Hey, you’re shit-out-luck if you’re ever gonna sneak anything else past her.
I started because I wanted to impress a girl who I was long-time friends with (and I was always hoping for more).
Ended up with a 12-year habit and never came close to bedding her.
I smoked the occasional cigarette when I was a teen because it intensified whatever buzz I had going at the time.
Later on I smoked because I liked the buzz and it was like a little meditation. Ahhh. I used to smoke filterless Camels, or I’d roll my own. Maybe 6 or so a day for a number of years then I quit. I was very secretive about it.
I find it hard to believe that ducktails were ever sexy.
Also, the sun has a smell? 
Yeah. Maybe it’s the urban bitterness in me (not being able to sun dry my clothes and all), but I’ve never heard of the sun having a smell.
It’s kind of hard to describe but line dried clothes smell fresh. It’s the same thing you smell early on a summer morning before the sun is too intense. I don’t know if I’d refer to it as the smell of the sun, but that is a very pretty turn of phrase.
I am and have been a nonsmoker, but I can say why I tried out smoking for a week or so in my mid-teens: I wanted to know what all the fuss was about.
In the end I was no wiser: initial mild nausea (so it seems I did get some nicotine) but no worthwhile or even noticeable other effects. So I did not take it up. Perhaps there is a minority of people not susceptible at all to become smokers?
I was never going to smoke and got the same reactions. It was the third time my friend shoved the cigarrette at me that it started tasting good. It takes a few times to get hooked. We were in high school and some of my friends smoked in the bathroom. I hated the smell of it but I got hooked by giving in to peer pressure.
To be sure, most of you are speaking of smoking American cigarettes, and they definitely are foul. Most of them are made largely out of the cheapest crappiest Turkish tobacco, and it doesn’t surprise me that they might well get into the pores of the person smoking them, cause others to recognize that an individual is a smoker, etc.
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Curious teenager, all of my friends’ parents smoked (so they were easy to access), all of my friends smoked, my older brother smoked, and my parents were both ex-smokers. I loved the smell, I had addictive tendencies, and from the first one I lit up at 15, I loved it.
21 years later, still smoking 7/day. DUMB as hell, and I hide it well. I’ve tried to quit numerous times, failing. I’ll keep trying to quit. It doesn’t run my life, I can go long periods of time without having one, but I still have them handy and get excited to have one. Ugh. Good old addiction!
Redbloom,
Don’t quit quiting! I found cigarettes the hardest bad thing to give up and it took me over 10 tries to do it. I got a little stronger each time I quit. I liked my clothes hair and house smelling fresh and that in the end made me quit for good. Well so far so good! 7 a day isn’t bad at all, I smoked a pack and a half a day. Good luck!
I don’t know, Stoid. I quit over a year ago and I could go back to my two packs a day tomorrow. I DID enjoy it and I still miss it. Fortunately, I breathe much better and that supersedes my urge to go back to smoking. I don’t see ever getting back to like I was before I ever smoked. If you’ve done that, great for you. But, as usual, we aren’t all the same. The good news for me is that after my forty years of smoking, my doc says I don’t have COPD after all. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t smoke again if there were no health effects and the cigs were free. But that’s just me.
Sorry about the hijack. As to the OP, I started because everyone around me smoked - my mother, my father, all my brothers and sisters. It was my destiny. Of course that was a long long time ago. There were ash trays in the grocery stores and even the doctors’ offices. I don’t know why people start now. I would suspect it’s a case of “You can’t tell me what to do. I’ll smoke if I want to.” I say this as a bit of a rebel myself. If I were young now I might start for that reason. 
I don’t know what to tell you. I enjoyed the very first cigarette I smoked. And I smoked it alone, so there were no peers to influence my reaction. The feeling is kind of an alertness buzz, like caffeine, mixed with a feeling of focus and a boost of energy. I still get that same feeling, although I think not as intensely now that I expect it. I won’t deny that I tend to smoke more often when I’m around other smokers, but social acceptance doesn’t explain everything.
I’m sure I’m not smoking more than I realize because none of my friends smoke, so there’s no one to bum cigarettes off of. I know that in the past year I bought exactly 2 packs of cigarettes, and one is still sitting about half-full in the drawer.
It’s possible I’m “not doing it right”, whatever that means.
Well, are you sticking them in your ear? It’s easy to limit yourself if you do that.
Didn’t read the entire three-page thread, but my observation is that smokers simply come from families where at least one parent smoked. Out of all my childhood friends and relatives, invariably the guys from smoker homes ended up smoking while people coming from non-smoking homes never started. There was this one guy, an athletic go-getter and an exceptionally level-headed guy, who almost beat the odds, only to start smoking at age 23, long after any “cool” factor was at play.
Just want to say that as an ex smoker I’m not one of those "holier then thou, ban it "people.
As long as its not in other peoples faces/spaces I think people should be allowed to smoke as much as they want to, even though I find the smell unpleasant now.
I started because I wanted to smoke. I like the idea of smoking, and the number of unlimited breaks I could take at work to go smoke. It turned out I liked the way menthol cigarettes tasted.
And yet my parents smoked, but none of us three kids did. Hmm.
There is a baby on Utube that smokes two packs a day. His Dad got him hooked. Nice thing for a Dad to do for his baby! :eek: