Lol using an educated guess?
Cigarettes.......
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Lol using an educated guess?
That's lightweight numbers, Lol.
The tobacco industry priced my household out of the smoking game. I'm glad they did. I get to spend my money on stuff I enjoy rather than on an addiction to smelling and feeling like ***.
When my wife and I were both smoking - she was a 1.5 pack a day smoker - we were going through a minimum of 8 cartons a month at $50 a pop. It's amazing how much money we pissed away on cigs over the years.
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Smoked for 30 years, thought I would die with a cigarette in my hand.
This site saved my life!
Read each topic there and you will quit!
How many packs are in a carton? How many cigs in a pack?
I've always been a bit curious about the economics of smoking. I've always guessed that is as much as a car payment or a decent vacation.
Man, it's craft beer for me. Go to World of Beers get an 8 oz "Double Imperial stout" for $10. Leave there after about $75. Do it two to three times a week and that **** hits the wallet quickly. Ya know, it's not even worth it really. Sit around a few pompous asses with great hair and bad teeth talking about their "business" yapping in one ear. And I'm just saying "uh huh".
This is what beer drinking has become for me and it sucks.
10 packs in a carton, 20 cigarettes in a pack. Cartons of "premium" brands like Marlboros are about $50 each in Kentucky. Cut rate brands go for $35-40 a carton.
Do you at least get to enjoy a solid buzz?
(The cigs used to give me a 1 minute buzz as a teenager)
I dipped and smoked from the time I was a teenager. Usually only smoked when drinking. I completely lost the urge to smoke 6 years ago, drinking or not. It was the best thing ever. I still struggle with dipping but I guess it's the lessor of two evils.
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One of my friends is a dentist...told me to make sure you consistently switch sides. It's not the tobacco itself causing cancer it's the constant placement of something breaking down cell tissue. Still, not good for your colon and what not.
Been clean for 23 days...smoke free with the help of the patch and the gum...feel so much better...so far so good
My mom went cold turkey about 8 months ago. Smoked 60 years. Hooked up to a tank, and hates leaving the house. But i still have her....for awhile. She's 75. Dad smoked 30 plus years. Stopped and started chewing. Buried him at 64 with a pouch of beachnut in his shirt pocket...just in case.
Chantix, man. Used it twice and quit both times. The first time for a year, working on 3 months this time around.
If you have decent insurance, it's not that expensive. By the end of the first week on the pills, cigs don't do anything for you...like smoking a carrot stick. Tough for 48 hours because habits die hard but if you mess up and smoke, they don't give you an "ahhhh" moment so easy to put them back down. Gets easier every day. Need to eat with the pills because they'll upset your stomach if not. Might have some crazy dreams but nothing nightmarish...just vivid like an acid trip. Kinda cool actually.
Quit with my wife still smoking and cigs in the house. She smells like an ashtray now. I make her brush her teeth before coming to bed.
If you have decent insurance, it's not that expensive. By the end of the first week on the pills, cigs don't do anything for you...like smoking a carrot stick. Tough for 48 hours because habits die hard but if you mess up and smoke, they don't give you an "ahhhh" moment so easy to put them back down. Gets easier every day. Need to eat with the pills because they'll upset your stomach if not. Might have some crazy dreams but nothing nightmarish...just vivid like an acid trip. Kinda cool actually.
Quit with my wife still smoking and cigs in the house. She smells like an ashtray now. I make her brush her teeth before coming to bed.
Dude, did your wife not brush her teeth before this?
Chantix for me as well. I quit 9 years ago after having smoked for about 21 years as well.