Quitting smoking could save you more than 150,000 over your lifetime | Personal Finance | Finance [Video]

Young women who quit smoking could save an average of £163,702.50 over their lifetime, new research suggests.

Research from Go Smoke Free found that 20-year-old women have the highest potential lifetime savings if they quit smoking, with 20-year-old men just behind with potential lifetime savings of £156,585.00.

Next up were 25-year-old women, who could also expect to have high savings from quitting smoking, with a potential of £151,840 saved based on an expected 64 remaining years.

Similarly, 25-year-old men could save £142,350 across their lifetime as a result of a remaining 61 smoke-free years.

These findings were calculated using the national average of 10 cigarettes smoked a day and 20 cigarettes in a £13 pack which was multiplied by the number of years the person would live on average smoke-free.

A spokesperson for Go Smoke Free said: “Most people are aware of the various health benefits that can be reaped by quitting smoking, …