The Ministry of Health has a free online tool that allows us to know how much money we would save if we stopped smoking, based on our current consumption, and what we could buy with that amount.
Smoking not only has notable consequences on our health, but also on our pocketbooks. He Ministry of Health, aware of this situation, has enabled a web page, accessible at this linkin which it offers us different tools and sources of information to try to convince smokers to deal with their dependence, alerting them to its consequences at different levels.
Among all of them, an unknown calculator stands out that shows us all the information available on how quitting smoking would affect our pocketbook. To do this, we must enter different data, such as our average daily consumption and the years we have been smoking. One of the peculiarities that it offers us is that not only will we be able to know how much money could we save, but also what we could buy with this money.
Know your savings
As we have already mentioned, we only have to access this website and enter the data requested of us. Besides, the calculator is anonymous and it does not require us to enter our personal information, so we will be able to carry out the calculation with complete anonymity.
The survey is made up of different sections. In the first of them, we must say if we smoke cigarettes, rolling tobacco, cigars or pipes. Once the choice is made, it’s time to move on to quantity. The application offers us the option to enter how much we smoke in units per day, the number of packs, the price of each of the packs and the years we have been smoking. Furthermore, it also asks us the age to do the calculation of the money spent. Once all the information has been provided, it appears at the bottom how much we could save per week, per month and per year.
Different options
One of the peculiarities of the survey, as we have previously mentioned, is that it will not only quantify how much we could save. But it also offers us information about what could we buy if we choose to quit smoking and use that money for other purposes. With a saving of 1095 euros per year, it offers us three possibilities: gasoline for our vehicle for a year, a high-quality camera and a week in a European city.
Furthermore, if we want to continue knowing more information about our habits, we can continue filling in more data to have an estimate of our dependence.
If we look at the data offered by the World Health Organization, From the moment we stop smoking, our body will already notice some benefits. For example, he states that at 20 minutes, The heart rate begins to slow and blood pressure drops. And, only for 12 hours after, the level of carbon monoxide in the blood decreases to normal values. If we extend the period up to one year, 12 months after quitting smoking, the risk of coronary heart disease is 50% lower than that of a smoker. And, in 10 years, the risk of lung cancer It decreases to 50% of a smoker.
