Smoking

[Glen Coco]

How many time do you actually have to smoke to get addicted?
I've smoked a few times and never really gotten 'addicted'.

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[Gibs960]

I've always wondered this, some people say 1 :S but I haven't tried it so, I dunno

[MrGazet]

I've smoke twice but I'm not addicted and I don't plan to be addicted though

[Special]

A few times but never addicted, I was about 12 (with all my friends) so I don't think i knew how to do it properly thinking about it

[Smits]

Youll have to smoke quite a few to get addicted and start doing it daily.

I only ever smoke after i've been drinking and even then its only one or two. Never will be addicted.

[HotelUser]

Both my parents smoke, my grandfather died from smoking, my mindset forbids me from trying it for fear of addiction.

[FlyingJesus]

Some people are more prone to addiction (to anything) than others. I smoke from time to time, usually when I go out, but never had any cravings

[Nicola]

Both my parents smoke, my grandfather died from smoking, my mindset forbids me from trying it for fear of addiction.

This.

I've never tried it as I fear I'll get addicted and I don't want that.

[Richie]

I'm not stupid so I haven't tried it.

[DrLacero]

I smoke ~10 a day. I'm fairly sure you'd call me addicted. If I don't smoke for say a day, I'll be short-tempered. There was no moment I was suddenly addicted, it doesn't work like that. There's no way to quantify it.

[leah]

I guess it depends on the individual, I smoked for a few months when I was about 13/14 and I just stopped without feeling addiction at all, however some people will do it for the same amount of time and say they're addicted. That might just be them making an excuse to continue doing it, i don't know.

[Melsia]

I've smoked quite a few times, mainly when I was about 14 but I did a few times recently too and I've not been addicted or had cravings or anything. I think it definitely depends on the individual, some people have more addictive natures than others like they get addicted to things easily.

[cocaine]

i smoke whenever ive been drinking and occasionally sobber but i cant say i'd ever see how i could get addicted to it

[Becca]

I had a drag once when I was in year seven.
I started to have full ones then I just stopped.
I never really got "addicted".

[wixard]

it depends if you're inhaling properly or not

[buttons]

if you need one within 20 minutes after you're up i'd say you're addicted....
i couldn't ever think of having one soon as i'm up but pretty much all my mates that smoke do. i started when i was 11 and could easily start and stop when i wanted, months at a time.
smoked everyday from age 13-16 but could easily go one day without getting grumpy, stopped before my 17th n found it easy so its not like you're gonna get addicted after a week...

[kuzkasate]

ive tried so many times, never got addicted lol. :S i was inhaling properly

[Black_Apalachi]

Youll have to smoke quite a few to get addicted and start doing it daily.

I only ever smoke after i've been drinking and even then its only one or two. Never will be addicted.

Pretty much all my mates who smoke started off by only smoking when they were drunk "because it's very social" apparently.

Once you've had one cigarette, I don't see what would ever make you have another apart from cravings?

[FlyingJesus]

Once you've had one cigarette, I don't see what would ever make you have another apart from cravings?

Because smoking is cool

[Catzsy]

Because smoking is cool

Yes exactly - that's how it is perceived by some people. Doing it to be 'cool' means that eventually you will be addicted.

[Romanity]

There is no set amount you have to smoke to be addicted... It depends on the person. Some have one and hate it. Some have one and never stop. It depends on the person.

[Hitman]

When tobacco is smoked, most of the nicotine is pyrolyzed. However, a dose sufficient to cause mild somatic dependency and mild to strong psychological dependency remains. There is also a formation of harmane (a MAO inhibitor) from the acetaldehyde in tobacco smoke. This seems to play an important role in nicotine addiction—probably by facilitating a dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens as a response to nicotine stimuli.[51] Using rat studies, repeated exposure after nicotine use in in less responsive the nucleus accumbens cells responsible for reinforcement, which implicates that many events, not just nicotine itself, likewise become less reinforcing.[52]

Maybe that is useful.

[Rixion]

isn't it after a few tries

[Casanova]

I smoke ~10 a day. I'm fairly sure you'd call me addicted. If I don't smoke for say a day, I'll be short-tempered. There was no moment I was suddenly addicted, it doesn't work like that. There's no way to quantify it.

No, you're addicted when you can't go less than two hours without a cig.
I smoke around twenty to twenty-five cig's a day. I'm addicted and I fully enjoy it. I don't plan on quitting and I don't care. You're addicted when you "depend" on the release of cigarettes. Find that exact moment and there you are!

And a lot of people who say they've "tryed it" haven't. You haven't tried smoking until you've actually inhaled. Take a puff then take a big long sharp intake of breath. Feel's like your throat is being entered by fire... oh my.

[Wig44.]

I've had a few (could count the number on one [or two, not sure] hands though) and I'm nothing near addicted. I'll never start smoking, except maybe the odd one after drinking. Even then I usually don't - it isn't worth it.

[Firehorse]

What I found really weird the other day was I had a craving for a smoke even though i've never smoked before, was stressed that day. :S

[Catzsy]

What I found really weird the other day was I had a craving for a smoke even though i've never smoked before, was stressed that day. :S

That is very strange indeed. I hope you resisted. =]

[Smits]

Pretty much all my mates who smoke started off by only smoking when they were drunk "because it's very social" apparently.

Once you've had one cigarette, I don't see what would ever make you have another apart from cravings?

I know for a fact i dont have 'cravings' and will never be addicted. I simply do it when i'm out and drinking because i want to. Not because i crave it. And also, i do inhale when i do it.

[Sly]

Some days I smoke a lot some days I don't smoke at all it's weird I can go all week without havin' 1 then have 10 in a day lol

[:Edzy]

Youll have to smoke quite a few to get addicted and start doing it daily.

I only ever smoke after i've been drinking and even then its only one or two. Never will be addicted.

Totally agree

I smoke about 10-20 a week, people might say i'm addicted but i can go without for months if i want to.
Its really hard to get addicted so you do need to know when to calm down a bit, i've been on the verge of addicted a few times but theres always been something to stop me :P