What was your first cigarrette like?

I used to go camping a lot and inhaled a lot of wood smoke. My first tobacco cigarette was a similar experience with a different flavor. For many years going through the ritual of lighting up would give me time to frame my ideas more clearly and the nicotine would balance out the caffeine from coffee and cola that I drank constantly.

My first BWH (bloody wog hemp) cigarette was much more fun. It opened my mind to the perception of alternate ways to see the world around me, see music, hear odors , smell colors, feel words etc.

I quit smoking tobacco when my girlfriend withheld sex cause as she put it she was tired of kissing an ashtray.

I gave up pot when I realized nothing was happening in my life. Go out do a little work, come home get high, watch TV or listen to music, nod off, wake up, go out do a little work... Over and over and over.

The only addiction you can't quit all together is food. Just say Know to drugs. I cannot say with any certainty that tobacco did anything to improve my life.

Been there! I'm not going to get all bio. tech. on you. But as you probably know, that the Nic. in the cigs. is extremely bad for you. Absolutely no benefit to your mind(brain) and body. I'm embarrassed to say I turn to them (once in awhile), as well, knowing what I know and have seen. And I despise smoking! Go-figure. As far as your question, will they worsen your depression? Well, it won't make things better, it's an outlet for you, that is all. And you will have to quit eventually and that may depress the he-- out of you, even more! I don't know what med's your on? I never took any, so I would have an occasional drink, something to take the edge off! Until I found exercise ,as my new friend. Walk, swim, the gym, kick boxing, etc...very good to combat the blues, depression or other obstacles that get in the way. Without the med's some doc's are so free to give out. Why not give that a shot. It may change your life!

My uncle lined us all up in front of the bathtub. Me, my sister, my brother, my three cousins. Then he made us each light a cigarette and inhale it until we threw up in the tub, then he made us clean it up.

Nice, huh.

The next time I smoked I was 15 and a friend and I had skipped school and were walking to her house cause her mom worked and nobody was home. We found a carton of Marlboro's on the sidewalk, so we picked them up and took them to her house and we each lit one and smoked it.

You know the feeling you get when you lay on your back on a merry-go-round for a really long time when it's being spun really fast? Dizzy sick to die from, the whole world spins, throwing up, throwing up, crying, just wanted it to stop stop stop. It was like being really sick only a hundred times worse. It lasted about an hour I guess, the hard part of it, but then was kinda sick for about two days after that.

Two years later I started smoking for real, and smoked for 15 years until I gave it up in 1990. Now I've got three friends who have either died or are in the process of being treated for lung cancer.

Hope that helps answer your question.

It was a horrible experience that made me never again consider smoking. I think I was young like in 6th grade. An older friend gave me one and we smoked. He did the exhale smoke from the mouth and inhale in the nose trick and blew smoke rings.

Overall, I thought it was an incredible waste of time and money and haven't smoked since. Don't guess the nicotine took hold on me. lol

It made me gag and burned my lungs going in when I inhaled. It tasted like ashes - really gross and disgusting. I got really light headed and felt so dizzy I had to sit down on the grass where I was standing with some friends. Sad thing is here I am smoking years later....

I'm not a smoker, I tried my first cigarette 5 months ago, never had one again. It taste a little bitter but otherwise no taste. I didn't get high from it or anything so I'm not addicted to it. Smoking is not what it crack up to be. Not worth getting cancer from.

I smoked very briefly in my teens early 20's, I don't remember what I felt. I did however start smokeless tobacco when I was 21 and my first "dip" gave me a head rush.

It was gross, it was hot and I felt like I was ingesting death...

Although I would have to say that kissing a smoker tastes worse than smoking one yourself.

It was great and it has lead to an addiction that has lasted 30years. I have just started Chantix a drug to help me kick this habit as it has started to affect my health. If you don't smoke don't start if you do stop.

I was 6 so my memory is clouded. I remember the trouble I got into for smoking so much clearer.