smoking....

look smoking is a bad habit i agree but when one gets addicted to it is hard to quit it .. majority smoke for pleasure and some too showoff.

I think if anyone really knew the answer to that question, either the whole world would be smoking, or the whole world would be quitting. I quit smoking almost 4 weeks ago (go me!) and all I can tell you is that once you've tried it, either you hate it or you love it. I loved smoking but I also was well aware of the dangers of it, and after seeing my best friend slowly dying of cancer (and he never smoked a day in his life!), I knew it was time to quit. All the bans in the world will not stop people from smoking, unfortunately, but hopefully someday it will come to pass that smoking just isn't the thing anymore...

I don't understand why in thsi day and age ith what we know cigerets do to your body. I think people that smoke are very selfish people. These people only acre about them smoking and not the people nearby hem they are harming. Its funny becasue most smokers will tell you that they can't stand to be around someone else smoking, well hello genious, how do you think the rest of us feel around you?

I don't understand how people can smoke. I can't stand the smell, I cant handle being around people who smoke, and I sure as heck can't stand walking behind someone who smokes. The smell is just horrible. I mean do smokers not understand that stuff will kill you eventually? I think about all of the chemicals in those things, and I think wow how can people be willing to put that into their bodies. How can they keep those things legal? I don't understand smokers, and I doubt I ever will...

The habits like these are nomally adapted when you want to come out of anxiety or depressions. If one is not treated properly always tends to do something like this. Initially he takes it as a fun or temporary solution. But slowly becomes addict of that bad habit. As such any addiction or bad habit can be cured out or stoped completely with proper psycological manner. But very few think of even getting free from it. And they continue to do this. Further face advice of people like you, who never show them a correct remedy but insults instead.

EVERYONE HAVE TO STOM SMOKING FOR BETTER HEALTH AND A BIT MONEY MORE....

You for got to add: They vote for people like George Bush to run the country.

Smoking is very addictive! That's why people get hooked on it. Maybe they get started because they were stressed and the people around them were smoking to relieve the stress and then they can't stop. It saves money when you stop smoking.

I am 26 and i STOPPED smoking 10th of Nove,ber 2006 so I have struggled bow for a few months. I smoked for 13 years and giving it up is HARD! The reason i started to smoke are different ones i think. both my parents smoke, my brother startaed, my friends started and I gues it just feltnormal for me - didn´t waznna be any different I guess, I realise that smoking is stupid but i also admit that is till miss that dangerous thing ...

Yeah, smoking kills.. but so does leaving your house in the morning, you could get hit by a bus. There have been so many topics like this created, talking about the effects of smoking and how the smoker 'must not have read the packets, how they dont care, how it is bad for them'... They know its bad for them, and honestly, they will keep doing it because its their god given right to choose what they do to themselves! Im not a smoker, but I think everyone is giving them a raw deal. Yeah, they smoke, but who cares??? Their habit isnt affecting you, so just leave the topic alone!

its true, very true that smoking kills! and it is a fact that even after being aware of this thing people smoke!. apart from having several other effects, the most killing effect is the PSYCHOLOGY that is been made after starting smoking, that turns it into an addiction. Some people start it just for style, some for fantasy, some because they have heard that smoking tones up your mind.....bla, bla, bla. but when u start smoking, it makes a deep psychological effects. You start feeling its need. Even if you are not able to solve a simple mathematical calculation. Why this happens? It is because of the reason, that a cigerettee temporarily tones up your mind and body. It increases the blood circulation, the heart beat, the other general physical metabolism processes and when its effect ends up, the person starts feeling its needs. Obviously he starts feeling tired, lazy, sleepy etc. because the energy level, that was increased by the cigerettee has come to and end. The person is again normal. So a person tries to gain that 'energy'(by energy I mean the effect of cigerettee only, not any useful thing) If a person makes up his mind, not to smoke when he starts feeling tired, sleepy etc.. the person can give up smoking.

I think that people in general do not believe that they will get sick until it happens to them Especially teenagers, who tend to feel invincible as a whole unless they have had people close to them die at an early age. I know that when I smoked I never really considered what it might be doing to me until the smoke really started to bother me. Thankfully I only smoked for maybe a year. I mostly gave up due to it costing me far too much, but I am so glad that I did give up no matter the reason. It's a horrilbe habit. My problem is that I really need to be busy with my hands all the time. I'm really a multi-tasking type, I can't bear to be bored or feel like I'm not doing 2-3 things at a time. Lol. I thikn that quite a few people smoke due to feeling this way, l iking to keep themselves nad their hands busy.

Hello. I have heard all of the above, and I am currently a smoker. I have quit smoking 3 times before, two of the times were because I was pregnant, the other time, well, I wanted to see if I could do it. I did, and for over a month, then one night I went out with friends for a few drinks and that old habit just kicked right back in...not saying that drinking was the cause, I have my own mind to decide whether or not to smoke. As of now, I'm deciding on a quitting date in the future(which I have read increases chances of actually quitting. Fingers crossed that maybe this time I can quit for good!

IT IS A NASY HABBIT AND IT DOES NOT EVEN TAST NICE.

It's the chemical effect that I love the most of smoking. Not that I love smoking, I don't, wish I could quit, but I am not too dependant on that chemical I just said I love. The effects are calming to me. I am too high strung of a person so I need that quick, ahhh, that smoking gives me. Yes I know it's no good for my health, but the years it takes off, are the ones at the end and they aren't very good any way, LOL. Just kidding.

It is a choice and those who do such just prove they dont have values for their life.

Smoking kills you are absolutely right, but suppose if you are deep in love with a girl and you cant leave her at any cost, and suddenly you come to know she has Aids and she will die soon and if u go ahead with her you will also be affected, but then too if you love her you wont leave her, so the same is smoking with smokers, they cant leave smoking even if it has many bad effects and even if it kills people.

i dont know why people smoke but waht i do know is why i smoke, which ia m eager to share with you. I started smoking bcoz of the increasing stress and tension that i faced in my life. now i smoke bcoz i am addicted to it.

ya thts correct wht u said it damages severly....my father stoped smoking i too feel happy,but after somedays he again started smoking so one who adicts 4 tht can never c back.................

bcoz they like it so they smoke they dont care of anything