Can someone help me understand this

Question

What makes someone want to start smoking? Does someone really wake up one day and say "I'm gonna start smoking today?" What is so attractive about something that smells terrible, makes the people you live with smell terrible, a waste of a lot of money, makes you look old and wrinkled, and most importantly, causes cancer? I know that the nicotine is addictive but I don't get what makes a person start smoking in the first place. Can someone enlighten me please?

Answer 1

Smoking provides pleasure. It is a sensory experience that must be experienced to be appreciated. It is not for everyone, but for many of us it provides relaxation and stimulation at the same time. And it isn't an automatic death sentence, as you seem to believe. Many people smoke for decades and never get cancer or other diseases.

Finally, a lot of people find smoking sexually stimulating and appealing. Look up "smoking fetish" or "s**y smoking" on the Web or YouTube and see for yourself.

Answer 2

i know i decided i was going to try it to see "what all the fuss was about" turns out i hated it and it was gross. Sometimes when looking for a way out of stress, you ll recall that alot of people use cigarettes as a reliever. alot of smokers get hooked youg just to look cool to their friends

Answer 3

It pretty much all comes down to a combination of peer pressure and parent imitation.  Kids see mom and dad and their friends, sisters/brothers doing it so they immediately decide they should do it too because that's what the people they look up to do.  Some people start smoking because supposedly it curves food cravings.  Some start because it supposedly helps calm their nerves or at least that's what the addicts claim when they're trying to convince people they should start.

Answer 4

Stupidity? Peer Prussure?