Smokers: Why do you smoke knowing that smoking will ruin lives?

Question

Why do you smoke (and yes I know it's addicting), but why did you think about doing it in the first place? Smoking can cause cancer, emphysema, and much more problems in life. You may think that it won't affect you and your health, but it will. 2nd hand smoke can kill the others around you too, they are getting all of those harmful risks just like you are! You could be smoking around someone else not knowing that they may end up with the lung cancer, and you are to blame for contributing to their death! I am sorry to be so harsh,that's the way it goes people! Not to mention, in public, people are mocking you for smoking and making fun of you because of that horrible smell. People can also tell that you are a smoker by the way you talk, smell, and the way you look. It's stinky! Why don't you just quit now to hopefully save yourself from the harmful future that you may hold!? Buy some Nicorette gum or something, do something about this disgusting habit. Treat yourself to the best health you can w/o smoking! Do something people.

Has this made you rethink and consider quiting? Please, please consider this.

I am just trying to reach out to others. Thanks,

Answer 1

everyone has a weakness to smokers its cigarettes  

Answer 2

Why do you push your ideals on others? You would probably like San Francisco folk. People smoke because they want to. Some are addicted. Or its just a habit. Its their choice anyway

Answer 3

Your concern and your information is accurate.  As a NON-Smoker I have noticed not only a physical addiction but almost a relationship...A friendship if you will that a smoker has with their cigarette.  There is an emotional part that is very hard to break.  When no one else is a companion a cigarette is!  This may sound foolish but the pain in people's lives needs a place of expression and a smoke doesn't talk back just keeps you company.  Is this an excuse, No just a reason that us non-smokers just don't experience.  Have some compassion on them, they are trapped both physically and emotionally.

Answer 4

they try it without thinking and try it again and after that they are hooked people dont think of the consenquenses before they start alot of my uncles smoke about half a pack a day its hard to convince them to stop and its even harder to stop

its cheaper to not smoke

and people try it cuz of peer pressure and all that stuff

wow uve obviously gave this alot of thought but u just wasted it cuz not alot of people are gonna see this and the rest arent gonna read it all i only read the first couple of lines

Answer 5

My mother smokes and it is making her blind, but she doesn't stop. She has macular degeneration and smoking is a known cause. So, she plans to hire a caretaker and spend the family money on that rather than use the family money to help pay for college educations for her grandchildren, which she had formerly said she would do. This is money that my grandpa and my dad earned. While I would agree that she is entitled to spend it on reasonable items, she essentially is spending it on her addiction and her grandchildren are going to pay the price for her addiction.

This probably isn't what you were looking to hear, but it is in line with the idiocy of smoking, which is the topic of your post.  

Answer 6

because people who usually smoke start off as a young person, thinking its cool, and they actually begin to get addicted, and after you smoke for so long its kinda hard to stop...

Answer 7

until the government declares nicotine as a drug and insurance companies forced to pay for meds your going to have smokers. anyone that has not smoked has no idea the power of nicotine and its physiological hold it has.no different from alcohol cocaine crack weed etc...lets also mention the tax revenue being made by the city state and feds they are in no hurry to abolish smoking

Answer 8

I dont smoke, But Most people who smoke got involved with smoking when they were young most likly "trying to be cool" and doing it with all the other kids who smoked. And like you said Its addicting, once they start it hard to stop.

Answer 9

It's not nearly as easy as just saying "Hey, I think I'll quit smoking today". My dad smokes and has smoked since he was a kid. He knows that it's killing him and that it's annoying to the people around him. He's tried quitting over and over, but the nicotine addiction has become such a big part of his life that he literally can not function without it. Your body actually gets physically dependent on nicotine.. it's like cocaine or any other drug, except it kills you slower. Your body is so used to the nicotine it needs it regularly to be normal, and shuts down if it doesn't get it.

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If others have, you can.. nahh doesn't work. Others have scaled mt. everest, doesn't mean I can do it. Everyone's situation is different. Some people can kick the habit easier than others.

Answer 10

I am not a smoker, but my father was, he started when he was about 14. He quit when he was 44 it was a tough thing to do , but he did it and I am proud of him.

A lot of times people start because they want to fit in (like my father ) they think it is cool.  A long time ago, smoking used to be glamorized on television and if you look at the ads they even glamorize it. They make it look like it's the thing to do and it's attractive and cool and so on and people pick up on that.

Nicorette gum is not always the cure, the cure is willpower which is a difficult thing for many people, it takes hard owrk and it takes effort.

When someone is truly addicted to something, they do not think about the harm they are doing to themselves or to other people, addictions are monsters that take a tight grip and they are hard to let go of. People think more about feeding that desire than their health. They get stressed, what do they do go out and smoke.

It is up to the person to stop. We can beg and plead all we want, but it is up to them.  

Answer 11

i kno its stupid!!! cigs cost quite a lot so its like paying for an early death!!!

Answer 12

Get over yourself and work on your own faults.