Enter packs per day and the local pack price to see what smoking costs per week, month, year and decade — the number that motivates quitting.
What this calculator shows
Ask a smoker what the habit costs and the answer is usually the pack price — because that’s the number paid at a time. Multiply it out and the picture changes: enter packs per day and your local price, and this calculator returns the weekly, monthly, yearly and ten-year figures. For many people the yearly number is the single most effective quit motivator there is.
How to use it
- Enter packs per day — halves and quarters work (0.5 for ten a day).
- Enter your local pack price.
- Read the totals — and what a quit date would save.
The arithmetic
A worked example
A pack a day at $8 is $243 a month, $2,920 a year, and $29,200 over a decade — before the price rises that tobacco reliably sees. Half a pack still runs $1,460 a year. And the money is the smaller half of the ledger: the health cost compounds faster than any price — quitting pays on both accounts, and support for it is free in most countries.