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A thought for the day.

ariesmajorariesmajor Posts: 394 Arc User
edited January 2013 in Champions Online Discussion
So, I thought about this while sitting on my porch smoking. And its gonna sound backwards what I'm about to say just based on that alone, but if you think about it truely, it all makes sense. And I could have brought this topic to some of the other game forums I frequent, but I decided to put it here since the Champions Online community ranks the highest in maturity level. (inb4 nept post of a cat making a face with a witty quote.)

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"If you stopped smoking completely. You'd be able to take that money you usually spend on cigarettes and purchase a subscription to any of the major mmorpg's on the market."

PS. I only go through a pack within a week, but at 5 dollars per pack, if I stopped all together, I'd save at least 20 dollars a month.

Thoughts....
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  • flamingbunnymanflamingbunnyman Posts: 1,995 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I don't smoke, but I work in a gas station/convenience store, so I sell a lot of cigarettes. Here in Canada, there's a lot of taxes included in the price; the cheapest pack we sell is just over $8. I see a LOT of people on a daily basis who spend up to $20 A DAY on cigarettes. That's $600 per month!

    Quitting smoking can potentially save you a LOT of money.
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  • arimikamiarimikami Posts: 475 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I'm imperssed with the fact that you're a smoker that only smokes a pack a week. I do as well but, I've been happy with getting myself down to a pack a day and think you should go for it.
  • captiveofthevoidcaptiveofthevoid Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Swapping one bad habbit for another? Hmmm...
    Oh! i know! with one you don't risk loosing your stamina (and lung cancer)!
    I put my chips on games...ALL OF THEM!

    Personally, i avoid spending money on alcohol(unless unexpected sales occur) and i don't smoke, so i can safely say that my personal budget is ample enough for a sub if i gather some monies...
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  • klittyklitty Posts: 1,540 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    At least you can meet interesting people on the MMOs :3

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  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    People spend entirely too much time thinking about CO.

    Sometimes a cigarette, is just a cigarette.
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  • ariesmajorariesmajor Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    smoochan wrote: »
    People spend entirely too much time thinking about CO.

    Sometimes a cigarette, is just a cigarette.

    I see what you did thar!
  • forutnefireforutnefire Posts: 482 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    As a type of fitness instructor, I'm sure you've heard similar thoughts to mine on smoking. That said, I recommend that if you've found a reason to help you slow or even stop smoking, don't discredit it. Inspiration often comes from the most unlikely of places.
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I've stopped smoking 8 years ago. Hasn't made me any richer.....
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  • zer303606zer303606 Posts: 124 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    same here. 10 years ago.
  • agentnx5agentnx5 Posts: 2,026 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Considering expenditures is a great financial excercise to do on a routine basis!

    Quitting smoking? Great! That's a very expensive habit over time. I'm glad I don't, and money is the second reason after health for me. Why would I want to waste my money on that, or alcohol, when a game gives me many times the enjoyment per dollar spent?

    Good for you for coming to this realization on your own.
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    I've stopped smoking 8 years ago. Hasn't made me any richer.....

    You have to set money aside to gain savings. You spent that money on something else then. The question would be, what did you start spending on instead? (no really you don't need to tell us, I'm just trying to get you to realize how bad your logic is here)

    However, you're missing the point of what the author is saying with this topic -- an interesting point. You could easily buy more video game stuff you wanted (but couldn't justify the cost earlier) if you stopped smoking and/or drinking (habitually).
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Fudge. I knew there was something wrong with my plan to stop smokin' and get filthy rich...
    And, i got the point. I bought something nice with the money i saved up for 2 years after quitting. And it wasn't videogame stuff.
    Been trying for years quitting the beer and start getting filthy rich again...hasn't worked yet.
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  • biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,743 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I could stop drinking for a month and get a lifetime sub!
  • photonhammerphotonhammer Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    so, just as a bit of insight to my personal experiences (not that means anything to you guys as you don't know me... but whatever). i "quit" smoking about 6 months ago, i switched to e-cigs. initial transition was pretty easy and now it's as enjoyable as smoking ever was. i'll grab an occasional cig when i'm with a bunch of friends who smoke (like new years), but honestly, they aren't as fulfilling as the e-cig now (kinda like the initial transition, only backwards). as someone who smoked and was waaaaayyyyyyy out of shape, i gotta say that the e-cig helped tremendously. i started a whole "get healthy again" kick a year ago, changed diet and added exercise first, knowing that cutting smoking would be a lot harder. when i did switch to e-cigs the first thing i noticed was the lung capacity increase, i can now run 4 miles, before this, i could run 4 yards. and on top of that, cost is about 10-20% of smoking. so a boon all around.

    i don't want to sound like i am promoting e-cigs, or sound like i work for a e-cig company, or anything like that. this is just my personal experience, and it kind of fit here. if you take that with the numerous stories out there now about how sitting for hours and hours a day is deadly, and is hard to compensate for even with daily exercise, then one could say that putting saved money into this game is counter productive. of course, no one wants to spend their entire life jogging in circles having no fun at all, so i recommend enjoying your game time, but moving more, quit smoking if at all possible, even if it's only moving to e-cigs, and move more..... alot more, it starts to feel good after a while, i swear.
  • bwdaresbwdares Posts: 1,522 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I never had the Money to Smoke, and I never wanted to becaue I am cheep. ~ ~ ~ ~
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  • sanmercisanmerci Posts: 203 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    biffsmackwell wrote: »
    I could stop drinking for a month and get a lifetime sub!

    This is me...

    At least I never picked up smoking as a habit- knew enough people who did before I had the money to spend, and it just never struck me as all that attractive, even when it was James Dean (of course, being hetero, maybe it was because it was James and not Jane- I dunno...)

    Booze, though? My one seriously big downfall. Someday, I'll stop- probably around the time they roll my corpse into my grave...
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