By the numbers

[leeshor]

45 - number of analogs I have avoided DAILY, (recently)
1350 - analogs avoided/month and climbing, (have not quit totally, yet)
6.75 - cartons a month avoided
$378+ - gross savings per month
$300 - estimated net savings/month (I'm frugal with my carts/liquid)

These are just the figures for me!

Can't get my wife to make the total switch, yet! I'd been buying 13 cartons a month ever since I met my wife, (she smokes the same brand), in 1983. That's 4,056 cartons, could have bought a car for what I spent just since 1983.

That's not all. Started when I was 15 and got to the 3 packs by 18. Now at 1 month shy of 64 it looks like I'm going to beat it, finally. only 10-15 analogs a day to go. All things considered, not worried about that. Funny thing is that my Mom gave me my first analog when I was 13 thinking it would choke me to death and get me to never start using.

I remember when I paid $3.50 a carton back in the old days at Indian reservations in North Carolina. Things change, but never thought this would.

One more number, 2 - the number of extra years I may live, a bonus. Priceless

All thanks to Vapor4Life. All the other devices I've used were a waste of time, literally, and money.

 

[crand]

13 cartons a month... damn... I know convenience stores that don't buy that many to stock their shelves.
I started back in 1972 at age 18 don't remember exactly but they were something like 0.25 a pack at the PX.
What's the old saying... "If I'd have known that I'd live this long I'd have taken better care of myself"
Congrats on quitting!

 

[NMJ]

Congrats!!! Thats a lot of analogs you have quit. I can't wait until I'm totaly off analogs down to 4 to 5 a day from 2 packs a day. My lungs feel so much better.

 

[keyzygirl]

Thats amazing,Good for you Leeshor!!!

 

[leeshor]

13 cartons a month... damn... I know convenience stores that don't buy that many to stock their shelves.
I started back in 1972 at age 18 don't remember exactly but they were something like 0.25 a pack at the PX.
What's the old saying... "If I'd have known that I'd live this long I'd have taken better care of myself"
Congrats on quitting!

I've been purchasing the cartons at the same place for the last 10+ years. A QT gas station that goes through a lot of cartons every week. There are still a lot of smokers out there.

I don't remember how much I paid for analogs when I first started buying them but I thought they were expensive back then. Of course I also thought .35 a gallon gasoline was expensive back then too. I still have some of the steak knives they offered with a fill up, along with the Green Stamps. Wonder how many of you even know what that is?

For years I smoked Bel Air analogs and they came with coupons. Traded those coupons in for tons of merchandise. That was then!!!!!!

 

[Fiberweaver]

I still have some of the steak knives they offered with a fill up, along with the Green Stamps. Wonder how many of you even know what that is?

For years I smoked Bel Air analogs and they came with coupons. Traded those coupons in for tons of merchandise. That was then!!!!!!

OMG!!! I remember Green Stamps, I got so many things with GS. Sometimes wish we still had GS.