How to Find Out How Much Smoking Really Costs You
If you are a smoker, you may want to know the financial costs associated with your habit. These costs add up over time and the associated health risks only make things worse. Figuring out the the actual dollar amount is easy enough, but the lost years of health is incalculable. In addition to health benefits, there are additional benefits from quitting, according to SmokeFree.gov, such as increased self-esteem, feeling and looking better, and being more relaxed.
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Go to Arizona Smokers' Helpline, or ASHline, which has a smoking cost calculator (see Resources). Here you can enter how much you spend on a pack of cigarettes. Other parameters you need to calculate the costs include how many cigarettes you smoke per day, and the date when you started smoking. After completing the required fields, simply press calculate and the program will automatically display your total amount of cigarettes used results in U.S. dollars. A reset button is also included for changing the parameters quickly.
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Go to the American Cancer Society's smoking cost calculator (see Resources). The calculator can express the output in terms of cost per day, cost per week, cost per month, cost per year and the total cost since you started smoking. There is also a field that shows you the projected cost of smoking for a number of years.
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Find out how much of your lifespan is left. Go to Medindia's Cigarette Smoking Risk Calculator (see Resources). The parameters required to estimate the amount of lost lifespan are: date when you started smoking; how many cigarettes per day you smoke; and, if you have already quit smoking, the date when you quit. These estimates may not be exactly accurate and may be subject to other factors.
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