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What age did you start smoking?

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  • #32
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    popinfresh wrote:
    I was smoking since I was 12, but only once a week kind of a thing back then. I started smoking regularily around 15/16. Then I quit last week. I had to, I was on 50 a day, and I'm unemployed ATM. I just went cold turkey.
    Good luck with it, hope you can stay off them.

    I started smoking socially around the age of 15, by the time I was 16 I was smoking 10 - 20 a day.I'm now 19, still smoking around 15 - 20 a day but have an intention to quit before Christmas.


  • #33
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    What would you think would happen if fags were unavailable? How would ppl cope?


  • #34
    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    I have never ever touched a cigarette. I abhor them. I hate being in the company of a smoker. Everything about cigarettes disgusts me. My BF gave them up cos he knew how much I hated them. bless :)


  • #35
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Bond-007 wrote:
    What would you think would happen if fags were unavailable? How would ppl cope?

    It'd be like dawn of the dead, except alot more violent. :D


  • #36
    Jimi-Spandex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Jimi-Spandex


    13. 8 coughy years now.

    Tried to quit a few times. To be honest I don't really harbour any intentions of quitting soon. What really gets on my nerves is people telling me to quit.

    Do people really think I've gone eight bloody years without reading the packs? Damn well I know it'll kill me, I know i smell like an ashtray, I know it stains my teeth/ages my skin, harms my baby if i'm pregnant and I know that moany ****ers are offended by my habit.

    There's no, I repeat NO need to remind me.


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  • #37
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Well, if you enjoy smoking and want to discuss the enjoyment of smoking without having to put up with people reminding you of the effects of it, support The Smoking Room .
    :D


  • #38
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Started at 13, was on about ten/twenty a week until about 16 where that increased to ten a day and twenty on a night out. Quit for the year of my Leaving Cert because I was training to be a lifeguard. Started back on them in first year of college and started going out with a girl who smoked twenty a day. Was on twenty a day myself in no time and stayed there until last year when I moved into a non-smoking house so that I'd have to go outside for a smoke in the evenings. That's cut me back to about ten a day or so, which increases to twenty or thirty if I'm on a session.

    And I don't want to even *think* about how much the habit has cost me over the years. I've had a number of attempts at quitting, all with varying degrees of success. Sometimes I've stayed of for a year (Leaving Cert) whereas other attempts have ended in a matter of hours.

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  • #39
    shellby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭shellby


    i started when i was 14 i hated it then and i hate it now
    both my parents smoke
    i'm in the process of quitting i'm reading the alan carr book it's working a treat i actually cannot wait to stop smoking


  • #40
    Scarinae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    I've only smoked about three cigarettes, didn't try them until I was 16. I very occassionally take a drag when other people are smoking, but I'm not that pushed


  • #41
    Flukey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,006 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    Well I haven't started yet - except for passively - and have no intentions of doing so. I have more sense. There was a feature on the radio this morning about a study that has discovered that it can affect your sight in later life. That is one of many reasons to quit or, more importantly, to never start.


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  • #42
    carbonkid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭carbonkid


    Remember smoking my first cig when i was 12 i think in a field behind my friends estate, a John player blue.
    Dont really smoke anymore unless im really stressed or drunk, theyre way too expensive :P


  • #43
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Flukey wrote:
    Well I haven't started yet - except for passively - and have no intentions of doing so. I have more sense. There was a feature on the radio this morning about a study that has discovered that it can affect your sight in later life. That is one of many reasons to quit or, more importantly, to never start.
    ye a guy has gone blind or something for the rest of his life and they believe smoking is why.


  • #44
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I tried smoking a couple of times as a muppet teenager but never liked the taste of 'em, so I never took it up, thank ****. My ould lad has been smoking for years, he's still on about 10 carrolls a day, but my ma never smoked and won't let him smoke in the house either.
    I don't understand how anyone can actually start smoking at 22-25 like some people in this thread. Are you stupid?


  • #45
    dashX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭dashX


    Started when I was about 8. 10 Carrolls and a box of Patterson & Maguire matches for 98 pence. These days, whenever someone asks me why I smoke (as non-smokers tend to do for some reason) I always tell them it's because I was stupid enough to start.


  • #46
    Endurance Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Started when I was about 8. 10 Carrolls and a box of Patterson & Maguire matches for 98 pence. These days, whenever someone asks me why I smoke (as non-smokers tend to do for some reason) I always tell them it's because I was stupid enough to start.

