E-Cigarette User Age Poll

[luffy]

started smoking at fourteen, am now 36 (apparently...according to me I'm still 24 and always will be)

i used to hide my cigs up the chimney...def did NOT have parents who would understand me smoking....probably one of the reasons I did it! Got caught several times and managed to wriggle out of it somehow until my cigs fell out of my pocket in the car...ooops, couldn't get out of that one.

My parents moved to Hong Kong when I was 18 and going out to stay with them the first time has got to be one of the worst experiences of my life.... I got the nicotine patches but they just did not work, I ended up hanging out the window to smoke when I could and being an evil c*w the rest of the time...it was awful...despite the ....*y nicotine patches. I fessed up next time I went out.."I SMOKE, LIVE WITH IT!" did not go down well but we had a better time in the end

At my age I still have a father who goes on about my smoking ( despite the fact that he is far from perfect and smoked a pipe and cigars for years...) anyone else get this?

so that's my story, thanks for reading...or not

luffy

 

[BettyRedondo]

Kit, did I laugh when I read your posts about "blow backs", now that did make me feel all of my 39 years!!! Used to buy a single cig off the ice cream van outside the school gates and share!! Don't know if it was about smoking though, probably more about kissing boys!!!

 

[dnakr]

My dad was like that. I got to put my side of the argument after the whuppin'...

Exactly - after the "this will hurt me more than it does you" talk - LOL

 

[DeviLFisH]

interesting ....for some cases .here sneak to smoke

JUST LIKE ME

I smoke at home but is when my parents not around or while they are sleeping ..

I will go to toliet smoke blow the smoke out of the windows.

if they are sleeping at nite I will smoke in my bedroom and same blow the smoke out from the windows.

actually I think aback now..with e cig now I seem easy to smoke anywhere ! be it they are in the living room I can still can sneak to s moke ..

I think back is it e cig make me smoke more??since is easy for me to smoke
but in the same time it automatic cut down my usage of real cig..till now few sticks per day only ..


kinda mix feeling here and I still wanna smoke real cig...sometimes.

overall I just see how it go..I even order two more set of e cig.

now I got problem where to hide my e cig cart in my bedroom

 

[linda]

i am only 33,but i like smoking,after 3 years smoking tobacco,i start to smoke e cig,i think e cig is very suitable for me and i like it,haha.

 

[stevoG]

I started smoking the day i turned 18. Legal age. I did it because i was a cook at the time and was sick of the other cooks getting all bent out of shape everytime there was a rush saying they needed to go smoke to calm them down. I was sick of doing all the work so they could go smoke so i got fed up and went and joined them.... Man were they surprised!!! So now im 24 my mother knows i smoke but i still have not done it around her. Didnt smoke much for the first six months until i moved out on my own... Quickly went up to a pack and half from there. Smoked for about 6 and a half years. Now e smoking exclusively

 

[apachedug]

Steve my story is a bit similar to yours--anyway, I'm 45, and started smoking when I was 16. 29 awful years of it... (I only tried quitting once, back in 1988--I was preparing to go back to college which involved moving to Pittsburgh & didn't didn't want to 'arrive as a smoker'.

(Anyway, I lasted all of 2 days & gave up--never tried again. And now this is my 50th day of being cigarette free, thanks to these e-cigs.)

My story is similar to Steves as I was a junior in high school, and working weekends in a restaurant. Occasionally one of the kitchen staff would offer me one, I'd take it, puff awhile, couldn't figure out why people got hooked on 'em though. Had no desire to do it.

Then one Friday night after the dinner rush, we were out back and one of the waitresses asked me why I never inhaled. "Whaddya mean?" After she showed me, I retched for half an hour--and a week later was hooked.

The thing is, when I told my parents about it they wearily said "Well, we knew one of you kids would start the habit..." (There were 6 of us, and both our parents smoked.) I wish they had kicked my ....!

 

[DeviLFisH]

Steve my story is a bit similar to yours--anyway, I'm 45, and started smoking when I was 16. 29 awful years of it... (I only tried quitting once, back in 1988--I was preparing to go back to college which involved moving to Pittsburgh & didn't didn't want to 'arrive as a smoker'.

(Anyway, I lasted all of 2 days & gave up--never tried again. And now this is my 50th day of being cigarette free, thanks to these e-cigs.)

My story is similar to Steves as I was a junior in high school, and working weekends in a restaurant. Occasionally one of the kitchen staff would offer me one, I'd take it, puff awhile, couldn't figure out why people got hooked on 'em though. Had no desire to do it.

Then one Friday night after the dinner rush, we were out back and one of the waitresses asked me why I never inhaled. "Whaddya mean?" After she showed me, I retched for half an hour--and a week later was hooked.

The thing is, when I told my parents about it they wearily said "Well, we knew one of you kids would start the habit..." (There were 6 of us, and both our parents smoked.) I wish they had kicked my ....!

now we are season smoker we can roughly see fellow smoker is it playing with it or addicted by the inhale part

I do saw girls smoke for fun?they just suck and blow.

never inhale.

 

[sagicorn62]

i'm 45...started smoking at 12....got my 1st smoke from an older woman that i had a crush on (she was 14)....been smoking ecigs for 3-weeks...epuffer to start, then with help from this board, got a better experience with a 901.

