I was around 11 years old.....:eek:
What age were you when you tried smoking - No Smoking Day
What age were you when you tried smoking
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i was 12 or 13 was on cleethorpes beach thought it woud be cool to smoke with ma mates i can remember coughin me guts up why did i finish the fag eh silly girl wasnt i.
Hell most of us choked,coughed,puked and yet went back for more...:eek:
daft beggers
wasnt we all a load of mugs i mums told us to stop n alsorts lol, but we new best lol
I started smoking at the age of 10 or 11. No wonder i found it so difficult to give up i had been smoking for nearly 30 years. OMG its scary when you think of it like that.
I started smoking at the age of 10 or 11. No wonder i found it so difficult to give up i had been smoking for nearly 30 years. OMG its scary when you think of it like that.
I month coming up flippy.....YOU are doing GREAT....
i was 13 when i had my first fag.big mistake or what.im paying for it mind.if we turn clock back.
Hey janet welcome back quit partner .Hope you had fun on your cruise....
I was 14 when I started smoking, like a lot of others did it because others were doing it plus there was not the hype then for people to stop and the damage it could cause (well not so much).
Stay strong peeps.
Pupalup
I was between 17/18 But cant for the life of me remember my first one.
Hi Janet4 welcome home. xxxx
I had my first cigarette at the age of 14 (July 89) - on the day Mo Johnston signed for Rangers. The two weren't related, but will forever be entwined in my memory........
(Anyone who either isn't Scottish or doesn't follow footie will have no idea what that ^^^^^ means).
I month coming up flippy.....YOU are doing GREAT....
Thanks Dubbbs. Yep im feeling really really positive this time. I dont even think about smoking anymore.
The one thing ive leant since starting to quit back in sept is too keep trying. If you blip and smoke for a day dont think youve been beat. Pick yourself up and start again the next day. Just keep trying because one day it will just fall into place.
I was 12 when i started, bloody hell my boy is 10!!!!! Like you Mojo I would hate to think of my boy smoking at such a young age!!!
Mark
I started smoking when i was fourteen because one of my mates had told me a cigarette after sex is brilliant.Took me few years to realise its better if two people are involved in the sex act though.
lol
I started when I was about 13/14... didn't inhale the first few but then soon got hang of it.
I suppose I done it cos I wanted to rebel and be 'cool'. Not cool to others but cool to myself :confused:
My friend and I would buy a bottle of Concorde with our wages and then pinch some of our Mum's fags. My mum smoked Regal Filter and her Mum smoked Superkings... so yeah, we had a great time
I bought my first pack of Regal Filters aged 14 :eek: Soon went on to L&B.
I remember telling myself at the time that I wouldn't get hooked but then 12 years later when you're still smoking and get stressed and irritable when you can't have one..... yeah, it got me too.
smoke free me
Um I think it was 14. Started more regularly doing it at 15, but think first time trying it was 14.
I do remember I that I never suffered with that "first time gagging effect" that people appear to get on the first time. Maybe thats only in TV or movies lol.
NicFirth10 Years Smoke Free
1st try... 9 or 10 years old a friend produced a ciggy he had nicked and we shared it in below a yew tree. I still remember it well, I was "scared" that my head spun but liked the taste. However, I didn't have access to ciggys my dad smoked a pipe and although I gave that a suck on one or 2 occasions I thought its well sucked.
2nd/3rd/4th etc. 19 or 20 years old most of my mates smoked either regularly or socially and I tried it a few times, ended up buying packs myself, went from smoking only while with others to while I had fags to every day and the rest is history.
1st try... 9 or 10 years old a friend produced a ciggy he had nicked and we shared it in below a yew tree. I still remember it well, I was "scared" that my head spun but liked the taste. However, I didn't have access to ciggys my dad smoked a pipe and although I gave that a suck on one or 2 occasions I thought its well sucked.
2nd/3rd/4th etc. 19 or 20 years old most of my mates smoked either regularly or socially and I tried it a few times, ended up buying packs myself, went from smoking only while with others to while I had fags to every day and the rest is history.
I guess it sucked then lol
I was 13/14 when i first tried it but didn't like it so knocked it on the head for a while. Started again at 15 on a skiing holiday. Again I didn't like it, but by God I persisted and eventually got myself hooked (go me, yay)
I know everyone says it but if I have kids and see them smoking I will remove fag from hand and stub it out on their arm! Mind you my Mum caught me at 17 and swung me round the kitchen, didn't make a blind bit of difference, even when she was lying in coronary care two years later. How desperate I must have been.
Still, free of the stinkin cancer sticks now
Hello Miss Fairy, long time no speak.
How are you?
I was about 12/13 when i first tried smoking and again it made me sick.....but i kept on trying and very soon i mastered it.
I reckon most of us were dumb kids when we started and we all thought we would live forever.:rolleyes:
Hello Miss Fairy, long time no speak.
How are you?
