Why did I ever start smoking?

Malari · 14-04-2013 05:45PM

Catphish wrote: »

Like a lot of other people, I tried it once as a teenager. The taste is just revolting, I don't know how people can just keep doing it until the addiction forms. I'm sure it doesn't kick in from the first few, I don't understand it at all to be honest.

I remember watching Helena Bonham Carter in Fight Club and the way she had arguments pointing with her cigarette and thinking "that looks so cool!" And I wasn't a kid either

There's got to be a lot of fitting in and rebellious feeling behind it.

Catphish · 14-04-2013 06:16PM

Malari wrote: »

I remember watching Helena Bonham Carter in Fight Club and the way she had arguments pointing with her cigarette and thinking "that looks so cool!" And I wasn't a kid either There's got to be a lot of fitting in and rebellious feeling behind it.

Great film, I like your style

I come from two smoking parents, and when I was a child (when there was less information about the damages of smoking), I remember going for day trips out with them up mountains and what not. You could be several hours in a car with them smoking with the windows up because the weather was crap. I always hated the smell, so when my friends asked me if I wanted to try it I said no. After a few g'wan g'wans I said I would if it shut them up. Well.. the taste, I kept wretching.

I wonder what makes people want to do it again and again until there is a dependency

gg2 · 14-04-2013 06:19PM

A friend of a friends grandfather discovered his son was smoking (this was I think in the mid/late 60's) he brought him into the kitchen and made him smoke 40 one after another, after another. The thought makes me want to vom! Think the granda was a bit of a tyrant but it done the job, the guy started to throw up and never touched a cigarette again!

Miss Lockhart · 14-04-2013 06:25PM

I understand why people start as teenagers and then find it hard to stop, but I find it really hard to understand those who start in their late twenties or even thirties.

I have smoked two cigarettes, when I was at a music festival in my early 20s. I actually really liked the taste and I enjoyed it. But at the end of the day I could never ignore the facts that it is damaging to health (my own and others), smells disgusting, aging and a waste of money.

nervous_twitch · 14-04-2013 06:32PM

I smoke and mostly I love each and every cigarette.

yuloni · 14-04-2013 06:36PM

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Catphish · 14-04-2013 06:44PM

Condi wrote: »

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You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. It's more common that peer pressure has some involvement, but like yourself there are probably a lot of people that just experimented on their own. Smokers seem to really enjoy it, and I've often heard someone say "oh I'd love a cigarette now", you do start to wonder is there something that you're missing out on. I am glad I tried it once, because it only affirms that I will never be a smoker, it was a horrible experience. Good luck with getting off them Condi

Ol' Donie · 14-04-2013 06:47PM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Smokers are rotten

That's Zombies you're thinking of.

WumBuster · 14-04-2013 07:07PM

Uugh, this old chestnut. yes i smoke and regret ever starting. Anyone who does and says otherwise is delusional. I dont really know why i do it, i guess i must enjoy it at some level to keep doing it, and I dont really want to stop badly enough to give up. Its all a bit of a paradox i guess..

April O Neill · 14-04-2013 07:10PM

Picked 'never smoked' but of course I had the obligatory one behind the bike shed as a young wan. I smoked while I was there too. :P

bnt · 14-04-2013 07:32PM

Only time I've ever smoked was that time my hair caught fire while welding ... I don't count the one puff I took at age 13, before I handed the smoke back and told the other kid "you can have that all to yourself, thanks".

If all cigarettes disappeared overnight, along with the urge to smoke, would the world be a better place, or worse? Me, I totally fail to see any upside to smoking. Compete waste of ... everything.

Auldloon · 14-04-2013 08:23PM

Quit 5 weeks ago after 25 years of smoking

didn't enjoy it anymore and had reduced it to a few a day so quitting was easy.
For years I loved it but I'm really glad that when I had enough I was able to quit

I've always been fitter than most non smokers I know, no noticeable shortness of breath etc so hopefully I haven't done much lasting damage to my body.

bgrizzley · 14-04-2013 08:32PM

lukesmom wrote: »

Hi can I ask what you would recommend to start vaping? I got the smokegreen but didn't stick to it as hit wasn't great

since noone else answered you, i'd recommend you get a tank system, lukesmom. i had a kanger t2 and a vivi nova, lots of fruity flavours. you can get variable resistance batteries and different strenght juices to get the right hit for you.
i started vaping in september and stopped christmas day and haven smoked or vaped since. i do get an odd urge but if i had to i'd prefer to go back to vaping rather than smoking.

head over to the vaping forum for more up to date models and info. wealth of info there. good luck

pragmatic1 · 14-04-2013 08:46PM

One of my worst decisions was to take up smoking. It's been a chain around my neck for the past 18 years. Absolutely hate seeing young people smoking.

