To smokers - why did you start?

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Ok, new thread.. if your a smoker, why did you start and how old were you..

I basically started having the odd casual fag once every couple of days at college. Then I worked at anglian home improvements and started lashing fags off people and going for a fag break with everyone more for the social side..

I was smoking a certain herb every day for a while with all me mates and decided I didnt want to do that anymore. So everytime they would have one, I would light a fag up and this helped me quit the herb but I got addicted to fags.

I havnt had a cigarette today and im not actually going that mad but I might go out and buy a pack in a sec :p

edit: oh and i was about 16-17
 
dmpoole said:
You did well to go past the sheep phase and started when you start to make your own mind up.
Mind you my Dad started smoking at 40 just to fit in and now at 75 he's like a chimney.
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sarcasm? As I wasnt really a smoker until i gave up my other habit because it is hard to when thats what your life revolves around and anyone who tells you it is easy is lieing
 
When I was touring in Pakistan, no booze available and was stuck in a hotel room with only CNN.

I've now quit because smoking has cause a non-union fracture, so my only chance to get it to heal is to quit smoking!
 
I haven't and don't intend to
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God damn that smily could be worse than rolleyes.
 
Pixel said:
Started at 17 when I was at college, I was bored as hell on breaks.
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I also started due to boring breaks and 75% of people in my class smoking.

I had been smoking about 6 a day since September. Never got addicted and I haven't had one for about 3 weeks with no problems.
 
i started when i was 14, i was with a lad i used to hang about with and we nicked 20 fags out of someones office that was unattended and went down the meadows and smoked them. I gave up 4 years ago now though :)
 
I am a cannabis user who was sick of nicotine rush with his joints. Got into a habit at work as an excuse just to get out the office and socialise.
It is true all the cool people smoke.
 
I was DJing and playing a 5-6 hour set every Friday night at one of the cities largest bars - it was something to do and it was a bit of a social thing amongst the DJs I hung out with.

Gave up when I stopped DJing.

EDIT: as an aside, it's a filthy habit that makes me gag when I smell it now.
 
I started smoking weed, then I became a social smoker in the pub and finally I started smoking properly in Halls on my first free afternoon at Uni.

Now I have the occasional cigar.
 
All the cool kids in school smoked so I did too, at 21 I was smoking 30 a day,

Quit 2 years ago but still have the occasional cigar (1-2 times a year)
 
I started because it makes me look hard and im now one of the cool kids lol haha jokes

I started when i was 13, was when i just started secondary school, got in with a bad group of kids and started nicking fags of me mum, used to just sell them to people but soon started smoking them myself

Then things escalated to stealing monies from her purse till i got caught and straightened up lol now only ever really smoke when the girlfriend is not around and i'm very drunk
 
Similar to Salami, i used to smoke cannabis as a "social" thing (makes no sense now looking back:p) i eventually started smoking that when i was alone also, pretty much everyday.

When i packed that in i started smoking rollies to compensate, could well of been i was addicted to the nicotine from the joints, or that i needed something else in its place can't be sure.

Moved over to snus about a year ago now and haven't looked back :D
 
I started when I was about 15 to be in with the cool kids. It actually worked, and within a few months I was dating what was then acknowledged as the fittest girl in the year.

Then I guess from there it was just a social thing. I'm all for the ban, smoking seems so ridiculous to society now, I really think it's working well.

I still smoke, though I only have 1-2 of an evening.....funny too, cos I ain't dating no fitties right now either :(
 
I started smoking fulltime at 16 to look cool - yes the whole 'follow the herd' thing:p

Stopped smoking few years back though. was hell trying to quit, I kept relapsing:0 .. got there in the end though. Best decision I ever made, feel so much better for it and best of all I'm not coughing my lungs out. :)
 
I started at the arcade in Wakefield.

USe to hold my mates ciggie while he played Bubble Bobble or After Burner and just took the 'odd drag' now and then rather than waste it.

He smoked St. Moritz, I went onto them, newsagent down Silver Street used to sell them so could get them there every day. Moved to Leeds, local newsagent only had Benson & Hedges, No.1 or Regal and moved onto them.

Past 10 years have gone on to rollies and recently started to think that I'm wanting to stop smoking, mainly 'cos I've had enough of stained fingers, god awful teeth, greasy hair and stinky clothes.
 
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