Smokers/Ex-smokers of KMC: Why did you start smoking?

Why did you start smoking? hmm

How do you feel about it now?
How long have you been smoking/how long did you smoke?

See what the big fuss was during a time i was drinking beer. Felt pretty relaxed. Was sort of a substitute from when i quit weed.

It was a time in which I was not in want of bad ideas.

I went through a depression and started smoking and I still am at age thirty so I think it been four years of smoking.

i started smoking.

then i quit smoking.

then i started smoking again.

good times.

Originally posted by Dave_97
i started smoking.

then i quit smoking.

then i started smoking again.

good times.

cigs or weed?

'cause I do both

I don't exactly like it. It's nothing to be proud of. I began smoking when I was about 16 when a friend offered a cigar to me. Every time anyone had ever offered me anything before I always had the strength to say no but I got tired of saying no, wanted to see what all the fuss was about and tried it. So I began smoking cigars at 16, moved up to cigarettes not long after and was a casual smoker for a few years. I quit somewhere down the line and began smoking back around this past June or July after nearly being smoke free for 1 year (I was 1 month away) because I sat outside on my lunch break at work with a guy I liked and always watched him smoke and it just triggered my starting back up..now I am a Menthol smoker and though I am not a heavy smoker, it's a lot more than it used to be and it would be very hard to quit!

'Cause I was 14 and wanted to be cool. Here I am today, still smoking, still cool.

I started smoking in 2007. I was drunk and talked into trying it by my sister. I became a social smoker off and on until a year ago. I quit because I wasn't addicted so no need to bother.

I started smoking in 2001 I think. The reason I started was because I tried it once after that my friend told me it helped keeping you awake. I do not drink coffee and there was a test I had not studied for in the morning. I stayed up all night and smoked during this.

I stopped smoking around 2009 when I realized I was becoming dependent on it 😛 It went really easy with the help of my boyfriend and my friends who all pitched in when I felt the urge to smoke.

I started very young so I really don't remember why. I quit because I figured out I can kill myself for free just by living and the money could be better spent on other things in the meantime. Cigs weren't nearly as expensive then either. I have no clue why someone would pay the going price for them now.

use to smoke bc my ex husband did

I smoked cigarettes in Elementary School but stopped when my family moved to a better neighborhood, lol.

I started smoking in 2006, I lived in a very remote area in the middle of nowhere like 14 miles away from any town.
My mom smoked, a bunch of kids who lived near me smoked and drank. I only smoked, I drank once. Didnt really like it. Im just not much of a drinker.

I started smoking in 2004, and still do. I started smoking when I would get drunk, then it just became a habit. I don't feel bad or anything so suck it

I like to smoke dispite my family and husband wants me to quit which I will when I am ready.

When I started it was only when I drank or when I smoked weed. About 2 years ago is when it became a habit. I cut back lately after getting sick so many times this winter.

A cig and coffee when I first wake up... glorious.

Originally posted by Selphie
cigs or weed?

'cause I do both

Cigs: I started in the 11th grade and smoked for about a half a year, got tired of it so I just quit. I never actually got addicted.

Weed: I smoked on and off for two years, and I recently quit after I started my first job which I've been working there now for only a few months.