindsight, http://www.whyquit.com . It is a totally free resource, of most help to those who have already (decided to) quit... I think.

I was a roll-my-own smoker as well. I used to use the excuse that it was cheaper than giving up... yeh, I was in denial about the real problem as well. However, after another decision to give up smoking, it was whyquit.com that helped me focus and stay off the nicotine. The only thing is, you have to invest your time in reading to help yourself.

Please, please, please, if you are serious about giving up, or have recently given up.... in fact, even if you gave up ages ago, best to be on the safe side... please go to https://www.whyquit.com and start reading.

Interesting is the focus on quitting nicotine and not cigarettes! Also, in synergy with MoneySavingExpert.com, the site suggests the cheapest method of giving up is the best, cold turkey...

"To many, cold turkey conjures up visions of torturous pain, suffering and general drudgery. In fact, it is easier to stop smoking using the cold turkey method than by using any other technique. Cold turkey induces less suffering and creates a shorter period of withdrawal. Most important, cold turkey is the approach by which the smoker has the best chance of success."

There is, of course, loads of research/facts/hearsay on the site to back this up. Good luck!

P.S. I have nothing to gain financially from suggesting https://www.whyquit.com, I just want every smoker who wants to give up to realise and live a smoke free life with the least suffering.... it's fantastic!!

P.P.S. I was convinced there would be a huge void in my life that would never be filled... there was, but it slowly shrunk away.

Horasio

We gave up in 1998 - you do the maths

granma

[Hi every one, it's the first time I’ve posted anything but after reading post from other people felt I should add my quite smoking experience.

I’ve tried to quite before the longest period was about three months the main reason to save money.

Back in January last year after a long bout of cold’s/chest infections (have had bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy) I visited my doctor yet again, I find doctors are not very sympathetic when a patient that smokes visits them but to amazement this time was different after his initial examination we had a chat he explained how as I’m getting older each time I get a cold the likely hood of it turning into something more serious increases now his concern was that I may have COPD which for anyone out there that doesn’t know what that is (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) he wanted me to go along to my local hospital for an e-rays, I sat there and cried not believing what he was telling me he said not to worry but how could I not the thing that kept on coming into my head was my four gorgeous granddaughters, I can remember saying to him “how could I do this to myself” anyway I went along for my e-ray and went though shear hell for a week till my results came back, my doctor told me that it showed the very early stages of COPD but not worry as it’s nothing that can’t be helped if I gave up smoking which from the time he first talked to me I’d decided that I had to, I’d lost my father to lung cancer and for anyone that hasn’t had to nurse someone though that take my word its heart breaking. I joined my NHS stop smoking group were you’re offered different ads to help you quit I opted for the patches I stopped on the 20th March and here I am nearly twelve months down the line still not smoking but even now and then there’s time’s when I could murder a cigarette I just picture my granddaughter’s faces and it gets me through, the other thing I did in the week before my results came through was to write a letter to my grandchildren which it titled my promise it was written from my heart and that is one promise I don’t want to break if by giving up it means that I have a few more years to see my grandchildren grow up that’s all I ask their fare to precious to me, the thing that I still laugh about is when we visited our daughter down south (after not smoking for about two months) our eldest granddaughter who was 9 at the time and always said how I smelt nasty (meaning the nicotine on my cloths) she as on my knee when her granddad gave her a kiss and she said granddad that smells nasty (he’d just come back in after having a smoke) I asked her what grandma smelt of she then sniffed my clothes and said she could just smell my perfume and it smelt nice.

I’ve tried to persuade my husband to quit but on joy, I know its something he’ll do but in his own time, now he smokes by the back door and the house smells a lot better and also means it doesn’t have to be decorated yearly so that saves more money. Since stopping I invested the money I would have spent on four rings which will be passed on to my granddaughters in time for now I’m getting the pleasure of wearing them.

Good luck to all trying to quit take my work if you really want to quit you’ll succeed.


QUOTE=MSE Martin;discussion/131194]Smoking is extremely damaging to your wealth. Let's look at the basics

Smoking itself is costly

Here's the simple equation to work out how much you spend at current prices:-

Number of cigarettes you smoke per day on average

x

£90

= Annual Cost

1 cigarette a day is £90
10 cigarettes a day is £900
A packet a day is £1,800

Yet the hidden costs are even bigger

In my book the Money Diet I examined the real cost of smoking (p.74 to 76 of the new edition), by looking at the increased amount you have to pay on standard financial products due to being a smoker. The important thing is smoke once in a year and you're a smoker, so while you may not be spending on cigarettes you are costing yourself in other ways.

