Should I start smoking cigarettes

[Pizzabeak]

I don't like how the cig smoke tickles my nose. It's more aggravating than anything. Funny story: a couple years ago when we moved into this one place a thick murky cigarette odor filled the hallway and it hit me in the guts as soon as you would walk in. I didn't know what it was at first until someone said it was a cigarette thing. I thought, "Jesus". After a couple weeks we brought some weed in finally and burned the place down but we were concerned about it leaving a smell only to find out that it sort of replaced the cigarette funk. At least, I can't smell it anymore and no one has said anything about it smelling like weed. Maybe it was something else.

But whenever someone smokes a cig around me the smoke tickles my nose like an allergic reaction. I think having more nose hair is supposed to help.

 

[Pizzabeak]

I smoke a little and love it...but the addiction thing is totally personal and something I don't really struggle with.

My only advice is, if you do decide to smoke, go with a pipe or roll your own. The quantity of tobacco in one normal cig is a TON. I roll my own and can make 2-3 hand rolled out of 1 pre-rolled. Then I feel totally fine smoking 1 or 2 a day, which isn't even a whole pre-rolled cig.

Tobacco has been great to me (which is totally counterintuitive to our culture and modern understanding to health).

Could you provide examples of how it has been great to you?
For what it's worth when I started this thread I meant tobacco, not necessarily cigarettes.
I suspect it's more about the mental stimulation than direct physiological stimulation. It's to make the mind busy, as you can smoke while doing stuff. Well I don't mean to defend it. But it would be interesting to see what it does. They make a lot of fictional characters smoke, which looks cool but is an advertisement ploy. There's no answer anywhere but from direct experience. If someone offered I'd be less hesitant than I ever was before but just don't feel like going to the store to buy some.

I'm more thinking along the lines it could help me stay up longer. But probably not. A friend who smokes already said I shouldn't. He only loads tobacco for spliffs, something I've never done (although I unknowingly puffed one before). So yeah, many people smoke but it doesn't mean you have to too. It just feels like I could be missing something.

If I start it would be a big change. I won't, but it seems tempting when there's nothing else to do.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Smoking is so hard to quit... I've wanted to quit since not long after I started, but building up the motivation to go through with it is very difficult. When I've tried, I've developed huge amounts of anger which could potentially be very destructive. I've tried to cut down, but my rate of smoking has stayed the same over the past few years. The rush from smoking tobacco through a bong is exhilarating, and the trance state formed through smoking a cigarette is enjoyable, but as has been said, it's ultimately like a slow form of committing suicide - destroying the body one puff at a time, and I've not yet given up enough to suppose that this would be a good thing.

The rush is something that is fulfilling on an extroverted sensing level, and it's usually when I get agitated in Se that I want to go have a smoke, but I doubt I would feel that way if I had never started. The agitation is produced by the cravings themself (on a physiological and psychological level). It's probably similar to the rush of an extreme sport, the way I do it, which is another way of potentially destroying your body. So I can't say to start it, but I've never found reason good enough to quit.

 

[Happy]

Smoking is so hard to quit... I've wanted to quit since not long after I started, but building up the motivation to go through with it is very difficult. When I've tried, I've developed huge amounts of anger which could potentially be very destructive. I've tried to cut down, but my rate of smoking has stayed the same over the past few years. The rush from smoking tobacco through a bong is exhilarating, and the trance state formed through smoking a cigarette is enjoyable, but as has been said, it's ultimately like a slow form of committing suicide - destroying the body one puff at a time, and I've not yet given up enough to suppose that this would be a good thing.

The rush is something that is fulfilling on an extroverted sensing level, and it's usually when I get agitated in Se that I want to go have a smoke, but I doubt I would feel that way if I had never started. The agitation is produced by the cravings themself (on a physiological and psychological level). It's probably similar to the rush of an extreme sport, the way I do it, which is another way of potentially destroying your body. So I can't say to start it, but I've never found reason good enough to quit.

I found quitting easy. I just started smoking more and more and more, until it was making me sick every time. Then one day I went to light one and before I did, I was sickened by the smell of the tobacco. I put it away and never smoked tobacco again.

That was over a year ago now. Haven't really looked back. My life got much better in unexpected ways after, and as a consequence of, quitting.