does anyone here smoke?

Question

if you do what made you start smoking. what made me start was that i thought it looked cool now i am addicted, what about you? how did you get started, and how much do you do

Answer 1

I quit this year. I started smoking at 19. I worked at a drive through convenient store and just picked up the habit. I smoked for 14 years until I got really sick this year with Asthma. My kids were really afraid that I might die. I almost did. With the pollutants in the air and with society staying in doors more and more it is already hard to breath. add smoking and it is just going to be worse. I understand why you smoke. I miss it. But you really should quit before it's too late. Good luck.

Answer 2

I started to fit in with the "cool" people, this was 23 years ago and I sure am addicted! I have tried to quit many times. I smoke a pack a day on normal days, more if I am driving a lot or just sitting around lounging. If I am busy or working I don't smoke as much

Answer 3

I am 46, and have smoked for 30 years. It was peer pressure that got me started, (it did look cool, didn't it?), mostly, but environmental factors apply, too: family members smoked in the house. I have quit for long periods twice, but restarted at one social function or another. I remember when I started a pack cost 45cents. Now it's near $5.00 for the same pack! I want to quit again, but it is so difficult to do. I smoke slightly less than a pack a day.

Answer 4

Yes, I've already smoked a 1/2 pack today and it's only 2PM. I started because I thought it made me look older and now the habit is 40 years old.

Answer 5

I'm sure there are lots of people here who smoke, but I'm not one of them. I have never had the desire to smoke. I find it funny that anyone would even want to smoke. We are all told that is not healthy and very addictive, yet people choose to smoke often for the same reason you did. They think it looks cool or they smoke because their friends smoke. My grandma got lung cancer from smoking. Cancer certainly isn't cool and her friends didn't join her with that.

Answer 6

Good gravy, do kids still think it looks cool to smoke? That is why i started 40 years ago...and today am coughin my gutts out with bronchitis. The last time i had bronchitis it got so bad i did quit, for a week. I hope your stronger than i am. Do whatever you can to stop while your still young. Please.I smoke about a pack a day, depends really.Good luck to you.

Answer 7

Whatever caused you to start, is not worth it! You are hurting yourself, most of all, and those around you. The best thing you can do for yourself is to quit. The Surgeon General is not kidding when he says: dangerous for your health! There is a lot of help now to quit smoking , if you need help get it ASAP The addiction can be overcome, There are many ways to do it .Share how you you are doing ! And encourage others to quit!!

Answer 8

When I started to work and going clubbing, pple smoke so I also smoke and whenever I face difficult situations I smoked and so I got addicted. now 15 sticks a day.... =(

Answer 9

I am smoke free now for 10 months. I used to smoke 2 packs a day. Trust me. QUIT NOW. I used the patch. I thought I would start smoking to lose weight. Didn't work. Dumb idea. Dumb thing to do. Cigs contain arsenic, nicotine, and poisoness chemicals. QUIT.

Answer 10

i started smoking 16 years ago because my friends made fun of me. i got up to 2 packs a day! now i cut back to a half a pack and there ultra lights. :)