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Channel-hopping - David Kirby, of Stanway, with the flat-screen TV he bought after saving money he would have spent on cigarettes. Picture: ADRIAN RUSHTON (77148-1)
Ten weeks without cigarettes was enough to earn David Kirby a new flat-screen television.
The 64-year-old quit smoking in October last year, and in ten weeks had saved enough money to buy himself the TV.
After a 40-year, 30-a-day habit he was more than ready to give up but had struggled in the past.
The biggest shock came to him when he realised how much money he had been spending on cigarettes.
"In the first ten weeks I had stopped, I put the money I used to spend in a money box," he said.
"At the end of the ten weeks I went out and bought myself a flat-screen TV - I couldn't believe how much I'd been spending."
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