Its not like when people are addicted to smoking..or is it?
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They're challenging and fun.  Thinkers like puzzles to solve. Solving puzzles is rewarding.  Today's games let you be very creative, you can come up with very elaborate ways to defeat your energy. On-line games often have team play with real people.\n\nwww.splashdamage.com  Enemy Territory is old but still very popular. Lots of addicts! and it's free.
418730
it's highly addictive, and harder to quit than smoking.
305764
Smoking's a phase most of us all go through. If it isn't too late for you, try visiting a hospital cancer center. There will invariably be patients, emaciated, hairless cancer victims, with I.V.s attached, outside 'enjoying' their cigarettes. REALLY makes one think, doesn't it?
104198
Just because they get high sometimes doesn't mean they have to be junkies. I'm sure they have it totally under control and can quit anytime they want.
194464
Smoking is addictive.  Cigarettes have many different chemicals in them along with tobacco - stuff like Ammonia, Benzene, Formaldehyde, Arsenic to name a few of the worst.  The longer you smoke the harder it is to give it up and when someone does it is usually because of a major health crises.  I know because I have seen.  I have never smoked but both my parents did.  My father had to give it up when he needed a bypass and his chances were given less than a 50% survival not because of his heart but because of the shape his lungs were in.  Smoking had done so much damage that no doctor was sure he would be able to make it out from under the anesthesia. Luckily he did and hasn't smoked since.  He also used to tell my brother and myself not to smoke because even though he knew the dangers he could not at the time quit.
260505
though family personal experience it never stops at cannibis. bet you have tried other things right? it changes you as a person you become angry and self obsessed, paronoid, lazy "carnt be bothered" secrective, a liar. those are a few common traits. next thing your "mates" have moved on and your on your own wanting to get that bit more high. you will spend every waking moment wanting drugs wishing you had listened but people never do! its not a funny subject it really happens this way i have seen it and due to the "disease" called drugs had to cremate the my brother 2 months ago.
610486
Don't be a fool.   Do not start smoking.  Once you are addicted, you will suffer greatly, then discover so many places that you CAN'T Smoke in.  Even Second hand smoke is a danger.  Smoking is also getting very expensive.   $5 for a pack of 20?   Gosh, what a waste of money. \n\nSome people are allergic, just as they are with Pollen, Dust, dog hair and dander.
74411
Smoking might be horrible, but it's addicting due to the nicotine in it. Same with other drugs. That's why most people do it. It's addiction. \nFor example, I'm addicted to chocolate. I cannot go a day without having chocolate. It's not bad for me (I mean it can give me acne or bad teeth even though I brush my teeth), I have to have chocolate.
513198
It's easy to start, hard to stop, and some people think its cool so they do it to try and impress them to be cool too. So, its generally peer pressure that starts it and then that person finds out the benefits and ignores the long term damages, and keeps doing alcohol or drugs or whichever, until they are so addicted its almost impossible to stop before they die. Thats why when they go through a serious condition (heart attack) and are hospitilized, then told they have to stop its much more likely that they will rather than stopping on their own.
76479
I smoke to wish i could quit but its hard i did for a year, but yes i agree, you know what i cant stand is when your smoking outside and someone has the nerve to complain about the smell for people that don't want to breathe it then stay away from us and everyone is happy. For the record we don't choose to want lung cancer we are just addicted and I'm sure you are addicted to something so GUESS WHAT YOUR NOT PERFECT EITHER......I have a great idea if you people don't like it then you better never leave your house, you cant tell people what they can or cannot do we are humans to and have equal rights
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I am not sure this is a question exactally...more like you are just frustrated!\nI am a non-smoker, and my husband is a smoker.  I know that smokers know the health risks - I think everyone does!  I guess that people want you to quit because they care about you.  I think that most smokers think "oh it won't happen to ME!"  Just like anything else....people NEVER think something is going to happen to them - or the health risks won't affect THEM!\nbut to be honest....I want my husband to quit, and I tell him that a lot.  I think that in some ways for him it is a selfish act.  Does he want to die of lung cancer and leave a wife and young children behind?  does he want to have health complications and not be able to live the life he wants?  I want him to quit because I care about him and our future together....\nMaybe thats why people bug you about it too....not to nag at you, but to let you know they want you around and smoking can hinder your life - even if YOU think it will NEVER happen to you.....
614814
Nicotine just like alcohol is a drug, a very powerful addicting drug.  It's the addictive powers that keep smokers smoking.  For some people, they feel calmer when they smoke, more relaxed.  For some people, they do it to lose weight, others may do it to be cool.  Others do it because they were bullied into it and others do it because they enjoy smoking.  But the bottom line for all these excuses is they are all addicted to nicotine.\n\nDepending on the willingness of the smoker actually determines if they quit for good or not.  If a smoker is determined to quit for good there are lots of things that person(s) can try with success.  From hypnotherapy to a patch.  But not only is it the willingness to quit important but their belief if the products would work or not for them.  Smokers must look at the possibilities and be more up beat about their process and their future and have a positive attitude as well.  If the smoker says "oh that won't work for me!"  then he or she just sealed his fate by being pessimistic/negative already without even trying the product(s).\n\nSo in essense it isn't that it is hard to invent medications that block the receptors, the problem usually comes from the individual(s) willingness and their belief in themselves to quit.\n\nI hope I was helpful to you!  Have a great evening!
282692
Young people in general are finding themselves.  They are growing up and experimenting with all kinds of new things as they transition into adulthood.  They are discovering their sexuality, gaining responsibilities they did not have as a child, and finding out about drugs and alcohol.\n\nSome young people decide to try it, and some don't.  I don't buy the peer pressure thing.  I've never been pressured to smoke weed.  I've been around it and I've seen people refuse it and others smoke it.  I've never seen anyone get bent out of shape because one person does not want to smoke.\n\nPersonally I think the biggest danger of weed is that it can get people interested in smoking regular cigarettes which is a very dangerous and expensive hobby.  As to the direct danger of weed, there are more people die from peanut allergies.  It's no real danger in and of itself.
91850
Duh! they show people smoking having a good time with friends and stuff, they are implimenting the idea that if we smoke, we will be like taht! do not listen they suck. I mostl;y see it on tv and in movies
448215
Its a difficult drug to come off of but I believe that people can be helped to fight it effectively ...I wont use the word cured as it is likely an addict will always have some addictive behaviours...;
278847
I quit once for 9 years a long time ago.  It was very hard at that time.  In fact, I got so agitated and irritable that I could not stand to be around myself...and that is really bad.  I did make it through this hard time and quit for 9 years.  Then I started again for over 8 years. I am now one month into my new quit smoking life.  It has been easier this time, but then I am older and a lot wiser then I was before.  Nicotine is one heck of an addiction, and for some it is harder to quit then hard drugs or alcohol.
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I do I smoke and have smoked since I was 18 years old. I don't intend to quit. I like it. I am a nurse and know first hand the dangers of smoking and the health risks. I may(probably will) have to suffer the consequences of my actions(health wise) but ain't it good to live in a country (at least for now anyway) where I have the right to wreck my health if I choose to do so???