Trying to Quit? CostOfSmoking Will Make You Cry.
Smoking is widely considered to be one of the hardest “bad habits” to kick. Way more so than turning your underwear inside out and wearing it a second time.
If you’re having trouble quitting, why not download CostOfSmoking for a massive dose of reality. It’s an ugly, quickly assembled program (it looks like a packaged MS Access database) that will leave you absolutely gobsmacked. If you don’t smoke and never have, this program will make you damn glad.
A quick run based on a ten-year, one-and-a-half pack a day habit at the current $12 a pack (oh, Canada!) pricing yielded the ungodly sum of $114,594. If that’s not enough to convince someone that their habit is putting a serious dent in their potential savings, we don’t know what is.
Try it yourself and see! We decided to run numbers on our average coffee habit – just to make sure we’re in good shape – and was relieved to find out that our java vice came in at a much more reasonable $1,146.
[ Via FreewareNetwork ]
