Why do people pick up smoking cigerretes these days?
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Laughing Black
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OH, that explains it. Cheers, man. Good job.
Arjen
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I picked it up in college, almost everyone in my class smoked, so you go outside with them on smoke breaks. Try it out once, try it out once more in the pub, before you know it you're hooked. It was and is a great stress reliever. I try to stay and 4/5 a day now before i'm trying to go cold turkey.
HappyBivouac
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Because I enjoy it. Especially a lucky strike or some good pipe tobacco. The taste is wonderful. I'm an occasional smoker, though. Haven't touched a cigarette in a week and a half.
On the other hand, I have friends who have always hated the taste and smell, yet they're addicts. I can only assume they picked it up out of pressure or desire to look cool. Not my place to judge though. Let people do what they like with their bodies, I say.
On the other hand, I have friends who have always hated the taste and smell, yet they're addicts. I can only assume they picked it up out of pressure or desire to look cool. Not my place to judge though. Let people do what they like with their bodies, I say.
SapientWolf
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We have all this wonderful science and people still want to buy rolled up paper stuffed with addictive carcinogens? That smells like Satan's anus? Even if you want to be hooked on nicotine, there must be a dozen other ways to get nicotine into your body.
Not in Australia there isn't. They keep banning alternative delivery systems. I think cigarettes/cigars, pipes, and quitting aids are the only way to get it legally here now.
Inkvoterad
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Been a smoker for about over 2 years now. Mostly do it when i got alot of "dead time" between lessons at the gymnasie i go at. Simply makes time go for me, plus i enjoy the whole burning feeling you get in your throat.
Also goddamn there can really be a witchhunt against smokers these days, on a forum i go to the "head writer" or whatever on that site wanted smokers to be bombed by napalm. The comments then were filled with people who literally wished death upon smokers, and just completely de-humanizing them. suddently smokers were just dirt apparently.
Just fuck that.
Also goddamn there can really be a witchhunt against smokers these days, on a forum i go to the "head writer" or whatever on that site wanted smokers to be bombed by napalm. The comments then were filled with people who literally wished death upon smokers, and just completely de-humanizing them. suddently smokers were just dirt apparently.
Just fuck that.
Arjen
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I tried nicotine gum, feels like you're eating death itself.
Tried e-cigs, eh.. pretty okay, but it can't beat a real cig imho.
Messofanego
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I've seen more people use those vape things here in UK? It looks like they're sipping on nothing.
Maybe people don't move to weed because it's not that classy looking with not much smoke coming out and still not as legally ok. I don't know, kinda ignorant on this.
Maybe people don't move to weed because it's not that classy looking with not much smoke coming out and still not as legally ok. I don't know, kinda ignorant on this.
Inkvoterad
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Also as others say, shit calms you down. Helps alot when i feel really fucked mentally at times because of stress and nervousity.
air jordans for dogs
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All the people I know who smoke are weird school drop outs that started smoking because of group pressure
Inkvoterad
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I agree on this. I tend to stay away from people who talk down on me for smoking.
Ya'll wanna know why people don't listen to you guys when you tell them smoking is bad? You are talking to them like they're lesser humans.
People smoke in college. Not a majority by any means, but, yeah, they actually smoke in the highest academic setting.
It only does your that because your body gets grumpy without it. It's actually a hell of a stimulant. I used to get massive rushes when I started smoking.
It does weed out the unattractive judgemental people, doesn't it?
Inkvoterad
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I don't think i ever got rushes. When i started i mostly got reaaaaally tired, which was the main reason i started since i enjoyed that feeling. Now i i guess i'm so used to it i barely notice it, but i still get some kind of feeling of "calming down" which i assume is the addiction, while at the same time i can go months without smoking without really feeling "omgomgomg need to smoke". Idunno, maybe it just sneaks up on me.
Jzero
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90% of my coworkers at a restaurant smoke. It's crazy.
That is different. But everybody reacts a bit differently. If it works, it works.
Messofanego
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You are just reducing your withdrawal symptoms, which are those things you mentioned. It's a vicious cycle.
A dose of nicotine takes 10 seconds to hit your brain, and it raises your feelgood dopamine levels. Brain stops making its own after a while of smoking, so people want to smoke more. Depressed people are more likely to smoke because they got low dopamine. Brain also expects nicotine in situations where you're not smoking because of the association already made (like a meal, a break) so in comes the craving. If you stop smoking consistently, the nicotine receptors get to a normal level and those cravings go away.
Same
Messofanego
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I find it weird when hot women smoke. They put all this effort into making themselves look good, and spend loads on makeup and perfume. But then they pull out cigarettes and then they just smell of it, have fag breath, can rot their teeth and causes premature aging.
