2007-08-17 11:45:19 · 10 answers · asked by Saraaah:) 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
stop smoking if you want to live healthy .
2007-08-17 11:50:46 · answer #1 · answered by sim sim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know you are addicted to cigarettes when you smoke lots and are unable to stop. Better not to start smoking as the cigarettes just become a habit. Firstly, the nicotine is enjoyed by your body and it becomes used to having a regular dose. Then you start hanging about with others who smoke. If you do this then try to give it up, it means you have to give up your new friends too! I have had a lifetime of thinking about this issue. I used to smoke as a teenager and young adult- it was cool! Then I only gave it up when I became pregnant, as smoking narrows the arteries and affects blood supply to the placenta and the baby's development. Now that is not fair! I only started again when my son started! Now I don't smoke, only the occasional OP's to be sociable after dinner. So I'm not addicted! Other thing - I used to work in Hospitals and I saw all the people with cancer of the lung, breathing probs, and peripheral vascular disease. It can kill you! Not to mention heart problems. What is worse though for a young woman is the effect on the appearance of the skin. For a woman, a horrible skin may just be worse than dying. It gets sort of hard and forms dry cracked plates like a dry creek bed in middle age. Ugh!
2007-08-17 12:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't sound like you're addicted, but you're on your way to becoming addicted. From the sounds of it, you probably smoked them at a party because the rest of your friends were doing it.
Anyhow, the way you know you're addicted is when you use cigarettes to make you feel better for whatever problem or stress you may have or even to look cool at a party. Then it gets really bad, when you can't even sit still without having a cigarette in your hand.
2007-08-17 12:37:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're addicted if you want more cigarettes, even if you just think you're having an idea that you want one, that's wanting one. The credo of the addict is, "I could quit anytime I want to... I just don't want to."
Stop while you can. Addiction is a progressive problem. Smoking leads to a miserable slow death. I've seen it.
2007-08-17 11:53:36 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. Obvious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not "addicted" if you don't have any cravings for them.
If you find yourself wanting a cigarette - and you find this to be a persistent craving... then you're addicted.
If you just have a few cigarettes from time to time and wouldn't miss it at all if you never had one again 'til the day you died -- then you're obviously NOT addicted.
2007-08-17 11:50:41 · answer #5 · answered by Eric C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you don't have urges like every day all day to smoke then no... but if you do then ya you are and you need to talk to your parents and i know you might get in trouble but it will definaltly help you in the long run... trust me my cousins lung collasped on her not too long ago and the doctor said it was because of smoking.
2007-08-17 11:54:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you keep smoking them
2007-08-17 11:48:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
youre not but if you keep going you will be
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2007-08-17 11:48:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you wont stop smoking
2007-08-17 11:52:09 · answer #9 · answered by alejandra_0714 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't ever pick up and smoke another one and you won't be....
2007-08-17 12:01:12 · answer #10 · answered by meanolmaw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