My Shopping is Complete.

My reward for not smoking. :)

This is about half of my Monthly cost to smoke.

When you look at it like this...wow.

I've heard many people that quit make these promises to save, invest, purchase in order to reward themselves.

But many don't follow thru and they don't see a bonus at the end and that's why we're doing this.

It might seem silly to some but it's working for us. :)

Jude

Jude, Quitting smoking should be a gold occasion!
nah, i'm messing with you. congrats

Jude,

awesome Jude, well done. It took me about the same time and a few talks from doctors and nurses to get me to quit. A 60 degree temp, stainless table and a bunch of young women in there 20 looking at you laying there naked usually does the trick. Unless of course like me you're stupid and stubborn then it takes twice. 

The thing I noticed the most is less of the mess. It's funny to when a smoker comes to the house now the second they open the front door I can smell it. I think everyone has that moment burned into memory that they miss smoking, for me it has always been fresh cut grass. After mowing the yard you stand there with the garden hose admiring your working having a smoke. 

Congrats to you I know how hard it is. I can also tell you cigs are considered harder to quit than Heroin. I once took someone to rehab for help when they finally wanted it and that's what the counselors told me. I was amazed, but I didn't stop at that time and neither did the new patient. 

No wonder they want people to quit smoking.  It must interfere with their OCD and when they quit they spend more money on things which helps the economy run.  Tobacco is a good treatment for Bipolar and Skitzo, I guess that that is not the target though.

I smoke, I make my own cigarettes.  I buy one 12 oz bag of tobacco and two boxes of filters every two weeks.  I should invest in a pipe, I only smoke half the cigarette and throw it away.  I could cut down my costs in half with a pipe.  It costs me about forty bucks a month presently to smoke, If I got a small pipe, I could cut that down to about twenty bucks a month.   Cost here to roll your own from regular pipe tobacco is about ten bucks a carton of ten or a buck a pack.

I have hashed out all the pros and cons of quitting along with the pills I would eventually need if I quit smoking.  This included a lot of research on the chemistry of tobacco.  Nicotine is not the only beneficial chemistry in tobacco, there are two or three others.  I do not have the genetics that makes me susceptable to cancer from cigarettes, but that only protects a person who smokes less than a pack a day anyway.

Jude,

Congratulations on kicking the habit !!!!

One day, I might consider it, but for now, I still have some stress going on. One day when I can smoke what mother nature provided instead, that is.
My smoke of choice has been clove cigarettes, which became clove cigars due to the family act they passed here back in 2008 banning flavored cigarettes. Djarum Black to be exact. About $5 a pack, 12 in a pack.
Then I found a substitute for about 1/3 the price online which has saved me alot of money. But, I would be better off to just quit.
One day.