Never had a chance anyway, but makes it easier.
neurosisxeno
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Ding Ding Ding. That's where I started. Working a pretty crappy entry level job like that will quickly turn you on to smoking. Restaurants are especially bad, because you can really only justify taking a break if you're going out for a smoke. Nothing makes a cigarette more appealing than spending 3 straight hours in a hot work area running around making orders while yelling at other people. After it dies down stepping outside and having a smoke is probably one of the best feelings on Earth.
What I don't like, is dealing with people criticizing me all the time for smoking and telling me how bad it is. I know it's bad, I don't live under a rock. I'm also 25 and smoke a pack every 4 days, and can go several days before I feel like I really need a smoke. When I want to quit I will. I've picked it up and quit several times over since I was 17, and when I have a compelling reason to quit for good I will. Please stop bombarding me with facts and treating me like some kind of heathen because I do something you don't personally like. If people want I can go from the cool and collected me that smokes every couple hours to the high strung asshole I was prior to that.
Demonize those weirdos
Stairouais
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Used to smoke 2 or 3 packs a week. Stopped cold turkey.
Now i can't stand the smell of it, and i feel so fucking dumb for picking up smoking in the first place when i was young.
I've became the kind of annoying cigarette hater I despised when a I was a smoker. Good times.
Now i can't stand the smell of it, and i feel so fucking dumb for picking up smoking in the first place when i was young.
I've became the kind of annoying cigarette hater I despised when a I was a smoker. Good times.
Cold turkey was the only thing that worked for me. I smoked for ten years and tried all sorts of different methods. Once I made it 3 months I knew I kicked its ass.
Jedeye Sniv
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Weed is a gateway drug to tobacco 
Lollipop Dave
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I love the taste and smell.
I was around 12 when i started smoking. Looking back it's pretty insane that kids that age were able to buy smokes that easily. But then again, i can't even remember the amount of Pisang Ambon and Passoa i was drinking every weekend at the age of 13 / 14 at the local teen bar either. This was mid to end nineties, different times.
I think overall less kids pick up smoking these days, mainly because of the stricter rules. Back when i was a kid over half of my class was smoking. Kids knew it was bad back then too, but it was just very easy to get them, it was cool and social to go out 'n have a smoke together (go out in the schoolbreaks off course, in the kiddiebar we were still allowed to smoke inside
).
I quit now, but i still miss it every now and then.
I think overall less kids pick up smoking these days, mainly because of the stricter rules. Back when i was a kid over half of my class was smoking. Kids knew it was bad back then too, but it was just very easy to get them, it was cool and social to go out 'n have a smoke together (go out in the schoolbreaks off course, in the kiddiebar we were still allowed to smoke inside
).I quit now, but i still miss it every now and then.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Weed is a gateway drug to tobacco
And tobacco is a gateway drug to weed.
You can blame it on anything and everything.
I've been around smokers, and no one forces me to smoke or peer pressures me. No one asks me to accompany them or buy them or lend them one. Unless you're in high school, that shit doesn't tend to stick any more.
All of my smoking friends prevent me from smoking and always say it's bad. They do it because they get urges or are having a stressful day and want to relax, or do it as a hangout activity to kill time. Some smoke cause it's cool, some smoke cause their friends do, some smoke because they are curious and some smoke cause they genuinely like it.
Shisha is worse than smoking, right? Yet shisha spots are always packed and have lineups on the weekend.
Everyone has an addiction, some smoke while others don't.
Me? I myself am quitting drugs soon. Is it easy? Fuck no. Will I quit? Fuck yes. It's fucking tough quitting vice once it's part of your everyday lifestyle.
fierrotlepou
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It's fucking ridiculous. My whole group of friends smoke now. This is a bunch of guys that started smoking at 23...
I lke your post. A good 3/4th of the people at my work smoke like there's no tomorrow. Now it usually takes me a week to get through a pack of smokes, and I can go a little while before buying a new pack, purely depending on the stress at work.
I get annoyed with people who treat smokers like they're walking sins. I very seldom smoke around non-smokers (music festival and bars are the two exceptions). I know it's an awful habit, I know about second-hand smoke, so I avoid getting my nasty ass habit involved with my close friends. I feel awful when I buy a new pack of cigarettes, since I know all about the health risks. I don't need people telling me I'm hurting myself by smoking these when I already know that fact. I'm choosing my mental health over my physical health for the next few months.
teruterubozu
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People still shoot up heroin. Information and PSAs only go so far. People will do what they want.
Mexen
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Pretty much this with kids today.
I took it up to "forget" my family drama. Now I do it for social reasons.
Mexen
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I was 18 and always thought I was too young. But 12? Wow, I was exchanging Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 cheat-codes with my pals at that age.
Excellent
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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P.S. I went to The Weeknd concert this weekend (lol), and practically every other person was either drinking, smoking cigarette or weed. Most of the crowd looked anywhere between 17-22.
I guess concerts like these is where kids pick up these habits too.
I guess concerts like these is where kids pick up these habits too.
Weed is a gateway drug to tobacco
This + a girl I liked smoked. It was an excuse to hang out with her more.
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