like how did they all of a sudden wake up one day and think "hey i'm gonna start smoking"
what really triggers it?
2006-08-06 17:43:43 · 19 answers · asked by ♥Brown Eyed Girl ♥ 5 in Health ➔ Other - Health
also...do they like just crave the nicotean *spelling*
2006-08-06 17:50:51 · update #1
The same reason people try anything. Drinking, pot, cocaine, coffee, whatever.
I didn't smoke to feel cool or because anybody wanted me to. Personally I was curious. I don't drink to feel cool or fit in either, I tried it, I liked it, I drink.
2006-08-06 17:48:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Some start smoking because of an "insecure mental felling". So if they get a cigarette and smoke, they "fit in better" or "are like everyone else around them" or "now they can pass the time finguring the cigarette". It's a mental thing all the way from start to finish until it becomes a lung thing.
2006-08-07 00:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by leebaugh2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i took up smoking in high school it was purely the cool (dumbest ever) thing to do... don't ask why, kids have the strangest vision of cool! but i got hooked after forcing myself to have them every time someone else did even though they made me feel sick.
eventually it is like any other habit and you just naturally wanna light up especially when someone else does. but when you get friends who don't smoke and tell you that you stink and don't want to come smoke with you etc then it is awesome and you can quit and realise how dumb you were and never ever do something just to be cool again!!!(cos it is sooo un cool poooeee~!!!)
2006-08-07 00:49:23 · answer #3 · answered by ricky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some guy told my bro' that he started to smoke just so he could have a social life. By the way if I confused anyone by my last sentence.. I got to clarify that my brother doesn't smoke.
2006-08-07 00:51:28 · answer #4 · answered by B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well some people jsut do it casue their parents have done it. Others jsut don't care and jsut think their life is going ot be wasteded so why not do it. There is also peer preasure which so totally true. Last but not least, is them thinking they look cool doing it.
2006-08-07 00:49:51 · answer #5 · answered by Kiki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peer pressure - all your friends are smoking, your parents hate the idea, so the daft idea gets round that it's cool.
If they'd ever kissed an ashtray, they'd soon realise how cool it is.
2006-08-07 00:49:44 · answer #6 · answered by UKJess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the people that I thought were my friends smoked, so I started smoking because I wanted to fit in...I know, stupid! hoever my Mom smoked, too...then she told me that she had better not catch me doing it...but when she did she was pissed that I didn't tell her and hid it from her...No wonder I am so messed up! I have been quit now for 5 years...YAY!
2006-08-07 00:47:36 · answer #7 · answered by The Nag 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It a new thing to try just like when u try beer for the first time u know when to do this when your the right age to do what people ur age do.
2006-08-07 00:49:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pressure to fulfill their image of what it means to be cool or accepted by someone else who smokes who they think are cool.
2006-08-07 00:48:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stress?
2006-08-07 00:46:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