Girls’ best friend - Cigarette or Parfum?

Of course you can’t afford diamond necklace immediately if you stop smoking (but after a few months … who knows?!), but you can easily replace spending on cigarettes with elegant fragrance every month.

In September 2008 bonuses were cut down in the company where I’ve been working. This announcement made me think about personal savings for the first time since I’ve graduated university.

You know for women it is much easier to stop buying necessary things (sometimes it turns to be a good diet, uh!) than to throw up our little sweet things. I am really going mad on all this beauty and spa stuff. So I’ve decided to do anything but to save my daily gym and yoga classes, my spa-days and my little friends: Jo Malone bath oil, Acqua di Parma candles, La Mer crème, Chanel parfums, etc.

Those days I was not thinking about harmful consequence of smoking. I was only having fun, trying to replace smoking with fragrance delight. I was also trying to persuade myself that I COULD do it, I was not addicted!

Indeed, my fragrance addiction prevailed over smoking. I stopped buying my favorite cigarillos and “trendy” (heh, they often write – luxury – on package) cigarettes and started saving from 6 to 20$ a day. After the first week of doing it I bought Jo Malone Rosemary and Grapefruit Living Cologne (95$), after the second week - L'Occitane Honey & Lemon Sweet Sugar Scrub (34$) and Juicy Couture Decadent Dusting Powder (55$) and after a month – Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Parfum (95$).

Spending time and money on yourself is so pleasant! It couldn’t be comparable with stupid and useless wasting on cigarettes! If you don’t want to realize and admit harm of smoking to your health and beauty, economy and saving are also good reasons to stop smoking.

I’ve told you about my first success in forget-about-the-cigarettes life. Next time I will tell you about my huge smoking failure – how I’ve lost man of my dreams because of damn cigarettes habit.