A LITTLE KNOWN FACT

Previously I had done some calculations to determine the amount of money I have spent on cigarettes and how many cigarettes I have smoked since taking up the habit. Well, a new fact I read today, is that for every 1 cigarette you smoke, it takes an average of about 11 minutes off of your life. So, lets use my previous calculations and do some math. I have smoked approximately 65,700 cigarettes in my lifetime, that means I have cut 722,700 minutes off of my life. That’s 12,045 hours and 501 days which is 1.375 years. I have cut off almost a year and a half of my life from smoking. Geez. Imagine those people that have smoked for 25+ years. How much time they are cutting off of their life. It’s crazy.

So, I’m going to look at it like this today....

I have been quit smoking for thirteen days. That’s thirteen packs of cigarettes I have NOT bought. That’s approximately $52.00 that I have saved. Which is also 260 cigarettes I have NOT smoked. Which is 2,860 minutes I have saved for my life. Which is 47.66 hours of my life that I get to keep. In thirteen days of not smoking, I have saved almost two days of my life. Wow. Now, that’s looking at it from a new perspective......