A question for smokers and non smokers...just because I'm curious

my mum use to smoke and we had really bad problems breathing and alway had cougths or something. i was corss country capten for two years and was fit in body. however i used to get out of breath very easyly, even when not running. after the run it use to take me longer than the otheir girls to recover. i once tried it but never again. i cant stand the smell also and would get put off boys who smelled of smoke

I think smoking is a disgusting habit and I am not a smoker but I can be persuaded to light up a stick if offered one. Cheers!!!

I started smoking at 19, i think it had something to do with the bars and just common place thing that happened there. First it was just when i was at the bar, then moved to anytime I was drinking then to all the time. I never figured I would smoke. I resisted through all my teenage peer pressure life. My father had quit the day I burnt my pinky I was 5. He quit cold turkey out of the guilt he felt. My husband also smokes, but that had nothing to do with me starting. We both tried quitting many times, my husband and 2 other friends and I made a bet at work that who ever quit for longer than 2 months would get $500. I lasted the longest 4 months and caved for some reason, i enjoyed the money but afterwards felt shameful for starting again. I tried quitting twice more, using patches, nicorette gum, eating like crazy but still the habit was there. When i was pregnant I quit as soon as i found out, I had little problem quitting as I was thinking what was best for the baby. Unfortunately i started again 10 days after her birth, at the time i blamed it on stress of having a baby in the NICU, but that is a lame excuse. I quit for good 6 months later cold turkey and have only had one mild craving since then. The final time was very easy I wasn't even planning on quitting it just seemed like fate. My hubby is still working on quitting, he is taking baby steps i know that pushing isn't going to help him so he is doing it at his pace. None of our girls are exposed to smoke other then the terrible smell of his clothes. i do hope they never pick up the habit. I do not know anyone personally that has passed away from smoking related diseases but can feel the difference in my body from no longer inhaling the harmful chemicals that seem to hold you hostage. Your day revolves your next smoke. You budget for that pack of smokes. It is insane the things people will do for something so harmful. I do wish that they would just disappear not just become illegal.

I never was curious about it. I thought it smelled funky always. And I have horrible effects when I'm around smoke. I have a heart abnormality called Mitral Valve Prolapse, it's not crazy but it I can have episodes when smoke's around. I truly do think that people who smoke should just use the exhaust pipe and get it over with. That is how I feel about it. It's quicker, cheaper and saves everyone else from getting cancer.

i don smoke cos i don like it...smoking is injurious to helth not only to the one who smokes but also to the one who is breathing the same air..passive smokers also i hate ppl smoking in public places...

i never thought of starting smoking , because i can't find any benefits of being a smoking addict, especially. it will cost lots of money

I've never been a smoker, because there's no reason to start. it smells bad, it's unhealthy, and it's a vast waste of money.

I was curious and bored, then I got hooked.

I have never had a desire to start smoking. I have smoked occasionally socially. I watched my grandfather die of emphosema and I would not wish that on anyone. I think it is dirty and nasty habit. And the second hand smoke can and does effect those these smokers love and care about. It is just dumb.

My father is a smoker and I never thought I'd be one either but I was peer pressured by my ex bf/husband. I hated that he smoked that I felt he'd see how bad it was if he watched me do it and that is why I did it. Of course he never got it. Eventually, I hated myself for doing that so I quit soon after and I never ever want to do it again and never have. I was 17 when I first tried it.

I never and never will be a smoker. What keeps me motivated? I'm against the "flow". Everyone smokes already and sometimes I see a kid smoke too. So, smoking doesn't make you cool it makes you weak and look ugly if you let it control you. Another thing that keeps me motivated not to smoke is my dad. Why my dad? Because he quit smoking just for me. Before I was born he quit smoking so that I won't imitate what he is doing and he is regretful when he started smoking because it wasn't all the "Hype". It makes you cool in the eyes of some but you pay the price of having cancer or dying from a heart attack. So people out there! DO NOT SMOKE! Live a healthy life and exercise!

i am a nonsmoker... actually i see so many people around me ....all to be doctors taken up by the habit of smoking... well it does seem unrealistic that those who r supposed to preach about the ill effects of smoking themselves indulge in those habits....i have seen ppl doing overnight studies with a cig in one hand and a glass for a ashtray... in the morning u see them emptying the full ashtray... i couldn't even digest that fact until i saw someone doing it myself...but i haven't yet understood the need to smoke...ok it may get on with you in young age when u were really stupid saying the it makes u look cool..... i was fortunate that all my friends nonsmokers so there was no peer pressure on me....nor was i tempted to buy a cig for myself...... for the simple fact that its habit forming which doesn't fit good with me...i love to be able to be free with what i do if i don't like it after some time......that's not possible with smoking...same with hukka....