Nine Years Smoke Free!

[Oopsie Daisy]

I'd smoked a carton (or more) per week. When I stopped smoking the price was $6 a pack. Now they are over $15 a pack.

A rough estimate of how much I've saved is $49,140... just for ME.

My husband also quit at the same time so we can double that to $92,820 that we DID NOT BURN.

Quitting is hard, but staying-quit is easier when I think of how much we've saved. Every time I see that cigarettes in Maryland have gone up again, I'm hopeful that the price makes it too hard for some someone to continue smoking, and impossible for some kid to start-up.

[LoisB]

1. Congratulations!

[underpants]

2. Congratulations

I’m going to quit AGAIN soon.

[Sector 001]

3. I will never understand

How people get started on that nasty habit.

[jls4561]

4. Good for you! I know how hard it is to quit.

[7im]

5. Both of my parents were heavy smokers

My father passed from a heart attack, and my mother passed from emphysema.

I myself never smoked.

[Oopsie Daisy]

6. I feel bad for having exposed my children to our cigarette smoke...

... we just never considered or thought about it. I even had an ashtray in the baby's room (for myself, not the baby of course).

[BBbats]

7. Congratulations!

Tobacco is hard to kick! Good on YA!

[fierywoman]

8. BRAVISSIMI !!!

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Congratulations. I smoked a pack and a half a day for 40 years. Started when they were 50 cents from a

vending machine. I quit, cold turkey, 16 years ago.

[Rver]

10. Very cool!

I'll be hitting 29 years later this month. I was spending $5 a day/2 packs. It's not just the money spent on cigs It's medical savings as well. Keep after it.

[MiniMe]

11. Congratulations!! I quit about 6 years ago

Mine was due to health reasons. Had a bypass and by the time I got out of the hospital, I had gotten over most of it. I started when they were 35 cents a pack. Glad I'm done with it now.

[MustLoveBeagles]

12. Congratulations

I'll be smoke free 4 years in March.