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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 2918336" data-attributes="member: 704">I have never smoked.  I never had the compulsion to even try it, probably because my mothers smoking made me cough a great a deal.  But I have some idea how hard it is to quit smoking from having watched people try and fail, and from the stories of friends of mine who did quit.I do have two questions though.  Why did you start smoking to begin with?  And at which point did you realize you were addicted?  (As far as I know, lots of people experiment with smoking in their retarded phase between 7th and 10th grade, but plenty quit).Aside from 2nd hand smoke making me cough to a stunning degree, I figure there are a few key reasons I never even bothered with the whole mess.1)  Social Apathy.  I put no value in the opinons of strangers, and dont typically get the urge to meet new people.  This means that I do not care at all if I am considered cool, or popular.2)  I am a cheap bastard, and prefered to spend the money on other things.3)  None of my friends smoked.I figure that most people who end up becoming smokers (or any use of any recreational drug, legal or otherwise) do so for social reasons.  While my own social tendencies made my high school experience fairly unpleasant, it did have the side effect of keeping me out of trouble.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>