Smoking

i feel like one of these days its going to kill the people i love.

younglove_oldlust:

i feel like one of these days its going to kill the people i love.

So do I. I honestly think parents who smoke are selfish for what they're going to eventually put their kids through when they die of something they didn't have to. I understand that quitting is difficult, but it isn't impossible and the people who love you would be quite appreciative.

Kurtni Von Teese:

younglove_oldlust:

i feel like one of these days its going to kill the people i love.

So do I. I honestly think parents who smoke are selfish for what they're going to eventually put their kids through when they die of something they didn't have to. I understand that quitting is difficult, but it isn't impossible and the people who love you would be quite appreciative.

Especially if they smoke in the house, where children have to breathe in their second hand smoke, which is sick in a way because you're potentially harming your child. It's awful because their kids will grow up thinking it's okay to smoke [in many cases] and have a high chance of starting themselves.

Romanticide.:

Especially if they smoke in the house, where children have to breathe in their second hand smoke, which is sick in a way because you're potentially harming your child. It's awful because their kids will grow up thinking it's okay to smoke [in many cases] and have a high chance of starting themselves.

There was actually a proposed bill to make it illegal to smoke around anyone who was under age, and I would fully support that. Why should anyone have the right to expose a child to a known carcinogen?

^ I'd support it too. I have no problem if people want to smoke, it's their choice but I don't think it's fair to subject other people to it, especially young people. Thousands of kids die of second hand smoke every year.

But how would they plan on making sure people would abide that rule? I'm sure plenty of parents wouldn't care and smoke in the house anyway.

Romanticide.:

But how would they plan on making sure people would abide that rule? I'm sure plenty of parents wouldn't care and smoke in the house anyway.

Well, when they were talking about it on the news, the main focus was that if a cop saw someone smoking in a car with a child, they could be pulled over. And children wouldn't be allowed in smoking sections of buildings, etc. But as for smoking at home, there isn't really a way to enforce that.

We have all these adds on TV over here about the effects of smoking. I think the most well known slogan is:

Quitting is hard, not quitting is harder.

My dad smoked for 11 years, he quit with using the patch and never looked back.

However, I have a question. When children of smokers, get older do they have a higher risk of developing the habit? I remember I always liked the smell of my dad lighting up a cigarette.

^ I'm sure they do. They've been around people who smoke all of their lives. Their parents showed them they accepted that habit, so the kid probably grew up thinking it's something everyone does.

Yeah they do, I know people that started smoking with a half used butt left around by their parents.

Space Monkey:

Yeah they do, I know people that started smoking with a half used butt left around by their parents.

I did that once when my dad wasn't looking. I started coughing like there was no tomorrow, then I ran inside to brush my teeth so my parents didn't smell the smoke. I was about nine years old. :shock:

mcrgdjunkie:

Space Monkey:

Yeah they do, I know people that started smoking with a half used butt left around by their parents.

I did that once when my dad wasn't looking. I started coughing like there was no tomorrow, then I ran inside to brush my teeth so my parents didn't smell the smoke. I was about nine years old. :shock:

Do you smoke now?

I grew up around smoking parents. I wouldn't say that made me start smoking in the slightest. It was more I was in a mindset where I was hell bent on fucking up my body with anything I could smoke/ snort/ drink.

I only smoke socially now and have no cravings. Giving up smoking isn't impossible and I don't really think you get particularly physically hooked on cigarettes. The reason I still do it occassionally is that I have no reason not to and more importantly, I can.

I never smoke around non-smokers though.

Space Monkey:

mcrgdjunkie:

Space Monkey:

Yeah they do, I know people that started smoking with a half used butt left around by their parents.

I did that once when my dad wasn't looking. I started coughing like there was no tomorrow, then I ran inside to brush my teeth so my parents didn't smell the smoke. I was about nine years old. :shock:

Do you smoke now?

No, my parents would kick my ass if they ever found out that I smoked, and that would be pretty easy.

Although I'm seriously thinking about buying a pack when I turn eighteen. That is if the goverment or whatever haven't gone balls out and made tobacco illegal yet. :shock:

borndead.:

I don't really think you get particularly physically hooked on cigarettes.

Scientific researchers and probably 90% of the people who have smoked for an extended period of time would disagree. Nicotine is extremely physically addicting, and psychologically.

Kurtni Von Teese:

borndead.:

I don't really think you get particularly physically hooked on cigarettes.

Scientific researchers and probably 90% of the people who have smoked for an extended period of time would disagree. Nicotine is extremely physically addicting, and psychologically.

I'm one of the few people who isn't addicted to cigarettes. I'm really not. I can quit cold turkey in an instant. I can go without cigarettes if it's too cold out to smoke. I don't crave them, I just like them. I probably smoke six months out of the year.

But I'm the only "smoker" I know like that. My stepdad's tried to quit and failed many times. My friends from high school can't quit. Very few of us are lucky enough to just be able to up and quit.

I ran across a road and slightly up a street today, only to find myself ridiculously out of breath. I just couldn't get in enough air for, like, a minute and stood there like a twat, trying to breathe, while my friends laughed at me (I'd only been running for 30 seconds or so >_< ). Granted, I had a lit cigarette on me as I ran, but I can't remember being that worn out from running such a short distance, especially considering I used to be pretty good at cross country...

The moral of the story? Running and smoking don't go together.

I've been smoking properly since I was 14. Before then? Yeah, but it didn't count as it wasn't such a regular thing... at the moment, I've been smoking about 20 roll-ups a day (sometimes the odd pack of fags thrown in, usually a few individual ciggies ponced throughout the day). I suppose I'm addicted, but there are many times where I feel like I could go without a cigarette and it's just habit... although, to be honest, my body definitely craves them like hell if I don't have one for a while and, erm... I'm orally fixated. It's either a cigarette or a doughnut, people. :roll:

Kurtni Von Teese:

borndead.:

I don't really think you get particularly physically hooked on cigarettes.

Scientific researchers and probably 90% of the people who have smoked for an extended period of time would disagree. Nicotine is extremely physically addicting, and psychologically.

But do people get withdrawal from cigarettes? I know people get cravings, but like sickness from it. I have no idea, never tried quitting. :| I thought it was just psychologically.

I'm the same as Dru, I could go cold turkey, but I don't see the point, I enjoy it.

Smoking just irritates me. I know some people get so attached to it, and it actually makes me really sad. My grandfather died last August from a few types of cancer, one of them involving the lungs. My dad used to smoke before he met my mom, but since he worked at a hospital at the time he quit right after seeing pictures of smoke-infected lungs. What really devastates me is how my older sister used to be my complete one and only idol and role model, but I found out that in sixth grade she started smoking pot out of peer pressure and once when I was really young and she was in middle school, at summer camp her breath started smelling like smoke. She would always pretend that nothing had happened when she went out on the streets of Manhattan with her weird gangster-type friends. It scared me up till today! Seriously, one cigarette is more dangerous than a car exhaust pipe. It kills!

That's all I have to say about this.

I smoke. I know it's bad. I never do it around kids, and I never do it around non-smokers. Three fags a day is my limit. I know I'm killing myself and everyone around me, and I'm sorry. It's hard to quit. And I'm weak.