I lot of my friends growing up smoked. Like, my best friends. Most of my family, my mom and all of my older siblings, all smoked.

When I was something like fourteen or some shit, I took one drag and thought it was the most disgusting shit I had ever tasted on my life and an immensely unpleasant experience. Never touched them again, never even wanted to. It's honestly one that baffles me.

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Initially people start doing it to fit in and look cool, then the nicotine's tentacles creep around your brain and hook them in.

I tried it once and never look back, it's the worst recreational thing i ever do, the second being alcohol. I'm more intrigued on why people even start to discover and smoke this stuff, they got to be the most masochistic person in history.

Wish I never smoked, but over 4 years since my last and no cravings. Always was afraid that cravings would never go away, that hungry anxiety was awful, even if it was dull after a time

Terrible addiction that isn’t worth it

I liked my sister's answer when someone offered her cigarettes to try.

"If I don't like it, it will be a shitty experience. If I do like it, that's much worse. There's no way for me to smoke a cigarette and win."

Easy! It just takes a little trauma! You'll be a smoker in no time if you sync buying your next pack with the death of a family member that your other family members are too grief stricken to help you process!

Just smoke tomorrow too, see where it goes

Humans are weird.

Nicotine.

I actually enjoy a good cigarette, but I still don't understand how folks get addicted. Smoking more than one in a single day always makes me feel like shit. Even just one cigarette and I feel like I need to take a shower. I smoke a cigarette now and then for fun, and couldn't imagine doing more.

I smoke like a pack a year. I keep it in a Ziploc bag in the fridge to keep them fresh. Been doing this for about 19 years...

If you don't smoke Tarrlytons, fuck you.

Easy to become a victim of the advertisement glamour.

I rarely smoke when I drink a bit too much and I always regret it the next morning because my clothes stink, my hands stink and my mouth tastes like a damn ash tray.

When I first started smoking by stealing from my dad's packs in junior high, I didn't even know you were supposed to inhale it. I thought you just tasted the smoke, holding it in your mouth, and then blowing it out because my grandpa smoked cigars and remembering him saying that's how it's done as a kid.

Be me.
Be 12.
With my friend, steal a pack of ciggies from his mum.
Smoke a couple in low ground between two fields, surrounded by Meadow Pipits and Chiffchaffs.

Didn't bother for a fair few years after that. Never really got into it, but enjoyed the acceptable work breaks that came with it for a while. Haven't smoked more than a cigar or two a year for the last 25 years.

I never even bothered trying it. Expensive, smelly, bad for your health, it's all downsides.

Try smoking your first after 4 beers. That'll get you hooked

I was once in a band with 3 guys who chainsmoked. Locked in a shitty practice room in the bass players house with the windows and doors closed for hours at a time twice a week or more.

After a year of this I would get nicotine fits if we didnt practice.

the only good cigarette is a drunk one

I used to get a hankering for cigarettes once in a blue moon after college. I kept a pack of Marlboros for such occasions. Two drags into one of those loathsome little death sticks and I remembered why I never smoke the damn things. Haven’t smoked a cigarette in 6 years and I can count the number of cigarettes I’ve smoked in my life on one hand.

Same but with beer (and most alcoholic drinks really)

Nicotine levels have been increased to compete with vapes.

the first cigarette of the morning always feels like that

Cuz' they're not pussy's.

This reminds me of when I tried smoking when I was 18. It did nothing to me and I didn't see the point. So I did not continue.