Fine Mr John, and yourself?
I've wound down my forum abuse and am very busy with my job at the minute thanks for askin!
I was 24 
Fine Mr John, and yourself?
I've wound down my forum abuse and am very busy with my job at the minute thanks for askin!
I'm good thanks. I am also trying to cut back on my forum use as it can be quite an absorbing distraction.....
Barbara.......... 24!!!!!!!!!!! Whatever possessed you. I thought we were all young and stupid when we started..............
I was in my 20's too....
I was a later developer
Actually, I rebelled in a different way. Got married at 17, and had my kids at 20 and 22. By the time I was 24, marriage was on the rocks, we were too young, had two kids and no money. He smoked, and I grudged him that. My pal smoked, and I started smoking at hers. I bought a pack of 10, and forced myself to smoke them in front of him - if he could burn money like that, then so could I!!!!!!!
No thought of health back then, I saw smoking as a indulgence that, if he was enjoying, then so should I !!!!
So basically, I started smoking to spite him - and I always thought of myself as fairy intelligent!:eek:
I certainly was smoking at home at 13. My dad smoked Rothmans and my mother smoked Bachelors or Du Maurier (anyone remember them!!) At "social gatherings" at home they had Sobranie Cocktail cigarettes. They were multi
coloured papers but THE THING.
No-one realised the problems, it was the norm...
Some years later (with total apologies to my friends north of the border) I married a Glaswegian ex paratrooper then Steel Erector (who built the whole of the Forth Bridge single handed - even though he wasn't born...) and we bought a house. Throughout our marriage he used to say that if I GAVE UP SMOKING, he'd sign his half of the house over to me ..and he meant it. It was a doubled edged sword - I wish I'd taken the house now............
We got divorced, split the proceeds, he made a new Will leaving everything to me, made a fortune and then went bankrupt .. c'est la vie!!!!
a Glaswegian ex paratrooper then Steel Erector (who built the whole of the Forth Bridge single handed - even though he wasn't born...)
Us Weegies are BRILLIANT so we are!!!!!!!!!!!
my first try was at age 8 which failed my second try was at age 9 which took by age 10 i was smoking half a pack a day either hiding behind the shed at the house or hiding from the elementary school teaches while at recess on the play ground, buy age 11 there was a girl named Donna who took here parents cig's and brought them to me it wasn't till years later it dawned on me that she had a crush on me lmao
14 - at that time you could buy one ciggie from the shop - mine were Woodbines or Nelson.
Started having the odd one at age 12 - B&H was the brand of choice for the discerning pre-teen in my day.
By 13 I was regularly smoking occasionally and by late 13 I was smoking several a day.
I think my first attempt came at 9/10, quit for a few years then 14 was when I started smoking daily, mainly to 'fit in' with my new mates after moving town - I got expelled from school at 15 for regularly getting caught smoking
I was 15 my first was a Park Drive a friend and I bought 5 between us the rest as they say is history
I was 25 :eek::eek::eek: stupid stupid stupid.
i was 6 or 7 am 65 this sept,wow,i smoked woodbines any one remember them, sold them in a packs of 5s,,plus you could by one fag and a match,then went round the back of the shops ,,puffed all day felt so big:eek:
I was also about 6 asked my dad for a drag. Then again at 12 stupidly out the toilet window thinking i wouldn't get caught.. big mistake half way through i hear my stepdad coming up the stairs yelling in a panic through it out the window and tried to wash my hands in the toilet :eek: that's how scared i was lol and i didn't do it again till i was 15.
I was 22!! did the student thing at uni-entered the 'real' world and needed to stop smoking cannabis so started smoking fags instead-stupid!!!
Started when I was 17.
First time was drunk in Derby, didn't really notice it.
Began "properly" to spend time with a girl - sad isn't it.
Quit a few times.
The first in the summer of 2002 my first one back from University. My crafty "5 minute walks" were noticed quickly - not fools these parents 
I quit for three months - well almost, had a few when I went to Birmingham to see my partner.
Got back to Uni in the September and started all over again.
I quit for a week back in January 2007, even when I lost my job I kept off them.
Then I got an interview for my current, dare I say it, dream job. Wanted to be "at my best" for the interview, so I started again. This kept on until Sunday.
It's amazing how varied all these stories are - yet how all of them have at least one other similar story on here.
I was 17 when I first had a drag (pretty late I know - it was delayed rebellion, or so I thought) - and only really started smoking regularly when 19 because someone I was dating smoked and I just got into the habit of lighting up when he did. He's long since gone out of my life... and all he left me with was a horrible addiction. Cheers mate!
I can still remember that first fag - sitting on a street corner with a smoker friend and asking to try one. It tasted like horse dung. That friend is still a smoker - and his health is terrible. He's only 35 but has the fitness and wheezing of a 90-year-old. Have been pestering him to sign up to this forum... but, as we all know, the choice has to be his...
