What can happen to me if i start smoking around 11-13 and quit at 21? -
i started at about 11-13 years old im only 13 now but im getting already addicted if i quit smoking at 21 whats the worst that can happen and im the f**** retart i have asthma and am over weight
Studies have shown that kids who start smoking at age 11 are addicted by the time they are 14. Please don-t wait until you are 21 as it will be that much harder to quit. I have friends who smoked and said that quitting smoking was harder than drug addiction.
Here are some more things to think about that smoking causes:
Bad Breath
Yellow teeth
Smelly clothes and hair
It destroys the absorption of vitamin C in your body, therefore making you susceptable to more coughs and colds
Trouble with keeping up with friends in sports
Serious trouble with asthma
Expense of cigarettes
Trouble with pregnancy
It-s aging to the skin
It could turn off a hot guy/girl because it-s just yuck!
every cig that you smoke takes 3-5 mins off your life just so you know
Do you know how difficult it is to quit?
REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY HARD.
You won-t be able too unless you have a lot of will power or support.
Smoking will only make your asthma worse, make you more overweight, make you feel like crap, get all wrinkly, and the smell is disgusting.
People will not want to be around you.
1 whiff of cigarette smoke and I gag.
give up now,not worth it.
I started at 12 and i-m now 42 ,quit the cigs last year,but now addicted to cigars.
Do you really want something to control you,kissing girls that will hate your smell, getting old faster, and looking and smelling disgusting.
Try to get more information regarding some ways to stop smoking at my profile.
Sounds like you want to quit.... so quit
You gave good reason why you should quit! (asthma and you feel like you need to cough)
I used to smoke and thought I wouldn-t be able to stop but I just quit one day! It-s easy so quit now!!!
You will feel much much better inside and out!
Its really really bad to start smoking at your age. I think the younger you start the harder it is to quit. I sort of had the same idea as you about quitting when I was older and I started around the same age. I just finally quit now at 26 and it was SO SO hard, and I have a few friends from middle/high school who-ve been smoking for 10-12 yrs and just don-t seem like they will ever quit and will probably die from it like 20-30 years earlier than they should.
Also since you are only 13, your lungs are still forming. They will NOT grow correctly if you continue to smoke, so your lungs will turn out smaller/less functional than they should be when you are an adult. That effect is even worse for girls than for boys if you smoke as a teenager because of the rate at which girls lungs grow. Plus you say you have asthma? That makes smoking an even worse idea, you really don-t want permanently messed up lungs along with asthma. The smoke will also definitely make your asthma worse by irritating your lungs and that can be dangerous even in short term. It is also not quite so common but it is definitely possible to get lung cancer from smoking for 8-10 years. The smoke does more damage to the tissue of young peoples lungs than to older peoples lungs for some reason. If you get lung cancer, the survival rates are very low.
In terms of what is wrong with you now I couldn-t say exactly- it sounds like you have maybe bronchitis or lung irritation from the smoking. That happens, lots of smokers get chronic cough/ bronchitis from the irritation and damage from smoke -tar. Plus it makes stuff like regular colds lots worse and harder to get rid of. I know I-m giving you a really long answer but I was in exactly the same situation at your age and wish I had quit right away when I was 13. Once you-re addicted, nicotine is one of the hardest things to quit- it really is technically as addictive as heroin or cocaine.
you won-t be able to just quit anytime you like. you-ll get addicted and, chances are, you-ll stay addicted for the rest of your life. i suggest you quit asap.
its bad to start. when you first do it...it hurts kinda because you like start to cough a lot and then after you do it like, the second one, then u dont really cough as much as the first, if you breath in too long, you will cough-it hurts like hell
You will waste a lot of money and then risk a habit that is very hard to quit.
Okay, I-m sure you already know the risks of smoking so I-m not going to talk about all that. So if you do stop at 21 you still would have smoke for around 10 years or a bit less so you will have done a lot of damage to your lungs, heart you know your whole body. But if you do truly quit and then never smoke again your body will heal it self not completely but a fair amount and your chances of dying from smoking will decrease, and your health will improve. You still will have a better chance of getting health problems than someone who has never smoked though. How do you know you will quit though smoking is very hard to stop! My advice is of course quit smoking.
Good Luck.
And the reason why your lungs feel weird is because you smoke and all the stuff in cigarettes like tar get in your lungs and you cough because your body wants to get rid of it.
If you-re going to quit when you-re 21, start quitting now. Inhaling crap into your lungs is the stupidest thing you have done in your young life.
QUIT NOW!
If you-re developing addiction now, it will only get worse.
Don-t plan on being able to quit at 21. Unless you have a lot of will power and think you can manage it, why not stop now?