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.
Congratulations on stopping to smoke, that is a huge step and I hope you can pull it off. I have been smoking for more than 10 years myself and it took me a long time to finally stop. Crazy that one pack of cigarettes only cost 2 USD for you, here in my country we have to pay 6-9 Euros for one pack. Smoking is really expensive and once you stop you will realise how much money you are saving with it. The best thing would be to still keep budgeting your monthly income for all the cigarette purchases but use that money for investing instead. Like this we would ensure that we don't use our additional money for any other purchases and we can help to grow our crypto portfolio. The money is only the small benefit when quitting smoking. At least for me the health benefits where really big after I finally managed to stop smoking. It took like 4-6 months for my lungs to get better again and I managed to get rid of that annoying cough which I had for years. So, anybody that is smoking a lot and spends a lot of money on cigarettes I would recommend to try to quit.