A good enough reason that might just push you to quit smoking might be when you have a good look of your overall budget. Sometimes the idea of quitting for health’s sake may not just be enough. A big picture of what smoking does to your budget may open your eyes to the necessity of quitting smoking. Aside from this, smoking may impact more on your budget when there are health complications due to smoking. But, the minimum cost that smoking takes on you is the cost 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.

Although this may seem little, but if you think of spending $35 per week, it would easily add up. Just for cigarettes, you have already taken $35 from your weekly budget. For many people, this is already equal to a tank of gas, a trip to the cinema, or even a brand new clothing if you are a good shopper. You could even deposit the money to a bank and see how it increases week after week instead of letting your money go up in smoke.

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 want to find out how much cost smoking does to you each year, remember that each year you have spent for 365 packs of cigarettes. Multiply this with 20 sticks contained in each pack so you have 7,300 total number of cigarettes each year which comes at a price of an overwhelming $1,825 a year! That’s what this simple hobby cost you! This is just for a single pack of cigarettes per day habit and for cigarette pack that costs no more than $5. Many states have higher prices of cigarettes while other states have lesser. If you smoke more than one pack a day, then you would be looking at a sum of $3,650 for two pack a day and smoking about 14,699 cigarettes a year.

The price alone of the cigarettes that you have consumed in a year is already horrendous! If you consider smoking for the next five years, without any plan of quitting, then you can expect to spend a huge sum of $9,125 for a single pack a day habit and a shocking $18,250 for a two pack a day consumption. It definitely is enormous money that you can save if you skip buying cigarettes.

If the idea of quitting for the sake of improving your health is not motivating to you, perhaps you’ll have a sudden impulse to stop after you do the math of how much smoking costs you. Cigarettes are sold in increasing prices, plus there is the growing cost of living, which make it doubly difficult for many families to live on their budget. Saving money, in whatever way, is certainly a very big help. Even the price of stop smoking aids come significantly cheaper than the price of continuing to smoke.