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What Has Tobacco Cost You? Face the reality of your smoking. Face the hope for recovery.

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Calculate the costs of nicotine addiction. Financial is just one measure. This slide show asks you some hard hitting questions. If you need some help to break through your denial, ask yourself these question.

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Page 1: What Has Tobacco Cost You? Enough Already?

What Has Tobacco Cost You?

Face the reality of your smoking.Face the hope for recovery.

Page 2: What Has Tobacco Cost You? Enough Already?

Nicotine Addiction:The Price

Are you ready to face the costs?

Page 3: What Has Tobacco Cost You? Enough Already?

Answer these questions as honestly as you are able, using your entire life time of tobacco use.

Page 4: What Has Tobacco Cost You? Enough Already?

A. Tobacco Product$ Loose Tobacco $____

Pipe Tobacco $____

Cigarettes $____

Cigars/Cigarellos $____

Chew $____

Snuff $____

Total $___________

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B. $moking Paraphernalia Rolling Papers $_____

Cigarette Tubes $_____

Rolling Machine $_____

Pipes/Pipe Cleaners $_____

Hookah Pipes $_____

Lighters/Matches $_____

Ashtrays $_____

Total $_________

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C. Nicotine Replacement

Product$

Nicotine Gum $_____

Electronic Cigarettes $_____

Nicotine Patches $_____

Lozenges $_____

Nasal Sprays $_____

Inhalers $_____

Total $___________

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D. Smoking Cessation Method$

Medications $______• Clonadine

• Zyban/Wellbutrin

• Champix

Hypnosis $______

Acupuncture $______

Counselling $______

Rehab $______

Total $_______

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E. Collateral Damage$

Decreased value of home: 30% $_______Decreased value of vehicle: 10 – 30% $_______

Burned or ruined furniture $_______Burned or ruined clothes $_______

Fire in home or vehicle $_______Increased costs of Life Insurance Policies $_______

Tobacco related dentistry $_______Loss of work due to smoking related illness $_______

Medical costs $_______

Total $____________

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Are you ready for the Grand Total?

Before you add up all the financial costs, let’s look at other damages you may not be aware of:

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What about costs to those around you?

Did you:

• smoke while pregnant, or in the presence of pregnant women?

• smoke around babies or children? • enable minors to use nicotine?• smoke around your, or other people’s pets?• smoke in a prohibited or dangerous area?• steal cigarettes?• buy cigarettes while neglecting food or other necessities?• throw your cigarette butts out the car window? • empty your car ashtray on the street?• use government or insurance money for products or

treatments related to your smoking?• know that due to lost productivity, health and nicotine

withdrawal many times a day, employers are out $6000 for every smoker?

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What about costs to your relationships?

Did you:

• promise someone you would quit smoking and not?

• lie about your smoking to loved ones?• choose only smoking friends or romantic

partners?• lose any relationships due to smoking?• avoid activities like travel or movies, because

you couldn’t smoke freely?• feel angry or abandoned by friends or family

that quit smoking?

Page 12: What Has Tobacco Cost You? Enough Already?

What about cost to your self-respect?

Did you:

• scrounge & smoke someone else’s cigarette butts?

• ask for cigarettes from strangers?• feel embarrassed or try to hide the smell on your

body, hair and clothes? • feel embarrassed about yellowed teeth or

fingers?• feel guilt or shame due to smoking and/or

inability to stop?• feel like a bad role model for your children or

other young people in your life?

Page 13: What Has Tobacco Cost You? Enough Already?

Total of Financial Costs (A – E):

$_______________________

Grand Total of ALL COSTS:________________________________________________

Have you and your loved ones paid enough?

How much more are you willing to spend?

Page 14: What Has Tobacco Cost You? Enough Already?

Nicotine Addiction: How much more will it cost you?

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