Kerala Man Saves Up Rs 5 Lakh After Quitting Smoking, Plans To Build A Bigger House

Smoking cigarettes is extremely detrimental to one¡¯s health. Long-term smokers have an increased chance of developing various health complications, and choosing to quit smoking is the best decision one can make. This Kerala man is leading by example.

According to News18, the man - Veenugopal Nair - quit smoking almost 8 years ago, and now with all the money he saved up by not buying smokes, he now plans to build a new house.

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The former construction sector employee managed to save Rs 5 lakh and plans to continue his savings in order to secure a future for his family - wife and two children.

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Nair said that the habit latched onto him at the age of 13 and with bidis coming at dirt cheap price, he would smoke pack after pack.

On the day he stopped smoking, the market price for a pack of cigarettes was Rs 50. The chain smoker could easily smoke away one-and-a-half to two packets in a day, reports News18.

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Things got out of hand by the time he hit his 60s, chest pain is what forced him to quit and start reconsidering his health.

With all that he has saved up in his bank account along with the ¡®additional savings¡¯ he earned from trashing smoking, Nair now wants to add a second storey to his house.

He has also set an example for other chain smokers, to quit the habit.

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Choosing to quit smoking is the best decision anyone can make. It will make one feel healthier and save a ridiculous amount of money. Amid the ongoing pandemic, 72 per cent of India's combustible tobacco users between the ages of 18-24 years old have attempted to quit smoking, followed by 69 per cent of combustible tobacco users between the ages of 25-39, suggests a recent survey conducted by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.

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Around 66 per cent of those surveyed (ages 18-69) expressed their desire to quit smoking amid COVID-19 for health reasons. In India, two-thirds of the 1,500 smokers surveyed, expressed their desire to quit smoking for health reasons. While 66 per cent indicated that they had considered quitting, 63 per cent had actually made a quit attempt, says the survey titled 'COVID -19 State of Smoking Poll'.

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