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Mary Dude



Quit Date:
June 15, 2004

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Location: Pittsburgh, PA

PostPosted: May 29, 2008 6:48 PM    Post subject: STAT PARTY!!!! Reply with quote

Cool I just realized that I passed the mark of 50,000 cigarettes NOT smoked.
And I've saved more than 12 months of lifetime...WOW!

What if I had smoked those???? Don't want to what if it - but I know I would not be in uniform in Iraq and proudly serving my country -

My Quit Date is: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 5:30:00 PM
Time Smoke-Free: 1443 days, 12 hours, 29 minutes and 49 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 50523
Lifetime Saved: 12 months, 25 days, 22 hours
Money Saved: $8,844.50

You don't know if it is possible until you try!
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hunahpu



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December 3, 2007

Posts: 70
Location: Tucson, AZ

PostPosted: May 29, 2008 7:02 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your Quit Date is: 12/2/2007 9:30:00 PM
Time Smoke-Free: 178 days, 21 hours, 24 minutes and 28 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 1252
Lifetime Saved: 9 days, 13 hours
Money Saved: $300.72

If I laid 1252 cigarette butts end to end, it would stretch over 100 feet.

If you laid your 50523 cigarette butts end to end, it stretch over 3/4 of a mile.
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hunahpu



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Location: Tucson, AZ

PostPosted: May 29, 2008 7:13 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also, if a spent 10 minutes smoking each of my 1252 cigarettes, and I smoked them all back to back, I'd be smoking for over 8 days straight.

For you, at 50523 cigarettes, you'd be smoking for close to a year.

UPDATE:
Maybe that is what they mean by lifetime saved on these quit stat boards. I always thought that was a estimate of how much longer you'd live since you quit, not how long you spend actually smoking.
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kevin
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Posts: 9538
Location: cincinnati, oh

PostPosted: May 29, 2008 8:52 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

actually, statistically speaking, each cigarette you smoke shortens your life expectancy by 11 minutes; they get the life saved number by multiplying cigarettes not smoked by 11 minutes.

i'm happy to say that i'm in my 2,384th day of freedom (that's 6 years, 6 months and 10 days, i think), and that in that time, i've chosen not to smoke 47,680 cigarettes (at least), saving $11,920 (assuming cigarette prices remained constant for the last 6 and a half years) and 364 days and 12 minutes of life (or so)...

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hunahpu



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Location: Tucson, AZ

PostPosted: May 29, 2008 9:42 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

kevin wrote:
actually, statistically speaking, each cigarette you smoke shortens your life expectancy by 11 minutes; they get the life saved number by multiplying cigarettes not smoked by 11 minutes.


So I guess that you save double the time listed. Not only does it take about 10 or 11 minutes to smoke a cigarette, but you also add the same amount to your life expectancy, so you're really get 22 minutes back by not smoking the cigarette. Smile Smile Smile


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Gidget



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March 14, 2008

Posts: 693
Location: New Haven, CT

PostPosted: May 29, 2008 10:42 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked
Math is FUN!
So proud to be free and healing for:
Two months, two weeks, two days, 28 minutes and 45 seconds.
1540 cigarettes not smoked, saving $539.14.
Life saved: 5 days, 8 hours, 20 minutes.

1540 x 11 minutes = 16940 minutes
16940/60 minutes = 282.33 hours
282.33 / 24 hours = 11.76 days

that is a different number than that on my silk quit meter.....
hmmmmm
Math is not so fun now... Rolling Eyes

Gidget
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kevin
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PostPosted: May 29, 2008 11:07 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

obviously, the silk quit meter is off in your case, gidget; take the extra 6 days and run with them! Smile
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Gidget



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PostPosted: May 30, 2008 5:46 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love it!!!

Gidget
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Patty129



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Posts: 828
Location: Saginaw, MI

PostPosted: May 30, 2008 7:19 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm so bad at math I'm not even going to try some of the calculations.....

I've been smober for 15 months and 12 days (467 days)
I've not smoked 18,680 cigarettes or 934 packs or 93 cartons (how I use to buy them)
and I've saved $3,269.00.

And, I've probably saved another few hundred in doctor bills since I didn't have constant upper respitory infections this past winter....

Patty
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pinkpearl



Quit Date:
June 30, 2007

Posts: 1667
Location: Illinois

PostPosted: May 30, 2008 10:13 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have been quit for 10 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 10 hours, 11 minutes and 58 seconds (334 days). I have saved $1,086.87 by not smoking 6,688 cigarettes. I have saved 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 5 hours and 20 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 6/30/2007 11:00 PM

and this was with me putting in smoking a pack a day at 3.25 per pack.
Im sure its alot more now!
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Breez



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May 12, 2009

Posts: 22

PostPosted: May 30, 2008 11:32 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lets see mine is
2 WKS
3 DAYS
13 HRS
40 MINS
I saved $70.26 not smoking 351 Cigs
I have saved 2 days 16hrs & 30 mins of my life!!!!!
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amy rose



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July 19, 2008

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Location: Nebraska

PostPosted: May 30, 2008 2:50 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is so great! you give me hope that I can do it too!!
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Breez



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PostPosted: May 30, 2008 2:55 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.
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Breez



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PostPosted: May 30, 2008 3:00 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry I was just trying to do my quote & well it came up twice...
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amy rose



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PostPosted: May 30, 2008 4:40 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry I did not realize what everyone was doing.
So here I go. I am at 8 days 4 hours and 38 minutes.
I have saved $2.50 for 8 days that is $20.00 And I plan on taking that $20 and going out with my husband this weekend !
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