why do u smoke if u no its bad for u?

Answer 1

stress, long day, KIDS

Answer 2

For most people smoking starts out harmlessly and casually. No real threat and at that point they can quit anytime. The problem is that with any "Vice" people become adjusted to and dependent upon that vice. With smoking, most people that have a hard time with quitting, the problem is that there is a mental connection bordering on th subliminal that designates how they cope with things such as stress. For others is is a chemical addiction that causes the body to become dependent on the toxins, or more importantly to produce chemicals to fight the toxins. Either situation, the best wat to quit is to really want to and to find another means "More healthy" to take its place.

I know in my particular circumstance the problem was that because of the connection I made between smoking and stress relief, I was unable to stop. In the end the only way I quit was to create a mental block for the smoking and force my mind to find another source of relief. I have been smoke free for three years this August.

Also for anybody that does smoke or is considering quiting, in a study completed about three years ago, It states that if you quit smoking, barring that your lungs are completely done in already, within five years your lungs will heal completely as if you had never smoked a day in your life.

Answer 3

Any vice not taken in moderation is bad for you. All vices carry risks, inculding the legal ones of alcohol and tobbaco use; no one ever said they don't.

But to quickly admonish a light tobbaco smoker or social drinker that their use of such WILL kill them and others around them is unrealistic at best.

Tobbaco cigarette smoking is a vice that us smokers have NO problem being polite by directing our exhaled smoke AWAY from non-smokers or be seated at indoor areas.

But for smokers to be legally forced by law OUTSIDE like cattle and be subjected to daily legally enforced and supported tobbaco smoking use is akin to prohibition--which I believe is the ultimate goal of the anti-smoking lobby....and their current victories in shutting out smokers rights have gone too far.

But to answer your question, dear: I smoke because it's a choice I made. I smoke in controlled moderation and have done so for 22 years. For the past 11 years, twice each year, I get a clean bill of health from my doctor (and a 'healthy' bill for my checkup), I run a well paced 12 miles A DAY--even have defeated healthy food advocated NON SMOKERS in marathon races....and there's no complaints or concerns about my sex life as well.

Bottom line: I'm as healthy as the dedicated non-smoker. So, where do you anti-smokers get off restricting my right to choose what I legally care to do; where do you get off telling me my choice to smoke is bad for me?

P.S.: That annual Surgeon General's "report" on smoking has been recycled more than paper or glass and it's very BIASED; it's not even a fair cross-sective survey as it so well claims to be.

There's other reasons, beside health concerns, why the U.S. Government wants to impose a total prohibition on tobbaco--a product generates multiple BILLIONS of annual tax revenues.

Maybe you, the liberal anti-smoker, can answer THAT question fairly......or maybe not because you are CLUELESS, as liberals are.

Answer 4

Well, in my case, I started smoking when I was 13 --- too young to care or worry about the future consequences. Now I'm 30 and would love to quit and have tried many times to quit, but, I enjoy it too much, and it helps relieve my anxiety problems.

Answer 5

why do you go to Mc Donalds
Why do you cross the street
why do you eat red meat
why do you not stand up straight
why do you not excercise enough
why do you consume caffeine
why do you eat foods with a lot of sugar in them
why do you have stress in your life
why do you rub your eyes in the morning
why do you do all of these things that are not good for you. Because you can and it feels good and we have the ******* right to.

Answer 6

it is called an addiction.

Answer 7

because i enjoy it and i guess you enjoy it too