Smoking: Burning white sticks

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When did you start smoking?

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I've been talking with a lot of friends lately about the trends in smoking cigarettes. I was under the impression that most people begin smoking in high school, between ages 14 and 18. However, the few people I've asked so far said they started smoking between 20 and 22. Not a single one in their teens. They also have different stories about quitting or attempting to quit.

What's your story? I've never smoked a cigarette and don't plan to either. It's an expensive nasty habbit.
 
What duck? Buggrit!

I've never smoked anything and don't intend to.

Why is it that smoking kills, but it cures bacon?
 
It may just be me, but I seem to notice less and less kids smoking than a few years ago. It just seems like a fad, and people are finally starting to realize that its pointless and expensive.

Oh and i'm also a non-smoker of course

And for those of you that do smoke....ill tell you, you smell like ****, and should quit.
 
hanker
And for those of you that do smoke....ill tell you, you smell like ****, and should quit.
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Yeah, yeah. Smoke or die trying.
I started when I was 14. I see the pointlessness and stupidity of it, but, really, what else it there to do?
 
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I see the pointlessness and stupidity of it, but, really, what else it there to do?
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How about find something constructive to do?

I smoked off and on through college, say a pack every week or two. I quit after about 4 years of that when I realized it was doing nothing for me except making my breath stink. I never smoked that much so it was easy to quit once I decided to.
 
About 10 years ago, I smoked a cig for the first time. But I only "needed" one when I was quite stressed, or at a bar, or doing drugs. I was buying them at a rate of a pack every two or three weeks, for about 3 years. I have to admit I was usually just a social smoker.

I haven't had a smoke in over 7 years. And I don't plan on breaking my streak.
 
neon_duke
How about find something constructive to do?
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I do all sorts of constructive things during the summer, when I have the oppertunity to. Last summer, I built cabintets, refinished a table, rehung two saggy doors, painted, built fireworks, did 4 or five oil changes (my car, parents cars, friends's cars), changed brakes, fixed a dryer and a stove..etc...you get the idea--and I smoked a lot less. During the school year, I can't do any of these things, so I do a lot of programming, photoshop, etc. but this wont keep me busy all the time. For about 4 months, I've been rolling my own, so the cost is really not an issue. As far as I can see it's a cheap kind of pleasure, and I was given this life to enjoy it, not save it for something in the future.
 
I had my first cigarette when I was 14. Didn't start smoking heavily until I was around 17.
 
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I do all sorts of constructive things during the summer, when I have the oppertunity to. Last summer, I built cabintets, refinished a table, rehung two saggy doors, painted, built fireworks, did 4 or five oil changes (my car, parents cars, friends's cars), changed brakes, fixed a dryer and a stove..etc...you get the idea--and I smoked a lot less. During the school year, I can't do any of these things, so I do a lot of programming, photoshop, etc. but this wont keep me busy all the time. For about 4 months, I've been rolling my own, so the cost is really not an issue. As far as I can see it's a cheap kind of pleasure, and I was given this life to enjoy it, not save it for something in the future.
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I would say that your non-commercial cigarettes are less harmful to your body. Good for you. And learning a simple skill like rolling cigarettes is kind of cool in its own way.

However, the comment "what else is there to do" is really assinine, and completely useless. Whether you realize it or not, you're begging for a flame war. So, don't.
 
I had my first one at the age of 14, and I had been smoking on and off until recently, about 3 or 4 months ago. I stopped to smoke, both cigs and other illicit substances, when I found out my girlfriend had a serious drug problem. I felt it was a good way to show I was serious about helping her getting out of it, and so far it's working. It's helping her, and it's helping me. And I don't miss it one bit.
 
Awesome. If I may make a suggestion, calculate how much you would have been spending on the cigarettes (not including future doctor visits) and buy the lady something purdy, like a right hand ring or a neclace. That is a good reminder that she keeps with her to let her know what it's worth to not have the bad habbit.
 
cigarettes - never and i never plan on it
weed - had a few puffs yesterday for the first time but not enough to get high. I'll be burning my stash at a small gathering with my friends next week

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i'm 18 now
 
I call myself a social smoker :) It means I can go all day without one, but can't say no when offered one with a beer...
I started at around 18 and still smoke less than 10 a day.

