How much money is smoking costing you?

Last updated May 2024

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It's no secret that smoking is expensive. Exactly how much does it cost you? What could you be spending that money on?

Have you ever worked out how much smoking costs you?

Let’s take a look.

If you smoke 12 cigarettes a day, you'd save around $120 a week by stopping smoking, which is a saving of more than $6,000 a year!

Use our free calculator tool to work out how much you could save if you stopped smoking, and how else you might use that money:

Cost of smoking

How else you could use that money?

  • A nice holiday?

  • New furniture?

  • Gym membership?

  • New device or mobile phone?

  • Maybe a new car?

Smoking isn’t just costing you money. It also impacts:

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