 

[pegling]

I must have been a bad kid ~ started smoking at 10 and that was 40 years ago. Used to swipe them from my Dad. He was smoking about 3 packs a day so he never noticed. Back then you could buy cigs at any age so I was buying my own by 11 ~ 50 cents a pack, mind you!

I was about 17 when my parents found out. They weren't very happy but Mom started giving me cartons for Christmas.

Now if all 3 of batteries weren't dead right now I'd be e-smoking. Can't my last working battery charge just a little quicker?

 

[cailin]

I started at 14 and I'm 30 now. So, i guess that makes 16 years of smoking. I did quit once for 3 years, while I was pregnant and had a young baby/toddler. But once I was back at work full-time and not around him 24/7 I started again. bah..

 

[stevoG]

Hey apache... Your parents said that too huh... Both my parents smoked and figured that most of us (the kids) would smoke.. Well there is 9 of us.. 8 boys one girl and im the only one that smoked lol... Even my mom quit four years ago

 

[stevoG]

O yea apache dont you love that first time you inhale when you feel like someone is killing you!!! My dad did it to me when i was 7 and i thought for sure i was as good as dead. Well im still alive and kicking i think but thats what detered me from smoking til 18. I was even the person everyone hates that was so anti smoking... they showed me lol

 

[gameover]

Steve my story is a bit similar to yours--anyway, I'm 45, and started smoking when I was 16. 29 awful years of it... (I only tried quitting once, back in 1988--I was preparing to go back to college which involved moving to Pittsburgh & didn't didn't want to 'arrive as a smoker'.

(Anyway, I lasted all of 2 days & gave up--never tried again. And now this is my 50th day of being cigarette free, thanks to these e-cigs.)

My story is similar to Steves as I was a junior in high school, and working weekends in a restaurant. Occasionally one of the kitchen staff would offer me one, I'd take it, puff awhile, couldn't figure out why people got hooked on 'em though. Had no desire to do it.

Then one Friday night after the dinner rush, we were out back and one of the waitresses asked me why I never inhaled. "Whaddya mean?" After she showed me, I retched for half an hour--and a week later was hooked.

The thing is, when I told my parents about it they wearily said "Well, we knew one of you kids would start the habit..." (There were 6 of us, and both our parents smoked.) I wish they had kicked my ....!

Interesting Apache. I used to steal the odd cigarette from my heavy smoking parents when I was about eight. One day I inhaled some by mistake. Obviously at that tender age I wasn't really sure how to smoke properly. I can still remember thinking "I MUST NEVER DO THAT AGAIN".
Five years later I was still playing around with them and then someone suggested inhaling. My 8 year old experience long forgotten (whatta mistaka to maka!), I tried it. No it didn't make me ill but it took some hard work and perseverance over a couple of weeks to get me used to this "fantastic new experience". Problem with cigs is you have to get yourself addicted to enjoy them properly.
Apache, you say you wish your parents had kicked your ....----well mine did and if anything it made me more determined to carry on smoking---and I have.
As mentioned in a different thread, hopefully my first ecig will arrive this week and I'll take it from there. One thing I do know, if there hadn't been so much pressure from "outside agencies" to stop me smoking, I probably would have done so by now but being told what to do doesn't exactly inspire you.
Best Regards to all

 

[stevoG]

Hey Gameover,

Just like real cigs, you need to learn how to do it properly and become addicted like you said in your post. In no time flat you will have it down just like a real cig. It tastes a lil different than real cigs but you get used to it just like if you changed brands. Im sure by now you have read alot of other posts about everything to do with e cigs. It helped me out when i first started and made it alot easier to do the switch. I have not touched a real cig since my first hit of the e cig. Just give it a little time after you get it to get used to and you will love it.. Trust me lol. I wish you luck with your first one and hope you quit like you want to

 

[BigBuxNoWhammy]

I'm 22 and started smoking at 15.

 

[Rorschach]

hey all

I'm 24 and I started smoking when I was 18 when I was bartending for a summer. Drinks and smokes go hand in hand...whoops.

I was pretty honest with my parents, and they appreciate that, they just don't want me smoking around them when I visit.

I used to be one of those anti-smoking kids; asthmatic, competition swimmer. Heh. Had to eat my words on that! And in college i got a a lot of flak from my acapella group and choir. Well I'm glad to be on E-cigarettes now.

I smoked a real cig yesterday but that was after the gym so I felt I'd bought up the fitness karma!

 

[emcee child]

I'm 27, been smoking for nearly 18years but that's English latchkey kids for ya.

been ciggie free for the last couple of days. the ecig really helps with cravings.

 

[esmokey]

I started when I was 15, but decided to retire after 18 years of smoking.

Thanks to e-cig technology.

 

[Renner]

I started smoking when I started going to the pub at 15. My parents knew I went to pub; I had to ask them if I could go and they always let me. Rather I was in the pub with my good mates then knocking around on a park bench drinking white lightning cider.

However, mother still flipped when she found my baccy and burnt it all. Dad already knew I smoked but kept quiet, I didn’t even know he knew, but as an ex-smoker I guess he knew the score.

Mum takes the Mick out of me for it now, but I’m sure I heard dad say once "well at least he smokes baccy, its a lot cheaper, sensible lad". Still not as good as my mate who overheard his dad saying "He thinks we don’t know he smokes dope, how stupid does he think we are" lol