Think about how hard we work to earn the $$ we burned away on cigarettes

[NICnurse]

This is something I think about A LOT. I realize vaping costs $$ as well, and some spend more than others, but when we smoked, it was KILLING us! We voluntarily spent our hard earned dollars on a habit that was slowly killing each of us. Makes me mad at myself.

I figure that after taxes, it takes me 20 minutes of work to earn the $$ to buy 1 pack of smokes here in Missouri. In that 20 minutes, on any given day as a RN, I can be doing CPR, coding a patient, cleaning a bed flooded with poop, shoving a tube down someones nose, getting barfed on, getting slapped/pinched/hit/kicked by a patient, getting yelled at by family, berated by a doctor, filling out paperwork upon paperwork upon paperwork, missing a lunch break, etc etc. Makes me really mad when I think about how hard I work and how I wasted that $$ on a stupid habit like smoking. This doesn't even take into account the other various jobs I had before I was a nurse!

Curious what others think!

 

[Renolizzie]

I never did quit smoking because of the money I spent and I am really frugal with my money. When I started smoking it was not a costly habit. It was cheaper than food and it kept me from being hungry. By the time I started vaping it was $4 a pack and that was for the cheap cigs. $8 a day. I cleaned houses and half my money went for smokes [I only clean two houses a week now but to think that one entire home cleaned was mostly so I could buy cigs - argh!]. But I still didn't quit. Go figure.

I really loved smoking but it is bad for me and vaping is a fantastic substitute

 

[xanderxman]

You just depressed me. Thinking about my time invested in my job versus how many minutes it would take me to earn the money for a pack is a real eye-opener. And your description of your particular job makes it sound even less enticing. Maybe we should try to make a vaping commercial and use your story as the focus. I know I would rethink my smoking budget when it is worded like that.

 

[bazmonkey]

This thread reminds me of little facts like a person spends X weeks of their life shaving, or kissing, or waiting in traffic.

It's not so depressing if you figure:

a) 20 min a day worked for smokes is less than most people would have to work for it.
b) That's only 1/24th of a normal full-time work-day. Vaping/smoking is a lot more than 1/24th of what I do to relax.
c) It's easy to think of it as "we were killing ourselves!", but realize that everything we do inches ourselves closer to our death. In a very real sense everything that isn't helping others and saving the world is a waste of your time. Imagine what the TV has sucked out of our lives. Heck, I heard 2/3rds of what an average person says is gossip on average. We fill our lives with stuff that does nothing except pass time and bring the end just a bit closer: that's what entertainment is! A life wasted away or shortened doing nothing in particular is how most lives pass; it's nothing to be ashamed of. There's getting food, maintaining your shelter, taking care of loved ones and preparing for tomorrow. The rest is a "waste" of time.

 

[HK-47]

You don't sound anything at all like the nurses I'm used to in certain movies who are always done up with makeup, in nice skimpy outfits, with pleasant things to say and do....

Just kidding darlin. I think about that kind of thing sometimes off and on myself. Was the main part of the reason why I got the itch to start looking into ecigs again, because I remembered the brief month or so I was off them with the Blu, and that got me looking again and led me here.

On the final note: Seriously, thank you for being a nurse. I've never needed to spend any time in the hospital for anything other than some stitches, and once to get something that didn't belong where it was out of where it was.......but I do appreciate and know for a fact that you nurses sure do earn your pay. Hats off to you and know that people do appreciate you!

 

[xanderxman]

You don't sound anything at all like the nurses I'm used to in certain movies who are always done up with makeup, in nice skimpy outfits, with pleasant things to say and do....

Just kidding darlin. I think about that kind of thing sometimes off and on myself. Was the main part of the reason why I got the itch to start looking into ecigs again, because I remembered the brief month or so I was off them with the Blu, and that got me looking again and led me here.

On the final note: Seriously, thank you for being a nurse. I've never needed to spend any time in the hospital for anything other than some stitches, and once to get something that didn't belong where it was out of where it was.......but I do appreciate and know for a fact that you nurses sure do earn your pay. Hats off to you and know that people do appreciate you!

Wouldn't you feel really awkward if the nurse you were addressing were male?

 

[HK-47]

Now that I think about it...no? Nurses are into all kinds of kinky stuff. So am I.

On a side note: This unit does come equipped with a telescopic probing device.

 

[NICnurse]

Haha HK and Xander! You two made my night! He's in luck....I am definitely not a dude!! One of my male friends constantly razzes me for not wearing the traditional white dress RN uniform. He is probably very familiar with these movies you describe.

 

[razor4432]

It is depressing, I had to work 30 minutes for my Camel Menthol which were $6.50 a pack. Almost 4 hours pay each week was solely going to support my cigarette habit and I did that for 6 years, in the beginning it was closer to an hour just to be able to buy a pack

But that's history now and I try not to think about it anymore

 

[MorpheusPA]

You live, you increase in wisdom (if you work at it) and you change your life to suit. Yeah, we all wasted a fortune on cigarettes.

Now I waste a far, far smaller fortune on vaping. Amortized, it works out to almost $9 per day as of right now. Of course, I have batteries and DIY supplies enough for quite a while, so that will continue to drop over time. It still doesn't compare to $24 per day smoking.

And oh, yeah, it's not going to kill me fast enough to notice. Did I mention that?

 

[HK-47]

It is depressing, I had to work 30 minutes for my Camel Menthol which were $6.50 a pack. Almost 4 hours pay each week was solely going to support my cigarette habit and I did that for 6 years, in the beginning it was closer to an hour just to be able to buy a pack

But that's history now and I try not to think about it anymore

Well on the plus side with all that money you're saving by not smoking, you can get your own nurse in a nice skimpy outfit! By the hour, at least.

 

[D4rk50ul]

I spent $800+ a month been myself and my wife. I never intended to save money vaping I was trying to save my health. I almost cringe when people look at vaping as a more cost effective way to smoke, that is just a side effect of switching.

Sent from my Nexus 4

 

[Neena]

My husband did the math to estimate what was spent on my smoking during the 23 years that we've been together and it made me sick. All I could think about was what we could have done with it. We still have 10 years left to pay on our mortgage and we would have been able to pay it off with the money that I spent on smoking.

 

[HK-47]

Well, I'm HOPING that I'll be able to save some money. I have enough vices as it is, and the prices are going up all the time for everything.

I mean, I went to go get some .... at the corner and the guy was talking about "Yeah man, they're taxing the hell out of small business owners, I'm up to almost 68% tax so that's going to be $50 now." I've even had to reduce the amount of extracurricular ........that I do, which is just criminal!

 

[Cjax]

Ha! My wife is a nurse. She often refers to her job as geriatric potty patrol!