Why do people continue to SMOKE, despite all the HEALTH warnings???

Answer 1

Smoking is highly addictive. Quitting smoking is extremely difficult and hard on you mood, body, and mind.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_3x_Help_Someone_Quit.asp?sitearea=&level=

Plus, smoking is fun. You play with fire and your oh so sensitive lips (even if you don't realize it). You also get a very fast rush of a stimulant.

Answer 2

I recently stopped smoking. I'm 30 now and have been smoking since I was 13. I'm also starting to worry about my health I suppose. No-one helped me quit. I vaguely remember hearing that if you quit before your 35 it is possible to reverse any ill effects smoking may have had on your body. I really don't know how true this is but I kinda hoped it was. I've always been a member of a gym, but now I've given up smoking I find I can work out a lot more that I used to. I guess in general people don't care that much for their health until it too late.

Answer 3

Some people started long before they knew for sure it was unhealthy. Others, especially young people think they can just try it once because they are curious or wanting to look cool, etc with peer pressure. Once they try it a time or two, they like the feeling it gives them and they become addicted. Their body craves the nicotine and then a habit and addiction are well on their way.

My father went to the army as a young man and began smoking there...some 40 years ago. He has tried to quit numerous times and never made it more than a day. This time he has gone more than 2 months without any nicotine in his system. He is STILL having withdraw symptoms......crazy things like cold symptoms, mouth "ulcers" or canker sores, sleeplessness and many other things. It just goes to show that any type of drug can do a number on your body......I know how hard it is on him. Not only does he continue to have cravings, but he also has to deal with physical symptoms and trying to erase a habit of 40 years.

Answer 4

My sister was desperate to give up smoking, so she went to a Hypnotherapist and paid £300 for a one hour's session. I was very sceptical and disapproving of this, but it seemed to work. From that moment onwards, she did not have a cigarette and says she did not have any withdrawal symptons.
However, 2 years later, following some stress and ill health, she decided to take it up again. Why was that? Was she still addicted, or was she just trying to gain some control over her life ?
She did not make use of her Hypnotherapists life time guarantee - she could have gone back to her and had another session for free.
There must be still some need in her, that is satisfied by smoking - perhaps that's the same for others.
Hope this helps :>)

Answer 5

Some of these answers are amusing to absurdity. "because they ae ignorant bastards" being a good example. I mean, how much thought and consideration to this question did you need to come to your conslusion? Some people enjoy smoking, and it's a completely legal product if your over 16 (in the UK). Smokers pay a hell of a lot of tax too. I'm not suggesting that smoking is a good thing, but I have absolutely no problem with people who do. It's rediculous comments like the aforementioned that make some non-smokers sound so anti-liberal.

Answer 6

Because cigarette smoking is a very heavy addiction. The drug nicotine hits your brain in 30 seconds when inhaled. Once in your bloodstream is addictive right away, unless you stay away from it. And some people want to follow the crowd they are in, wanting to be a part or belong to and be accepted by that group. Not worth it. Recovered smoker. Also media makes it look good, wrong!! It sucks, wish I had never done it, now more prone to a number of illness'es because of it. I started when there were no warnings. It strinks too!! Ugh!

Answer 7

i'm worried about it. I supply up smoking after I were given pregnant (she's 15 now) and have not appeared back considering the fact that. i'm fit, the persons round me are fit, and that i'm not spending money needlessly. Smoking is being banned further and added and that i imagine that it will ultimately go away. yet see you later as cigarettes are nevertheless inexpensive and the tremendous corps are nevertheless making $$, then there'll nevertheless be those who smoke. i imagine an more effective $10/%. should be high-quality. placed the more effective money into maximum cancers study. I watched 2 grandparents die of emphysema and that i actually grew up with continual bronchitis from all of us smoking round me. that's a terrible habit.

Answer 8

it's addictive. Plus, psychologically people feel like it's both a treat and a emotional support. It also looks cool. Non-smokers have to figure out that shouting at people to stop will not work - infact it's likely to have the opposite affect. Smokers have to figure it out for themselves. Read the Allen Carr book and you might understand the psychology of a smoker
Fags should probably be banned, but as someone else said, our economy would go t*ts up if that happened. Whilst there is "temptation" there will always be people who smoke.

Answer 9

I am in the middle of giving up, I have gone from 20 a day to 0 a day in a week.

I do feel much better but I am having cravings (both physical and mental), it really is very difficult and if someone offered me a ciggarete right now I would have to really think about it.

It's very difficult for non-smokers to understand it really is a serious addiction and people need your support not criticism.

I'm sure you wouldn't phrase your question the same to a Heroin addict even though everyone knows Heroin is bad for you.

Answer 10

The health warnings , What makes you so sure that they are right?
maybe in two hundred years or so they will prescribe cigarettes as a treatment for some kind of cancer.
I am 50 years of age and smoked all my adult life.
As it happens i gave up 5 days ago.
I smoked because i enjoyed it.

Answer 11

It is the addiction to nicotine. Anyway don't whinge about it too much because it is the smokers, drivers, drinkers that keep our taxes down. If nobody smoked drank or drove a vehicle then our tax would be double what it is now. So everybody start smoking more to lower my tax.

By the way I am a non smoker!!