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Location: Moved to Gladstone, MO in June 2022 and back to Minnesota in September 2022
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Alright, anyways please don't judge, but I am 21 and for whatever reason I decided to randomly buy a pack of cigarettes.
I initially wasn't doing it correctly, I wasn't inhaling at all. So I never got what was so amazing about it.
So then my sister saw me and told me I'm suppose to inhale it, so I inhale and get immediately start coughing like crazy, and felt horrible and extremely lightheaded.
Later that day, I try a menthol cigarette, and I only finished about half of it. I walked outside my apartement to smoke it, and was so lightheaded I had a hard time walking back into my apartment. I walk back into my apartment and immediately have to lay down. And I was coughing a lot.
Anyways since then I haven't even touched them and I am left with 2 almost full packs of cigarettes I'll probably give to someone at work.
But everything we were told in school growing up from elementary to high school is all it takes is one puff and you'll magically be addicted for life. I'm calling BS on that.
Maybe it's because my body is not used to smoking and if I were to continue for a while I would probably get used to the smoke and I won't cough or feel as horrible as I did the first few times, but I have no desire to pick another cigarette up. Just looking at them makes me feel sick. But yet I hear stories from lots of people is all it took was one cigarette and they magically became insanely addicted forever.
It's been so very many years since I took my first puff I couldn't even remotely tell you what it was like. Back then, they didn't have so many chemicals and other poisons in the things. I do remember my first hit was a Parliament, and I smoked those for quite awhile. It was smooth and pleasant, but I'm sure I coughed and got light-headed, too, just like you did.
The main reason I took up smoking was because it was forbidden in my family and environment. I got out on my own at 18 and took it up out of spite. I smoked very heavily for years (45), then when 0bama signed SCHIP, I went to vaping to avoid insane cigarette taxes.
The cough is your lungs reacting to being filled with something they don't like. You'd also cough if you were in a fire smoke filled room. I smoked for 35 years and finally grew tired of the cough and expense. While cigarettes used to contain many fewer ingredients than they do today, I do remember coughing on them when I first started smoking in the early 70's.
My first cigarette was disgusting. I tried smoking a few years later and I was hooked. The first time I purchased cigarettes the cashier asked me if I wanted hard or soft? I figured I just started smoking, so soft would be best for me. When I learned a hard pack was a box, I always purchased the hard pack.
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