Do you remember the first time???

[4getmenot]

Smokers or non smokers, can you remember the first time you tried a cigarette? whet made you do it? Was it peer pressure? Were you just curious?

I remember lots of times saying silly things to mates when they offered me a fag, like 'Oh no I used to but I have bad asthma' or 'oh no I cant smoke Marlboro I have a reaction' and I didn't even smoke back then I was about 13 and embarrassed to say I didn't smoke!!
I remember when I was about 15 I bought some fags of the school 'dealer' and went up the park and smoked one all alone just incase I choked. The stupid things we do when we are young.

[Schutzengel]

About 14, again peer pressure, all my school friends smoked. It was seen as grown-up and cool. Later progressed to Sobranie Black Russian, and Sobranie Cocktail, as these were seen as the height of sophistication. Wish I'd never started.

[carrust]

When I was 13. We bought 5 Park Drive between us. I've regretted that day ever since...I still worship the God nicotine!

[4getmenot]

Bought just one fag!! How much was that back then if you couldn�t afford it!! As I remember 10 mayfair being 99p. ha ha. I guess it was always peer pressure I�d like to hear from anyone here that started smoking because they thought �Ooh it must be lovely and taste like a dream� lol

[Lakitu]

LOL, remember I wasn't earning my own money for 2 years before I started flipping burgers at the carnival, so any money I had was pocket money.

I think I was charged 20p a fag.

[4getmenot]

That�s extortionate!! Lol

[Lakitu]

I know! That was back in 1991, making it only 5p cheaper than today!

Definately suing now!

[redcrx]

lol shcutzengal. I too smoked the sobranie black and cocktail.

[4getmenot]

So when did you start smoking redcrx??

[redcrx]

hmm, i was at school but think i was about 15. the 2 clares got me into it. used to sit at rec. I didnt inhale though lol.

Then at 6th form when i got with my ex he smoked and i started.

[4getmenot]

does anyone remember lambert and butlers being really hideus tasting in the early days

[Lakitu]

It was Regal I smoked to start with, then I switched to Lambert and Butler when I was about 18 or so and last year I switched to B&H Silver.

[20SilkCut]

Its your resident smoker here folks...lol....i guess i started maybe about 10 or 11....ok only about 1 or two a day, stolen from my mum or dad's ciggie packet. Dont know why i started but got to like it. I could buy single ciggies in the shop, who also used to give u a bit of a match box and a match to light it!! Been smoking ever since....started on regal red, and on to benson and hedges, regal blue and now on silk cut purple. Ive been thinking of giving them up as they are so expensive and also for health reasons but know i couldnt go cold turkey. Am gonna look into acupuncture or hypnosis to see if it could help with the cravings.
I'm sorry i ever started...it was never down to peer pressure, just something in me to try something different, to take a risk, to appear grown up. :-O

[4getmenot]

how many years have you been smoking then?

[petal54]

thought you were going to be 'personal' & ask when was the first time we'd had you know what!

[20SilkCut]

over 30 years 4getmenot....a lifetime!!

[4getmenot]

petal what do you take me for!! :-)

[sara3]

I've never smoked but I think I didn't hang out with cool enough people at school!

I remember the ice-cream van at school, used to sell single fags for 5p each. this was in the late 70's and the school was for 11-13 year olds.. shocking really!

[R1Geezer]

Never tried it, despite plenty of peer pressure, I just couldn't get past the disgusting nature of the whole thing, not to mention the illogic of filtering 500+ carcinogens through my lungs. I also used to look at the number of times my mum tried to give up and figured that it was a life sentence with a daily fine of, today, at least �5. My mum still smokes, she never cracked it! I can just see my dad shouting at her after a couple of days of trying, "For f**k sake have a fag". He cracked it though oddly enough!

[WhiteBear]

i have never tried the disgusting thing in my whole life. dispite friends geting me to try. i just didint feel the need to do it to fit into the crowd of friends, if they didnt like me because i wouldnt try it.. then they are not my friends.