When did you start smoking and why?
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I started around age 15, my dad smoked and I wanted to be like him. I also look up to celebrities like Bogart, John Wayne and other who I saw smoking as I grew up. I still think it looks cool to see old movies with people smoking. Such a shame it has so many health issues or I would have never quit myself. Strange I know, but something about it just seems so natural to light one up. I do wish I would have never started though, who knows what damage I've already done to myself and others.
I started at age 11 back around 91 because I wanted to be cool, and much like piratecaptainbob Im still not so I too want my money back lol.
The voice of youth, hang in there, seriously dint stop breathing now.
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It was 1970 I think. I was hanging with the local kids at the baseball diamond when they passed around a pack of Marlboro reds. I smoked one, I was so proud. I smoked another, I got so sick, I sat down on the curb for an hour and fought off tossing my cookies.
I never liked smoking, it liked me.
At 15 I fell in for good.
Tried them out when i was 10 but i dont think it became a everyday thing till i was 13 or 14 when the hormones kicked in. My thought was the chicks would think i was awesome and throw them selfs at me. But even when that didn't happen i kept smoking for some odd reason. But history repeats itself i could have just quit smoking but now I think, I will vape because the chicks will dig it.
Many, many moons ago, ...
1976...I was at my first rocky horror picture show and lit up my first ciggy..
Hiding my age lol
1976...I was at my first rocky horror picture show and lit up my first ciggy..
Hiding my age lol
1971 I was 9. My older sisters took me in the woods and introduced to my first cigarette. Smoked for 39 years until my 48th birthday and bought my first e-cig. Haven't smoked since!!!
1966 or 67 at 15 or 16 years old. Because it was cool and everybody did it? What a fool, 41 years later and here I am. No more cigs.
When I was eight, my father threw a viceroy into his mouth and lit up and I asked," Whats that taste like?"
He took the cig out of his mouth and handed it to me. I had a few drags and handed it back...but from then on, I would sneak a cigarette from his pack every now and then when he fell asleep in his easy chair. By the time I was twelve I would get a pack of marlboro from the corner store about once every two weeks. By sixteen a pack a day. By twenty one, a pack and a half a day. At 41, I switched to e cigs.
He took the cig out of his mouth and handed it to me. I had a few drags and handed it back...but from then on, I would sneak a cigarette from his pack every now and then when he fell asleep in his easy chair. By the time I was twelve I would get a pack of marlboro from the corner store about once every two weeks. By sixteen a pack a day. By twenty one, a pack and a half a day. At 41, I switched to e cigs.
1981 when I was 16 and a dishwasher in a busy club. All the kitchen staff tooks breaks to smoke. I didn't smoke so no breaks for me. Decided to buy a pack and that was it. Should have skipped the breaks!!!! Tried to quit many times. Last try at quiting gotme kooked on chewing nicorette AND smoking for the last 5 years. Have done neither in 60 days! I love modern electronics!!!!
My mother told me that when she went to the Dr to confirm she was pregnant, he was smoking a cigar in the exam room when he told her ( and I swear this is what she claims he said ) ," Yeah honey, someones been here before me, youre pregnant."
My father then smoked on the drive home ( bringing me home for the first time ) while my mother held me on her lap in the front seat with no one wearing a seat belt.
It certainly was a different time.
It sure was a different time. I remember my mom handing my sister and I a quarter to go buy her a pack of smokes and I was only about 4 years old at the time. My sister and I would stand there arguing with our mom trying to tell her she doesn't need them. We'd keep it up not because we really meant it, it was because we knew if we held out long enough, she'd throw in a nickle so we could buy penny candy! That was way before I knew what a nic fit was.... Sorry I put you through that hell mom! LOL
age 13....from then until now....I would quit 3 times ..the first time for 2 yrs....the 2nd time when pregnant....lasted all of 10 mos. and the third time for 5 years....I am confident with ecigs it will last til I die....Oh yeah...did it to be "cool" and fit in....
I was about 14 which was 45 years ago and I guess I just thought it was cool. At the time a lot of the adults in my familys did so I started sneaking smokes and that was that.
I remember the note from mom, oh yeah, like any one cared. At 12 or so I bought 2 packs out of the vending machine at the corner gas station, where 2 guys were intently watching me drop 35 cents a piece for them. They lasted close to a year, I hated them so bad, but I wasnt going to be a puss. I never got carded once during those early years.
I started smoking in 1966, because it was "cool". I kept smoking because it was enjoyable. I stopped smoking in 2009, because I finally could tell what it was doing to me.
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