How much can I save ??

[monky]

This is just a quick ready reckoner for you and again Emjay, one of our lovely quit support advisers posted this some time ago

How much have I saved?... or how much do I spend?

Posted by EmJay ROY CASTLE

3 Oct 2012

Do you actually know how much you spend on your smoking habit? Even better, if you have already stopped smoking, have you noticed all those pennies turning into pounds?

Have a look at the following cost calculator and see which way it works out for you;

Based on 20 cigarettes costing £7.00

10-a-day:

£3.50 a day

£24.50 a week

£106.16 a month

£1,274 a year

20-a-day:

£7.00 a day

£49.00 a week

£212.33 a month

£2,548 a year

30-a-day:

£10.50 a day

£73.50 a week

£318.49 a month

£3,822 a year

40-a-day:

£14.00 a day

£98.00 a week

£424.66 a month

£5,096 a year

[simba196 18 Months Winner]

Wow this is an eye opener, never really worked it out. If me and my husbby had never smoke (both been smoking for 44+ years, we would be millionaires

[monky Administrator 45 Months Cake sniffer outer in reply to simba196]

Toooo rite gal, I used to smoke about 35-40 a day £5,000 grand a year WOW

[simba196 18 Months Winner]

Hope your saving it and plan on spending it on a special treat!!

[Orkneysarah 25 Months Winner]

If I hadnt smoked we would have no mortgage, a fancy car and have been able to have nice holidays and not have to eat lidl food or tesco value although what we do buy of that brands are all right or we wouldnt eat it!!

The kids would have new clothes although hand me downs are ok coz they just get ruined/outgrown anyway!

I smoked about 15-20 a day so saving around £2,500 per year, it doesnt seem like much when you say £7 a day but 2500 is a lot

[Orkneysarah 25 Months Winner]

Just calculated I have smoked away £36,036, fags werent as expensive when I first started I know (£2.50 a pack of 20) but that is frightening

[simba196 18 Months Winner]

Just worked mine and my hubby out, £225,000 which is frightening. Could have had world cruise (several times over), big house and not be worrying about how to manage on a pension. I think that this should be stressed to everyone as well as the health effects, as we don't take notice of health affects thinking it wont affect me.

[tomc LONG TERM WINNER]

Hi all,

You can download the smokefree CALCULATOR desktop app from NHS choices.

All you do is enter your stop date, how many you did smoke and the calculator will give you a daily update of your saving for every day you don't buy / smoke ciggies.

You will be amazed at how much we were paying to kill ourselves and give even more tax to the tax man.

Tom.

[tomc LONG TERM WINNER]

Just to say, With the NHS CHOICES cost calculator sitting on your computers desktop and visible everytime you turn on the computer, It gives you a little extra boost when you see the savings you are making.

Simba196 makes a good point in saying no one really thinks of the damage to our health, but our pockets getting damaged makes you go "whaaaaaaat".

Tom.