To smokers - why did you start?

i can see how people get addicted so easily because personally i love smoking. luckily ive never got 'properly' hooked into the habit of it.
 
Never smoked, never will. I don't hate it, I actually quite like smell of some cigarettes when people around me are smoking, it's just not for me. I have a mate who smoked though, and I helped him to quit, but now he's found a new gang and started up weed and heroin. :(
 
Raikiri said:
I haven't and don't intend to
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I've never had a cigarette which was entirely tobacco. Don't see the point.
 
I was 15. Just split with my girl. Felt like I needed a break, just to get my head around things. I skipped the school that day, walked into the coffee bar, sat down and got myself my regular drink - a proper turkish brew in a large glass with some milk on the side and a dash of Irish cream mixed in. Girl next table was smoking this long, thin, French cigarette in brown paper. The smoke swirled around my glass, mixed with aroma of the coffee and sweetly kissed me on the nose. Bouquette. Palette. I knew I found what I was looking for. I found what I needed.

Many years later, and a long time from now, with another heartache I left my smoking habit behind with a tax counter solid at 40 cigarettes a day. It's better that way. I got used to my body being smoke and nicotine free. But to this day, to anyone who asks, I will quietly admit. Smoking was the best bad habit I have had a chance to try in my life. Given a choice of just one, I would rather smoke than drink. And if I found out tomorrow I was of ill health and had limited time to live, pack of cigarettes would be the first thing I'd buy.
 
Had 2/3 drags in my life thats it.


Currently the misses is quiting coz i can't stand it and more and the smell kills my chest.

Shes struggling but its making use close coz i can put up with her smell again :D
 
Started when i was 12 at school, offered a fag, liked it. By 13 i could buy them from most corner shops. Took a break from drinking and smoking when i was about 14 for a year or so, then started again when i started going to more parties. Even more so when i discovered the pub at 16, smoking ever since. And i enjoy it a lot, seriously, i love sitting on a tall hill looking over the town on a hot day and just smoking a roll up, feels natural and good.
 
started at about 15, mate nabbed two off his uncle, asked me if i wanted to try it so i did...went from there really

past few years ive been pretty much less than 10 a day, 2 or 3 most work days actually, weekends i completely go off the trolley though and have about 20 in a night

always smoked roll ups though, never straights, really want to quit but i have the will power of a very unwilling willingless thing
 
I smoked for a couple of years during high school - could take it or leave it at first, but things progressed and I found myself watching the clock during lessons waiting for break times.

Gave up and it doesn't bother me in the slightest when I'm sober, drives me mad when I'm drinking though! I can honestly say that I'm glad I tried it - it's hard to see why smokers enjoy what they do until you try it yourself.
 
started at 13 about half way to been 14 was hanging about with people and they started smoking as well as my sister who was 15.

so i ended up having the odd draw, drag etc and i liked the head rush i got so i went seeking the head rush and like a fool got addicted.

25 now and hooked through my younger stupidity :(
 
My sister was caught smoking and got a hard time off the rents. She'd been on a school trip to Holland and brought a load back with her but she didn't like them as they had no filters. I found her stash when she tried to get rid and wombled it. So I also started when I was 13 and moved on to 'herbal' shortly after.

I gave up when I was 29, one month before my wedding (she didn't smoke or take anything).

Other than the odd one when bladdered I've been 'clean' for around 19 years now :)

I developed Asthma when I was around 26-27 though, still got it :(
 
started when i was 16-17 when i left school, the main reason was boredom, sadly. used to hang around with these people who wernt exactly my cuppa tea, so to take my mind away from the boredom i started smoking

have quite allot now and im only 19, tried nicorette inhalers, they didnt work, makes matter worse when you live with smokers, a fag is only 10 yards away from you at all times. i havnt bought fags for about 3 months but still end up smoking about 10-12 a day.

pretty hard to quit.
 
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Only smoked twice or 3 times in my life, don't intend to start as it seems pointless to me, tobacco, what a waste of money, don't feel ****...

A joint however, might make more sense as at least it makes you high/stoned.
 
Tried it a few times just to confirm my thoughts that it was disgusting, no peer pressure, didn't have a need to fit in as my social environment did not and does not require you to smoke (bit weird if you ask me, would'nt associate with those people in fact) and never did again. Being bored doesn't suddenly make me want to smoke either.

Tried weed, but again it was only to see through the users eyes so I could understand better. It didn't do anything for me.

I guess either I didn't smoke enough to like it/get addicted but it's almost like a lot of people force themselves to like it/in to an addiction.

I wasn't sure if I had an addiction myself to pain medication, although I dropped it instantly and went through a short cranky uncomfortable phase, I wasn't sure if being semi-pain free after years and years of no help made me feel elated or if it was the opiate..either way I doesn't take a doctor to see which is healthier, taking them or not. So I do understand an addiction.

That's all.
 
To the people who smoked for many years before giving up - did you notice any difference in your fitness after giving up? Is it hard to stay fit whilst being a smoker?

I've alway got this impression of smokers wheezing whenever trying to do any aerobic type of exercise - but it might not be the case at all
 
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To the people who smoked for many years before giving up - did you notice any difference in your fitness after giving up? Is it hard to stay fit whilst being a smoker?

I've alway got this impression of smokers wheezing whenever trying to do any aerobic type of exercise - but it might not be the case at all
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I was generally increasing my fitness when I stopped smoking, so it was just part of a general improvement. I still smoked when I ran my first two half marathons and I did them both in under two hours.
 
In school some of my friends I used to make the journey home with tried to get me to smoke on a few occasions. I had a drag or two but that was it.

I think it was the threat of a physical and violent death by my mother if she found me smoking. I suppose that gave me the strength not to go further :p

Why is it that sometimes when people smoke near me, it can smell quite nice, but other times it smells like **** and makes me want to vomit?
 
I started at 14 - 15 due to peer pressure at school

I'm reading Allen Carr’s Easyway and plan to stop very soon. I've quit before for a year so shouldn't be a problem
 
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