Confessions of a smoker 29 Articles

by Lora Pfundheller

I am a smoker by choice. Nobody has ever forced me to light a cigarette. I smoke because I like it. Maybe I even need to smoke. I know I am hooked. I blame nobody but myself. I could quit, but I don't want to. Being...read more

by Lacy Enderson

While I was celebrating my sixth year without a cigarette I found myself thinking about the time many years ago when I experienced my first puff. I was thirteen in eighth grade. I remember sneaking up on the family ashtray...read more

by Theodora McBain

I remember the very first time I smoked...and it wasn't even a cigarette! We were little girls, probably seven, my friend and I. Living in the country in a coal mining patch, our parents figured we were always alrigh...read more

by Barbara Kasey Smith

I started smoking many years ago as a teenager and believe me, it got me hooked before I knew what had happened. Prior to actually smoking a "real" cigarette, I'd sneak to the corn field take with me a newspaper and matche...read more

by Jean Haywood

Hello my name is Jean. I am a smoker. I have been smoking for the better(or worse) part of 28 years. I started in high school because I wanted to fit in somewhere. All through my childhood I had very few friends. I wa...read more

by Lynn Crawford

First of all, I am not writing this article to lecture you about the health risks of smoking. We've all heard it before. A lot of people have written articles on ...read more

by A.R. Marth

Smoking fills a void. I don't know what to say.Smoke. I need a break from conversation. From the presence of people. I need to collect my thoughts. Smoke, smoke, smoke. Where do I put my hands? Smoke. Am I talking ...read more

by Bill Whitney

Maybe the title of this article would be better called the confessions of a n ex-smoker but whatever the case maybe I remember very well the first time I ever took a drag of a cigarette. I was in the sixth or seventh grad...read more

by Donnatella

I hate smoking. It's a dirty, disgusting and filthy habit that stains your teeth, savages your looks, reduces your physical ability as well as kills you painfully. However, being aware of those facts I just can't resist bu...read more

by Paige Tarry

i began to smoke on my first ever fag when i was very younge indeed through choice yes but i know now if when i was younger if i wasnt so curious i believe i wouldnt be smoking now and my whole life would be diffrent smok...read more

by Skylar Taylor

Confessions of a smoker, I love this title. It sounds like some underground secret book written with false names to protect those involved in any of the actions. There are so many places you could go with this, the possibi...read more

by Sarah Williams

It began when I was 26 years old...late by most standards. I was doing a lot of traveling to Los Angeles, meeting with movie producers, executives, managers, etc., in promoting and optioning a screenplay that I had been w...read more

by Patrick Sills

Frank Zappa once stated that tobacco was his food. I concur. Tobacco is my food and so much more. As I draw the tasty, satisfying smoke into my lungs 40 or so times each day, a peaceful, tranquil sensation takes hold. The ...read more

by Jill Ermer

My personal confession as a long time smoker. I actually started smoking when I was only 13 years old. I know that sounds terrible, I wasn't even in high school yet and there I was smoking cigarettes already. It all star...read more

by Karen Moore

Oh how the pendulum has swung the other direction. When I started smoking it was the "in" thing to do. My parents, grandparents and just about everyone adult in my family smoked, so I grew up with it. Everyone I knew sm...read more

by Ted Sherman

I decided to smoke when I was 14 one January day nearly 70 years ago. I used my weekly allowance of 15 cents to buy a pack of Camels. I felt all grown up as I strutted among the other kids in the park near my home. I imagi...read more

by William Bowman

I like smoking. That's right, you heard me. Yes, I realize that saying that now, in this day and age is more or less the same thing as "I like poisoning myself and those around me," but even so... Even with the warnin...read more

by Susan Varden

I quit smoking one month ago today. To tell you the truth I miss it so much. It takes everything within my inner power not to run to the store to purchase just one more pack of cigarettes. Every time I walk by a smo...read more

by Ben Leto

I should have known. I'm a veteran quitter. As Mark Twain once famously observed, "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." But each and every time I always seem...read more

by Sharon Kull

I am not a smoker, never was, never will be. However, my mother smoked from the time she was a teenager until two years before she died. Seventy years of puffing away like a chimney. To her, smoking was harmless. Back i...read more