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Originally Posted by frinkprof
Forgive me if bringing this up or if talking about it doesn't help you guys who are trying to quit, but I was curious how you guys started smoking in the first place and maybe what in your background (parents who smoke, group of friends you hung out with, etc.) you think may have contributed to this.
For me, my parents smoked when I was growing up but I never had the desire to even try it and have never been a smoker. I've had the odd celebratory cigar in my adult years, but nothing other than that.
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Growing up I was a squeaky clean jock/athlete type. Played top level sports, was in phenomenal shape, at one point was one of the top 200/400m runners in the province. Then I got kicked out of the house and was forced to start working while I should have been pursuing post secondary studies.
Ended up working a loser forklift driver job, in a loser warehouse, with a bunch of nothing to lose losers. Smoking was allowed anytime anywhere, and I was so poor, I couldn't afford to eat regularly, and I was siphoning gas to get to work, and sleeping in my car because I had no money yet to put a damage deposit on an apartment. One of the guys suggested smoking as an alternative to suppress my appetite, and I bit on it. And he got me cartons off the reserve for about a $1.20 a pack.
Sure it worked, and a pack would last me 3 days, and allow me to eat once a day, which is all I could afford. I was too proud to go to the food bank, which in retrospect, I should have.