2006-07-02 04:23:59 · 17 answers · asked by Grim Reaper 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Peer pressure.
2006-07-02 04:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by Da Great 1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I started smoking 34 years ago when it was the "cool" thing to do. At the time I started I wieghed almost 200 lbs. After smoking for a year I had lost 40 lbs. Each time I try to quit I gain wieght. Back then it was cool to smoke and being thin had it's benifets too.
2006-07-02 11:32:54 · answer #2 · answered by Annemarie H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many things depending on the situations. When your friends pressure you to try a cigarrette you say yes so u don't look stupid, and afterwards to be cool you continue smoking, and when you want to get out of it, you can't it has already become a need and an ambition. It was a time ago fashionable to smoke, and you can smoke because of stress. Remeber that it's a drug.
2006-07-02 11:28:58 · answer #3 · answered by elipra91 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a 19 yr old separated mother of 2 toddler girls and when the stress got heavy a friend lit me a smoke....it gave me ten seconds of detachment. I needed that but as time went by it lost its effect and I couldn't stop. It was in my system and now it alters my mood in a major way if I don't have them. Ive tried the patch,gum and pills to quit but part of it is the fact that it has become a mini break, that really has a grip on me. I feel bad taking a break without a reason and it has become my reason, sad as it is.
2006-07-02 11:35:51 · answer #4 · answered by me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first cig was a clove I smoked out of curiosity. I smoked for years- first cloves then camels then marlboros; I was at almost 2 packs per day when I quit. It was the most difficult thing I have ever done.
2006-07-02 11:30:06 · answer #5 · answered by B SIDE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty stupid huh? I first started smoking over 30 years ago and actually made myself do it by coughing ,gagging and choking. I thought it was cool and wanted to be like the cool kids. Man that was the dumbest thing I ever did.
2006-07-02 11:27:51 · answer #6 · answered by Fergy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
addictions .. is just that .. some mental reasoning they think they need it to calm down or it makes them chill to each his own may start out with peer pressure but there is a chemical nicotine which is addcitve as caffeine is to coffee drinkers they needed to cling onto something reach for something usually to get thru mentally at 1st a lot is habit from bad peer pressure days then it gets u hooked. I think its nasty and smelly.. but they dont care about mouth cancer and how u can lose ur life and mouth kissing an ashtray is not tasty.. to kiss someone with that breath..
2006-07-02 11:29:54 · answer #7 · answered by gypsygirl731 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
smoking good !!!!!
Boosts ur brain cells ``
been smoking for 18 years , now am 26 years old
and nothing wrong with my health... still healthy and better than all my friends in sports !! ^_^ `
Smoking makes u act REAL , the real you Will Show up without any being Shy or Acting ...
It kinda kill Non Needed emotions
2006-07-02 11:33:01 · answer #8 · answered by zar_inhell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of kids smoke to look older. Ironically, they do -- but not unitl they are 30 & look 50.
2006-07-02 11:26:46 · answer #9 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The glamorized look of people in movies, peer pressure, and because people look for habits all day long to deal with the hard knocks of life in life.
2006-07-02 11:28:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I like to smoke! It is an addiction. Oh well. I have never attempted to "stop". Thoughts abound.
2006-07-02 11:27:20 · answer #11 · answered by red9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