Alright guys, I type this thread as I sit outside on the tail-end of a nasty winter cold puffing down my second cigarette of the day. This being my second winter cold of 2017, the last resulting in a chest infection and severe asthma attack sending me to the hospital for a night. That episode had me realise I need to quit, and take my asthma more seriously, but obviously I haven't and don't.
Now knowing the possible consequences of smoking with asthma and the cold, I was a bit more mindful this time around, I didn't smoke at all on the peak day of illness, had 1 yesterday, now 2 today... now, sitting here wondering if I'll fall victim to another spell of bronchitis - it's got me thinking about the historical enigma that is smoking cigarettes.
I'm in my early 20s, it's been probably about that many years since the government began rolling in a light-prohibition on cigs.. I think I was alive when cricket had a brand of cigarettes as a sponsor, but don't remember... I do know, however, that the majority of people I see that smoke are of a similar age to me, it seems smoking is still prevelant in young people possibly as a form of pseudo-protest against the government, our parents and being told what to do...
Though I can't help but wonder right now why myself of all people got the smoking bug, when neither of my parents did...
My first brush with smoking must've been when I was 11 years old - I was over at a friends house after school and his parents weren't home, he smuggled out his mum's carton and we smoked a cigarette each on his couch. They must have been golds because I remember thinking that I didn't feel a thing.
The next day we bragged about it at school, and a girl in the year above claimed not to believe us and said she would steal a pack off her mum and watch us smoke it to prove ourselves - which we did..
6 years later I was 16 turning 17 and was at some guy's birthday party which for some reason was at a rented out Zumba studio. I had just made out with a girl for the first time in my life, and a cool kid, Leah asked me if I smoked, I replied in the affirmative (a lie) so he gave me a cig, having overestimated my abilities, I stood outside that Zumba studio coughing and gagging and swallowing my own vomit.
Not even a year after that I started dating the girl that I'm still with to this day - the first night we spent together I got my first nicotine rush and vomited up a mixture of that and red wine in her toilet. I've smoked rolled Champion Ruby almost every day since.
So, do you smoke? Did you used to? How'd you get hooked? How'd you quit? (Bonus points if you're an asthmatic)
Now knowing the possible consequences of smoking with asthma and the cold, I was a bit more mindful this time around, I didn't smoke at all on the peak day of illness, had 1 yesterday, now 2 today... now, sitting here wondering if I'll fall victim to another spell of bronchitis - it's got me thinking about the historical enigma that is smoking cigarettes.
I'm in my early 20s, it's been probably about that many years since the government began rolling in a light-prohibition on cigs.. I think I was alive when cricket had a brand of cigarettes as a sponsor, but don't remember... I do know, however, that the majority of people I see that smoke are of a similar age to me, it seems smoking is still prevelant in young people possibly as a form of pseudo-protest against the government, our parents and being told what to do...
Though I can't help but wonder right now why myself of all people got the smoking bug, when neither of my parents did...
My first brush with smoking must've been when I was 11 years old - I was over at a friends house after school and his parents weren't home, he smuggled out his mum's carton and we smoked a cigarette each on his couch. They must have been golds because I remember thinking that I didn't feel a thing.
The next day we bragged about it at school, and a girl in the year above claimed not to believe us and said she would steal a pack off her mum and watch us smoke it to prove ourselves - which we did..
6 years later I was 16 turning 17 and was at some guy's birthday party which for some reason was at a rented out Zumba studio. I had just made out with a girl for the first time in my life, and a cool kid, Leah asked me if I smoked, I replied in the affirmative (a lie) so he gave me a cig, having overestimated my abilities, I stood outside that Zumba studio coughing and gagging and swallowing my own vomit.
Not even a year after that I started dating the girl that I'm still with to this day - the first night we spent together I got my first nicotine rush and vomited up a mixture of that and red wine in her toilet. I've smoked rolled Champion Ruby almost every day since.
So, do you smoke? Did you used to? How'd you get hooked? How'd you quit? (Bonus points if you're an asthmatic)
