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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2593851, member: 31533"]Also, you may want to set up a big reward for yourself when you have quit. I took my daughter to Florida for a long weekend (crossing the country for me, and meeting with her half-way across to switch my plane). The cost of the trip was about what I saved between quitting and that point (yeah, I kind of smoked a lot) and was a wonderful way to let me know that instead of me 'giving' my money to the tobacco companies (and basically their CEO, who made beau coups moo-la off me and others), I would give it to me in the form of a girls weekend out and vacation that I could not otherwise have afforded). It made a big impression on me to know that the money I was saving was not a pittance and now, nearly 14 years on, I have probably had at least 40,000 dollars more 'money' (or been able to live on that amount less) at my disposal for both necessary and luxury items. At the time I quit, I think I was paying between 4-5 dollars a pack, and smoking two or more a day at times. It was constant from the moment I woke up in the morning until I went to bed. I was a wreck if I had to go more than an hour or so without, and that in itself is ridiculous. I had quit about 15 years earlier for 3-1/2 years, but during a really stressful time when I was also around a bunch of other smokers, I picked it up again. Thought I could smoke maybe a cigarette or two. Within a week, I was over a pack a day and could not put it down. I figured at that point, that I basically am a nicotine 'addict' and therefore when I stopped again, I would never be able to have even one (which is why I also avoid other people smoking, etc.). It took over 10 more years of smoking again to do the quitting thing. I hate that I probably had spent a good 5-6 dollars a day for my habit during those 10+years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not only that, but I no longer have to run up to the store, no matter what or what weather, to pick up a pack, and I do not have to sneak out while visiting friends or family to have a smoke (or be ostracized for being a smoker, because people can smell it on you). </p><p><br /></p><p>And what got me started was on and off smoking between age 11-18, being cool, etc. (cigarettes could be had from between .15 and .50 cents a pack then). From age 19 on it was really not good, rarely smoked less than a pack-1/2 a day. Unfortunately I never as an adult (until I quit) realized that people really could go without smoking and enjoy life without it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2593851, member: 31533"]Also, you may want to set up a big reward for yourself when you have quit. I took my daughter to Florida for a long weekend (crossing the country for me, and meeting with her half-way across to switch my plane). The cost of the trip was about what I saved between quitting and that point (yeah, I kind of smoked a lot) and was a wonderful way to let me know that instead of me 'giving' my money to the tobacco companies (and basically their CEO, who made beau coups moo-la off me and others), I would give it to me in the form of a girls weekend out and vacation that I could not otherwise have afforded). It made a big impression on me to know that the money I was saving was not a pittance and now, nearly 14 years on, I have probably had at least 40,000 dollars more 'money' (or been able to live on that amount less) at my disposal for both necessary and luxury items. At the time I quit, I think I was paying between 4-5 dollars a pack, and smoking two or more a day at times. It was constant from the moment I woke up in the morning until I went to bed. I was a wreck if I had to go more than an hour or so without, and that in itself is ridiculous. I had quit about 15 years earlier for 3-1/2 years, but during a really stressful time when I was also around a bunch of other smokers, I picked it up again. Thought I could smoke maybe a cigarette or two. Within a week, I was over a pack a day and could not put it down. I figured at that point, that I basically am a nicotine 'addict' and therefore when I stopped again, I would never be able to have even one (which is why I also avoid other people smoking, etc.). It took over 10 more years of smoking again to do the quitting thing. I hate that I probably had spent a good 5-6 dollars a day for my habit during those 10+years. Not only that, but I no longer have to run up to the store, no matter what or what weather, to pick up a pack, and I do not have to sneak out while visiting friends or family to have a smoke (or be ostracized for being a smoker, because people can smell it on you). And what got me started was on and off smoking between age 11-18, being cool, etc. (cigarettes could be had from between .15 and .50 cents a pack then). From age 19 on it was really not good, rarely smoked less than a pack-1/2 a day. Unfortunately I never as an adult (until I quit) realized that people really could go without smoking and enjoy life without it.[/QUOTE]
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