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The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)

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smsh28	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#41	[url]	[-]
10/11/06 07:52	I don't remember when my first quit attempt was. I do remember the first quit that lasted more than half a day. It was in 1993. I quit for 5 months. It's really quite shocking I lasted that long considering the fact that I was bitter that my husband didn't quit with me the entire 5 months. The longest quit...the one before this one was about 4 years. I quit right before I got pregnant and stayed quit until my son was around 3 1/2. A year later I'm on my last quit...26 days in. If I had realized the importance of NTAP back in 1993 I seriously doubt I would now be in the midst of waiting to find out if the prolonged cough my 4 1/2 year old has is the onset of asthma. (can't even begin to tell you how horrified this thought makes me.) There is no amount of money or life saved that could compare to that, but I also would have saved $7,834.14 and 244 days of my life by not smoking 70313 death sticks. And I was conservative on that estimate. What the heck, Joel??? Sadist!! This is a horrible exercise. What was I thinking participating in it??? On the bright side I have been Free and Healing for Twenty Six Days, 16 Hours and 50 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 2 Days and 18 Hours, by avoiding the use of 801 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $116.28. Oh, and I totally, really, completely, utterly get it now. NTAP. ONE = ALL. It's drug addiction and I am an addict. Sonya
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Joel	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#42	[url]	[-]
11/18/06 05:29	I saw earlier in the week where we had a few new members talk about how they had past quits that were lost. I think a good exercise for them and all of our members would be to think back to the first time they tried to quit and relapsed, and now calculate how long ago that was and to now estimate how many cigarettes were consumed since then and approiximately how much money they have spent on those cigarettes. It will be a real eye opener and clearly show the economic impact of them having not known the importance of sticking to a personal commitment to never take another puff. Joel
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MichQuit122GOLDin08	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#43	[url]	[-]
01/30/07 03:45	I quit smoking the first time when I was pregnant with my son. (thank GOODNESS I did that...WHAT was I thinking starting up again after he was born after 9/10 months???DUH!) Anyway, as I was figuring this out..I went 365 X 13 (years) and ended up with 4745 ..I said to myself...I wouldn't have smoked 4745 cigarettes?Then I realized..no WAIT...that's only the amount of DAYS...I can multiply that times 20 for a pack a day... I could NOT belive it...I still can't. My numbers are...94,900 cigarettes I could NOT have smoked and could have saved $18, 031 by today's prices. WOW. M. I have been quit for 1 Week, 22 hours, 59 minutes and 49 seconds (7 days). I have saved $30.62 by not smoking 159 cigarettes. I have saved 13 hours and 15 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 1/22/2007 6:45 AM
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System Pilot	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#44	[url]	[-]
01/30/07 09:05	I quit smoking for 22 months when I relapsed. I smoked another 4 years and 7 months before I quit again. using an average cost of 28 dollars a carton smoking 25 cigarettes a day for (an estimated) 1,675 days I figure I threw away $5,862.50. That's a good bit of money...
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johnnynonic	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#45	[url]	[-]
09/24/08 06:00	I wanted to quit when our first child was born, but failed, I never smoked in the house after that, but... I could have been quit for 20 Years, 3 Months, 2 Weeks (7,415 days). I could have saved $32,370.64 by not ingesting 133,487 nicotine delivery devices. I could have saved 1 Year, 3 Months, 6 Days of my life. If My Quit Date had been then Had I never taken that first puff some 35 Years, 5 Months, 3 Weeks Years ago, I could have saved $56,592.04 and not ingested 233,369 nicotine delivery devices (thats somewhere around 2,333,690 puffs, talk about conditioning). JohnnyNoNic I have been quit for 3 Years, 5 Months, 3 Weeks (1,276 days). I have saved $5,573.90 by not ingesting 22,985 nicotine delivery devices. I have saved 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days of my life and.... I am Free... I WILL NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
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Theresa10458	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#46	[url]	[-]
09/24/08 06:25	If I had stopped at age 28 and stayed quit - I would have have not smoked more than 365,000 nicotine death sticks and I would have saved more than $118,625. I am 54 now and have attempted to quit over 8 times. Theresa - Free and Healing for Three Months, Eight Days, 1 Hour and 52 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 10 Days and 10 Hours, by avoiding the use of 3002 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $1,055.16. Last Edited By: FreedomNicotine 04/14/09 02:57. Edited 1 time.
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Theresa10458	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#47	[url]	[-]
09/24/08 07:10	The facts are astounding. The visualization is even more so. I know this is my last quit. I thank Freedom and WhyQuit and Joel for giving me this gift. Theresa Last Edited By: FreedomNicotine 04/14/09 02:57. Edited 1 time.
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Jazzlady4	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#48	[url]	[-]
09/24/08 06:46	Wow! I quit in 1976 for a short time, but was soon inhaling the deadly fumes for another 11,130 days. I wasted 1,652 days of my life. I consumed an additional 222,600 cigarettes before I said "enough". That is probably over $40,000 spent on cigarettes. For the good news.... I quit 747 days ago, and no more of my life or money is being wasted on cigarettes. I am "FREE" and will NTAP. Jazzlady - Free and Healing for Two Years, Sixteen Days, 11 Hours and 48 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 51 Days and 21 Hours, by avoiding the use of 14950 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $2,721.39. Last Edited By: FreedomNicotine 04/14/09 02:58. Edited 1 time.
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JoeJFree Gold	The cost of my first relapse (Have a calculator handy)	#49	[url]	[-]
10/17/08 05:26	'Lost' a quit. Don't think so. Just as we don't 'give up' smoking we actually get rid of it, I firmly believe nobody ever 'loses' a quit - they choose to throw it away by ingesting nicotine in Just one little puff. No matter what, don't discard your true freedom from nicotine - never take another puff. Last Edited By: FreedomNicotine 04/14/09 03:01. Edited 1 time.
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