NO, I am not writing a paper for anyone, nor am I coming down on ya...more just some curiositiy that popped into me...

1. when did you start smoking?
2. what was the scenario that prompted you to try it.
3. at this time, had you been exposed to the facts of how addicitive a habit it is (worse then heorin) some people say?
4. were you aware of the health risks that came along with long term smoking? i remember being bombarded freom all directions on how bad it is for you.....
5. what kind of role did that play in your deciision to try smoking, or continue with it.
6. do you wanna quit?
7. do you think you can?


really, just curious.....


my background. my mom smoked. alot. and i thought it was disgusting, and all i needed to never pick one up in any form.....

1. first tried when i was 13. consistently been smoking since i was about 15 or 16.

2. i wanted to be "cool". seriously. the most popular girl i idolized in jr. high smoked and she wanted to hang out so i tried it. stupid, stupid.

3. yes.

4. yes, and i'm REALLY fuckin tired of people lecturing me all the time about how unhealthy it is. well shit, i know it's bad for me so stop it.

5. can't help it.

6. eventually i do, but i know i'm not ready just yet.

7. but i know i can't. i just do not have strong enough willpower to do so just yet.

[quote="TheTwilightKid"]NO, I am not writing a paper for anyone, nor am I coming down on ya...more just some curiositiy that popped into me...

1. regularly? 8th grade
2. being mistaken for my sister on the phone about 600 times probably more than anything.
3. i knew it was really bad for me, but i wasn't getting the latest studies on it. I don't think now that it's more addictive to heroin, nor will i ever.
4. yes.
5. i still smoke, so not much of one.
6. not just yet.
7. absolutely. I only really smoke now when i drink, which, unfortunately, is alot. No more than a pack a week, though. I actually decided last night to take 2 weeks off.

I'm trying to quit right now. I'm hoping the third time is the charm.

It's hard though because Josh smokes and isn't ready to try and quit, though I keep telling him I'd like to have him around for a long time. So I'll go smoke free for a couple days then something happens and he lights up and then next thing I know I do. I'm giving myself August 1st as my absolute done with smoking date.

I started when I was 12. Smoked til I was pregnant with Charlie. Quit instantly the second I found out. Started up again when he was 3 and I had just separated from his father.

Mom has smoked my whole life so when she tried to lecture me when I first started I through that back up in her face.

I don't like the way I feel from it anymore. I seem to be more conscious now of the effects then ever before. I see my son as my main motivator. He wants me to and I don't want to be sick down the line from something so stupid. Plus I read recently smokers with MS have more aggressive attacks then those who don't. Explains why mine decided to get evil last two years. So, another added incentive.

1. when did you start smoking?
-About 15-16

2. what was the scenario that prompted you to try it.
-Always wanted to, plus my gf at the time was smoking

3. at this time, had you been exposed to the facts of how addicitive a habit it is (worse then heorin) some people say?
-yes

4. were you aware of the health risks that came along with long term smoking? i remember being bombarded freom all directions on how bad it is for you.....
-yup, a lot of family members were smokers

5. what kind of role did that play in your deciision to try smoking, or continue with it.
-eh, I enjoy nicotine, especially after smoking weed

6. do you wanna quit?
-yeah, I tried about a month ago but all the painkillers I was taking for my wrist made me crave them

7. do you think you can?
-yeah, sure, why not.

That movie Transpotting was about cigarettes?!? This clears up alot for me, I thought it was about trains.

I never really smoked much in high school. Did to be cool for a while but I never really liked it all that much.

Around my junior year of college I decided I needed another bad habit and started smoking for the hell of it.

I have never craved them while sober EVER. I used to smoke them when I would be drinking and usually after well buzzed.

I haven't smoke in a while. I find that if if you maintain a regular exercise regiment (3-4 days a week) of working out/running, whatever it helps immensely with the process.

1. when did you start smoking- 17
2. scenario - Bored at work, didn't have any friends who smoked either.
3. exposed to the facts - Yep, parents were ex-smokers
4. health risks - Yep, was aware.
5. Decision to start or quit? High blood pressure, I've cut down to smoking a couple of cig's on the weekend with beer. Other than that, I don't smoke.
6. do you wanna quit? Honestly, no.
7. do you think you can? Probably.

Yeah, pretty much what they said.....

1. 19-21 only in the studio and only to stay awake. You can only ingest so much caffeine before the effects get negative. Eating makes you lethargic. Smoking gives you something to physically do on your downtime or your time listening to playback, if there aren't any fluffers around. 22 - present = regularly. While driving for similar reasons as the studio, then drinking and smoking, then smoking just to smoke. I go whole school days, or days without it, and I don't nic. But I do enjoy it when i get to.

2. See #1

3, 4, and 5. Are you serious?

6. Quitters never win. But seriously, sure, someday. Right now it's my zero calorie treat, and my substitute for affection, so when i get all the sex I can handle, i'll ditch it.

7. Yeah, I don't nic. I pretty much quit drinking over the past year, and lets face it, is that any less addictive than smoking?

-Phil

why wouldnt I be serious about 3,4, & 5?

Did anyone in the eighties not grow up with Nancy Reagan, Just Say No, M.A.D.D., S.A.D.D., Amnesty International, P.E.T.A., and god knows what else?

We had both celebrities and our everyday adults talk about smoking and drinking and drugs and sex and how chocolate was the gateway to all of the above evils, at least to some degree. Kids now have to deal with that whole "The Anti-Drug" campaign.

Statistics, pie charts, bar graphs, death tolls, posters, shit there was that one poster with a before and after of the teenage star athlete who chewed tobacco and got messed up jaw cancer and died.

So if 3 and 4 are givens, and yeah, I'm assuming (I think safely) that they are givens, and you still smoke, then doesn't it follow that the answer to 5 is 'no'?

Not to say that your questions aren't serious, but i'd be surprised if anyone answered anything other than yes to 3 and 4, and no to 5.

Well,t hats part of my curiosity.

again, im not judging. i can only go by my own experience.

all the pounding in my head of the dangers of smoking worked for me, and steered me from even trying it....

so, knowing that it is an extremely addicitive habit, and that there are 'pottential' nong term health risks, #5 simply was asking, in a general sense, why did that not dissuade you or anyone from doing it...that's all..

someone tells me when im little that sticking a fork in an electrical outlet is bad and i can electrocute myself by doing so, that's enough for me to not do it...

so , knowing going in all the negatives that come with smoking, what is the motivating factor to still start?

that's all. no harm no foul. just curious

dig it.

I was vehemently against it until i tried it.

We were working on an album that had to come in under a deadline, and it seemed to help keep people awake, so i gave it a shot, and it got me through the night. Then i had one with a beer. Had one driving with the window down, and the breeze through my (then luxuriant) hair.

I like it, but i can't say why i tried it when i was so vehemently against it. Maybe the whole, "what the hell do adults know anyways" factor?

I was 12 and it was cool. A year later I huffed gas. Marijuana isn't a gateway drug, nicotine is. That's why I will kill my kids (if I were to ever have any) if they smoke cigarettes.

Ah, the joys of fatherhood.

I lay off lecturing smokers. If only they would show the same respect and fuck off if I don't feel like drinking on a particular night. What is up with that shit?

Steve