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With cigarettes costing about $8 a pack in NYC, think of all you could do with an extra $8 each day. It could pay for lunch, rent a bike for an hour or buy your way into the Brooklyn Museum. And if you decided to save up, you’d have a tidy $2,928 by the end of 2008.

NYCHHC (Health and Hospitals Corporation) provides nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and offers free and low-cost services to help people quit. Call 311 for more information.

Alban Acupuncture offers a smoking-cessation package in which a professional sticks needles in your ear to take the edge off of the stress of nicotine withdrawal. albanacupuncture.com, five sessions $375

If the “Truth” commercials don’t get to you, go see the effects of smoking on a real human lung (and drinking on a liver) at the “Bodies” exhibition. South St Seaport, Front St at Fulton St (646-837- 0300)

Tell everybody you’ve given up smoking or drinking. After seeing how proud they are of you, it will be much harder to let them down.

Learn some tai chi moves, which you can do anywhere, at the Times Square Chu Tai Chi studio, and then slip away to the stairwell and get your soothe on. chutaichi.com