Just be very careful. That is how I almost started smoking in my 20's.
I was a "social smoker"- I'd have the odd smoke when I would drink with friends or if I was having a stressful day at work. I then had a bunch of armed robberies happen at my work (3 in 2 weeks) and I'd have a smoke or two after. (Funny what having a gun put to your head will do.)
Anyway- I had borrowed smokes from other co-workers; and then found the 1/2 pack I had left from bartending. (A good bartender always had smokes he could share back in those days.) I ended up finishing that 1/2 pack, and was about to go buy another. That's when it hit me that if I bought that next pack it would be the TSN turning point of me becoming a smoker.
It was a little tough at that point; I'll use this anaolgy- imagine you have been craving Jack in the Box for 6 months, you are on a strick diet, and you are on a flight that makes a stopever in the States. And in the terminal is a Jack in the Box. So yes- it was like trying to stop a food craving; not like what the current smokers are going through.
My point is- it is so easy to become addicted; so don't to anything that will put you past the point. I think most of my friends who started smoking as teenagers all also thought "I'm tough- there's no way I'll get addicted."
Don't give smoking the chance.
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