Blimey, I have saved more than I thought! I would be spending getting on for £100 a week at that price. I smoked a pack and a bit a day usually. As I said sobering thought.
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Blimey! One ciggy = £0-50 and I was smoking 30 a day, that’s 210 ciggies or £105-00 per week, that’s more than half my Old Age Pension!!!
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A friend of mine years ago told me that while her dad was trying to quit smoking, he put every penny he would have spent on smokes that day into a jar. By the end of the month, he had enough to buy a video camera he’d been pining over. Apparently he never touched a cigarette again- great motivation! 
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29 years stopped and still get mild cravings sometimes, in certain environments a burning ciggy smells nice (bizarre as it is).
Cold Turkey it was and quite a big part was the fact that my wife at the time and I were both so stubborn that neither would be the first to break 
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Keep at it Robin and you will have conquered this self destructive habit.
Beggars belief as to why most of us insist on killing ourselves in various ways?
I smoked for years and really enjoyed it.
In my late twenties I started to feel guilty about indulging in such a stupid habit and gave up several times. It could be years before a combination of alcohol,and the offers of cigarettes drew me back in to the fold.
I finally gave up for good about 14 years ago. Became massively addicted to Cafe Creme cigars, smoking around 10 a day. The smell and ash got everywhere, nasty! Giving up Cafe Creme cigars was almost a rehab experience I guess. Not a single puff of smoke from a cigarette/cigar/pipe/bong has passed my lips since.
You can do it or rather stop doing it 
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Keep up the good fight!
It is so very much worthwhile on every front; health-wise, social, financial.
Despite most of my friends and relatives doing so when I was young I’ve never smoked, mainly because I’m asthmatic. But in my first few years as a young Supervisor at work I was going to several funerals each year of my staff who had each died from lung cancer in their thirties, forties and early fifties. It was very sobering to see the surviving older staff were all non-smokers.
It also killed my Mum. I saw her brain scans where the tissue only filled half her skull, partly because it had been killed by her poor circulation and partly because of the associated Alzheimer’s.
It nearly killed Hon No1 Daughter, helping to cause her several pulmonary embolisms (96% death rate nationally at the time). It took her ten years to give up the gum substitute.
I had to give up caffeine because it was causing health problems, and the slow fade of withdrawal symptoms over the next six months made me realise how addicted I was. However, Nicotine is much more dreadful, a permanent addiction, it makes caffeine look utterly trivial; so now I have the greatest sympathy for anyone giving up smoking!
Remember.
You will live longer.
You will sleep better (eventually)
Food and drink tastes so much better
You won’t get out of breath so quickly.
You won’t smell vile to others.
The house will stay clean.
Clothes will stay clean.
Car will stay clean.
You will be so much richer in so many ways!
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Great post Richard! 
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What about Hubble Bubbles, Moonshine, and (very) loose women?
Anyone had a go?
Any good as antidotes? 
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No, but Richard makes a great point (amongst many others):
“You won’t smell vile to others.”
This is so true, and if you work or spend time close to smokers you will soon notice that they stink. And you and I did too, we just didn’t know.
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I heard one non-smoker say that “kissing a smoker was like snogging an ashtray!”. YUKKK!!!
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Yeah, Champix had a lot of potential side effects, but it really makes you hate the smell of cigarettes. You still get cold turkey while your body learn to live without the nicotine fix.
And I did not grow a third nipple.
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I had the same problem with these, Tom Thumb, and Hamlet miniatures, but when in the last couple of years of smoking I started having a few cigarettes again…, I knew the time had come to quit. So on my 40th birthday I had my last smoke, and on the 1st of Feb 2022 I’ll be 60 
As for the money…? Don’t know where that went after the 1st couple of years… 1st year tobacco free bought my 1st widescreen tv, and the 2nd, my personalised plate…
Rob
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I’m not getting drawn in on this one…! Pardon the pun…! 
Rob
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Anyhooo…
I’m not offended in the slightest by anyone!
I’ll check in on my topic in 7 days from today and let you all know if I’m still kicking.
Well, guess I would be if I’m logged in…
And…breathe…
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Suicide is not illegal in England.
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I work with smokers who do not smell vile at all. In fact they smell cleaner than some non smokers, because they wash to get rid of the smell of tobacco. All the work colleagues with bad BO I have had the misfortune of working with in the past have all been non smokers. I am sure it is a coincidence though. But still, your claim that all smokers smell vile is an inaccurate stereotype.
That’s perhaps just as well.
Could carry a Whole of Life Sentence.
So saying…in August 1970 I destroyed my father’s suicide letter.
It’s contents would have served sentence on one or two family members!
Only I know it’s contents.
Anyway…69 this month so here is to another …say…30 years of Mk1-ing 
Oh…maybe not…
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Of course you are right, since 1961 merely assisting one is.
I wonder if the tobacco industry ever consider their part in this. Is it murder, or conspiracy to commit it, or conspiracy to assist a suicide?
I’m obviously not a legal expert, but the questions could ba asked.
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You coud say the same about the food industry, the companies selling alcohol, the governments allowing fracking, the doctors who prescribe too many pharmaceutical products, the industries polluting our air, and a few more guilty parties. …
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Yes, you most certainly could.
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