cigarettes??

I am almost 60 and started smoking when I was 13. I stopped a couple of times and it made me sick when I was pregnant. I want to stop, I NEED to stop, but I just can't. It doesn't taste good, it doesn't relax you or relieve stress and I cannot for the life of me understand why I can't stop.

One of these days I guess I'll finally stop. It may be my last day on earth, but.....

 

I hope you don't mind my saying this, but, I sure dont want to be saying that for long....

 

I started when I was 15 & my best friend was 18...& a smoker. I don't know exactly how or why, but I guess maybe because I have an addictive personality (which is why I will never try hard drugs).

Like many of the other posters, I find ways to justify smoking. Even at $5+ a pack, I smoke a pack/day. I need cigs when I wake up, before I go to sleep, after I eat, with coffee, when I'm stressed, when I'm drinking, when I'm driving. I'm having a ciagarette right now. I can't date people unless they smoke. I somehow got all of my other friends to start smoking (I suck, I know) & now they're all as addicted as I am. I know I have to quit soon, especially being that heart disease & cancer run in my family.

I've never tried to quit nor do I want to. I'm confident I'll quit when I get pregnant & hopefully I won't pick it up again afterwards. I've read in a few places that if you quit before the age of 25, you have a far greater chance of healing your lungs. When I'm 25, I will just be finishing ALL of my education & maybe by not being in that college environment it'll be easier to quit.

xoxo
cortnee

 

I used to smoke cigs last year, and then i started feeling all shitty and i couldn't breath well, so i started smoking a big fat bowl everytime i wanted a cigarette, and im finally off of the damned things, and im happier then ever

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

awesome! !!!!!!

 

Ive was 12 or 13 when i first got busted at school for smoking! Im now 33 so have been smoking on and off for 20 years! (Yuk!). Ive never been a really heavy smoker i used to stick to about 10 a day. Somedays more, somedays less. When i started smoking pot at about 14 i would just some tobacco in joints.( Reefer's just don't give me that nicotine kick!) so, when i got pregnant at 28 i gave up smoking and after i had my child, i just kinda went off it. So for the last few years ive been a social smoker. I gave up dope for a while too, but now im smoking it again, im smoking tobacco again in joints.

 

I started smoking when I was about 14 whenever I drank or smoked herb which wasnt that often. When I went away to college last fall I started drinking more often and therefore smoking more and eventually needed to smoke after meals, when I woke up, between classes, before bed, etc... Being home for the summer I usually only smoke about 5 a day.

 

I just started smoking recently.I used to be such an anti but now I find I
really like to smoke.People change.So?

 

I smoke because i'm hoping for an early death



I had my first cigarette from my dads odds and ends drawer in his dresser, it was probably 15 years old when i smoked it.

I smoke because I enjoy it, especially at night, I don't do it much during the day.

 

i started when i was 12 just for kicks and have been doing it since, but i havent been smoking [cigarettes] for a while, trying to cut back because of cross country. its weird though, because i really never get urges to smoke them, only every once in a while, most of the time i only smoke them when theyre just there or i get offered one. i told a friend once 'ive been smoking for 4 years and i'm not addicted' and thats when i realized i was pretty much. it comes pretty easy for me to stop though since i was never smoking more than 3-4 a day, normaly only one or two, so its been pretty easy so far.

 

Mmmm, Camels. I like 100s, filters, or Turkish Jades.