I lot of my friends growing up smoked. Like, my best friends. Most of my family, my mom and all of my older siblings, all smoked.
When I was something like fourteen or some shit, I took one drag and thought it was the most disgusting shit I had ever tasted on my life and an immensely unpleasant experience. Never touched them again, never even wanted to. It’s honestly one that baffles me.
Edit, typos
Wish I never smoked, but over 4 years since my last and no cravings. Always was afraid that cravings would never go away, that hungry anxiety was awful, even if it was dull after a time
Terrible addiction that isn’t worth it
I liked my sister’s answer when someone offered her cigarettes to try.
“If I don’t like it, it will be a shitty experience. If I do like it, that’s much worse. There’s no way for me to smoke a cigarette and win.”
I mean as cliche as this seems to be an an answer, I think the best solution is to not try them in the first place. You can’t lose if you never play the game.
You can’t lose if you never play the game.
Except get cancer from second hand smoking.
there is that (as someone who had parents and grandparents who were smokers) but it is also quite unfair, you never asked for them to be smokers or smoke around you and when you are a child your attempts to convince them to stop smoking is met with laughter more often than not.
I think a big part on why I’m not a smoker is I saw what it did to people, and how second hand smoke has affected me. I’d be in a room with my mother and grandfather, trying to find clean air inside my grandfather’s small apartment because both of them were smoking at the same time. I never want to make another human experience that.
Best thing you can do is to break the chain if others in your family do it I guess. I will never smoke, there’s literally nothing in it for me or those around me.
