As the saying goes, "hindsight is 20/20 vision." most people who smoke wish they had never started. If you were able to go back in time to when you first tried a cigarette, what would you do? Chances are good that you wouldn't even take one single puff.

While you can't physically go back in time, you can go back mentally and try to remember why you started to smoke. Do you remember your very first cigarette? Who were you with? Was it with a group of friends or perhaps an older brother or sister? Most people who smoke got their first few cigarettes from an older sibling or from friends.

What did it feel like to smoke that first cigarette? Aside from feeling nauseated, you probably felt pretty cool. How did you like to inhale your cigarette? Did you practice holding it in front of a mirror until you got it right? Were you conjuring up an image as you smoked? Where did that image come from?

And why did you continue to smoke if it made you feel so ill? You wouldn't continue to eat a type of food if it made you feel the same way. What motivated you to keep on smoking?

If you are like the vast majority of people who smoke, the reasons were peer pressure and image. But where exactly did you get the idea that smoking was such a cool thing to do? Let's take a look at the most likely culprit.

Peer pressure

availability

aping

the feel good syndrome

stress busters

attitude

advertising

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