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.

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

2. Nicotine Addiction:
The Price
Are you ready to face the costs?

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

4. A. Tobacco Product$
Loose Tobacco $____
Pipe Tobacco $____
Cigarettes $____
Cigars/Cigarellos $____
Chew $____
Snuff $____
Total $___________

5. B. $moking Paraphernalia
Rolling Papers $_____
Cigarette Tubes $_____
Rolling Machine $_____
Pipes/Pipe Cleaners $_____
Hookah Pipes $_____
Lighters/Matches $_____
Ashtrays $_____
Total $_________

6. C. Nicotine Replacement Product$
Nicotine Gum $_____
Electronic Cigarettes $_____
Nicotine Patches $_____
Lozenges $_____
Nasal Sprays $_____
Inhalers $_____
Total $___________

7. D. Smoking Cessation Method$
Medications $______
• Clonadine
• Zyban/Wellbutrin
• Champix
Hypnosis $______
Acupuncture $______
Counselling $______
Rehab $______
Total $_______

8. 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 $____________

9. 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:

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. 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?

13. 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?

14. Nicotine Addiction:
How much more will it cost you?
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