PunkRock
I stopped to smoke, both cigs and other illicit substances, when I found out my girlfriend had a serious drug problem. I felt it was a good way to show I was serious about helping her getting out of it, and so far it's working. It's helping her, and it's helping me. And I don't miss it one bit.
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Interesting confession PunkRock, I had an ex like that, I didn't realise for a long time, she kept it pretty hidden from me. Was it amphetamine? Girls get into that to stay skinny, next thing they are spending £1000 a month on it :crazy:

I'm not as tolerant as you obviously because I got rid of her, mainly because it was my money she was using! (I'll never have a joint account again)
 
Well I'm smoke free and proud of it too. Well kinda I did try something a few years back I'm not proud of.
 
I started smoking when I was 16. I started smoking when I was drunk with my friends for that cool little buzz you got when you mixed nicotine with alcohol. Let's just say that little buzz is gone now and I just get a monster headache and an incredible urge every 2 or 3 hours. I only smoked about a pack a week until I was 17 or so, then I really started to get addicted. Now I'm totally addicted, I smoke about a pack every 3 days during the week, and when I go out to parties on the weekends, I go through about a pack a night. It's awful, and I need to at least cut down, if not stop completely. Anyone who smokes and drinks though knows that the hardest time for a smoker not to have a cigarette is when they're drinking. Same thing goes for when I smoke pot, I need a cigarette after or it just doesn't feel right.

My plan is to quit during the week and only smoke on the weekend nights.
 
I had my first cig when i was around 10 years old. My dad smoked and I used to steal his from him.
He quit and then I didn't have any more access to them, so in a sense, I quit too. But then I started back up again when I was about 16. From then on, it was a full blown habit. I smoked for the next 13 years.
But now, I am happy to say that I am smoke free. I quit over a year ago. July 10th, 2003 to be exact.
I'm really happy that I did and I am really hoping that my smoking will not effect me physically in the future. But I'm sure that the damage is already done.

Right now, my father has been smoke free for over 25 years, but now he is horribly stricken with cancer. The doctors attribute his cancer from his many years of being a smoker. Hopefully I can avoid this same fate.
 
SublimeDood10
*thwack*

My plan is to quit during the week and only smoke on the weekend nights.
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I would say that that is a horrible plan. You will be misserable through the week and probably loose your job. You need to get the chemicals completely out of your body.
 
I started when I was 15. I started stealing from my grandmother. She was an easy target because she was a chain smoker, and she would buy her smokes at 4 cartons at a time. If I stole a pack, she wouldnt think twice about it. I also used to stal from my Dad who wasn't a chain smoker, but he had better cigarettes.

I'm 19 now, and I'm smoking 1/2 a pack a day. It seems when I get drunk, I seem to smoke even more. I wish I could quit. But I'm too lazy. :-/
 
Never smoked, probably never will. My friends are like "Dude, you should get stoned and then listen to music", but I just can stand smoke. It makes my lungs hurt.
 
Never will smoke. I don't feel like killing myself slowly and die an unpleasant death.
 
I sit in the "non smoking" section :sly:


I'm 15 and all my friends are 15-17. I would say 6 out of every 10 guys I know smoke. For girls it's about 4 out of 10 which is scary :yuck:
 
I don't smoke, never even tried. My allergies are bad enough that smoke would just make me completely miserable. At my dealership, most of the salesmen smoke, and 2 of the other 3 porters I work with smoke, but not all the time. The other new car prep(well, he does whatever) and his gf who now works there(don't ask me how she looks...ok, pretty good...but she smokes) smoke with his mom who is a Mazda saleswoman. What sucks more is that the cleaning bay is ground zero for smoking, when the salesmen go out to smoke they go to the corner of the cleaning bay and stand and smoke. Depending on where the wind blows, some smoke ends up in my face and I have to hold my breath til it moves on.
 
smoke free is the way to beeee!!!

w00t for all the DARE classes i've sat through, and my super awesome DARE assembly and T-shirt!!!1
 

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