Smokers, here's a question.?

Question

Not trying to bash ya or anything, I'm just curious. Okay, everyone knows the dangers in smoking, so why do you continue to do it? Have you tried to quit? That's it. Please serious answers, don't put "cause it's cool". God bless you all.

Answer 1

I am 62 years old. And I am a heavy smoker. I have quit many times for short periods the longest I ever went without smoking was about six or seven months. When a women I was very much in love with Divorced me. I started smoking again. now I am dieing from a lung decease called emphysema. There is no cure. Stopping now will not change it. It might slow it down but as it is a very slow death, it would only mean prolonging my suffering. But Having tried many times to quit, I have plenty to enlighten folks about. There are many reasons why it is so hard to quit. My new wife is fifty-seven, and she quit ten years ago. and she has not smoked sense. And yet she still considers herself a smoker. Because every time she eats she craves a cigarette. If she drinks a glass of wine she craves a cigarette. If she has a stressful day at work she craves a cigarette. One problem is it is legal. And every store you walk into you will see cigarettes in your face. Smoking represents many things to a smoker. I is excellent at calming the nerves. It is something to do with our hands when we are waiting. it is something to stick in our mouth when we are hungry, and nothing to eat or time to eat. it is like taking a break when there is no time for a break. It gives us patients when we are feeling impatient. It becomes like a consolation prize to us. I started smoking when I was twelve years old. There was a Cowboy on TV saying where there is a man there is a Marlboro. And what I wanted most in the world was to be a man. And I had an older brother telling me I was a sissy if I didn't smoke with him. And I figured My older brother was about the greatest ,strongest, smartest guy I new. And I wanted nothing more than I wanted hes respect. No one not even my parents said it is bad for you. They only said I was to little to smoke. Or I was to young to smoke. Well I made all the wrong choices and now I am paying for it. But I hope that my story will find its way to the ears of the Intelegent Youth. Thanks for asking.

Answer 2

I started smoking in my early teenage years. I was NOT influenced by smoking ads and never felt that anyone was pressuring me to do it. I just wanted to make that clear.

At first, when you start smoking, you get this little giggly, lightheaded buzz....lasts only a minute or so. You acquire the taste for them by the time you don't get that buzz anymore...that's when you go into the phase of enjoying a cigarette every now and then. You don't really think about how bad they are for you the first couple or so years because after all, you JUST started smoking and don't really do it that much...you've known people to chain smoke and be healthy.

After a few years, you get into the perpetual cycle of habits associated with smoking. You have one in the morning...you have one after a meal...you have one whole you're on the phone...you have one after sex...you have one while you're driving...

You just get into the repititious motion to the point that it's embedded into a brain that's addicted to nicotene.

By the time you get ready to quit, your body chemestry, your neurons, your motor centers...it just has something like invisible tentacles wrapped around your whole psyche.

You try to quit and your body and mind start to literally revolt because that chemical and repitition are not being put in place.

I've tried to quit...and I hope to succeed one day. You hear about people that have quit all the time, but for every one person that was able to, there has to be at least 100 that CAN'T. But they're still trying. Some say it's low willpower....but those are the ones who never got hooked.

That's why smokers get so militant against non smoking groups and harsh advocates of banning the sale of tobacco. We want to quit and making us look like devils isn't helping. I'm not going to go into the politics of it, but people that smoke know the kids today are getting SO brainwashed with negativity and it's only giving young people an attitude that they just don't need to have. It's a air of self rightiousness and the whole thing has turned into a big joke...

On the other hand, whenever I see a kid or young person smoking I do want to just slap it out of their mouths. I've been smoking for over 20 years....I wish someone would have slapped the first cigarette out of my mouth too...and left a bruise so I would never forget it.

I know these things might kill me...they might not kill me either. I've worked with people who were in their 80's and 90's, in good health to be that age..and they were smokers. Some of them were drinkers too...it's amazing at what you see working in an assisted living center...

I smoke. I hate that I can't quit. I hate these cigarettes because one of those chances dictates that they might possibly deprive me of spending 20 or 30 extra years with the man I love and adore...he's a smoker too. I think of how horrid it would be to tell him I'm dying and see it in his eyes...I fear holding his hand while he dies horribly in front of me...leaving me without him...all because we smoked.

I know and fear all of this but I can't quit. It's that horribly addicting and controlling.

Does that answer your question?

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Answer 3

I'm not a smoker, but I know they continue to smoke because it's addicting. What I don't understand is what made them first choose to try smoking in the first place. And what makes them continue after their first cigarette made them sick.

Answer 4

I do not smoke and I hate it such a lot. I feel it is particularly egocentric of people who smoke to smoke round individuals who do not smoke however I've gotten used to it as my boyfriend smokes and so much of my household do too. Although my boyfriend is now seeking to stop. He has performed good chopping down however hasn't stop but however he is getting there. :)

Answer 5

Nicotene is highly addictive. Some researches believe the addiction is stronger than a heroin addiction. It's not just the physical addiction, the mental one as well.

Answer 6

It's addicting. Did you really need to waste 5 points to ask a simple question like that?

Answer 7

Because its an addiction thats more difficult to break than anything else !

Answer 8

I'm hooked on nicotene. Gotta go light up now.

Answer 9

Its called an addiction, smart a**

Answer 10

addicted to that nicotine.