Lando Griffin · 14-04-2013 09:06PM

Smoked 18 years I did every day.
The misses told me to ditch them or no hanky hanky.
It only took 2 years to give them up fully after that. I even had the odd sly one but she used to sniff me and no matter what I sprayed or ate she knew.
Eventually I did it and I remember me on my knees swearing to god I had them given up a few weeks at that stage and begging her for the shift.

Standman · 14-04-2013 09:09PM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Smoked 18 years I did every day.
The misses told me to ditch them or no hanky hanky.
It only took 2 years to give them up fully after that. I even had the odd sly one but she used to sniff me and no matter what I sprayed or ate she knew.
Eventually I did it and I remember me on my knees swearing to god I had them given up a few weeks at that stage and begging her for the shift.

Sounds like smoking is the least of your worries.

UCDVet · 14-04-2013 09:09PM

I've never smoked, but I have to say, I'm honestly a little jealous of smokers. It's always seemed like a very social thing and now that it's less common it really seems like a 'bond' people can share.

I have co-workers who all head out for smoke breaks together. When I was still in school I had a friend who would go outside for a smoke and come back with a girl he'd met. Everyone is standing around, in the same place, doing the same thing, it just seems like such an easy way to met people.

Lucyfur · 14-04-2013 09:16PM

Off them 3 years. Miss them so so so much but will stay off them. If I get to 65, I'm buying 40 benson and a bottle of something nice.

Me_Grapes · 14-04-2013 09:24PM

ShatterProof wrote: »

Smoking is cool

Smoking is only cool if the person smoking is a winner. Think James Dean on a motorcycle, Clint Eastwood walking into a saloon or Marilyn Monroe in a cabaret.

Some no-mark puffing away at a bus shelter or outside some doorway in a boozer (i.e. 99.999999% of all smokers) just look rotten, no matter how 'cool' they like to think they are.

meoklmrk91 · 14-04-2013 09:28PM

Decided to give them up this morning after I smoked the bones of 20 out last night woke up wheezing, nearly 24 hours since I've had one and I'm grand, but I regularly go days without smoking. We'll see how I go when I call over to peeps for a chat. Will be getting an E-cig at some point because I really love smoking, I just felt like **** this morning and I'm sick to the teeth of spending money!

Whatsernamex33 · 14-04-2013 09:30PM

I actually liked smoking but could never get addicted. Not that I tried..
Can't see the point in wasting 10 euro in something that could potentially end up destroying you. :P

GobblyNob · 14-04-2013 09:39PM

Get an electronic cigarette.

Besht.

Ting.

Ever.

FanadMan · 14-04-2013 09:45PM

Poll needs another option - "Yes, but I love my ciggies". I hate the fact that I ever started and the fact that I've tried at least 10 times to stop and failled but I really love my smokes.

catallus · 14-04-2013 09:53PM

I agree. Lovelytastyyummy fags

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 14-04-2013 09:53PM

I had my first cigarette when I was 11 or 12, smoked more or less full time between the ages of 18 and 26, (~7 or 8 a day, was never really a heavy smoker), cut down to just smoking when I was out drinking for a bit, and have completely quit in the last 4 or 5 weeks after a heavy weekend in Liverpool which left me feeling like death.

I'm sorry I ever started, but if I could be guaranteed I'd never get cancer from smoking, I'd happily smoke away.

Green Hornet · 14-04-2013 09:54PM

lukesmom wrote: »

Hi can I ask what you would recommend to start vaping? I got the smokegreen but didn't stick to it as hit wasn't great

http://www.thebestshop.eu/shop/electronic-cigarettes-starter-kits/206-twisted-kanger-starter-kit.html?ps_full_site=1

As said earlier, pop over to the vaping forum.....an increasingly active forum!!

af_thefragile · 14-04-2013 09:55PM

81 blunts a day!

mewe · 14-04-2013 09:56PM

Shamozzle wrote: »

What a stupid fucking thing to be at. It's the only regret I have. The wasted money, the stink of them, my teeth, can't run around for 30 seconds without having to stop and catch my breath. Dirty disgusting habit!

Do you smoke? Do you regret it?

I am an idiot.

Just give up man! Sounds like you're ready.
I had the same thoughts as you about it when i finally did give up last June and haven't looked back.
Go for it man-you've nothin to lose and lots to gain

Irish Guitarist · 14-04-2013 10:00PM

I'm 37 and I've known since I was a child that smoking was dangerous. I don't get why teenagers still take up smoking. It might be somewhat understandable if it gave you an amazing high or something but all anyone seems to say about it is "it calms my nerves".

When I was about eight years old I saw a news report on the dangers of smoking. I rushed out to the kitchen and said to my parents "smoking can kill you". My father said "I know".

He died 13 years ago from lung problems.

I tried smoking once (when I was a teenager and before my father had died) and I was spluttering and wheezing for an hour afterwards. I didn't see the appeal in it so I never smoked another one.

holystungun9 · 14-04-2013 10:06PM

"Smokers are jokers kid, now get in the van." Those words saved me from a very nasty habit.

Why did I ever start smoking?

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