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.

[Bbbananas]

True - it was peer pressure that made me indulge for the first time. Horrid. But, I went on to smoke those long thin brown 'More' cigarettes - it made me feel more sophisticated!

[MrBounty]

It was after a boozy night out with mates - one of them bought a pack of Silk Cut (oh, the shame!) and we all had a go.

I was in the belief that it was cool to smoke, so the next day, i bought a pack and made myself get hooked.

What a wise move that was, eh?

[4getmenot]

oh yuk. I remember trying some marshmallow ones once because they were only 50p

[ummmm]

It was my cousin at school. He use to nag me and in the end I gave in.....

[MrBounty]

Ummmm - but what about when you got started smoking!? lol

[ummmm]

It's early....!!!

My cousin gave me my first fag.

He's a fag now!!

[Bbbananas]

We all give in to someone in the end.... !

I rarely smoke now - unless I'm really sloshed or very stressed or angry - grrrrrr. But when I do, I only smoke Dorchecster Menthol. Pathetic - I'm still trying to be cool now when I smoke - just like those 'More' ciggies when I was 14. How sad is that?!

[4getmenot]

I gave up real fags months ago after smoking for 15 years. But I have a menthol one every now and then if I go out drinking

[Lakitu]

I don't remember my first fag, but I was 13 when I started and that was peer pressure too. I was also under the illusion it was 'cool' to smoke.

I do know that I didn't inhale, this was pointed out to me by one of my peers and I was adamant that I would not be ridiculed so I took a big draw, inhaled and managed to hold it together infront of them.

OMG, I was green! I left about 10 minutes later and threw up in someone's garden on my way home LOL. Didn't stop me smoking, unfortunately.

[MrBounty]

I heard you'd been smoking since you were about 5......the norm for the area you're from, yeah?? ;)

[4getmenot]

Thats ahy I went off and hid to have my first. I feel bad because I taught my now best mate how to smoke and she keeps trying to give up and cant

[Bbbananas]

I feel that by only smoking the very odd menthol cigarette that I can sayd "it's not real smoking".. (They have to be Dorchester Menthol unless I'm very drunk & would smoke anything going... because those green & gold packets just look so classy...) ;-)

[Lakitu]

Cheeky burger!!

[Bbbananas]

Was it Lambert doc?

[Bbbananas]

4getmenot- I read your last post as "that's when I went off and had my first feel...." I thought you were talking about your cousin again, behind the bike sheds....

[LoftyLottie]

I had one try at home when my mother let me 'have a go'. I have never tried again or wanted to. Even though the world and his wife smoked when I was young I never found any need or felt any peer pressure to smoke.

I am not smug about it, just relieved!! My father smoked until the age of 50, about 30 a day.

Noone in my immediate family now smokes.

[Lakitu]

I used to buy my fags from the icer (even though he KNEW I was underage,I wonder if I can sue). He sold me just one if that's all I had money for. One day, this happened, I had to buy just one.

I was a chancer because I would smoke in my bedroom when mum and dad had gone to bed. Unfortunately, the cigarette had broken in my pocket. In my wisdom, I decided to use sellotape to put it back together again.

I was more green than the first inhilation day....never EVER smoke sellotape, it will make you as sick as a pig.

Parents heard me throw up and I got the day off school haha. I must remember to tell my mum that, I don't think she knows.