How bad is it for you to smoke once a month?
Question by Deadboy: How bad is it for you to smoke once a month?
So I maybe smoke once every 1 or 2 months, rarely twice. I usually would share a cigar with some people or smoke a high quality cigarillo (I think they’re organic) by myself. I don’t inhale ever. How bad is it for you and how can you counter it?
Best answer:
Answer by D
Pack a day smokers started out that way. That’s how I started.
Answer by Harmoo
Yes. Even if its once a year, you’ll think about the next time you do it, which will start the first phase of addiction. This phase is like a marijuana “addiction”. Your brain isn’t dependent on it, but you think about it a lot and want to do it again. Even from your first ever puff of tobacco, you’re addicted. It’s just that its a very minor addiction. Every puff, cigarette, cigar, etc. strengthens the addiction, which makes the urges worse and worse.So you can smoke a cigar once a year, for 10 years, and be addicted.
And nicotine can actually be absorbed even if you don’t inhale it. Even when it’s just sitting in your mouth, it’s getting absorbed, and the nicotine enters your body.
And the more nicotine that enters your body, the more you’ll want it, and it’ll be hard to not have it. Soon you could find yourself doing it once every other week, then once a week, a couple times a week, once a day, a couple a day, a pack a day, and even 2 or more packs a day. You won’t be able to stop, you’ll be spending thousands a year on it, and it’ll be deteriorating and killing your body.
Once a month may not sound so bad, but trust me, it is. It’s like saying you wanna just try cocaine or opium or something like that, just to try it once, but never again. If you ever let any addictive substance, no matter how much or what you think you’ll limit yourself to, you WILL get addicted.
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