Quitting smoking has two big benefits, and I've been doing it for over 3 months. And both can be said to be long-term investments, apart from long-term health, the money used to buy cigarettes can also be used to invest and I invested in Bitcoin.
In one month I can spend approximately $90 to buy cigarettes, and the price of the cigarettes I buy is around $2/pack for one pack a day and sometimes more than one pack.
And by quitting smoking, I was able to increase my regular monthly Bitcoin purchases from a portion of my monthly salary as well as $90 per month in cigarette money.
And I definitely felt a difference in my health and also saw a difference in my Bitcoin holdings after increasing my purchases, and I wish I could do it forever. Honestly, even though I don't do it, sometimes I am still tempted to want to smoke again when hanging out with friends and also at certain moments.
And the strong reason I stopped smoking was because my wife likes to nag me if I smoke at home because I have small children, and over time I decided to stop smoking. And previously I tried it several times but failed, and now I haven't smoked for more than 3 months and I hope I can do it forever because it has two extraordinary benefits. Health and can increase my investment.
There's a really famous remark amongst smokers who call people who call them out for smoking, it goes like this: "You keep telling me that I could save money if I stopped buying smokes when you can't even save money on a healthy man's diet." To which I say true. But it's even better to rub it off of people when you hear this shit and you're able to save money while you're still smoking lol. Although of course, healthy living is the key so if you could quit smoking while saving up money because of the fact that you quitted then why the hell not right?
Quitting on something that does you more harm than good on the wallet and in the body doesn't just apply to smoking. I've seen people save up as much as 120 bucks on quitting Netflix yearly, substituting it instead with cheaper subscription services or outright pirating the movies and shows since none of these people care about us at the end of the day, and then using the money to invest it is an even greater example of this thing you're talking about. As we're getting even more tied to technology we get these unnecessary subscription programs that chip away at our monthly budgets without us even knowing which when compounded amounts to a large amount of money we could've used to invest in crypto or anything else.