I have not seen this polled here yet and thought it would be interesting to do. This is obviously for those of us who have smoked and felt we were addicted and I am asking only about the initial addiction.
I'm going to suggest we use this definition for 'addicted'; when you felt it would have been really hard to quit had you wanted to. I realize this is not the correct definition of addiction, but I thought it was a good one to use for this poll. Voting will require people to remember back to that time and estimate, so this will be totally unscientific anyway.
Pick the response that is closest to your estimate. If you estimate 2 weeks, pick 1 week. If it took 3 weeks, pick 1 month. I had 10 responses to work with.
I thought about including 'I smoked but never became addicted', but that would have taken away one of the other responses and I felt it would not be significant without more information like the time period and smoking frequency.
If anyone has any suggestions or ideas about anything please post. I'll check in regularly and will be able to edit this post for a couple of days I think.
I would also like to ask folks to stay on topic here. If we start discussing the nature of addiction for example the thread could get off track quickly.
I'm going to suggest we use this definition for 'addicted'; when you felt it would have been really hard to quit had you wanted to. I realize this is not the correct definition of addiction, but I thought it was a good one to use for this poll. Voting will require people to remember back to that time and estimate, so this will be totally unscientific anyway.
Pick the response that is closest to your estimate. If you estimate 2 weeks, pick 1 week. If it took 3 weeks, pick 1 month. I had 10 responses to work with.
I thought about including 'I smoked but never became addicted', but that would have taken away one of the other responses and I felt it would not be significant without more information like the time period and smoking frequency.
If anyone has any suggestions or ideas about anything please post. I'll check in regularly and will be able to edit this post for a couple of days I think.
I would also like to ask folks to stay on topic here. If we start discussing the nature of addiction for example the thread could get off track quickly.
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