The math is staggering!

[IntelligentDesigner]

Especially for some of you guys when I look at the cig free counters in your signatures.

"I've been vaping for 32 days and saved $119,332 and avoided 13 million analogs"

OK, maybe that's a bit far fetched, but not too much of a stretch.

If quitting smoking is not one of your proudest accomplishments, perhaps some perspective rearrangement is in order.

 

[darkhood]

ppl gets excited about their cigs man...yea actually I don't feel like I quit smoking, I just quit smoking cigarettes...ppl get carried away sometimes, totally understandable. i do save a ton of $ though...went from $7 a day to 10 cents...

 

[razor4432]

What's even more staggering is figuring out how much you spent on cigarettes as a smoker. For me alone

6 years PAD x 365 PAY x $4.75 (use an average when I started it was $3.50 a pack) = ~$10,500 just to kill myself.

Now imagine those who have been smoking 30-40 years! Granted when they started packs were under a buck but it still adds up. My Dad told me he freaked when they finally hit a dollar a pack.

I think this is the topic of your thread a little tough to tell. Sounds like it is but also sounds like you're saying people need to get a life if they get excited seeing how many smokes they've avoided and the money they've saved from it. I know I sure do, I love being smoke free!

 

[darkhood]

Lol totally, hard to pick up sarcasm online sometimes...I dont even wanna think about how much $ I blew on cigarettes tho, when I quit they were over $7 a pack...

 

[serenity21899]

I just keep the tracker to remind me that I was slowly killing myself, and that I haven't actually saved 1 cent yet cuz I like shiny new toys.

 

[IntelligentDesigner]

Alright! A new type of math! Let's see.

About 1.5 packs a day for 17 years.
When I started, they were $2.13/pack
Middle range, I was smoking the "good" cigarettes @ roughly $4/pk at the time
Last 4 years, went to cheap cigarettes @ $3/pk

365 X 1.5 = 548 X $2.13/pk = $1,166 X 5 years = $5,830
+
365 X 1.5 = 548 X $4/pk = $2,192 X 8 years = holy crap! $17,536
+
365 X 1.5 = 548 X $3 = $1,644 X 4 years = $6,576

Total: $29,942

Damn! That's a significant down payment on a house! What do I have to show for it? Nothing. It all went up in smoke.

I think this is the topic of your thread a little tough to tell. Sounds like it is but also sounds like you're saying people need to get a life if they get excited seeing how many smokes they've avoided and the money they've saved from it. I know I sure do, I love being smoke free!

I'm not saying those who get excited about it need to get a life at all. I have the same counter in my own signature and I get thrilled every time I see it go up a day and another $5 and another 30 cigarettes avoided.

I've quit some seriously bad habits of just about everything under the sun cold turkey with no problem, things that other people spend long stints in rehab for. But I couldn't quit cigarettes without vaporizers. I've graduated college. I've picked myself up from rock bottom more times than I can count. I have several years clean now. I've overcome a lot of challenges. But quitting smoking is among my proudest accomplishments.

And what I'm saying in the original post is that not dying of a silly but very strong addiction to something we know kills us, that so many people never overcome and die from is something we should all be proud of. We beat the addiction. And if you're not really proud of it, perhaps you should adjust the perspective and maybe look at it like the people who struggled with it until their dying breath and their loved ones and anyone who has been affected by tobacco.

 

[darkhood]

It's a great thing for sure, just I don't agree that it's a monumental achievement is all...just my pov - it was very easy for me to transition and that's exactly what I see it as, a transition - I didn't quit smoking, just tobacco. Although I am part of a generation that takes everything for granted so...there's that....

 

[The Ocelot]

I like to keep track of milestones like 100 days, 6 months, etc., so i can justify buying myself more presents.

 

[lynch]

I just keep the tracker to remind me that I was slowly killing myself, and that I haven't actually saved 1 cent yet cuz I like shiny new toys.

Thats OK, you can play with those shiny new toys tomorrow, cant do that with a stepped on ....

 

[Blix]

By todays prices here in Norway, I've spent $136,000+ on smoking the last 23 years....

 

[fold_moiler]

yeah, some of these sigs have me tripping out. how are you 30 days smoke free and saved 500 bucks?

i've saved 79 bucks in 18 days according to my phone widget.

 

[VF111]

It was an accomplishment for me because of all of the things I've overcome in life, smoking was never going to be one of them. I knew I'd die for my cigarettes and it's only technology that has given me a chance. I'm happy I was born in a time and place were I have this option for change. It was so easy to do so it doesn't feel like my accomplishment, you know? I can't say I've saved any money because I was down to rolling my own so this is a little more expensive.

 

[six]

If I could actually pinpoint my "quit date", I might add one of those money saved/analogs avoided counters for a sig. I have a rough idea, but I never marked it on the calendar. Sometime soon, it will be three years.. but it might be late this month or sometime next month or maybe even early May. I just don't know for sure. I remember it was spring and it seemed early to be branding. But, these easy winters we've had the last 15 years sort of throw me off when I think about how much risk we take by calving early...

I also sort of wonder how those calculators handle fractions. When I was smoking, I smoked 19 1/2 cigarettes per day except when I spent a lot of time behind the wheel. Seems a little OCD, I suppose, but that's what I did.

 

[kwanYin]

I quit in February 2011

 

[jdrewry]

yeah, some of these sigs have me tripping out. how are you 30 days smoke free and saved 500 bucks?

i've saved 79 bucks in 18 days according to my phone widget.

Wen I finally made the move away from analogs, they were $8.25/pack, and I was a 2 PAD smoker. A little more then $500/month.

 

[Spirra]

I think they need to adjust those lil money saver counter thingies to subtract what you have spent on vapeing I bet most would be cut in half if not more

 

[clnire]

I have not really saved any money so far, what with trying to find my ADV and a few "toys" to deliver that juice. But I will be saving money once I settle down (did I type that?), the money will add up (I agree with the idea of money saved from not buying nasty things can be used for new juice or a shiny toy LOL!). But what I have saved is my lungs and my life. I just could not give up the hand to mouth thing, now I can have it whenever I want! Don't even have to go outside away from everyone who is offended. I am not a heavy vaper, I was not a heavy smoker. But I sure enjoy my vaping! And I am rather proud of those numbers in my signature, love watching them get larger.

Congrats to everyone of us who manages to make those numbers grow!

 

[jazon1]

never mind the money i have saved(most of that has gone right back into buying new mods and juices)
think about all the time i have saved from trips to the store in the middle of the night when i run out of smokes, or for that matter all the time spent standing outside in some of the worst weather possible just to pump tar into my lungs.

 

[nosaint]

I've saved more than I thought, but spent it all on more stuff. Oh well, I'll come out ahead this month, unless of course I just have to get that mechanical mod...

 

[molli]

Not bad...6 weeks and I've 'broke even'..that includes all the 'extras' I've been buying, like more clearos, eGos etc.