How many cigarettes do you smoke?

Charlie Farley

Charlie Farley

Chilling out.
Staff member
Moderator
VCDS Map User
Joined
Jun 13, 2014
Messages
25,589
Reaction score
11,733
Points
113
Location
At Home
Right, just out of interest , how many ciggy's do you smoke a day, and also how long has that been for?

I don't partake in the habbit myself , my parent used to smoke like chimneys but never bothered me.
But would like to gauge how many on average get smoked per person per day.

What will a box of ciggy's cost these days?
The last time I looked they were about £1.49 for 20 silk cut, that may have been a long time ago though..lol
 
Not ideal I agree, well having spent my childhood in a smoker zone.
 
audi upgrades
£10 plus for 20 these days.
That made me stop.
I think 20 a day is a lot although not unusual.
10 a day is a moderately light smoker.
Just as a scale.
A 20 a day habbit smoking legit shop bought fags works out at over £560 per month.
That is a rather nice car.
Obviously they are exceptions.
Go out drinking, you typically smoke more
 
  • Like
Reactions: Bristle Hound and Charlie Farley
That's what crossed my mind today chap.
So on those figures an average smoker will burn through over £6000 a year .
Let alone drinking out per week aswell.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Bristle Hound
Just Rob. said:
That's what crossed my mind today chap.
So on those figures an average smoker will burn through over £6000 a year .
Let alone drinking out per week aswell.
Click to expand...


Yep.
Absolutely madness isn't it?
Also you will find, and I wonder this often, people who don't work often smoke.
How the hell can they do it?
 
It's a lot of cash , I've never really thought about it until today , I know my parent smoked all their lives and it killed my father but I never really took any notice, they wouldn't quit so never questioned it .
I'm not a smoker nor a drinker as such and don't do fuuny weeds or stuff but i'm amazed now at how much cash can be wasted per month or annually doing any or all of them .
All that cash that could be used on better things.
That makes my car spending very acceptable in comparison.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Bristle Hound, Sandra, CHEZ and 1 other person
Cheaper to smoke weed or snort cocaine


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Raiden said:
Cheaper to smoke weed or snort cocaine


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Ironically that's ****** true these days, bizarre.

I also remember Rob when silk cut were pound a packet.
 
I don’t smoke, and it always shocks me when I see the price of them.

I was in an off-licence just the other day, (putting the lotto on) and a customer was trying to buy some tobacco. I say trying because they didn’t have enough money to do so!
I been in the same position before where someone couldn’t pay for food or a drink , and I offered to pay for them..
I felt I couldn’t offer to buy tobacco, but this did really bother me later, I don’t know if I should or shouldn’t have offered to give them the money?
 
Ghost said:
I don’t smoke, and it always shocks me when I see the price of them.

I was in an off-licence just the other day, (putting the lotto on) and a customer was trying to buy some tobacco. I say trying because they didn’t have enough money to do so!
I been in the same position before where someone couldn’t pay for food or a drink , and I offered to pay for them..
I felt I couldn’t offer to buy tobacco, but this did really bother me later, I don’t know if I should or shouldn’t have offered to give them the money?
Click to expand...

Definitely shouldn’t give them the money, smoking is a luxury/expensive habit.
Blows my mind when people ask for money for food because they’re skint at the end of the month, but they drink and smoke like it’s free.

Also winds me up when people ask if you’ve got a ‘spare’ cigarette? Asif there’s anyone out there who smokes 19/20 and throws the last one away???

But if you do feel like you want to be a Good Samaritan, I could do with some new tyres soon on my S3? Just an idea ;)
 
  • Like
Reactions: Sandra, Bristle Hound, DieselJake and 2 others
None anymore.

Went from 10 to 15 a day to cold turkey on Jan 1st 2017 and never smoked since.

Started smoking about 15 years old, stopped at 30.

A combination of lots of caffine and smoking led to an absurdly high blood pressure and random nose bleeds when only slightly exerting myself, so chose to stop.
 
CarbonMike said:
None anymore.

Went from 10 to 15 a day to cold turkey on Jan 1st 2017 and never smoked since.

Started smoking about 15 years old, stopped at 30.

A combination of lots of caffine and smoking led to an absurdly high blood pressure and random nose bleeds when only slightly exerting myself, so chose to stop.
Click to expand...
Wise descision.:icon thumright:
 
None, since 11 January 1996.

Make what you will from the fact that I remember the exact date. :)
 
  • Like
Reactions: Charlie Farley and Bryant1998
Having never smoked I cant really begin to understand how difficult it must be to quit, both my parent's smoked all there lives , they tried stopping many times but never really lasted.
My sister smokes aswell and has on and off period of the habbit, I'm probably lucky in that I never touched them being in such close contact.
Having seen how smoking slowly killed my father , it wasn't nice at the end to be honest and I think if you are a smoker you should stop sooner than later.

