Racoony...let me try to help, if I can !
I gave up smoking in October 1978, when I was 25. I suppose I had smoked since I was a boy, of maybe 13/14, and smoked seriously since I started my apprenticeship at age 17.
In the very early days, I would buy a packet of ten Players No, 6, on the way to work, but when I was still smoking 10 years later, I bought a carton every Thursday, in Tesco, and got double Green Shield Stamps !
So, I was on my way up to 40 a day. If I was still smoking now, I would be smoking at least 60 a day....in other words, spending the thick end of £28/£30, EVERY DAY !
So when I finally gave up in 1978, immediately when out and bought a Sanyo Music Centre, on tick, for approx. the same amount of money that I had been spending in the fags.
That way, if I went back on the fags, I would then need to find twice as much money every week, for the fags, plus this new smashing music centre, which was my pride and joy !
The incentive worked and I have never smoked since, which will be 40 years next October.