I started smoking when is was 13. I had my first cigarette at my friends house. I didnt know i was addicted till i wanted another then more and more. But we all know thats what smoking does to us. I actually gave up for my partner. She was an ex smoker and helped me get through it. It wasnt easy but as i wasnt alone it made it easier to cope. 3 years later and i havnt touch another cigarette!! Giving up smoking is very hard if your friends smoke, your parents or the person you live with smoke or your partner smokes. If your friends smoke ask them to help you by simple not smoking around you. If your family smoke ask them to go out side and again not smoke near ...  Read the complete review

I started smoking when I was just 12 years old, my older brother had had a party at home and the next morning I came down before anyone else and noticed a few dog ends in an ashtray that had hardly been smoked so I hid them and then smoked them later when I was out. This was way back in 1970 and it was easy to buy cigarettes then, you could buy them at any age and they didn't cost a lot of money. I ended up buying myself a packet of ten for peanuts and I was hooked. I didn't smoke everyday when I was younger as my parents would have gone mad if they had found out but smoked when I was out with my friends. I stopped smoking when I got ...  Read the complete review

Reading a Dooyoo review on smoking encouraged me to write about my reasons for quitting. I smoked from the age of around 21 and quit just over 4 years ago at the age of 45. I took breaks in between when i was pregnant with my 2 children. I cannot even remember why i started to smoke. I was young, and i remember some friends smoking and i have a vague recollection of lighting up and enjoying it. I was never a heavy smoker, possibly around 6 a day but more when out having a drink with friends. It is the nicotine that is addictive but the tar in the cigarettes that does all the damage. I found that i was a paranoid smoker, always worrying about ...  Read the complete review

I hate to admit that I was once a smoker, but I was, and this review goes out to all those "social smokers" like me who didn't tick the smoker box on surveys or when someone asked you if you smoked you stuttered your way through a pathetic excuse of "well, only sometimes..." or "no I don't smoke but only when I'm drinking". Yes my friends I was the denial smoker. I first started smoking at the age of 16. My boyfriend at the time was 18 and had been smoking for about a year. I honestly think I started to look cool and to make him think I was all grown up. Looking back it was all a pile of nonsense and I should have thrown away that ...  Read the complete review

Firstly, let me clarify this- I would not class myself as a hard core "smoker", I started smoking when I used to go out on a Friday night from the age of around 17 and would do that regularly for a good few years- but never smoked through the day. Then I moved away to university and started smoking through the day, but even then I didn't used to get through all that many cigarettes- maybe 4 or 5 a day. Then I just got sick of the money it was costing me so I stopped smoking and within a few weeks, when I would go to smoke I eventually would just have one drag and I just hated it, it felt wrong so I stopped altogether. Around 2 years ago, I dediced to ...  Read the complete review