When did you start smoking and why?
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I started smoking 40 years ago at age 17, because it was the cool thing to do. Little did I know...
I didn't smoke until I was 21 even tho both of my parents were smokers (they both quit about 20 yrs ago; Dad was 76 & lived 10 more yrs; Mom is still super healthy at age 83). My college bf was a heavy smoker so I "learned" how to inhale from him. Didn't smoke at all if we didn't have a date; 2 at the most when we did have a date.Broke up with him after graduating, moved home to work for family business after 2 yrs of working elsewhere (& didn't smoke at all during that time). Almost every employee smoked, including Dad at that time. I guess it was "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" kind of thing...stupid!! Met DH on a blind date & of course, he smoked. He quit for several yrs to run in a marathon & of course, I kept smoking...stupid again. A couple of yrs after the marathon he went back to smoking. Now, I'm vaping & he's still smoking...oh well, hopefully my vaping will influence him to do the same but I'm not forcing the issue. Fortunately, our 2 sons became very anti-smoking as they grew up so they never smoked.Carol
I tried it two or three times in my early to mid teens but I really started when I was 17. It was kind of funny how it came about.
My mom smoked on and off since her twenties, and we were in the car and I don't even remember what we were talking about, but I remember her being kinda exasperated with me. She grabbed her pack took one out and lit up, then she did something that completely threw me off. She offered me one. I remember I went to reach for it then stopped.. looked at the pack... looked at her.. then back at the pack, I asked if this was a joke or some kind of trap, she snapped at me to take one or say no because she wasn't gonna hold them out forever. lol
I finally took one out but it was a couple mins before I put it to my lips and lit up.. I was sure that as soon as I lit up she was gonna smack me and yell "What the
are you thinking?!" Never happened.
I've been smoking on and off ever since, but never quit, until about a month ago when I started vaping.
My mom smoked on and off since her twenties, and we were in the car and I don't even remember what we were talking about, but I remember her being kinda exasperated with me. She grabbed her pack took one out and lit up, then she did something that completely threw me off. She offered me one. I remember I went to reach for it then stopped.. looked at the pack... looked at her.. then back at the pack, I asked if this was a joke or some kind of trap, she snapped at me to take one or say no because she wasn't gonna hold them out forever. lol
I finally took one out but it was a couple mins before I put it to my lips and lit up.. I was sure that as soon as I lit up she was gonna smack me and yell "What the
are you thinking?!" Never happened. I've been smoking on and off ever since, but never quit, until about a month ago when I started vaping.
I smoked my first in third grade (when I was 8) at Lincoln Elementary in Eugene, Or. It was a tareyton and it tasted like honey. Grease had just come out not too long before that and all the girls wanted to be Pink Ladies and all the boys wanted to be T-birds!
I tried it again when I was 11 (my sister was 16, so that explains that!) But I didn't really start until I was 13. Back then they still sold them from vending machines so they were easy for anyone to buy. In my town you could buy them legally at 16, so that made it much easier.
My high school even had a smoking section for the students just like in ''Pretty in Pink" (this would have been 1986), so that's where my friends and I could be found. But the next year they closed the smoking area and banned smoking from the school grounds...that's the year I got suspended for smoking on school property.
Smoking is who I am, I could no more change that about myself than I could change my sense of humor or my favorite foods. It sucks when being who you are is probably going to kill you, though, so that's why I 'switched brands' and started vaping. Hooray!!!!
I tried it again when I was 11 (my sister was 16, so that explains that!) But I didn't really start until I was 13. Back then they still sold them from vending machines so they were easy for anyone to buy. In my town you could buy them legally at 16, so that made it much easier.
My high school even had a smoking section for the students just like in ''Pretty in Pink" (this would have been 1986), so that's where my friends and I could be found. But the next year they closed the smoking area and banned smoking from the school grounds...that's the year I got suspended for smoking on school property.
Smoking is who I am, I could no more change that about myself than I could change my sense of humor or my favorite foods. It sucks when being who you are is probably going to kill you, though, so that's why I 'switched brands' and started vaping. Hooray!!!!
