I smoked because it's great for relieving stress. Now I smoke cigars with my pastor partly for the same reason and partly because it looks cool.
So... why start smoking?
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Oh... this surprised me... Then why on earth are you in a "why start smoking" thread that's intended to look for feedback from SMOKERS? To lambast the activity so vehemently, I thought you were an ex smoker in the least. That's like reviewing a movie you've not watched or a game you've not played :/omega 616 said:
People start smoking for a variety of reasons, from peer pressure to whip-smart tobacco marketing, to exposure to smoking as a child. Nicotine is an incredibly addictive substance that is hard to quit, and on average it will take a person 7 attempts to quit before they are successful. I have no problem with smokers, and I work in the health promotion with the Ontario Lung Association, a sister to the American Lung Association. The biggest issue I have with tobacco is that cigarettes, when used as intended, cause extensive bodily harm. It's hard to think of another product on the open market that does that. While I understand that some cultures may have a ceremonial use for tobacco, for the most part the product that people purchase at a corner store or gas station or whatever creates no net social benefit.
Its like I told me ex about my smoking....Im committing suicide and it takes a while to happen.
I like psychology and I'm in the same boat as the OP, I want to know why people would choose to take up this habit.Deshin said:
I never made the thread 'cos it never occurred to me. I always wonder why people do things that don't seem logical to me, look at me sounding like Tuvok.
I know I am not some super logical person but I know why I do things.
Now were really off topic so lets leave it at this, shall we?
I smoke to deal with the shit that comes with the day to day dealings of my life, working forty hours a week to help pay the bills while still in highschool, applying for college, applying for financial aid to go to college dealing with an alcoholic father a lying drug abuser for a mother. I guess for me it's not the addiction thing that comes along with smoking it's an escape for me to escape the reality of what I have to live with for that five minutes that I smoke I don't have to deal with any of it and I can relax that's why I do it.
A friend of mine says he just does it when he's stressed, and thats not very often, so yeah that maybe, i've personally never smoked, and I don't think peer pressure a good reason because once someone who I have a huge crush on told me to smoke and I said no and he didn't care.
One of my teachers said she smoked once, thought it tasted horrible, threw up, never did it again.
One of my teachers said she smoked once, thought it tasted horrible, threw up, never did it again.
I agree i alot of the time i spent with (certain)friends in secondary school was hanging around talking a smoking it gives you an accuse to go out to where otheres are smoking and all smoke..together.That would be a great tag line "smoking ,rings people together"iLikeHippos said:
I never started, but i asked my grandfather (who's in his eighties and has since cut back) as well as my uncle (who's in his 60s and still smokes one a day) said it was relaxing and they enjoyed the flavor it provided.
Really, smoking is like any other vice. If you do it in moderation, its not really that harmful. Both my uncle and grandfather smoke one a day, and they're both healthy as oxen.
Really, smoking is like any other vice. If you do it in moderation, its not really that harmful. Both my uncle and grandfather smoke one a day, and they're both healthy as oxen.
I bought a pack on my 18th birthday along with a scratch-off lottery ticket. I did it why? Because I COULD. I never got addicted, though. Of course, I lost that first pack only half empty out of my hoodie pocket somewhere. I bought another pack one night while I took a walk at 4am. I spent that night picking up trash from a local grocery store parking lot and sitting on a hill, smoking, waiting to watch sunrise. Then, however, I spent a week with probably the most terrible head/chest cold I've ever experienced, and now if I were to try to smoke a cigarette, I would vomit. Such is life.
Seems almost noone want's to tell us why they started, so I will.
It's a mix of "cuz it's cool" and peer presure, luckily I didn't dive head first into it, I only smoked one or two to be part of the "cool" gang but after a while just left it behind.
The only reason it releaves stress is because nicotine withdrawal amplified it, first few times you smoke it doesn't seem like anything at all, but after you had enough your body slowly descends into withdrawal symptoms gradually making you feel like sh*t, then the next smoke fixes you right up and feels like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders.
I guess the high's and low's can be quite entertaining...
It's a mix of "cuz it's cool" and peer presure, luckily I didn't dive head first into it, I only smoked one or two to be part of the "cool" gang but after a while just left it behind.
The only reason it releaves stress is because nicotine withdrawal amplified it, first few times you smoke it doesn't seem like anything at all, but after you had enough your body slowly descends into withdrawal symptoms gradually making you feel like sh*t, then the next smoke fixes you right up and feels like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders.
I guess the high's and low's can be quite entertaining...
I dont really see an issue. However when something becomes a habit (especially an unhealthy habit) people get dependant on them. I get pretty tied to habits to the point where breaking them feels so inately WRONG. I dont like the idea of dependance. So i dont. No hate on those that do though, a lot of my friends do.
Buuuuut it still has its flaws... You know... Gaming, in enough dozes. In this scenario, games will improve your skills (It's actually not much, but it helps.) though not your social ones. Just how many of your online friends do you talk to daily? Or even communicate to at all?Direwolf750 said:
Not to mention the physical conditions worsening if mis-used.
I'd say, smoking is pro-social, as it allows you and other fellow smokers to get together and do what you like to do, while just talking about anything. It's like chatting at the dinner table, except everyone is not continuously quaffing food and anyone can join in. Happy times
