Current Smokers and Ex-Smokers QUESTION

I started smoking about 4-5 years ago because I guess you could say peer pressure since my friends in High School smoked.
Currently I'm trying to limit the amount I smoke and hopefully in the very close future quit.

I no longer smoke, but used too. The reason I started smoking was because the restaurant that I worked at didn't let anyone take breaks except for the smokers. I thought that was bull**** so I started smoking just so I could get a break.

Wow, I was so dumb.

When everyone around you smokes growing up it turns into a habit you knew you never wanted! lol Also quit smoking for my own health.

I started when I was 12 because my friends did it took me the next 19 years to give up but I have done it now and only when in a smoking drinking company do I have one now just to be socialable

People who smoke or use to smoke:

Why did you or who/what influenced you to start smoking?

A) Friends (Peer Pressure) I was the first kid that started smoking out of my social group by a long shot. Was a dumb *kitten* kid and thought it made me look cool, was swiping packs from my parents cartons. I was 14, my 1st job was @ 15 at a grocery store so by then I could just sell them to myself.

Family Members (saw mom or dad do it so you did it?) Dad/mom/grandpa/great grandpa all chain smokers, everyone in my family treats their bodies horribly with booze and tobacco, also alot of heavy drug usage with a few of them. Funny thing is none of us ever die from it. Everyone dies of old age.

C) Movies/Television Actors (To imitate a celebrity?)Nope

D) Vanity (You thought it made you look older or sexy?)Nope

E) Other? I was a dumbass, wish I could go back in time and ***** slap myself


Edit: Started Chantix about a month ago, dosent seem to be having any effect on me other than having some crazy *kitten* dreams

I started smoking when I was 13 or 14 years old because all my friends were doing it. By the time I was 26 I was smoking 3 packs of non filter Camel's every day ... I was slowly killing myself. I quit smoking when I was 26 ... that was 38 years ago.

Seeing an overweight smoker is worse than seeing a fit smoker because they are adding even more risks to their already unhealthy body.

I was thinking that too...

Like yesterday I was in traffic...and I saw this lady who's arm was as big as my thighs holding a cigarette with her arm outside her window...I was like "WTF",,,,that's nasty!

so much judgment on other people! we are simply mirrors.

Friends when I was 15. Finally just quit a few weeks ago.

I smoked since I was 15 and started because it was cool.. And quit 17 and a half years ago and still crave wanting one even stopped going out to pub and socialising as a result of giving up.

Ive smoked heavy tabacco for 16 yrs and cannabis and stopped on august 6th feel free to read my profile

Why i started, was just the group where i was in back then

And judging someone smoking that is fat and not skinny people is a form of racism

I began smoking because I was really shy and self-conscious and smoking gave me something to do with my hands. My parents and grandparents smoked (it was the 80s, man), so it wasn't a big deal, really.

I quit (hopefully for the last time) in Janaury 2010, because I was sick of feeling crummy all the time.

I started due to a combination of my dad owning a cigar shop and always trying to get me to smoke, and it being so easy for me to steal cigs or cigarillos from him.

Then I kept it up to be "cool" and look older (i have chronic baby face hah) and be rebellious.

Quit after 3-4 years once I met my current boyfriend, who hates smoking!

People who smoke or use to smoke:

Why did you or who/what influenced you to start smoking?

A) Friends (Peer Pressure)
Family Members (saw mom or dad do it so you did it?)
C) Movies/Television Actors (To imitate a celebrity?)
D) Vanity (You thought it made you look older or sexy?)
E) Other?

Also, I hope I don't get internet b!tch slapped for this one...but I find someone who is overweight unattractive smoking. (To the point I give the yuck face)..but for some reason I am not bothered by someone who is fit smoking,,,,I can't explain that one.


PS: I don't smoke

I had my first cig when I was like 5 yo. I remember my mom smacking me in the mouth for having taken a drag out of that cigarette. But really it was her fault, why would you hand your child a lit cigarette and tell them to throw it out? I smoked for a couple of months when I was 13 yo old. Everyone in my family smoked. My grandparents, my parents, my aunts, and uncles.
So it wasn't hard for me to steal a cigarette from one of them. At 16 I went back to smoking. It wasn't hard then either, I'd buy them at the local convenient store and I never got carded. But I stopped a few months later again. Then I met my husband and he was a big time smoker so I picked it up again. I have been smoking most of my life. I quit every time I got pregnant without issues. I quit when I was at a church that frowned upon smoking for about a year. Then I picked up again. I go back and forth a lot. I say it was parents. My son is 19 and he's been smoking since he was like 15 yo old. He got that not just from me but his friends but his friends have parents that also smoke. So there you have it.

In terms of the yuck face because someone is overweight and smoking....for me, I belittle myself just because I am overweight.
And look at others in my position and I catch myself judging them the same way I judge myself. I realized it's the reflection of myself that I am judging and not them. So in my mind I always ask God to forgive me for having taken my self hatred out on them even if it wasn't done in the open and try to change it.