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slazer2au

How much have you saved and what made you give it up?

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Not op but I was smoking weed. I did the math and was spending around $15-20k a year, so I’m 1 day sober now.

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Wow that's pretty crazy, what does that equate to amount wise on a daily basis?

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thats like 42-55ish bucks a day.

good luck on quitting op, prob feels like soloing mount Everest with a fisher price hiking kit.

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What's crazy to me is how much cheaper alcohol is. I'm saving money by sacrificing my insides :3

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I vaped an oz every 3 days or so about 9 grams a day.

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(Disregard if you have other reasons, but if it's just financial...)

Have you tried moderation, because that's...a lot lol

I'm a daily user, but for me I don't vape it (prevents use from being too easy, too accessible) just concentrates out of an e-nail and I generally stick to night time usage because kids and also I gave up driving high many years ago.

My tracking spreadsheet has my average use of 1 gram every ~2 weeks and an annual spend of a couple hundred

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Heavily depends on area and usage patterns, I burn a gram of concentrates every 2 weeks and a gram is like $7-10 around here on sale

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I wish, I can apparently moderate everything in my life except for weed -_-;;

southsamurai

Preach!

When I officially quit, as in not even using 0 nicotine vape products to help with the fidget aspect of smoking, I made myself a little side envelope that I kept the money I was saving in not smoking to give myself a little boost in terms of any residual urges popping up.

Bought myself a little gift in just 4 months that I'd wanted for years, and cost damn near 400 bucks.

Mind you, cost of living swallowed that amount up since then, but it was a strong incentive to not backslide under stress.

It's been , years since a real urge hit, if only a few. But I have my sweet-ass knife that reminds me every day exactly how much smoking costs in a monetary sense.

Honestly, at this point the only urges I get are situational, where the habit of smoking would be nice. The little ritual of lighting up and having something to do with hands. No actual cravings for nicotine at all for at least two years.

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That's an insane amount

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It's got to be 20 bucks a pack now

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Ugh same. For me it's that I can either have weed in my possession and get super high every day, or I can let my stash run out and go cold turkey. Only ever managed like 2 days stashing any THC product away without using it, and I thought about it constantly the whole time.

But on the bright side, as long as I don't let myself buy more I can go indefinitely, no problem. I was going on 2 years without it until I visited family in California a few months ago and they offered me some lol

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Great to hear that, keep it up!

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Just do like I did and start having panic attacks after 2 hits

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Wow, that's pretty damn cheap compared to price per pack where I live, it's around $60-80AUD here

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Have you replaced the ritual yet? I get a similar feeling as to what you describe, doing something with my hands, when I make loose leaf tea. It's great for mindfulness.

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Realised spending new money for useless crap points directly into a depression.

Siren

Great initiative to quit! All the best in your journey.

I would like to share that I personally found the book Easyway to stop smoking by Allen Carr really helpful. I was a heavy chain smoker and have been smoke free for 6 years now, all thanks to the book.

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for a pocket-sized pack I meant.. I was close lol