Questions about smoking?

Question

Is it better to try a cigarette at a younger age, than an older age? I mean, adults like cigarettes more, right? My Dad said I would think they are NASTY and I just want to try 1. He said I can take a whif, and that I wouldnt even get through a whole 1. But will I become addicted? What do cigarettes taste like? Is it really THAT hard to quit?

Awww crap, I accidently put this in the wrong section! my bad :/

Answer 1

It is best NOT to try a cigarette at ANY age--especially if you want to keep your good health. Go to www.webmd.com and type in smokers lung in their search area. There is a very graphic picture I think all young kids need to see before they even THINK about putting that s**t called nicotine into their bodies. I have never smoked in my life, but I have breathing problems caused by the second-hand smoke from my parents' use, and my sister and 1 brother's use. My father developed lung cancer when he was in his early 60's and before it was all said and done with, he had to have one lung totally removed (we thought, until doctors told us later on that they couldn't get it all and thus left what they called a "stub"). He had to go through chemotherapy and radiation to keep the cancer from coming back, but it didn't work. The cancer returned, went into this stub, then moved to his throat (he couldn't eat then at all--at least not regular food--because the cancer wouldn't let him swallow. It then moved into his "good" lung). Doctors had to put a "feeding tube" down his throat (very tricky procedure) into his stomach, and then he had to live on IV-bags of liquid food for over 2 years. He had to go out onto our closed-in front porch and shut the door so he couldn't smell food whenever Mom cooked , so it got to where she and I ate mostly TV dinners because the aromas weren't as strong from them as from, for instance, steak or hamburger. We buried my Dad 1 day before he turned 66 years old, in 1989.
You would think that seeing and knowing what Dad went through that my Mom would quit smoking. But she didn't quit until last year when a fall broke her hip and she ended up in the hospital about 3 times in as many months. The first time was to repair her hip, the second time was to remove 40 POUNDS of excess fluid that was building up around her heart (she weighed like 199 going in to the hospital, and 159 when she came home) and if I'd not checked on her in the middle of the night because she had missed a breathing treatment for her asthma, she'd be dead now, too. The 3rd time she'd developed pneumonia, and now has to use oxygen 24/7/365 to breathe, plus the other treatments. She has developed COPD (also articles at www.webmd.com)--an incurable lung disorder--and FINALLY quit smoking after 54 years.
I don't mean for this to sound like a lecture, but if I can save one kid from going through all of the above it will be worth it. Not only all of the above, but you develop a terrible cough as time goes by, your eyes develop bags under them, your hair loses its shine, and you age faster. I've heard that kissing a smoker is like licking an ash tray. Besides that, I don't know where you live, but here in Iowa, a carton of 10 packs of cigarettes cost over $40 now. Think what else you could buy with that $40--clothes, cd's, makeup, etc.
If you are being pressured to smoke by your friends, don't give in to them. Cigarettes ARE nasty. You have better things to do with your life than die of lung cancer. OK?? :)

Answer 2

My mom started smoking when she was 13 and kept going off and on through out her life. She can quite any time. She actually just started again because she was bored and all of her friends smoke. Sounds like shes a teenager, huh?
But sure enough I haven't seen any around lately.
Now, my dad on the other hand had also started at a very young age and has been smoking on and off all of his life. He says that it is very difficult to quit and when he does, he always picks up again a month or two later.

Answer 3

Sometimes they taste bad, sometimes they taste good. It really depends on what you're doing at the time. It can be very difficult to quit. Probably the hardest part of quitting is conjuring up the motivation to do it.

A lot of people would be very disappointed if you were to start smoking. At the very least, you would get the smell in your clothes and your hair. Many insurance companies charge higher premiums for smokers.

If you're lucky, you might wind up with only COPD -- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. If you're not lucky, you risk lung cancer. It's a dice toss.

Young people are always immortal in their own minds, and take so many unnecessary risks: binge drinking; excessive speed and other reckless driving; experimenting with mood-altering drugs or hallucinogens. Can we stop at that and leave the nicotine alone?

Answer 4

Smoking is harmful to your health. Perhaps the consequence won't happen at once, but in future you'll suffer many diseases. I don't see anything interesting in smoking cigarettes. If we know it's bad, why try?

Answer 5

It is VERY hard to quit and better not to even start. Trust me. If I could go back to when I was 14 and if I knew what I know now I wouldn't have even lit one. Its horrible to quit especially if you enjoy smoking as I do.

Answer 6

It is better to try any addictive thing at a much older age, like 50. Then, if you get addicted, you probably have enough money to support your habit, and you will have fewer years to be hurt by the substance.

Yes, you will likely become addicted. Nicotine is extremely addicting, especially if your Dad is your birth father & he is addicted & you may then have the addiction gene.

Cigarettes taste like they smell, I guess--never tried.

Yes, it's harder to quit tobacco addiction than heroin addiction.

Answer 7

sometimes when i light my cigarette, at the first breath i take a taste of sugar but it happens soo rarely.... usually it's just a ****...

i strongly advice you to not to try it.. if you become an addict, hard to quit.

wish i was never tried of it..... (my dad is cancer because of the cigarettes and while he was in surgery, i was smoking packs of cigarette in front of the hospital....)

Answer 8

Some comes up, some stays in the water.

Answer 9

they ARE nasty,,listen to your dad for once..they make your clothes smell, your kisses taste nasty, they cost too much of your hard earned money,,and they will KILL YOU.