Anyway, I just remind myself how much cash I haven't wasted over the years with them and how my overall health has not been made to much the worse by not smoking, although I may well be a victim of passive smoking .
 
Stopped smoking 36 years ago when I got married
Started when I was 15. Stopped when I was 21
It took me 3 attempts to stop. In those days it was just will power alone to stop, or it was for me at least. Put a stone on in weight when I finally did, which took some time to shift lol
I was smoking about 10-12 / day as I recall
There is the odd occasion when I could still go one, but would defo not have another, ever!
 
  • Like
Reactions: jdp1962 and Charlie Farley
I smoked 20-40 a day from around 15-30 years old, including weed in the evenings, then I quit cold turkey of everything almost ten years ago. Still occasionally, maybe once a year, have a joint as I still massively enjoy it, but I make sure I don't go down the slippery slope into anymore.

The tax on tobacco is basically just another tax on the poor though, it's another disgrace designed by people who have aren't poor.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Charlie Farley and Bryant1998
I smoked 10 per day and stopped when my first child was on the way but I still smoked a bit of weed of an evening mixed with tobacco. That carries on for a few years until I got myself an e cigarette and ditched the spliffs for a vaporiser. I still use the ecig daily and occasionally Cape the other stuff but I am looking to knock the ecig on the head though, not for any particular reason other than what's the point as you don't get anything out of it. Would you get on the ale and ruin your liver if it never got you drunk?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Charlie Farley and Bryant1998
I used Tesco nicotone gums to stop, they did the job for when you have a craving and they taste disgusting so after a few days you end up going off them as well.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Sandra and Charlie Farley
I have never smoked.

My Mum smoked at least 40 per day, it killed her age 69.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Charlie Farley
I've smoked for to many years now, worst habit I ever started. Thankfully I'm going through the process of stopping. :whistle2:

JG
 
  • Like
Reactions: Sandra, Andy Butcher and Charlie Farley
Probably 25 a day,started smoking when I was 19...that’s a good few years ago
 
  • Like
Reactions: Charlie Farley
All of you smokers that would like to quit I recommend booking an appointment at your doctor's and seeing a quit smoking cetation with the nurse.
That may be tricky at the minute with this China bat flu thing going on....
However, there is a tablet that you get prescribed called champix , and this works.
Only thing is, not everyone can take it, plus, you do smoke at the beginning while tapering up the dose, the effect makes you physically not want to smoke, so by the end of you're course, you are totally nicotine free and independent.
Normally a 2 weekly visit is required to see the nurse, to check your not smoking by blowing into a carbon monoxide meter because there an expensive medicine to dispense.
But they do work.
God bless the NHS.
Bur, like I said earlier, the present climate with this coronavirus may have affected this.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Sandra and Charlie Farley
15 a day roughly. Depending on how busy and stressed I am in work. I smoke menthol tips and have recently read a few articles about how they are worse for you! I don’t know if there’s any legitimate science behind it though
 
  • Like
Reactions: Charlie Farley
I stopped 26 years ago when we found out our son was on the way,never had one since. I deal with a lot of members of the public in my job & the stink of stale cigs on some people's breath is horrible. Best thing i ever did was stop.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Baka, Jcbmally and Charlie Farley
None since 2001, got a bad dose of tonsillitis and never looked back, stink free.
 
  • Like
Reactions: pburv and Charlie Farley
Packed up 1st Feb 2003.
Only had 1 smoke since (a cigarillo) in 2004, and that was after being Mortar'd for 3 days on and off in Iraq!
 
  • Like
Reactions: b2, Baka and Jcbmally
audi upgrades
Quit 10 years ago with the help of e-cigs and one of those inhalators. It was rough, but worth it.

I'm a bit of a fat f$%k now, but I guess that's better than the potential consequences of smoking. :D
 
  • Like
Reactions: Andy Butcher
Yup, I went from 15 to 18 stone. :D

Slowly losing it though, low carb seems to be working.
 
  • Like
Reactions: CHEZ
None and don’t do it near me either as I have asthma and I don’t want to inhale various poisons from your vile habit thanks
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Defratos
  • Start Poll
Do you Smoke?
Replies
54
Views
3K
benw123
benw123
jojo
  • Start Poll
How many piints do you have on your driving licence?
Replies
45
Views
2K
MikeA3
MikeA3
O
How many cars have you owned ?
Replies
80
Views
9K
Ex T5
E
rickyquicky
How do you upload images?
Replies
2
Views
773
rickyquicky
rickyquicky
wibble111
How do you record streaming video?
Replies
8
Views
724
Staz
Staz
Top
Back