First of all, I can tell you from first hand experience that this whole ‘Look at all the money you’ll save by quitting smoking’ is complete and total BULLSHIT!

Yes, you spend a fortune on cigarettes. But, unless you physically take that money out of your pocket every time you would have bought a pack and then put it someplace where you won’t touch it, you’ll spend it on something else. Probably food (most likely, snacks and junk food).

Don’t forget that the hand-t0-mouth learned motion is very hard to break. And then add in all of the regular smoking cues that come up during the day: the phone rings, you start your car, you have a cup of coffee, you eat lunch, etc. All of these are things you have to break if you want to successfully stop smoking.

So what is going to happen is, you’ll stop smoking and spend that money at the vending machines at work and at the convenience stores where you used to buy cigarettes. Only instead of smokes, you’ll be buying junk food to try to satisfy the cravings and the hand-t0-mouth thing. Most people put on massive amounts of weight when they try to quit smoking and you probably will too. After a short time of constant irritability and weight gain, you’ll decide that it just isn’t worth it and go back to smoking.

Next time I’ll tell you about how your mind place tricks with you when you dream you smoked and you don’t know if it was real or not or how awful it feels when the shit in your lungs starts to break up and moves all around your chest. Oh, and the incredibly WEIRD, VIVID dreams you get when you fall asleep with the patch.