Can't get into smoking despite years of trying...

[Jhessail]

I started at 15 because it was the cool and rebellious thing to do. Then it became an addiction. Though it does help with my figure since every time I've tried to quit, my sense of taste improves leading to all foods tasting better and me getting fat. So thanks cigarettes and vodka!

Also Kharille, you shouldn't start. It's unhealthy and expensive. And vaping just makes you look like a butt-sniffing moron.

 

[Kharille]

Yeah, its funny.  I even own a pipe and I smoke my fathers tobacco, last time I tried 3 years ago.  Waste of money but it never caught on.  I also go for an annual cigar with a friend who smokes cigars obsessively.  He's also a cigarette smoker.  Funny thing is he hates how cigarettes stink up a place too.  And yet he smokes at home.

Guess I'll still do an annual cigar with my friend…  Wish I could rinse my mouth after each puff.  Have to 'swallow' in social situations.

 

[Cpt. Nemo]

Guess I'll still do an annual cigar with my friend…  Wish I could rinse my mouth after each puff.  Have to 'swallow' in social situations.

If you dislike it that much, surely you can find something else to do annually instead? Eating somewhere fancy, perhaps?

 

[Moose!]

Tobacco is whacko, but whacky tobacky is just the greatest. <3

 

[Kharille]

I know, maybe I'll try chewing tobacco next…  I heard Sigmund Freud was in a lot of pain due to jaw cancer.  They removed his jaw towards the end of his life.

Its my friend, every year when catching up with old friends he always suggests cigar bars.  If I smoke a cigar at home I pretty much rinse after every puff.

 

[Arvenski]

I think the social aspects of it also plays a large part, it's rebellious, makes you feel independent and adult (if you're young), looks cool in movies, etc.

I've never smoked, but for these reasons I have occasionally felt the urge to do so. A few years ago the rebelliousness of smoking and the "making you feel independent" made me think a few times, "I want to go out and have a smoke", even though nobody in my family smokes and I don't normally imagine himself doing 'harmful' things like smoking, drinking a lot, doing drugs, etc. More recently, I guess it's occurred to me a few times that it would be cool to be the cool guy in the leather jacket (if I ever get a leather jacket ) leaning up against the wall and having a smoke. I highly doubt I'm actually going to smoke anything anytime soon, though. I can definitely do without getting cancer, and I hate the smell of cigarettes. When you're standing by the street and a smoker's car drives past, you can smell the wake of cigarette stench it leaves behind it. Hell, I walked past someone's house once, and presumably they were smokers, because the air around the house reeked.

 

[kurczak]

Nobody likes alcohol the first time around either and if they say they did, they are liars.

My parents gave me a tiny bit of wine when I was like, 5 years old, and I thought it was bitter. Then my parents let me have a glass with my food when I was 14 and I instantly enjoyed it. Same with a caribbean recipe called Guinness Punch. I reckon some people are accustomed to cigarettes before they even try them, especially given how many people will say stuff like "I started smoking alone and in private because work was stressful". I don't think smoking would even function on such a scale if nobody liked the taste at first, and the only motivators were social.

Yeah, when I'm stressed at work, I too like to find a quiet place and irritate my airways and elevate my heart rate for five minutes to calm down and relax.

The "relaxing cigarette" only works for people who are already addicted and experiencing cravings, not for first-time smokers. Tobacco is a stimulant and pure nicotine (or any kind of non-smoking ways of using tobacco, I guess) can give you some jitters, but the smoke itself just gotta be an irritant for 99,999 out of 100,000 people the first few times around. Unless you are already stoned or borderline blacking out from other things and you can't feel anything. I smoked a genuinely natural, unprocessed, un-conserved, un-anything tobacco a couple of times and it was much smoother, so I guess that's how it started way back, but I don't think many people pick up the habit smoking that kind of tobacco these days.

The reason it functions on the scale it does is simply that it's bizarrely addictive and you can still function within society until, if ever, you reach terminal lung cancer. It only gives a very mild high like coffee or an energy drink in the beginning and no high at all once you're fully hooked, so you can still go to work and have a family, pay taxes (extra taxes on the tobacco too!) and be a good cog in the machine unlike drunks, methheads, cokeheads or opiateheads.

 

[Kharille]

I think the social aspects of it also plays a large part, it's rebellious, makes you feel independent and adult (if you're young), looks cool in movies, etc.

I've never smoked, but for these reasons I have occasionally felt the urge to do so. A few years ago the rebelliousness of smoking and the "making you feel independent" made me think a few times, "I want to go out and have a smoke", even though nobody in my family smokes and I don't normally imagine himself doing 'harmful' things like smoking, drinking a lot, doing drugs, etc. More recently, I guess it's occurred to me a few times that it would be cool to be the cool guy in the leather jacket (if I ever get a leather jacket ) leaning up against the wall and having a smoke. I highly doubt I'm actually going to smoke anything anytime soon, though. I can definitely do without getting cancer, and I hate the smell of cigarettes. When you're standing by the street and a smoker's car drives past, you can smell the wake of cigarette stench it leaves behind it. Hell, I walked past someone's house once, and presumably they were smokers, because the air around the house reeked.

Oh yeah, I'd love to look like Gandalf, or Captain Haddock in the Tintin comics.  I own a pipe but I don't use it.  Wonder if they'll come up with a pipe for vaping.

Hell, I've considered chewing on nicotine gum.  Maybe I should get around to it.

 

[Do not look here]

a pipe for vaping.

My hatchet and mental issues are both ready for that moment.

 

[DanAngleland]

Those two cigars I did enjoy, it was memorable, some kinda relaxing pleasurable high, as if I had some chick 'helping me out'.  It was that good.

Until now, I'd never been tempted to try a cigar...

 

[Arvenski]

I know, maybe I'll try chewing tobacco next…

Hell, I've considered chewing on nicotine gum.  Maybe I should get around to it.

Why don't you stop looking for something stupid to do?

 

[Almalexia]

Arvenski isn't wrong. 

 

[Lord Brutus]

I had a friend when I was in high school who used chewing tobacco.  He enticed me into trying it one day at marching band practice.  I wound up throwing up behind the bass drum and never tried tobacco again. 

 

[Cpt. Nemo]

I know, maybe I'll try chewing tobacco next…

Hell, I've considered chewing on nicotine gum.  Maybe I should get around to it.

Why don't you stop looking for something stupid to do?

Fishy can tell you all about the finer points of meth!

 

[Kharille]

Those two cigars I did enjoy, it was memorable, some kinda relaxing pleasurable high, as if I had some chick 'helping me out'.  It was that good.

Until now, I'd never been tempted to try a cigar...

Yeah, I think maybe I'm still looking for those two cigar highs.  Who knows, maybe something else was going on whilst I had those two cigars and I 'didn't notice'.  I am puzzled as to whether anybody gets that much pleasure, cause overall I find it an awful habit.  I suppose the alternative is to find a chick to 'help me out'.  In that case, I would definitely go for a 'smoke break' every hour.

 

[Feragorn]

If that's what you're after, you're halfway gone already. Might as well start smoking meth. I hear the meth-mouth girls give great head.