💰 Quitting is the plainest kind of income
Quitting is the plainest kind of income — and plain income is what supports a life longest.
Talk about increasing your income is always framed positively.
Start a side hustle. Invest. Change jobs. Get a qualification.
Anything that adds something looks like it has a future in it.
Quitting sits on the opposite side.
You aren't adding anything.
You're stopping money that was flowing out.
You keep the amount that was quietly disappearing every day from disappearing. So there's nothing flashy about it. It barely feels like a success.
But quitting is quite close to a real, practical income.
NHS inform provides a tool that calculates the money you'd save by quitting. It's a mechanism for making cigarette money visible as "money you were losing."