Have you ever smoked?

Question

How old are you? Have you ever smoked? What are your views on smoking? If you have smoked why did you start?

Answer 1

started smoking at 13 to be 'cool' only to find out later once I was addicted that it wasnt so cool afterwrds, took me 12 years to get off the habit, but off it I am.

Answer 2

I'm 21 and I smoke normal cigs since I was 19. I started smoking a lot lately so I stopped and now I've just started smoking again, but a considerable amount per day. I started because I was going thrugh a bad moment and it made me calmed down. Then I continued because I felt sexier and smarter when smoking (I know you can disagree on this one, sorry). Luckily I think I can control it, I can really enjoy a cig and I can say something like: today, I'm not going to smoke, and I just don't do it.

Answer 3

don't know where you're aiming with this question, if trying to make smokers feel bad, it won't work, and i am sure that smokers are one of the most deprived groups today. yes, i smoke. so what? i started when i was about 17, turkish coffee and good cigarettes are one of the simplest and greatest joys in life, have no plan to give it up. i am 24, meaning i have been smokin for 7 years. and, so what? other people drink, are violent, treat others like crap, but still, the smokers are the ones getting most punches. still, if you are wondernig wether to start, try thinking about how smoking will affect your life or personality. i will not say either do or don't, as everything else, it workes for some, for others no

Answer 4

Smoking is one of humanity's stupidest activities. It has no upside at all.

The only proper smoking I ever did was pot (pure grass, no tobacco). The psychoactive effect was noticeable but kinda pointless; personally I'd rather be having sex or drinking red wine in the sunset. I also had one drag on a tobacco cigarette. Utterly disgusting. Bleugh.

I'm 36. All the above is in the last 5 years.

Where I live they just banned smoking in public places. This is FANTASTIC and I thoroughly recommend it. As a direct result, the pub trade has not dramatically collapsed and the local pub owners have suddenly not gone bust. Hundreds of thousands of people have defiantly not marched en-masse on Parliament in protest.

Answer 5

I smoked for 32 years. At 58, I am an ex-smoker of 8 1/2 years. Each day I am very glad I quit and also think "Wouldn't a cig be great?" A dumb 16 year old started to be cool.

Answer 6

I started smoking when i was 13 to try and fit in with the popular ones at school,that was 20 years ago and i wish i had never started. Ive tried to give up 3 times but i dont seem to have the willpower.

Answer 7

Still smoke, have just cut down from 40 a day to 10, with the help of a nicitne inhaler. Feel loads better, even though i wish i could cut it out completely & wished i'd never started. I'm 37 now, started when i was 14, easily led with friends! Just enjoy them i suppose still at the moment and still look forward to having my new decreased daily amount & until that subsides, i'm still puffing away

Answer 8

yeah i started at 13 untill i was 20, but i carried on having the odd cigerette if was on a night out for about a year afterwards but now im a smoke free zone and i cant wait for the smoking ban to come in so i can go down the pub and not come home smelling like an ashtray!

Answer 9

I quit about 15 years ago after smoking about 20 years. The nicotine patch worked for me. I started smoking because it was "cool" back then. I quit because it got too expensive with nothing to show for it. Smoking doesn't bother me all that much but I don't like the smell lingering on my clothes.

Answer 10

Am 17 years old , yes i have smoked , i got dissy for some seconds,it felt abit good actualy ,but i dont wana suffer ,life should be long and am tending to make sure i live it ,without black lungs ,breathing problem , i wanna play football(soocer 2 all u yanks) with my children , ran after a theif who stoled a hand bag from a qute lady....My father never smoked and his happy ...my unkle smokes and his always angry about one thing or the other ...so there...amnot going to smoke ...never.

Answer 11

I started when I was 15 because I was bored and rebellious. A few years later, I realized it was stupid (and still illegal at the time!), then when I turned 21 I started going out to bars and smoking because it seemed like everyone did. Then one day, I thought, "this is stupid, why am I killing myself just because I am bored or because everyone else smokes?"

Long story short, I quit. It's been 6 months and it's worth it! I don't even miss it anymore.