If you are attempting to quit smoking, it might drive you more to see the overall impact that smoking does to your budget. If you only push yourself to the idea of quitting for health reasons, that might not just be enough. You really have to understand how much smoking is costing you each year that you are engaged with the habit. Aside from that, there are also health complications that smoking brings which add further to the cost. However, the minimum cost that you spend on smoking is definitely from the price of the cigarettes themselves.

If you had a chance to think of how much cigarette smoking had cost you, you had certainly noticed that it involved a rather surprising amount. Prices are continually increasing, and this is primarily due to the extremely high imposition of tax levied on cigarettes to help compensate for the health problems that it resulted. All around the country, a pack of cigarette is bought at a price of $5 on average. If your smoking habit makes you consume a pack per day then you will have consumed seven packs per week.

You might have the impression that it really does not cost that much. But if you think of spending $35 on cigarettes, you might just be surprised how it has added up so quickly. Imagine in a single week you are burning your 35 hard-earned dollars! For a lot of people, this already translates to a tank of gas, a movie date, or a brand new outfit if you are a smart shopper. Or you can see your account deposit getting bigger and bigger, rather than have it burn to ashes.

Though the $35 may seem like big money for many, to some people it is just a little money spent for a habit that they love doing. Now consider this. If the average month has 30 days and everyday you smoke a $5 pack of cigarettes, simple multiplication would tell you that you are approximately spending $150 a month. This is already a substantial amount that could have gone to people’s gas bills, power bills, water bills, phone bills or an overnight getaway.

If you are interested to see how much smoking is costing you the whole year round, consider that each year you are consuming 365 packs of cigarettes. Multiply each pack by 20 sticks and you are inhaling 7,300 cigarettes each year which comes at a staggering $1,825! Talk about extravagantly spending money just for smoking! Do not forget though that we are only computing the cost for a single pack a day habit, and assuming too that it is only $5 dollars that you spent per pack. Many states have much higher prices, while other states may have a little bit lower. If you make a double pack consumption per day then you are spending $3,650 and smoking 14,600 sticks per year.

The price alone of cigarettes that are added up in one year is shocking! If you think of smoking for a period of 5 years and without any intention of quitting very soon then you would be looking at an amount of $9,125 for a pack a day habit and a horrendous $18,250 for two packs a day habit. What you can save from buying cigarettes is extremely huge.

Thinking about the cost of smoking may be more effective a push than the thought of improving health for you to quit. Prices of cigarettes steadily rise and when this is combined with the mounting price of living expenses, many families would certainly live under very strained budget. Whatever means of saving money would be a big assistance to the family. Even the costly stop smoking aids come much cheaper in the long run than when you stick to the habit.