Heroin is not an option, as much fun as it can (reportedly) be. Not that I’d know firsthand. Not I, never.
I live in a townhouse in the country, so I see lots of country white trash chainsmoking Basic and Parliament. That’s good incentive…I want to be a nonsmoker. I want to be clean of that shit. I don’t want to be under the control of a substance.
On the other hand, I say that during one of my rare moments between cravings. When I get a craving, all that shit goes out the window. I’d trade my firstborn for one pack of Camel Lights during a craving, and damnit, I’d have fun doing it.
I quit three years ago on my second try. My first try was terrible - I was throwing up and everything.
I was in hospital for a week on my second try (unrelated), which made it much easier. The doctors and nurses even helped, they gave me Gravol (in IV form!) for the stomach issues, and made sure I got larger meals once I could eat again.
Obviously that’s not going to work for everyone, but I highly recommend it.
I paid like $2.40 a pack, but Missouri has one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation. Back when I lived in Utah it was ~$4-5 a pack, though, and I’ve always understood that cigarettes are outrageously expensive in New York and a few other places, upwards of $7-8.
Acid, if you have the self control to quit, you’ll stay quit. That gets you a gold star for sparing your family the 17% chance of putting them through the anguish of uncertainty as you try to survive lung cancer.
But whining about what a hard time you’re having getting yourself out of a situation you voluntarily put yourself into just gets you a /violin.
I think they’re about $6-7 dollars here in Edmonton, and there’s talk of a new tax on them, so I figure it’s a safe bet they’ll be at about $8 by 2010, where I imagine they’ll level off since - even as a non-smoker - I’m almost starting to pity smokers. Almost.
I intentionally switched to expensive brands before I quit, so mine were 9-10$ for Davidhoffs or nat shermans in socal.
donald duck grapefruit juice helped my father in law quit, it’s a good trick. Everytime you want a smoke, drink some until you don’t. Stick to that and you are gold, even if you break down and smoke, because it makes them taste fucking terrible instead of delicious.
When I lived in Omaha I had a friend in NY who would pay me to buy her cartons at Sam’s Club and send them to her. I could UPS for free back then, but even so, for that much of a hassle, the price difference must have been considerable.
They show the highest final retail price in the nation as New Jersey’s at $6.51 a pack, in accordance with their $2.575 state tax per pack. I’m assuming that’s an average price, so outlier prices are no doubt at least somewhat higher, and possibly a lot higher.
From what I understand it’s not uncommon for smokers in Seattle to buy cigarettes on Indian reservations, where they aren’t subject to state taxes.
Oh yeah, one other thing about the data I linked: it doesn’t include taxes below the state level except in the case of New York. This is due to NYC’s $1.50 per pack tax and the fact that roughly half the cigarettes sold in the state have that tax paid on them, so it’s factored in accordingly. As a result the average may not be representative of the price of a pack in New York City.