By the way, if you're thinking of lying about smoking, it gets worse. If you get a smoking related illness it can invalidate all claims, not just smoking claims, and is potentially fraudulent.

So what's the additional cost?

If you had term assurance, critical illness, private medical insurance, permanent health insurance then typically you'd pay £23,000 more on them as a smoker during your lifestime than a non-smoker.

Once you're smoke free for a year - get new quotes for all products

Yet as soon as you're one year smoke free then you're a non-smoker and the costs drop.

MoneySavers Stop Smoking Together!

The aim of this thread is simple, to get smoking MoneySavers to quit together, plus discuss all the cost effective ways they can help each other. Now if I'm honest, I've never smoked, so I can't talk about how to quit, yet there are many current and past smokers here. My hope is working together we can put the cash back in our pockets and away from the tobacco companies.

Click reply to join the discussion, please keep it focused on ways to give up that are cost effective. I'd love to see details on where to buy patches, any useful books (and the cheapest place to buy them), hypnosis details.

If you're going to stop smoking why not pledge your determination here!

To hear this discussed in more detail, watch or listen to Martin's mini-muttering

Martin

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Toothsmith

Plus - long before you get heart disease or lung cancer, your teeth will cause you all sorts of problems, and drop out.

flyhawkeye

I tried the patchs, gum ect but just cut down. But I stopped by getting Zyban from my doc'. One year now and not even a murmer of a craving.

Do it!

Ted_Hutchinson

A Brief Stroll Helps Smokers Walk Away from Cigarettes and if you have your walk outdoors in the sunshine you will raise your Vitamin d levels and improve your lung function and remember High Vitamin D Levels Linked to Improved Lung Cancer Survival

dreammachine

I stopped September 2005. I went to a hypnotist called Hugh McCorry in Belfast.

I had went to him in September 2004 and he asked what it was that tended to stress me out, at the time it was my ex-husband as we were going through a divorce. :mad: He worked the first 10 mins of the session on me being able to deal with my ex-husband without wanting to reach for the cigs and the remainder reprogramming my mind to not want to smoke. It worked for 3 months, but then a different stress affected me! That was work, and my mother!

As I said I went back to him in September 2005, told him that it was successful, insofar as when my ex gave me grief I didn't smoke, but could he do the same for my mother, and for work! He did, and I've been smoke free for over a year and a half now.

Its the best thing I've done, I've more money now, my hair and clothes don't smell, my house and car don't smell and I don't get lectures from my son!

When you're hypnotised you stop smoking straight away, but I can honestly say I had no cravings, but I did replace my habit of wanting to suck on something, with a sports bottle of water. Everytime I felt like I might have wanted to smoke, I sucked from the sports bottle, this action was the same as taking a draw.

Anyway stick at it, its worth it, for your health and for your savings! :j

jrrowleyws

hussaint wrote: »

4th Nov 2006 - On impulse, I decided to quit again. First time I'd tried in about 8 years. I wondered what could stop me relapsing this time. I realised I needed to try and educate myself, to work out how to keep the reasons that I was quitting fresh in my mind, how to stay quit. I found the answer, quite an obvious website address in hindsight, http://www.whyquit.com . It is a totally free resource, of most help to those who have already (decided to) quit... I think.

I was a roll-my-own smoker as well. I used to use the excuse that it was cheaper than giving up... yeh, I was in denial about the real problem as well. However, after another decision to give up smoking, it was whyquit.com that helped me focus and stay off the nicotine. The only thing is, you have to invest your time in reading to help yourself.

Please, please, please, if you are serious about giving up, or have recently given up.... in fact, even if you gave up ages ago, best to be on the safe side... please go to https://www.whyquit.com and start reading.

Interesting is the focus on quitting nicotine and not cigarettes! Also, in synergy with MoneySavingExpert.com, the site suggests the cheapest method of giving up is the best, cold turkey...

"To many, cold turkey conjures up visions of torturous pain, suffering and general drudgery. In fact, it is easier to stop smoking using the cold turkey method than by using any other technique. Cold turkey induces less suffering and creates a shorter period of withdrawal. Most important, cold turkey is the approach by which the smoker has the best chance of success."

There is, of course, loads of research/facts/hearsay on the site to back this up. Good luck!

P.S. I have nothing to gain financially from suggesting https://www.whyquit.com, I just want every smoker who wants to give up to realise and live a smoke free life with the least suffering.... it's fantastic!!

P.P.S. I was convinced there would be a huge void in my life that would never be filled... there was, but it slowly shrunk away.

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