I've been smoking since 14. I tried smoking before that in 4th grade, I didn't inhale it though, I just had a puff here and there of my sister's smokes. Then again in grade 7 I brought a cigarette to school and me and the girls all went and did it in the bushes, I was trying to impress them. But I basically started everything at 14, my first suicide attempt (before I did any drugs or had sex, I was actually severely depressed and pessimistic since aged 8, so it's not because of drugs, I hate when doctors blame drugs for all my problems, seems so convenient for them to brush me off like that), smoking weed, my first hard drug (ecstasy), lost virginity, first drink, first fight and suspension, first time (and only time) a psych ward.
It turns out, I much prefer smoking everything, I hate drinking things and snorting them, or eating them. I prefer smoking all my intoxicants. I quit alcohol like 7 years ago, I used to snort coke as a teen and early 20something, then I tried smoking crack and loved that and did that for a few years, quit that too as I'm not a stimulant type of person. I'm definitely a chimney that's for sure. I smoke opiates now, mainly heroin & fentanyl, been addicted 11 years, it's a horrible, horrible addiction, completely soul destroying and life ruining, but my life was already pretty bad anyway when I started doing it, the withdrawals are excruciating especially for me, I've never been able to get through it and quit. I've never injected it and have no interest in that, and I never liked swallowing pills or snorting anything. I take methadone now, but I still use daily, but I don't have those severe withdrawals anymore thanks to methadone, of course I don't smoke the methadone, I have to go to the pharmacy everyday for each dose because I'm not "clean" yet, so my doctor won't allow me to take it home. I still smoke cigarettes of course. I just smoke the cheapest one I could get that was decent, it's called Phillip Morris. I used to smoke Canadian brands like Export A gold before, Belmont is a popular one nowadays but I hate that. I smoke my cigarettes like a true junkie, I hate smoking the whole thing, so I cut them in half. I re-use the filter of the first half, and insert the other half that I initially cut into the filter again, and smoke it. Before that, I used to love smoking "half butts". I also roll cigarettes with loose tobacco that I save when I run out, I'm on disability and can barely afford anything. You should see my smoke bowl, it looks like I murdered all the cigarettes.
Nobody really smokes anymore nowadays, most people have quit, or they go on and off. It was popular when I was a teen and kid, but now it's so expensive, people hate the smell, people are so into health too nowadays. Plus with all the smoking bans, you can't smoke inside anywhere or even near a building now in my areas. Lot's of people have switched to vaping, I never liked that, my dad tried to get me to convert to it because he was worried about my health, hah, turns out vaping is bad for health too. I like the old school normal cigarette with real tobacco flakes and all the poison, I'm sort of "traditional" in a lot of ways I guess, or boring. I just hope my 17 years of smoking will give me some kind of cancer or horrible sickness, so that I can opt for euthanasia in Canada now that it's legal (unless they deem me "insane" or something, with my luck)
