Are you a smoker?

Question

Why do you smoke? Please don't tell me it is a habit, because that
is a lamest excuse. Is it worth your money?

During Breaks? To think? Why not take a nap or read a book or get on the internet and chat, or get a gameboy?

Answer 1

People can quit cold turkey... they just don't want
to. If it is illegal to smoke, people will quit instantly.
They won't miss it. No, I don't smoke.

Answer 2

If you have never smoked it is presumptuous of you to eliminate any answer for the question you have asked. None the less I am going to respond.
I smoke because it is a habit. I keep my cigarettes at my side pretty much where ever I am. I will habitually reach for them and light one spirited on, in part, by my addiction to the nicotine in them.
To borrow a line from an old TV commercial, I am smoking and enjoying it less. I used to smoke upwards of three packs a day and have successfully weaned myself down to less than a pack a day.
When I have attempted to quit cold turkey I am greeted with an upset stomach, a headache and other various aches and pains including becoming constipated and feeling that if my head doesn't explode first my gut will.
While quitting cold turkey I also demonstrate intermittent psychosis...laughing one minute and crying the next, both without a reason other than a lack of nicotine. I will, if provoked, become combative when crossed while quitting and will obsessively hunt for a pack that might have slipped from my sight. Every square inch of my truck/car, every pocket, under or behind furniture, in the house or in the yard, are all subject to my totally insane search.
Is it worth the money? Nope, not since the day I began smoking regularly in 1964 as a sophomore in high school. I traded my vice for shoes and purse to match every one of my outfits into always possessing a pack, hell a carton or two, of "hump's" that I have purposefully sucked into my lungs.
Even before it became a crime, the retail outlets I managed were strictly no sales to anyone under 18. I would tell the would be purchaser I was doing them a giant favor today, know one did it for me. Had my parents followed through with the threatened breaking of my knuckles if I was caught smoking, maybe, I would have no reason to be answering this question.

Answer 3

I come from a time when everyone smoked (and drank alcohol, for that matter). It was the "normal" thing to do--as you will see if you watch old movies and TV shows.

I started smoking in my teens--which mostly all teens did back then. Those were times where you could still smoke in a doctor's waiting room, in the hospital, in office buildings, at your desk at work, outside the school doors, and even in most stores.

I won't tell you that it is just a "habit" after all this time--it is an addiction--an addiction that is stronger than a heroin addiction (you can check that out). We have come to learn that we were not just smoking tobacco, but all types of additives, to keep us addicted.

I have been trying to be hypnotized to stop--which hasn't happened yet. I will not go with the nicotine patch, pill, or even gum--as my brother nearly died when tried on each of these things.

I am acquainted with people who tried to quit "cold turkey," and also wound up in the emergency room. I have also seen people become very ill (one even had a stroke) shortly after quitting.

No, it is not worth our money--but the taxes go to the hospitals and clinics--thereby helping smokers and non-smokers alike. So when we get a disease caused by smoking, our own taxes are paying for our care once our money runs out.

Though it sounds as though the government wants everyone to quit--that is quite hypocritical. They would go broke without the tax money they receive from the tobacco industry. How much they get can also be checked out. It only takes coin change to make a pack of cigarettes--the rest is all taxes.

Before you call people lame--check out addictions--and realize that cigarette smoking (as alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders, gambling problems, etc.) is an illness!!!

Answer 4

I am NOT a smoker, but I was at one point in my life. I can see how a person would see it as a "habbit", but it is more like an escape. I was able to go outside, be alone, walk away from what was frustrating me with an excuse, and there is a physical need as well as psychological need. The body is telling you to smoke, life provides the excuse whether it is a person that isn't co-operating, something at work that pissed you off, or the want to replace food with it so you dont gain weight. Each person is different, and in the end it is not worth it, and why I have been free.

Answer 5

I smoke and it sucks....for the most part. Out of a pack a day....I only enjoy 1 or 2 of them, the rest are to keep the addiction going and alleviate withdrawal symptoms.
YES smoking is a habit, but one that can be broken. It is just as physical as it is mental. IT'S AN ADDICTION!!!
No it's not worth the money.
I take it you're not a smoker.....

Answer 6

I can tell you quite honestly that starting smoking was a REALLY bad idea, but I do think it's worth the money right now because if you and I found ourselves in a dark alley after I had gone a couple of days without a cigarette one of us would not make it out. That applies to anyone who might find themselves in that situation with me.... and I would prefer not to put anyone in that situation. I am nice when I have my cigs and I like to keep it that way!!

Answer 7

I smoke because it gives me breaks through out the day to sit, think, and do something that I enjoy.

& I understand I could do it without a cigarette, but out of habit, there always there ;)

Answer 8

no, the only time I smoke at all is during a Native American Ceremony if and when a pipe is passed. then there is very little smoke involved.

Answer 9

NO I quit before getting pregnant with son in 76

Answer 10

No I don't. My dad smoked for 30 years and both of my brothers smoke and its just plain nasty. You can smell it on them, not to mention all the money they flush down the toilet on it.