Why do people smoke?

i would never think watching soemone smoking is cool thing , if i saw a girl smokes here , i will get far from her for i cant breath at all.. i just want to know , how s that feeling when ppl smoking ? its sweet or taste like something ? however , i will try to find a bf who doesnt smok at all.. good for me and him ..

 

depends what theyre smoking
smoking the sweet sensimilia certainly doues taste good..and makesyou feel good too
but tobaco, well most people start out of boredom, or just wanting something to do with theyre hands..and very quickly get addicted and cnt stop

i wish i had alot more pot and never smoked tobaco again

 

I smoke a pipe and I smoke mostly because I enjoy it. Not the taste really. But I find it relaxing and it helps me to think. I will smoke cigarettes, but I don't get anything out of them. I'd like to quit, but at the same time I enjoy my pipe too much.

As for pot, I've smoked it a few times, but I never got anything out of it for some reason.

 

Smoking is a really stupid habit, but I know exactly why I do it... I not only have an oral fixation, but I like the way it feels when I inhale.

How I got started, I am not quite sure... I grew up around smoke, my dad smoked in our house until I was a teenager;shortly after he quit smoking inside the house, I started....and I really don't have an explanation. It wasn't even with friends, it wasnt peer pressure or to be cool...the first cigarette I had, I was with my brother; all in all I think I was just curious.

the thing I didn't understand at the time, was how hard it would be to quit if I got addicted.
it's something you learn about and hear about, but you don't really know how difficult it is until you try...

 

Ugh, I don't get the pot thing, and never will... I used to smoke it a few years back... for about a year ... and I kept trying it thinking maybe I'd like it, since it seems that everyone else thinks its so wonderful, but I just never got it. I hated the taste of it, I hated the way it made me feel, I hated how it smelled...

I found it to be a huge waste of time.

Not that smoking cigarettes isn't.... I just like smoking cigarettes more :&

 

i smoke because i enjoy it.
if you don't like it, too bad for you.
what if i went around asking "why do people not smoke?"
its called closed minded. yeah, a bad attitude to have.

 

I smoke b/c I'm addicted and it helps relax me.

Peace and love

 

Smoking is more of a characteristic or a special habit that people aquire. I believe that people smoke to be different then other people or to do something on a daily basis thats not the norm.

 

I used to smoke because there was nothing else to do (I worked nightshift at a grocery store) once I wasnt working there anymore I quit. I Liked smoking 3 or 4 cigarettes in a row to get a buzz on. I think thats why people smoke is to get a buzz on. What other reasons are there?

 

I smoke because it is a way of relaxing and I enjoy it very much...

 

A special habit? You gotta be kidding.I knew a guy who only had a cigarette on non-smoking day - just to take the piss out of us who are so lacking in willpower and so easily addicted. - now thats being different

 

I smoke because it is cool.

 

i smoke weed cause of peer pressure and trying to look cool, same with cigs. now im cool!

 

I am 44 years old and have NEVER smoked tobacco. I never saw the point. I was given a hard time, as a child, in 4th grade, when other children started smoking and they couldn't give me a good reason to do so.

I also used to get pneumonia and bronchitis and other illneses EVERY winter, because I lived with a mother who had a "don't like smoking? Too bad for you." Attitude. Too bad for me. womyn riuned my lungs for her fix. How responsible.

I think tobacoo is a silly habit. My dh and my oldest child (age 20) smoke tobacoo. They are not allowed to smoke in the house, if they want to ruin their own lungs that is their perrogative, but they will not do further damage to mine, or ruin the lungs of my other children or my animals.

 

I'm a chain smoker but I just don't think thats cool - just an indication of a nervous disposition.I would never reccommend it to anyone.Sometimes when I've been busking the first thing I have to get is tobacco - then food,even though I might be really hungry.Thats just stupid

having said that - I enjoy a smoke

 

It's bad for the envirnoment. Most smokers not only pollute the air but throw their dirty butts on the ground (I know ONE who doesn't). Your slowly killing everyone around you. Global warming... etc. etc. etc.

So whats closed minded asking people why they would want to do that? Is me asking someone why they want to club baby seals for their fur closed minded? Maybe I should ask you why you don't.

P.s. I understand some people are just addicted but still know better. but I see it as closed minded someone who does it, but doesn't give a damn or understand how their hurting those around them and the envirnoment. I won't even get into them hurting themselves...

 

Most people I have ever met say they smoke tobacco because they enjoy it - but I can tell you I hate it and am an addict. I know for an absolute fact that its easier to get off heroin than it is to get yourself off tobacco. I have friends who have got themselves off heroin but they just cannot get off tobacco.I have never smoked heroin and am glad but also wish I never knew the nightmare of trying to get off tobacco. It is just starting to ruin my health and I just hope I can give up soon - its not just a case of willpower - This is a physical addiction - your body needs that stuff after a while - you cant concentrate without it. People who smoke tobacco longer than 2 years and say they arent addicted are fooling themselves. I hope they ban this horrendous drug so that future generations will not suffer its bad effects - anyone who advocates smoking tobacco is an idiot. I knew I was an addict aged about 18 - but thought I might get off it one day when it wasnt cool to do it anymore - now I know for real that if I do not get away from this drug it will kill me very soon - I wake up every morning knowing my lungs are damaged and that I am too afraid to continue and too addicted not to continue - I used nicotine gums for a while but they are so expensive

Thats exactly it - I buy tobacco before food - if it was a choice or has to be a choice my addiction is such that tobacco comes first - I hate this drug - really despise it. I wish I could clean it out of my system

I hope younger people will get just how afraid I have become because I know how much damage I have done - to the extent I'm afraid to go and get medical help incase they show me what damage there is and its worse than I thought

 

smoking cigarettes does not do nearly the amount of damage as driving cars, so you shouhld probably stop driving befoer you complain about cigarette smoke. and i do not litter the butt, i put it out and throw it in a trash can near by. i only litter if im in the middle of the woods and im not really gonna carry 4 cigarette butts with me.

but i enjoy smoking. i smoke 4 a day and try not to go over that. if i feel like my body is building too much tolerance to it, ill stop for a week to get the buzz back. ive been smoking for about a year now and im still not addicted, thought i was a couple times and stop for a 1 or so, and not a single craving.

but then again, i dont have a very addictive personality

 

Because it's cool.

No, but really...I smoked for ten years. I started when I was 14. I guess it was what I believed to be a rite of passage, the norm for responsible, hardworking adults (the majority of the grown-ups that I knew smoked). I kept smoking because I liked it and the first time I tried to quit, I gained a fair amount of weight. I thought quitting would be impossible, but I broke the habit and I have not been a "smoker" for over a year now, yay me! Last summer I smoked just under a pack a day. I now have the odd puff but I do not have cravings.

It's a personal choice. I realise it's not good for the Earth and the Living, but neither are vehicle and factory emissions, or genetic cloning and chemicals and plastics and war...the list goes on...but society is pretty tolerant of those things. Why?

 

The shit locks into receptors in your brain. It's like an alien virus that takes over your body and mind. It makes you feel OK even when you're not. It helps you do crap you hate to do. Then when you get older it makes it where you can't breathe anymore or gives you cancer in your mouth or throat so you have to have your tongue removed or part of your cheek or maybe you just roll around in a wheelchair on oxygen barely about to talk. Don't believe me? Go visit any nursing home and find out which people were smokers. The lucky ones are the ones that died although their families and loved ones tend to suffer a great deal because of that.