I went ut on a date with a girl in college that I had known forquite awhile. On the date, she pulled out a cigarette and started smoking. I was sort of torn because my family (all non smokers) had told me how terrible it was -- but she kind of made it seem appealing. Before too long, she was teaching me to smoke. And I've been a "closet smoker" ever since. The e-cigs at least help with the guilt.
When I was visiting WA state in 86' (about 9/10ish) my cousin's older friend had this cigs with flowers all the way up them. I thought they looked so cool. She lit up and and handed it to me. That was my first drag. I can't remember if I coughed or gagged.
I didn't smoke again until I was back in CA, when the summer ended. I was at the window and saw my sister stomp out a cig before jumping on the back of her boyfriends motorcycle. I ran out and picked it up to try it.
I started sneaking cigs from my mom or my sisters pack after that, but not smoking regularly since I couldn't get my hands on them all the time.
When I turned 11, I started hanging out at an ice skating rink in Hawaii (also where I met my hubby). Everyone, and I mean...everyone, smoked there. Every age, too. Everyone had cigs and everyone passed them around. Guess I just didn't want to look like the square. It wasn't hard to buy cigs there. We had these trucks, like ice cream trucks, drive around and park on the road everywhere, but they carry candy, snacks, food, drinks....and cigs. They never ask for ID.
...that was about 24 years ago.
I didn't smoke again until I was back in CA, when the summer ended. I was at the window and saw my sister stomp out a cig before jumping on the back of her boyfriends motorcycle. I ran out and picked it up to try it.
I started sneaking cigs from my mom or my sisters pack after that, but not smoking regularly since I couldn't get my hands on them all the time.
When I turned 11, I started hanging out at an ice skating rink in Hawaii (also where I met my hubby). Everyone, and I mean...everyone, smoked there. Every age, too. Everyone had cigs and everyone passed them around. Guess I just didn't want to look like the square. It wasn't hard to buy cigs there. We had these trucks, like ice cream trucks, drive around and park on the road everywhere, but they carry candy, snacks, food, drinks....and cigs. They never ask for ID.
...that was about 24 years ago.
Started smoking cigars at 15, switched to pipe tobacco at 21, cigarettes at 26 about a weeks after my first marriage ended in divorce. My day job in is in marketing at a casino, and everybody smokes at the casino. At any given time there are probably 30 employees on break, and 20 of them are sitting out back smoking. with the stress of the divorce, previous tobacco use and constant exposure, I ended up quickly hooked on cigarettes.
I got a blu back in July and I've hardly smoked any analogs since. I've also gotten to love vape and "less than love" the blu, so I've got a revolver elite on the way.
I got a blu back in July and I've hardly smoked any analogs since. I've also gotten to love vape and "less than love" the blu, so I've got a revolver elite on the way.
Started at 20 years old. Most people's reason was to be cool but mine's only because of the effects it gave. The first 100 or so cigarettes are like smoking something else which ain't legal. Anyone remember their first analogs in the morning? Boy what a headrush for 5-15 minutes! And after 100 analogs you build up a tolerance, don't feel the effects anymore, but keep smoking 
Boy what a headrush for 5-15 minutes! And after 100 analogs you build up a tolerance, don't feel the effects anymore, but keep smoking
You know it's funny. I had forgotten all about that even though it was only a couple years ago
Started at age 15 in 1985. Me and my friends all started smoking together. Wasn't peer pressure just stupidity.
Maybe 11 or so when I tried my first one. More like 13 when I started buying them (1966), but it took me a year or two more before I started noticing I craved them if I had to go too long without. Still it wasn't until college I hit pack-a-day. Oddly, it wasn't a coolness thing for me since none of my closest friends smoked, and most were quite against it. (In fact I was rather secretive about it with them.) It was more of a being grown-up thing, as virtually every adult relative I had was a smoker.
I remember well that in my growing-up years 16 was both the legal and the socially normal age to start smoking regularly. Just like driving. My mother used to laugh about hearing the daughter of one of her friends talk about how she couldn't wait until she turned 16, "so I can smoke and drive."
I remember well that in my growing-up years 16 was both the legal and the socially normal age to start smoking regularly. Just like driving. My mother used to laugh about hearing the daughter of one of her friends talk about how she couldn't wait until she turned 16, "so I can smoke and drive."
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