Why do you still smoke?

I don´t smoke anymore because I could not afford it, but I respect people who do. To blame smoking on smokers is like to blame wars on the poor soldiers who are sent to fight for things they don´t understand. Let us blame the tabacco companies, the subtle commercials that smoking had for decades at movies where glamorous movie stars smoked during all the film. It is an addiction. Addictions are expensive to cure. In my country, the government does not give free treatment for it. How about in yours?

my friend have been a smoker for five years till now, cannot find the better way to solve his addiction. i already told him to ask a consultant who handle this problem after he join in, his habit still going and i think may be his "training doesn't work) until i try to talk with someone who had been a smoker until the last he fell uncomfortable with it... he tell (when we want to stop smoking, just stop n don't ever think about it but it depend with our self when we decide it)

I have never smoked and never will. I credit my fourth grade teacher to my "not smoking." My Dad smoked for many years, and it truly bothered me, but he was my Dad and I had to accept his habit, be around his habit, and when I visited him, I had to sit at his table where he always smoked, and that was if I wanted any kind of relationship with him. He finally quit, when it was to late and his health was far beyond repair. Sometimes I can sympathize with smokers, because I am sure it is hard to quit...and other times, I think to myself, but "you didn't notice the warnings on the package?" I know you can read, but it's the pleasure at that moment that is so attracting.

I'm so thankful I never started the habit of smoking. It's an addiction I didn't need to break. It hurts me to see family members that smoke, especially around their children. I would think their children would be an incentive to stop. I guess it just must be THAT hard to stop smoking? I guess not having experienced it , I can't truly say.

It might seem easy to just smoking, but trust me, it really isn't. I know there are probably enough good ways or therapies or whatever to help you stop smoking, but it's not just something you do in a day or so. To be honest I don't really see the advantages of smoking(because I don't smoke) but I guess people are that addicted that they just really need it. So see it like this, if you really really love something, for instance, you go to your work by car every day, even though you live 25 minutes away. What if someone told you to stop going by car (forever) and bike to your work every morning. It's just like you'll miss something really bad and you can't just do it. Hope this helped