Dean's World
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My parents both smoked. "Fortunately" for me, one of my mom's closest friends died of lung cancer in her mid thirties, leaving behind two little girls.
Mom told me she would go to visit Ethel in the hospital. Suffering from physical pain and the sadness of leaving her family, Ethel begged my parents to give up tobacco.
My parents quit. I was about eight. Old enough to feel the awfulness of Gail and Julie no longer having a mom. Old enough to appreciate just how grindingly difficult the fight to quit smokes was. I never started the filthy habit.
Dad sat down and calculated how much $$$ he and Mom saved by not smoking. He added up what they went through a day - then added in compounding earned at a low interest rate.
Came up to about $400,000. Yes, it's over a lot of years. (They're now early 80's and late 70's - and quit in when near 40.) But that's one hell of a lot of greenbacks gone up in smoke for those who choose not to quit.
And, of course, that figure is ONLY the financial cost ....
If you have to choose, pick up a carton of cigs before you even think about a beer. Quitting both is better, but at this stage, cigs aren't even in the same galaxy of danger. Addictive, yes, quite. Bu I've yet to see a cigarette blackout.
You're reaping the rewards from not drinking and not smoking. There is a school of thought that says you do not quit habits so much as change habits. You have found something inexpensive to replace the drinking and smoking.
If #1, in the series, was part of the replacement package then you have really made a huge gain!
Dean's World
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My parents both smoked. "Fortunately" for me, one of my mom's closest friends died of lung cancer in her mid thirties, leaving behind two little girls.
Mom told me she would go to visit Ethel in the hospital. Suffering from physical pain and the sadness of leaving her family, Ethel begged my parents to give up tobacco.
My parents quit. I was about eight. Old enough to feel the awfulness of Gail and Julie no longer having a mom. Old enough to appreciate just how grindingly difficult the fight to quit smokes was. I never started the filthy habit.
Dad sat down and calculated how much $$$ he and Mom saved by not smoking. He added up what they went through a day - then added in compounding earned at a low interest rate.
Came up to about $400,000. Yes, it's over a lot of years. (They're now early 80's and late 70's - and quit in when near 40.) But that's one hell of a lot of greenbacks gone up in smoke for those who choose not to quit.
And, of course, that figure is ONLY the financial cost ....
Now that I'll buy. I used to chew tobacco. 8.50 a day, 7 days a week. That adds up.
If you have to choose, pick up a carton of cigs before you even think about a beer. Quitting both is better, but at this stage, cigs aren't even in the same galaxy of danger. Addictive, yes, quite. Bu I've yet to see a cigarette blackout.
Now that's more than enough money saved to pay for a simply faaabulous gay wedding and deeeeelightful honeymoon in San Fran.
Yep.
Tim you slay me.
Dean -
You're reaping the rewards from not drinking and not smoking. There is a school of thought that says you do not quit habits so much as change habits. You have found something inexpensive to replace the drinking and smoking.
If #1, in the series, was part of the replacement package then you have really made a huge gain!
Kudos.