It sucked, i coughed till i cried and almost vomited. I did not start enjoying it until a few years later when i started drinking.
Nope i quit about 5 years ago, i may have smoked or took a drag here and there about hmm five times in those five years but the experience was always closer to my first time than to when i enjoyed it.
Orlando, FL. No more common than anywhere else i guess, when i hang out with friends its usually at bars and its at least a 50/50 split.
Why did you first light up a cigarette?
I had literally just started High School. It was the 2nd or third week as I remember it & a kid I just met had cigarettes & offered me one. I wanted to look cool with him and his 2-3 friends - but not “cool” like Bogey or Jimi Hendrix were cool – more cool like you are joining the Aryan Brotherhood in Prison – I wanted to be part of this pack of kids What do you remember about the experience?
Not trying to cough. Worrying my Mom would find out. Feeling kind of grown up like a real High School kid How old were you?
14 years 1 month Do you still smoke?
No.
What part of the world do you live in – is it common or uncommon for others like you (gender, social class, etc) to smoke where you live?
I’ll steal Missy2U’s basic answer tho I am male & in Maryland DC suburbs which already are smoke free.
Why did you first light up a cigarette?
long story actaly well i was bored and anoyed with a member of my family (who smokes ) so i stole a cigarette from them by putting it in my poket . i got home took of my cardigain and put bothe the cardigan and cigarette in the washing machine and about an hour later my mum set the washing macine off . about a month or so later i put the cardagain back on and felt some thing in my poket and to a mirical the cig was still whole so i found a lighter and lit up … and well had to hide my self in the garden when it was thick of snow so whilst my mum , gran and grandad were sat in the living roomn i was out side freezing my tits of smoking
What do you remember about the experience?
beeing freezing and prayin that no one came to find me
How old were you?
ide just turned 14 on the day ( yes snow in august typical brittish weather :mad:
Do you still smoke?
yes infact im smoking now
What part of the world do you live in – is it common or uncommon for others like you (gender, social class, etc) to smoke where you live?
Leeds uk and yes it smoking is verry common
Age 16. I tried my darnedest to like them. I doubt I ever got through a carton before giving up. They made me deathly ill. Seriously, migraine-headache-for-a-day ill.
Oddly, I like the occasional cigar but those aren’t inhaled and I smoke them outdoors to avoid inhaling any of the smoke.
I remember my first cigarette, but not precisely my age at the time. Somewhere around 5th grade. I remember it because I was corrected by my friend, for biting on the cigarette. I didn’t know how people kept them in their mouths without biting down on them.
I have just quit smoking again, 2 weeks ago.
Kelz welcome to the dope, this thread is what we call a zombie because it is 6 years old, Leeds eh? I have mates in Bristol and London but live in Texas.
I had my first cig when I was 14 or so backyard of some of my step brothers friends while visiting my dad
I started really smoking when I was 16 after I moved in with my dad
I still smoke 27 or so years later, sometimes 2 packs a day
42 male live in Houston,TX and tons of my friends smoke although I never smoke in my house anymore
I still can’t believe he had the gall to do this in public but I remember my Dad giving me a drag on his cigarette in McDonald’s when I was about 9 or 10. Of course I coughed heavily and from then on always thought that smoking was for fools. So mission accomplished I guess.
I am usually a non-smoker, however, in February, I smoked my first ever cigarette, and boy oh boy, I was not disappointed in the slightest! I had managed to I nicked a cigarette from a friend I was staying with back in December, but I had kept it until February. I was shaking a lot and my heart was beat very fast beforehand, and my lips were trembling as I put the cigarette into my mouth. I then lit the end of the cigarette up, and for about 4 seconds, despite the smoke coming out of the end, I didn’t notice anything whatsoever. Suddenly, I fell an intense feeling of relaxation, and an intense feeling of burning all the way to the back of my throat. However, the burning feeling actually felt like one of the most awesome feelings I had ever felt in my entire life. The cigarette looked like it was starting to stop burning, so I lit it up again, and the awesome and powerful feeling intensified. By the time I had finished, I felt like all of my worries in life had flown away, and I felt extremely calm and relaxed for the rest of the night.
I forgot the exact brand of the cigarette, but it was an Italian brand.
The feeling was so intense, I sometimes get an orgasm just thinking about the feeling!
It was also my last. I was probably about 12, my friend’s dad had a gas station, and we climbed into the dumpster in back, for privacy. It totally sucked, we both started coughing like mad, I think I probably resolved then and there to never do that again.
I grew up in plenty of second hand smoke, the scene above took place in about 1950 when doctors were recommending brands of cigarette in magazine ads, and ballplayers endorsed cigarettes. I read in a sports magazine that Richie Ashburn and Eddie Yost were the only two ballplayers who did not smoke or drink, and they became my role models (as did a lot of nonconformist rebels). My dad smoked a pack of Camels a day, and quit cold turkey. One day at work he ran out of smokes and went to buy a pack at the store across the street, and there was a blizzard and he couldn’t even see across the street, so he want back inside and never smoked another cigarette. But he continued to smoke a pipe once in a while. My mother never smoked, ever.
I was 15, had just changed to another school and started to hang out with the cool kids, who of course smoked so it wasn’t long before I bummed one and the rest as they say is history. Now 12 years later I smoke at least two packs of Reds a day and still think it was a good decision to pick up this wonderfull habit.
Can’t remember. Curiosity? Doing something like adults?
About 8.
I had bought the kind of cigarettes my father smoked, french brown tobacco, without filter. I took a deep puff. I was ill for one hour or so.
Yep, but this first cigarette has nothing to do with it. I started smoking when I was a teen. I really had a hard time getting accustomed to it. I deeply disliked it. But thanks to my strenght of will, I managed to get over this repulsion after some months.
