Nicotine and patches

[Chip (OP)]

a packet of cigs now costs me (cheapest) $30.

i have to cut way down and stop so i am using the transdermal method.

it works well so now i want a meth patch and an MDMA patch and so on ...

i wonder how the fent patches go ?

[bignasty]

a pack of 20 cigs is $30 in Aus? that's fucking crazy, that's $1.50 each! What's a USD compared to an Aussie dollar? I'm hoping 5 Aus dollars = 1 USD or some shit.

I pay $3.76 for pall malls lately. Usually smoke Marlboro's but been trying to save money the last few months. I'd have a $45 smoking habit in Australia. The wife and I would have $75 a day smoking habits. We've spent $80 a day on dope and gotten half a gram of good ECP everyday. I think I'd have to quit before I'd spend that much on cigs, but I also said that when they went from $2 to $3 and then $3 to $4 and then $4 to $5. I'd at least cut down to one or two a day.

[hanna]

1 USD = 1.35 Aus, or so.

$30? Holy fuck. But isn't the minimum wage in Oz now about $22/hr?

[bignasty]

I make over $22 an hour but I still don't think I could pay $30 for a fucking pack of cigs. Maybe once a month for after sex or after an IV shot, etc..

[Chip (OP)]

it's a case of shall i buy drugs or have a smoke ?

... but try not smoking and see how the urge to have a smoke feels.

[MoeMentim]

i've been rolling cigs forever. in the u.s. you can buy "pipe tobacco" that isn't pipe tobacco, just marketed as such because pipe tobacco is taxed at a lower rate. I buy it by the pound & costs me about $2 a day, maybe less.

[bignasty]

it's a case of shall i buy drugs or have a smoke ?

... but try not smoking and see how the urge to have a smoke feels.

I have quit cold turkey before and that urge is really strong. Ozzie Osbourne told Howard Stern that quitting smoking cigs was way harder than quitting H or coke, etc.. Even when I quit using patches and gum/lozenges, that urge to smoke a cig was still strong...especially when having an alcoholic beverage or smoking weed, etc..
BUT I think I could cut down a lot if it came down to buying drugs or cigs. I know I'd have to have a cig for when I lose my temper, after sex, after a good shot of dope, etc..

I'm with @MoeMentim though, buy tobacco and roll your own cigs. I know folks that do it and they say it's about half as much as buying cigs. They can roll 20 cigs for about $2-3 instead of buying a pack of cigs for $5-6. They've also come a long way on the machines that roll them for you so you don't have to take forever rolling it like a joint every single time you want a cig.