Any Mustachian smokers?

[shelivesthedream]

I was musing in a quiet moment at work today, when everyone else was out having a fag break, how much money I save by not smoking - like the latte effect but much greater. Then I wondered if, due to everyone on this forum having different spending priorities (I'm sure someone has retired early while still making a daily trip to Starbucks!), anyone on here intending to FIRE is also a smoker. If so, how do you cope with the knowledge that every packet of cigarettes pushes your FIRE date further away (not to mention health damage etc)? What is stopping you giving up?

[AnonymousCoward]

There have been several threads in Throw Down the Gauntlet about smoking (and quitting)

Here's one of the longer ones: http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/punching-smoking-in-the-face!/

[Dicey]

Isn't that an oxymoron? Maybe even a double oxymoron?

[Kriegsspiel]

Isn't that an oxymoron? Maybe even a double oxymoron?

No, simply moron.

[Retired To Win]

I used to smoke pipes and cigars.  Did it for over 20 years.  But, a while before I acquired a frugal living mindset, I lost interest in the smoking.  (Yep, just like that; no big traumatic "quitting" story.)

Yet, while I was a smoker, I found it had very little impact on my finances because of what I did smoke.  It is very economical to smoke a pipe.  And you can pick your type and source of cigars to be thrifty without having to smoke dried up caca.  Both are more satisfying than cigarettes, too.

FWIW!!

[burly]

From a financial aspect, I found it to be almost no different...

When I used to smoke, I used to eat MUCH less.. Now that I don't smoke and work out, I tend to eat MUCH more.

So yes, I spend more money on food that negates the former additional expense of smoking.


From a health aspect - well... no reason to bother explaining.

[griffin]

I get stressed out thinking about how much they're costing me, and then i need a cigarette :(

[Prepube]

Love my Sunday cigars.  They're my reward for reaching my weekly goals.  I figure as long as I am not (physically) addicted to nicotine, as long as I maintain my exercise regimen, and as long as I am not borrowing money to smoke them (ie I have no debt), then I can enjoy some fine and fancy things.  I also have cable, gamble occasionally, and have a 1971 f250.  I drive my prius to work, never eat lunch out, and save 60% of my income.  Now, it being a holiday, I'm going to fire up a nice stick and contemplate my soon coming early retirement.