15yr and smoking!

[xXxKRISTAxXx]

I know your probably thinking what a horrible 15yr old. But I'm an honor roll student, popular, and active but I've been smoking on and off for about 3 years, my parents have cought me several times and they said if they catch me again there sending me off to an all girls school as my punishment...but I can't quit. Smoking is my stress reliever (and I have plenty of stress) and I like everything about it but the cancer part. My dad's a doctor and he's completley against smoking b/c his parents died of it, but what can I do to quit or just give my advice about my parents being so against it. Thanx

[ser]

I started off and on when I was 12. The tabacco companies depend on youngsters to get hooked. Try to find other ways to releave your stress like walking or running, doing a hobbie. It is so much better for you. I am on my fourth true try on quiting smoking. I wish I never started. You and your clothes, Hair, and Hands stink all the time. You spend money that can be used else where. You cannot smoke inside so you get edgy to be out side to smoke when at the movies or out for dinner. Your out in the elements and get colds faster. Those clods can develop into broncitis or pnemonia.

I hope you stop now and not wait the extra 25 years like I did.

[Kris33]

I started smoking when I was 11 or 12 yrs old. My parents caught me a few times. Eventually they left me alone, I guess I was 16 or so. Now that I am 33 I understand, why they were trying to stop me. When I was 22 I decided I would stop at 25, then 30 and so on....Stopping gets harder for every cigarette you smoke. Make your mind up and stick with it. Are your friends smoking? That may have something to do with keeping on. Once you have set habits, that is the hardest part. For instance, first thing when you get up that is the first thing you do, after you eat that is what you do, what a controlling thing it is. For all of us independent people out there, who would have thought a cigarette would control our every move? All I can say is I wished at 15 I had known all I know now. All I can say is STOP!
Exercise and health is the thing for the future, NOT smoking. Good luck and make up your mind!

[Christopher74]

I agree with everyone else. I know this post is a month old, but I just want to say "this is how my habbit went on and on." I started at 14 and I am now 26. I never thought I would keep it up for 12 years. You just do it day in and day out and put the down side to smoking behind you thinking "I'll probably quit before I ever have a problem" but you know it went on years after I said that. I probably won't get lung cancer or heart disease since I am still young, but I'm sure if I would keep up this endless cycle I'll probably find myself having these problems. I just now decided that now is the time. Not after this one last smoke or this Sunday since it's the beggining of the week, but now. Even if you are considering while you have a smoke between your fingers, the best thing you can do is just put it out and just tell yourself that you will never stop if you cannot do it now.

[ktzzer]

Smoking Sucks! I started when I was 15 too, I am now 20, and smoke way too much. I know it just starts out as something to do, but before you know it, you are completely addicted. I will PANIC if I wake up in the morning and I don't have any cigarettes left. It's really not good to start at all. So quit now!