| Subject: Re: Smoking For The Sake Of Smoking |
Author:
Lisa N
|
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
Date Posted: 18:17:15 05/23/07 Wed
In reply to:
Will
's message, "Re: Smoking For The Sake Of Smoking" on 17:08:21 05/23/07 Wed
Hi Bill,
Like any other addictive substance, you're brain acclimatises to your intake of niccotine, so in order to maintain the same effect, so you would need to increase your intake over time. Obviously the lighter you smoke to begin with, the lesser amount you would need to increase by.
OK, that's the scientific bit over with! I hope its ok if I tell you something about my experience. I'm not trying to persuade anyone to do or not do anything, but hopefully I might have experienced something that someone finds useful.
I started smoking when I was 13. My friend's parents had a newsagents shop and she stole a pack of cigs from there and brought them to school. There was like a dare around who would smoke one. It was so pathetic, because they all thought that you would be immediately become addicted, so I thought I'd get some kudos for being the first one to dare to try one. Once I'd had a couple, the others plucked up the courage to have a go. They were all pretty unconvincing though, coughing away at every inhale, so I kept the rest of the packet.
Over the next few weeks I kept receiving these packs of stolen cigs, but I didn't have much opportunity to smoke them, so I'd just store them up. One day my so called friend said she couldn't keep stealing from her shop and that now that I was addicted I would have to pay her for them. As I didn't really have any money, and I wasn't addicted, and I had a big stash of cigs anyway, I called her bluff.
Word had got round that I was a regular smoker and this was a wake up call for the supposedly cooler kids, and all of a sudden half our year of school was at it. I've been given loads of different brands of cigs, but the only one's I liked were the Marlboro reds that I'd started with. I ended up selling all my other packets to the cool kids. I slowly finished my supply of Marlboros and quit while I could. I'd made my point, and, to quote my favourite phrase, "if everyone was going east, then I was going west".
I'd just turned 14 by then. It's odd, even two years later when I was 16 sometimes usually first thing in a morning I'd feel the taste of those marlboro reds in my mouth, like my lungs were still kicking out some old residues.
Shortly after that some bad things started happening in my life and for a short time I become addicted to alcohol and started smoking again, over three years after I'd quit.
After the second or third bout of alcohol poisoning I quit both for good, cold turkey. I'd been so violently ill that just the smell of smoke, beer, spirits or vermouth would make me feel queasy. I guess I couldn't have been properly addicted to either, because I don't think that it would have been that easy to stop despite the bad flashbacks it gave me.
By then I'd got over my personal troubles, so there was also no phychological reason to continue. Plus again, I think there was an element of my awkwardness in there too. It's a bit naughty to be drinking and smoking when your 16 and under, but by the time you're 19 everyone's doing it, so it loses its appeal.
Sorry to have gone on so long...
Good luck!
Lisa N
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
| |
Feedback: 