How much money you will save if you quit smoking

How much smoking costs

On average, a pack of cigarettes costsTobacco is not a fool: the minimum price of cigarettes 85 rubles beneficial to large companies 105-110 rubles. If you smoke regularly, on the habit it takes a lot of money. Exists calculatorsWhich will help to calculate the expenditure depending on the number of cigarettes smoked and their cost. But even without them it is easy to cope with this task:

• If you leave a pack a day, multiply its value by 30 or 365. The first figure shows how much you spend per month, and the second on average - per year.
• If the pack is enough for two days, multiply its value by 15 or 182.

The principle is clear. And the numbers are likely to scare. Layfhaker asked some smokers to estimate the cost of a bad habit.

I spend on cigarettes more than a thousand a week, about 4500 per month. In the year even consider afraid. It would be enough to go to the European part of the Mediterranean Sea for the second time in a year.

Elena

Take a carton of cigarettes, the stock has just ended. If you take once a year, you get 62,000. This is a fairly large sum for me. At this year's vacation I spent less, but rested very well.

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Dmitry

according to statistics,Smoking in Russia: monitoring65% of Russians to this bad habit smoked a pack a day or more. Taking into account the average price of 105 rubles, they spend 3150 rubles per month, or 38,325 rubles per year. A good reason to think about how to quit.

What can you buy on savings

If you're not just going to keep the money and put it on savings account with monthly capitalization and average rate (currently 6.51%Information on deposits (deposits) of individuals and non-financial organizations in rubles, US dollars and Euros), In a year will get 42 313 rubles.

This amount can be spent on something pleasant or useful, for example:

• Unlearning in a driving school, if you do not have a driver's license.
• Cure teeth. This is generally not cheap, besides enamel probably suffered from smoking.
• To buy a game console. The main thing with this - do not replace one addiction with another.
• Repay a loan. Monthly overpayment 3 150 rubles can significantly speed up the process.
• Buy clothes for winter outdoor activities - snowboarding or skiing.
• Put the home treadmill or cardio.
• To go to a mini-vacation in one of the cities of Russia, or to spend a weekend in Europe.
• create reserve fund and to protect themselves from financial force majeure.
• Start your business - sometimes quite minimal investment.
• Regularly go to a psychologist to heal emotional wounds and to live happily.
• Change smartphone newer version.
• Make repairs in one room, and even in the whole apartment.

And that's not all.

What you get in addition to the direct savings

Extra time

Even if a smoke takes 5 minutes a day do you spend on cigarettes smolenie 1 hour 40 minutes. If you get rid of a bad habit, you can free up your time for reading, exercise, and other nice things. This enhances your vacation productivityThat may affect the increase in revenues.

More likely to maintain health

Let's be honest: the rejection of cigarettes does not guarantee the absence of disease. Otherwise, all non-smokers would be healthy and live up to 100 years. But this habit is called a bad reason. it improvesCigarette smoke and adverse health effects: An overview of research trends and future needs the risk faced with certain types of cancer, diseases of the cardiovascular system, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Smoking reduces life by an average of eight years, and for those who are addicted to cigarettes during adolescence, 20-25.

Man with nicotine dependence can live a long time and do not get the special health problems. But it may get. A sick expensive. So, giving up smoking, you save more and doctors.

For those who want to get rid of this costly habit, prepared Layfhaker instructions. Do not put it off until Monday or the New Year, start now.