I can really recommend setting up a dedicated savings account to everyone who wants to quit the cigarettes. This way you can keep track of all the money you have saved by not buying those packets of cigarettes. In the day and age of Online Banking you can do this within a matter of minutes.
The British press seems to write more and more about 'smoking' and 'not smoking' which is no surprise with the smoking ban just around the corner. Yesterday it made front-page news again in London's Metro:
Westminster council is considering banning smokers from lighting up outside pubs in the West End next year.
Westminster Council is concerned that the ban on smoking inside pubs and clubs - to be introduced next summer - would lead to smokers congregating on the streets for a puff.
Noise complaints rose by 1,000 per cent in Edinburgh after the smoking ban was introduced in Scotland earlier this year.
With many clubs and pubs in residential areas, the council believes the same problems could hit central London.
According to the Evening Standard, the council has asked the Department of Health to give it the power to 'prohibit smoking outside of certain premises'.
Under the proposal, smokers would be fined if caught lighting up.
There also concerns that it will lead to an increase in crime and disorder and that policing the area will be made much harder.
The council also said the great number of smokers would lead to an increase in street cleaning.
Councillor Audrey Lewis said: 'There are already problems outside some licensed premises caused by people standing outside drinking and creating considerable noise for neighbours.
'We are anxious to avoid this being greatly increased by smokers.
'And while clubs are responsible for the behaviour of the people inside their premises we don't want to find substantial numbers of them congregating outside where there is the likelihood of extra work for the police.'
