Smoking

I'm amazed that people still choose to begin smoking in this day and age. It's a shame that tobacco companies still manage to pull people in. I have many friends that are hooked and it takes the health out of them; they look fit enough but they can't sustain a jog for fifteen minutes.

I started as a social smoker sadly because everyone else was smoking at parties and I decided just to give it a go, but the more stressed I got the more I started smoking. I've quit twice, each time for a couple of months, and now I've only been smoking socially again. My boyfriend I know used to smoke quite a lot, but I'm not sure how bad it is now. We both make pacts to quit but stress and all that just gets to us.

I think in my group of friends there's only a handful that don't smoke anymore. I find it extremely odd that I started as even as a little kid I was so strongly against it and my grandmother even died from cancer due to smoking, you'd think that'd be enough to put you off.

My last post was five months ago. Since then, I have quit smoking. Since Jan/Feb (can't remember when I quit 'cause it wasn't a conscious choice) I've only had 1/2 Black & Milds and half a cigarette one night when I was really drunk.

kizzman:

I'm amazed that people still choose to begin smoking in this day and age. It's a shame that tobacco companies still manage to pull people in. I have many friends that are hooked and it takes the health out of them; they look fit enough but they can't sustain a jog for fifteen minutes.

Eh, the tobacco companies never pulled me in. I tried it because my friends did and continued to do so because, psychologically, it really helped me with my writing. In fact, I still miss it sometimes. Not because of the nicotine. I was honestly never addicted to cigarettes; I just psychologically enjoyed them so much.

I smoked for six months when I was 13 but had to stop because my body just can't handle he toxins. I would literally be vomiting if I smoked one cigarette. My body reacts very harshly to some chemicals and with certain medications I have to take a very low dose. It's similar with cigarettes in that the toxins overload my system and it just rejects it all. Even cigarette smoke makes me feel sick now, I have to move if people want to smoke near me.

I've been a smoker for like, ever.

Smoked my first cigarette when I was nine out of pure curiosity, and then after that I'd steal them from my mom every now and then, maybe like, once a month at the very most, but usually not even that often. I thought they tasted like sand but I smoked them anyway because I thought it was "rebellious".

I actually picked it up as a real habit when I was twelve though, because I convinced two of my best friends to try them and so we'd steal packs from our parents or put our money together and have the high schoolers get us packs, and we'd sneak off and smoke. I got addicted pretty quickly because I just have that kind of personality.

I remember when I was twelve, me and one of the friends I mentioned (she was my neighbor) would steal a pack of Virginia Slims from my mom and a backpack full of Budweiser from her dad, and we'd go walk down to this park by my house and sit under this gazebo and chain-smoke the entire pack and get super tipsy off only like, 4 - 5 beers each, and we thought we were such hot shit lmao.

Anyway, then when I was 13 my mom and grandma found out I was smoking. Tried to get me to quit a couple times, didn't work. So they gave up and just started buying me my own cigarettes because they were sick of me stealing theirs or wasting my money getting kids at school to buy them for me. And I've been a really heavy smoker ever since then. Nowadays, I smoke about a pack to a pack and a half a day, and if I'm out with friends and stuff, I can easily go through two packs. I have super shitty lungs and I can't dance any more (used to be a dancer), which absolutely blows, but considering I've been smoking for almost half my life, I don't think I'll ever quit, tbh. Which is so, so, so stupid, but true.

I smoked a couple times. I wasn't sure what to do. I had gotten the craving to smoke and HAD to try it. I even had dreams where I smoked and it was amazing. I did it a few times and it was meh. Nothing huge. I stopped though because I had a little wake up call when I was standing on my porch with my cig and heard a neighbor across the river coughing up a lung pretty badly. I just said to myself "I really don't want to sound like that...." and stomped it out.

I bought a pack for the first time in seven months 'cause my breaks at my temporary job were so long. I've smoked, like, four. They're absolutely nasty. I sometimes want a smoke when I'm drinking a lot, but bleh.

I quit smoking about a month ago and I think I replaced smoking with stalking this thread, to vicariously smoke through the people who post here.

I am having a really rough day, and I am this close to going and getting a pack. It sucks, because there are two tobacco shops right next to my apartment and a gas station... I could not be surrounded by any more cigarettes unless I lived in a Marlboro warehouse.

I know this sounds absolutely stupid, but I have no motivation to quit smoking. I understand the health risks and that scares me, but for some reason that just doesn't motivate me to not smoke.A million people can tell me how stupid it is that I don't care, but I just cannot make myself care. I'm such a freaking health nut too, I just wish that would give me the kick I need to not want to smoke anymore. The only reason I haven't caved in yet is because I know it will upset my husband and he'll end up smoking again too and we'll be back at square one.



Little smilie, I envy you.

I started smoking to take the edge off when I quit doing drugs, and I just kept doing it. People have different reasons for it, but it doesn't make it any different: it's hard as fuck to quit.

I do seriously respect people who don't smoke or that don't like to be around cigarette smoke. Just because I choose to smoke doesn't mean I have the right to invade another person's space like that.

