2007-03-17 17:16:43 · 30 answers · asked by radioactive_babywipes 3 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Thank you all for being so honest with yourselves enough to post why you truly started smoking. I really appreciate all your input!!
2007-03-20 16:05:48 · update #1
lighting other folks cigarettes on the stove when they couldnt find a match and u got the taste of it.
2007-03-17 17:19:42 · answer #1 · answered by sunflare63 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was 35, everyone was talking about the dangers of smoking. My whole family smoked, but I had never had a cigarrette. I was living in the country where they grew tobacco in NC. The farmers would drop the tobacco leaves in my yard when they harvested their fields. I picked up the leaves, hung them to dry, and put them in a baggie in the fridge.
About 4 months later, I was in the yard, communing with the native spirits who must have occupied that land about 150 years before. After a very wierd evening, I got the impulse to have some tobacco, so I went inside and got my baggie and rolled a cigarrette. It was a very peaceful and calming experience.
I still smoke, but I roll my own. When I smoke pre-rolled cigarrettes, they give me a headache and they make me sick. There are a ton of chemicals in the standard smokes that you get at a convenience store. I don't regret starting, and I stop occasionally when I want to, but I don't have any desire to quit.
I don't encourage anybody to start smoking, but I won't forget the first night that I had a cigarrette. I started because it just felt right.
2007-03-18 07:24:03 · answer #2 · answered by Tunsa 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ive always had a problem with sleeping too much, and became tolerant to caffeine and tried everything else. Quitting caffeine, eating the perfect diet, moderate exercise, extreme excersise, anti-depressants, nothing worked. I asked my friend for a cigarette once when I was having a really bad day, that way if I get drowsy I will set myself on fire. Bad I know, but it works. Only set myself on fire twice. Something about them keeps me alert for a half hour or and hour. I will die sooner, and slowly and painfully, but at least I will be awake to see my life! I am still looking for other ways to help myself and getting tests done to try to figure out why I am so tired all of the time, because I do want to quit.
2007-03-18 00:28:27 · answer #3 · answered by ☺☻☺☻☺☻ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I started smoking at 15, in imitation of adults (my parents, among others) and friends who smoked.
I smoked steadily till I was 40, when I found out that my 4-year-old son was asthmatic. On the spot, I gave up smokiing in the house or anywhere I was near him. But I smoked for another 5 or 6 years when I was away from him. It dawned on me that it was stupid; if I could stop smoking for much of my waking hours when I was near my son, I could certainly do so the rest of the time. It took me anohther couple of years of off and on smoking and stopping until I weaned myself. But I stopped before I was 50. It's 20 years later, and I haven't smoked again. Its stupid that it took me to long to stop, but better late than never.
2007-03-18 00:30:04 · answer #4 · answered by silvcslt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought it would help me keep from gaining weight if I smoked and drank coffee. I was 17 at the time. Many years later, I quit smoking. It didn't work; I gained weight anyway.
2007-03-18 00:20:25 · answer #5 · answered by Annie D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
your curiosity.. when you want to know how does it feel when you puff and how whats the taste. its OK to try once only but don't used it as your companion that whatever you are and whenever your not feeling ok, you turn on to smoke. smoking doesn't give any benefit. you only shorten your life. so before having urge to try smoke just be sure that don't try for second time again.
By the way i don't smoke, i even asked my bf to quit from smoking and im happy he made it.
2007-03-18 00:23:48 · answer #6 · answered by taurust_girl27 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like a lot of teens I wanted to be cool and belong to the in-crowd. And my (much-adored) big brother smoked.
However, I could never quite do it right.
While, all around me friends were blowing rings and doing neat (read: dangerous) cigarette tricks I was watery-eyed and hacking up a storm!
I was the lucky one, after all.
2007-03-18 01:04:50 · answer #7 · answered by Yellowstonedogs 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All those girly slumber parties I had in my teens...we used to steal one of my moms cigarettes and all huddle up in the bathroom and smoke one between about 10 of us. multiply that by about 20-30 different sleepovers and I've got myself an addiction!
2007-03-18 00:21:19 · answer #8 · answered by xoxo_sexy_biatch_xoxo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately I started in Boot Camp in 1980. At that time we got a break every hour if we smoked. If we didn't , we had other chores to do. So,,, I started just to get the break,,,, STUPID move.
2007-03-18 00:20:02 · answer #9 · answered by Joseph L 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1.) To look cool like the gangsters from movies.
2.) Increased metabolism = weight loss
3.) A good stimulant (when I first started) to help me wake up
2007-03-18 00:19:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I played with my moms cigarettes when I was little, and eventually began actually smoking because I wanted to be just like mom !
2007-03-18 00:21:11 · answer #11 · answered by emeraldbeach243 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