Spin-Off of the 'When did You Start Smoking' Thread, WHY did You Start Smoking?

[DiagTech]

I was 15 years old with fake ID card living in Toronto when I bought my first package of cigarettes. All of the "cool kids" smoked, and well I thought I would be cool. Sounds silly, but if I put it any other way I would be lying. 20 years later, I cut off cigarettes completely in exchange for vaping. 80 days smoke-free today. It should add a couple years back to my life. The stink of cigarettes on my breath, my clothes, in my car and apartment are finally a thing of the past. I don't hack cough anymore. Food tastes so much better. Have a few friends trying to make the switch as they see the benefits.

 

[MoNkEE]

A Girl... I liked a girl who started smoking wanted to be around her so I did too

 

[Tess Clark]

Not having the backbone to stand up to peer pressure. I was pretty insecure at 13, so when I found a group of people to hang out with I wanted really badly to fit in. Typing that out 29 years later it sounds pretty stupid, lol.

 

[Anjaffm]

Spin-Off of the 'When did You Start Smoking' Thread, WHY did You Start Smoking?

lovely idea to make a spin-off with "WHY" did you start smoking
Sometimes, the reasons are much more telling than the age.... And yes, most people do something for a reason...

 

[TheChromeKamuro]

I only wish I could go back in time and tell the 13 year-old me "Look...you may think this is cool right now, but you won't think so in about 20 years. Even 10 years from now it's REALLY gonna suck."
Wonder if I'd listen...

 

[Kbennett65]

My Dad and Grandma smoked, Mom never did. I started at 13 or so, just because "everbody else" was. Problem is, really most everybody else was. We could smoke at school, had our own smoking area. There were ashtrays in every public building and most businesses. Ashtrays in the arms of theater seats, bus seats, planes. Ashtrays at the bank tellers. Heck, there were ashtrays in the Dr office, hospitals and churches! All my friends smoked, and looking back at how common it was I am surprised when I meet someone of my era that never smoked.

 

[Lochte]

I started cause most everyone I knew did...it was cool back then...not now. I stopped cause I have kids and I was so ashamed at that point that I did smoke. I would sneak it around them so they wouldn't know I did...glad I found vaping! They don't know I vape but atleast it isn't smelly and obvious like cigs are. I'm not ashamed of vaping, I just don't do it in front of them.

 

[bamani71]

My mom was a smoker so I was exposed to it as a child. I remember when I was twelve I rolled up dried leaves in a McDonald's napkin and lit it on fire. I'm surprised I didn't set fire to myself! I didn't actually start smoking until senior year in high school because my friends were. I think it was maybe a month before I actually inhaled. Then a friend let me bum a Marlboro menthol from him and that was the start of a 20+ year stretch.

 

[Drizzy Drake]

stress and to be cool

 

[minion]

May I ask why you started vaping if you never smoked?

Personally, smoking for me started when I got locked out of my house at 12. I was stuck on the porch waiting for my mom to get home, it was slightly pre-smartphone era (I'm 24 now lol), nothing better to do but pilfer one of her smokes. Kinda off and on for the next year or so, I'd snag a few when I had the opportunity, didn't get my first pack of my own until I was 14, and it was pretty much all over from there.

I sarted vaping because I wanted to try and blow smoke rings (I was using 0nic), an then once I turned 18 I figured I would try nicotine an found I enjoyed the calming effect I got from it an the relaxation.

Still stupid, but you get the point I'm sure. It definitely has helped me though, I'm always stressed and always have been, and vaping has let me be so much more relaxed all the time

 

[minion]

Plus it's given me a hobby that I have been able to do some what cheaply. Rebuilding on my dripper, have a ton of kanthal and cotton balls, and then a somewhat local to me ejuice vendor has a 99c sale every weekend (Killer Juice)

 

[TheChromeKamuro]

Plus it's given me a hobby that I have been able to do some what cheaply. Rebuilding on my dripper, have a ton of kanthal and cotton balls, and then a somewhat local to me ejuice vendor has a 99c sale every weekend (Killer Juice)

99c JUICE EVERY WEEKEND??? How awesome is that?! Lucky you!

 

[minion]

99c JUICE EVERY WEEKEND??? How awesome is that?! Lucky you!

Go google Killer Juice, they have a sale every Thursday through Sunday where they put like ~6+ flavors on sale for 99c/15ml. Every weekend.

Pretty awesome

 

[416Moe]

I was a 15 year old teenager with a full grown beard that made me look like i was atleast 20 so i could purchase anything i pleased with out being ID'd, that being said, i guess i just wanted to fit in with the other smokers in my school. Five years later i came to realize how stupid that was and finally converted my self to vaping three days ago and i dont think i will ever look back.

 

[TheChromeKamuro]

Go google Killer Juice, they have a sale every Thursday through Sunday where they put like ~6+ flavors on sale for 99c/15ml. Every weekend.

Pretty awesome

Thanks SO much for sharing the vape love. [emoji7]
I'll tell 'em minion sent me. [emoji1]

 

[v1k1ng1001]

I didn't smoke that much until my late 20s. I was in a Ph.D. program and I spent long nights at 24 hr diners/truck stops catching up on work and doing research with my girfriend at the time and a few other friends. We would eat awful food, drink coffee and smoke whilst powering through our stuff so that we could have a little free time on weekends. So by my early-30s I was a super well-educated fat smoker and had to make some radical life-style changes.

 

[TheChromeKamuro]

I was a 15 year old teenager with a full grown beard that made me look like i was atleast 20 so i could purchase anything i pleased with out being ID'd, that being said, i guess i just wanted to fit in with the other smokers in my school. Five years later i came to realize how stupid that was and finally converted my self to vaping three days ago and i dont think i will ever look back.

Right on, Moe. You'll be in good company cuz the rest of us will be there with you, all of us never looking back. [emoji6]

 

[Pinggolfer]

How could I ever forget. In a wet jungle in the middle of a country we should have nuked.

 

[kittybubbles]

Started at 15 at the roller rink just wanted to look cool. if i only knew.

 

[gettygas2]

Started a 16 thought It was cool guess I was wrong It almost Killed Me .