I've been smoking since I was fourteen. Menthols are the shit. I'm cancerous, get over it.

The only time I smoke (besides cannabis) is when I'm under a lot of stress, or when I'm really drunk. I rarely self harm anymore, so sometimes if I'm in that self-destructive mindset I'll have a cigarette instead of self harming, because once I start self harming it's very hard to stop. I'd smoke more, but I am very headache prone and the smoke fries me. Which really, is a good thing (if it'll stop me developing another self-destructive habit.)

I'm weird with cigarettes. I started because you know everyone wants to know what it's like and I did it socially. Then it progressed because I hung around smokers all day.
However, I don't get those crazy urges. And if I do, I take two puffs and that's enough. I've moved to slims because normal cigarettes are too much.
I've started smoking more because of work and home life.

About two months ago I managed to quit smoking for five days out of necessity because I had a really god-awful case of acute bronchitis that lasted about three weeks. The first week I insisted on continuing smoking but once I hit about day ten, I literally physically could not smoke a cigarette. Every time I tried I'd have a violent coughing fit and I couldn't even inhale the smoke. I'd take two drags and then have to put it out. It was horrible.

So I managed to quit for five days, cold turkey, and was like, "Hey, this actually isn't so hard! I'm gonna quit for good!"

...Yeah, no. As soon as my bronchitis started to clear up I had terrible cravings so I gave in and started smoking again. Now I'm back to my chain-smoking self, almost two packs a day, every day.

I hate cigarettes.

I have kind of a love/hate relationship with smoking. I have asthma from second-hand smoking, because my parents used to smoke it around me.

However, I do kind of have an addiction to smoking, even though I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. If I'm stressed, or even just out of the blue, I will find myself craving a cigarette. And I'm actually very tempted to pick up the habit. I've even asked my friend to buy me a pack of cigarettes. I know it's bad, but I just have no regrets when it comes to ruining my body. I already self-harm, and I just view it as another way to harm myself.

The boy that I love also smokes. He has been trying to quit for years. And I can tell how difficult it is for him, with how many times he has tried to quit. I just hope he can beat the habit, but I understand how difficult it can be to quit once you've started. Because I have seen so many people try to fight it.

I love cigarettes, and the way that they are supposed to make you feel. But I hate them, because of all the pain and trouble that they cause the people that I love.

My dad and grandfather were heavy smokers when I was younger - my dad still is. When he comes in to see me he buys almost $200 worth of cigarettes 'cause they're cheaper in Kentucky than they are in Ohio. He's begged me to not pick up the habit, but I've socially started and I'm finding myself craving cigarettes more and more often. I can resist anything but temptations and cravings.

I know it's bad, but honestly, I don't think I give a shit. I've always been a believer in the "live fast die young" lifestyle. If I had it my way, I wouldn't live to be a day over 30.

Last night I was at a party and was smoking. I smoked about 5 in two hours, which I don't consider that bad, but I was bumming them off of my friends. And I can honestly say that I have never felt so calm or at peace in my entire life as when I have a cigarette in my hand. If I had access to them whenever I wanted, I think I wouldn't go so bad on them 'cause I know I could easily have one. Last night I was trying to smoke as many as I could 'cause the last time I'd even had half of one was about a month ago.

I smoke a pack every two days. I've been smoking on and off since I was 15. I was always able to just quit cold turkey... I never really felt addicted. I can go a few weeks without one. I just really enjoy smoking.

I hate cigarettes. My dad died in March from lung cancer and he had smoked since he was 12. I can't stand smoking, I don't want to be around it, I've never tried it, I don't care for it or for people who don't have any consideration around me when they know it hurts me to watch. I mean, it's your choice to destroy yourself like that but don't make someone who has lost someone from lung cancer, watch. Damn.

As for weed and stuff, eh, I could care less. Who ever died from that?

I love smoking. It's calming, it gives me something to do with my hands, I like smoking while I'm walking, I chain smoke when I'm drunk, I like smoking by myself, I like smoking with other people. I even like the smell of it now.
However, I don't really feel like I'm physically addicted to it. I smoke because I like having something to do with my hands and mouth (hahahaha sounds bad) and because it's relaxing. But I can sit inside all day and not smoke and feel fine with it. I'm sitting here now thinking about tobacco and how it feels to inhale the smoke and I don't crave it. I enjoy it, I don't need it. But if I go a while without it then I do start to really want it. So it's a bit like sex.

I also smoke weed as of recent. I started smoking weed last month when I went to a party and got told I was 'a natural'. I got a bit baked and I liked it. I've smoked it every weekend since in quite large doses considering I'm new to it and I have a small amount of the green stuff and a skin next to me now and I'm not even sure if it's enough to make me high but I'll either have it later or tomorrow. It's just nice. I actually feel better for smoking it and I'm glad I have people around me who do. I think it's a nice thing.

I don't care if anyone else thinks it's foul, I don't care if anyone else thinks I'm stupid for smoking drugs, I feel like my life is a little bit better with tobacco and weed and I like having that slight release when everything's so stressful.

I can quit whenever I want to.