I know why I'm a failure

[mikebird]

I am the only person who never has smoked tobacco, doesn't, and never will.

Everyone I've ever met likes smoking - mostly rolling from pouches - or cigarettes.

From school we we told not to. I agreed. Others were, previously.

I can think of just one good friend who doesn't ; enough savvy to keep healthy.

From the homeless, jobless, to the elderly, teenagers, I don't know anyone else who doesn't. ALL my family, from age 12, to their nineties.

Maybe it's the cocaine of social stature. I've recently considered it as an option to improve myself. Not yet

What do you think?

 

[muxmux]

Nah, smoking sucks. I did, and it sucks.. if u think smoking will help you to get some social status go ahead, my opinion it won't. Just do what that cliche phrase says ''Be yourself''.

 

[market.garden]

I wouldn't. I quit smoking four months ago, and looking back, I wish I'd never started.

It's nothing to do with social stature - all it does is bring you to the point where you spend most of your time coughing, smelling of stale smoke and feeling unhealthy, not to mention the expense of keeping up the habit - not really ways of 'improving yourself'.

As muxmux says 'Be yourself'

 

[WeirdyMcGee]

Pretty much every person I know who smokes, says constantly that they wish they never started.
I know plenty of people who have never started-- the number of people who do smoke probably outweigh the number who don't though.

I don't know about how it works where you live, but here-- smokers have to leave any public building and stand on the street to smoke and it may even be illegal for them to smoke in their own vehicles.
Smokers aren't allowed to smoke anywhere.
Cigarettes aren't even allowed to be displayed in stores that sell them.

I've never considered that my non-smoking, non-drinking is the reason why I'm not social...
It is something to consider, though... I suppose?

 

[Waybuloo]

I'm confused as to why it's good to smoke? I've tried for a year to get into habit but I failed miserably. It made me sick, feel weak and not in control of my body, get a heroine chic look and get yellow teeth. I also stank, so did all my clothes.

Actually walking around today I occasionally come across a smoker, ever since the ban.

 

[razzle dazzle rose]

It seems like addictions do bring people together--smoking, drinking, drugs. But what it does to your body and mind, it is just not worth it. And those friendships are superficial and destructive anyway. It doesn't make someone a better or more interesting person; it just creates even more problems in the long run. I believe I am one step ahead because I don't have substance abuse problems. Of course, you only mention smoking here, and while smoking has many consequences they are not as bad as those of drug use. Still, I wouldn't do it.

 

[ultra_materialist]

Dude, i smoke two packs of light malrboro everyday. I am 23 year old.

When i am really sad, i smoke this amount... it is a lot.

Don't begin with this ****... it will make you feel good(hahahaha)

 

[Nathália]

I don't know if they are cracking down in the UK, but the government is making it harder to smoke. You really should look into this and what your government plans to do about it. Now we have ad's all over the TV about older people being disabled from smoking, they've been all over the internet too. I don't think you should do it. Most of the people who don't wont to quit don't even like it, they do it as a way to handle stress or come of harder drugs. A side effect that I am sure of is that you will have yellow teeth and smell of smoke.

I never can smoke if I wanted to, the smoke gives me blood nose. My mother does it and our it turned our old apartment walls yellow, she smokes in the garage of or new house now.

 

[N0D]

I started smoking in high school and just recently quit like a year ago...and that totally doesn't let you know how long...I also have to tell you I'm now 24, so I guess like 16 or 17 years old until 23, 6 or 7 years? I never was a "heavy smoker" I doubt I ever smoked more than half a pack a day.

If I had a time machine one thing I would do is go back and find my high school self when I was about to try smoking and beat my ****en ass so bad I needed to go to the hospital.

I just saw the little brother of a guy I was best friends with in middle school in his car smoking today, I wanted to follow him and punch him in the face for smoking.

 

[Kiwong]

Nah, the reason I've never smoked is why I am healthy. Just about everyone I know doesn't smoke and those that do are trying to give up.

 

[twiggle]

I hardly know anyone that smokes anymore - used to be quite a few more before the smoking ban in 2007, but have you seen the price of those things today? £8 for a pack of 20. When I smoked, a couple of years ago, I swear it was about £5, £6 tops.
Anyway, it's a horrible and costly habit. I feel so guilty about the fact I used to smoke. I used to smoke in the house I lived in at Uni... I smoked when I lived in a country where "no girls smoke" living in a house that wasn't my own (didnt smoke IN the house)... I used to smoke before going to eat at restaurants with family/friends... and I still feel guilty about it all the time. It makes everything else smell and now I realise that people were probably just being too polite to say anything.
A habit I'm glad I kicked.

 

[coyote]

i haven't smoked a cigarette for over 20 years

i'm really glad i quit

 

[Aletheia]

I smoked three cigarettes when I was eleven, before deciding that I didn't like them.

I know plenty of people who've never smoked, and plenty of people who've given up.

 

[MikeyC]

In Australia, a carton of cigarettes can be over $80. A packet can be about $20. I will never smoke even for just that reason.

 

[coyote]

my dad smoked for 50 years

he died of a heart attack 2 days after his 65th birthday

the week he retired

 

[MikeyC]

my dad smoked for 50 years

he died of a heart attack 2 days after his 65th birthday

the week he retired

Wow, I'm really sorry to hear that, mate. I wonder if my dad will suffer a similar fate, after smoking for decades. He's 56 and healthy, but that smoking will catch up to him, surely.

 

[Iluv]

I have never ever smoked.

 

[EscapeArtist]

I'm confused as to why it's good to smoke? I've tried for a year to get into habit but I failed miserably. It made me sick, feel weak and not in control of my body, get a heroine chic look and get yellow teeth. I also stank, so did all my clothes.

Actually walking around today I occasionally come across a smoker, ever since the ban.

Lol, yeah, I tried too, never understood it but wanted to. It made me just feel nauseous too, and out of it.

 

[gustavofring]

Both of my parents smoked and they passed away at a too young age from cancer and heart attack.

I used to stress-smoke for about a year or so. When I had a deadline or something coming up. But I realised too that it just made me feel and smell unfit and disgusting. My brother smoked for years and also gave up. He used to be quite unfit in those times but he runs marathons now.

The going outside and thinking for a bit when I smoked was nice though. I guess that's what it is for many people. A moment that they can contemplate, socialise, etc. a bit, to cut themselves off from the stress. But you can do that through other ways, that aren't destructive.

 

[bleach]

you dont need nicotine you need benzos