Kudos to the OP for quitting.
I priced cigarettes at the grocery store a few days ago out of curiosity. A carton of Winstons was a staggering $78 per carton!!!
When I was a kid growing up in the 1960's a pack of cigarettes was ~0.35 cents in 1965 (as I recall) and a carton was around $3.50 - even adjusted for inflation cigarettes are expensive now. They were cheap back then for a reason - the tobacco companies wanted everybody hooked on them.