    :eek: ,When you where 8 :eek: , dont even no what to say.


  • #47
    dublinshane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭dublinshane


    When I was 18 and at college - always wanted to try it. Started off with just an odd one in the pub and that but then became regular. Neither parent smoked but my younger brother started a year before me.


  • #48
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Started when I was 19/20. Always enjoyed the smell of a good cigar and pipe(ciggies I can take or leave tbh).

    My father smoked and he died when he was in his 80s after a long and very healthy life(he had me late in life). An uncle of mine recently died in his 90s after smoking tobacco in various forms for nearly 80 yrs. Other relatives(on both sides) smoke and live well into their 80s/90s. No lung cancer, or other lung/heart problems in my blood relations in living memory, so I'm probably one of the lucky ones with the Keith richards gene.

    That said most of them (like myself) would be pipe/cigar smokers who generally don't inhale so that would be a factor. You get the protective effect of nicotine(alzhemiers, parkinsons, colitus etc) with less exposure to the nasties. Also as a family the men are pretty active so that also may be a factor.

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  • #49
    FranknFurter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭FranknFurter


    dashX wrote:
    Started when I was about 8. 10 Carrolls and a box of Patterson & Maguire matches for 98 pence. These days, whenever someone asks me why I smoke (as non-smokers tend to do for some reason) I always tell them it's because I was stupid enough to start.

    Thank godess im not alone in starting so young.....
    Poll results here are *very* interesting...

    b


  • #50
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    Yuk! I tried it when i was younger but went off it very fast.


  • #51
    toiletduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Flukey wrote:
    Well I haven't started yet - except for passively - and have no intentions of doing so. I have more sense. There was a feature on the radio this morning about a study that has discovered that it can affect your sight in later life. That is one of many reasons to quit or, more importantly, to never start.


    *yawn* yes we all know it's not good, that not what the thread is about...

    smoked my first when i was 12 and never touched them again till i was 18. i smoke about 5 a day now


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  • #52
    arbeitsscheuer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,391 ✭✭✭arbeitsscheuer


    I started smokin in 5th or 6th year in Ashfield, cos my mates their smoked and they'd always offer me one or two.

    Didn't actually buy smokes until I was 17 and 10 months, vividly remember buying some Silk Cut blue (urgh) in my local Texaco garage absolutely brickin it cos there were a couple of Gardai in the place at the same time! So funny. The idea that they'd give a sh*te was, in retrospect, a naive one indeed.

    Since then I've gone for Marlboro lights, and have progressively smoked more regularly. About 10 a day now. Meh. Never did me any harm...

    *COUGH* *COUGH* *SPLUTTER*



    P.S. Neither of my parents smoke nor have they ever. I have 6 siblings, all of whom have smoked at one stage or other. Based on anecdotal evidence (friends, relatives etc) I have a theory that you're far more likely to start smoking in a family where the parents DON'T smoke than in one where they do.


  • #53
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,050 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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  • #54
    daiixi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭daiixi


    Neither parent smokes but my grandparents on one side smoked heavily. Started when I was 18, almost quit when I was 20 and quit when I was 21. Took it up again when I was 23, got tonsilitis and haven't smoked since.


  • #55
    Supercell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,001 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Started at 18.
    Stopped at 33.
    Yay me!
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/


  • #56
    fuzzywiggle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭fuzzywiggle


    Off the ciggies 2 years now:cool:


  • #57
    Dooom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    Started when I was 14 or so. Currently on about 20 a day, give or take a few.
    Parents both smoked when they were in the 20's, but stopped about a decade and a half ago.


  • #58
    skye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭skye


    Started when I was 11 - been smoking the rolleys now for about 6 years...20 or so a day - alot more if I am drinking though....


  • #59
    DOLEMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 850 ✭✭✭DOLEMAN


    11. Spent all our money (£0.95!) on a packet of Gold Bond or Gold Bonds or something. Had to go into the church to light the smoke off a candle. Got chased away by some aul wanker. Smoked for about another 10 years!


  • #60
    tallaghtdave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 449 ✭✭tallaghtdave


    i remember me and the brother found a packet of imperial cigars , and we were dying for a week,
    taught we were tough as nails at the time smoking them.
    hahahhaa
    were were 13 and 9


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  • #61
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,050 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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