# Twenty Years Ago Today I Gave Up Smoking

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 13, 2011, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-today-i-gave-up-smoking/567438 "2011-01-13T10:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twenty-years-ago-today-i-gave-up-smoking/567438/21 "2011-01-15T00:46:13Z")

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I’ll bet I win! After smoking for 9 years (about a pack a day), quit cold turkey in 1959. Had no problem with withdrawal.

Back then you could buy a carton - carton, not pack - of Camels just outside of St. Louis for $2.50. One of these days I’m going to calculate how much money quiting has saved me in the last fifty-one years.

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