Woman who smoke: what do you smoke and what made you start smoking?
June 28, 2025
Woman who smoke: what do you smoke and what made you start smoking?
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I smoke marijuana daily. I started when I was 16 and just never stopped. I don’t drink a drop though.
Cigarettes for me. I smoked occasionally. My ex hated it and he smoked spliffs, funny enough. The day my father passed I bought a pack of cigarettes for the first time and swore out loud I’d make myself addicted. It didn’t work, cause it was occasional, but years and years later I got addicted. Now I need at least one a day at this current point in my life. Well, some days none. Yeah I can go without, but the moment I’m stressed or have drank I do want one. Need, that’s addiction. So I do, the one thing I begged my parents to stop. It just feels so good and I hate that. I feel regret each time I light. Nobody will get that unless you felt growing up watching a movie and someone running outside to smoke while you screamed at them to come inside cause they were missing something. But, I’m the same way now. Mid convo and we drank? Be right back I need a minute, follow me or don’t. I won’t notice either way. I hate that.
i’ve been smoking weed daily since i was probably 16 or 17, almost 30 now. at first i had a hate/love relationship bc tolerance was low and i am a naturally PARANOID person. would convince myself that the group i was smoking with was actually trying to kill me. but now it’s therapeutic (i do get too high still sometimes) it’s a stress reliever and something to look forward to. much rather be reliant on it over alcohol. although i do think i need to transition more towards edibles bc my lungs are a bit fucked.
Started on cigarettes with my partner on a whim about 7 years ago. Started smoking pot around the same time. Switched from ciggs to vapes about 2 years ago.
Pot help with the mental health, and smoking… I just ended up addicted to the nicotine. Stopped smoking everything through both pregnancies and while boob feeding. I’m still stupid enough to go back to smoking after being without for over a year both times.
I’m a light cigarette smoker. I know how bad it is, I really do. I didn’t even take it up until I was 33 (I’m 40). Two reasons. One, just another outlet for anxiety I suppose. I’ve struggled with my mental health basically forever. Two, I was in a really unhealthy relationship and (again, I know this is dumb), it was one of those off-on relationships where sometimes I felt like the centre of her world and other times it was like I was a stranger not worth her time and energy. I’ve long had a bad habit of trying to imitate people I like due to the misguided belief that they’ll like me more if I’m as much like them as possible. Win their approval. (Thankfully, I’m starting to grow out of that and develop less shitty boundaries.) Anyway, my ex-girlfriend was a smoker. That wasn’t the only bad habit of hers I picked up by any means, unsurprisingly. That relationship has long been over, but between the anxiety outlet factor and simply being very attached to the habit (wayyyy more psychologically than I am physiologically, too; I don’t even really get nicotine withdrawals if I don’t smoke for a bit, maybe because I’m not a very heavy smoker), I haven’t quit. I try not to be around smokers too much because it’s really hard for me to entertain the idea of stopping if other people in my life are doing it. Luckily I suppose, I don’t have much of a social life anyway lol. My husband was a light smoker when we met but he quit a few years ago. Now it’s just trying to convince myself I should stop… 🙃
I also used to smoke weed intermittently in my 20s, but I quit in my early 30s. At first it helped with depression (I liked the strains that made me feel energetic, not sleepy couch lock ones), but eventually it was just a panic attack trigger and I’ve struggled with panic attacks since some trauma stuff in my early 20, so not something I need to make worse. It also really started bothering my allergies, my throat and face would get itchy when I smoked. Also very much not worth it.
Smoke cigarettes, Virginia Slims mostly, or on some days when it’s overly stressful might get a Marlboro red. Been smoking since I was 16, initially as a teenager thingy hanging out with others but somehow got to a point where it became a habit. Tried hard, super hard to leave so I guess I’ll stay with it until I can quit it for good.
Nic vapes. I started smoking cigs at 18 because I tried them once and loved the taste. I stopped at 23, picked them up again at 25, switched to vapes at 26. Vape daily now at 30. I stopped weed and alcohol at 28, eat clean, exercise regularly and according to my doctor I am “the textbook definition of a physically healthy person”as of a full blood panel done earlier this year. If I live to 80, I promised myself I’d pick up smoking again.
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I had my first cigarette at 15, became a smoker at 18. I was addicted to self harm and had a close call, figured I had to stop beating around the bush and make a decision. I settled on kms long term and took up smoking to replace cutting. Marlboro 27s are my 🤎 so good with a coffee.
At 23 I got a vape because I don’t like my car to smell like smoke but was spending 4 hrs/day commuting and had major road rage. Now at 30 the damn thing’s glued to my hand.
zaza
for anxiety and stress management.
Parents both smoked, plus I grew up watching a lot of arthouse cinema and then went to a uni where all cool kids smoked. Thank god I’ve been able to stop now! Being in a country where cigarettes are hella expensive definitely helped.
I smoke marijuana. I started smoking for curiosity, and now more so for my anxiety, endometriosis, and insomnia.
I vape nicotine all day. I was a pack-a-day smoker for about 16 years. Now I don’t smoke cigarettes at home, but when I live abroad in more smoking-friendly cultures, I smoke a cigarette maybe once a day, sometimes two if I’m out socially.
How did I start? Absolutely classic, stupid story. I was 17 and certifiably Not Cool in high school. One day I was hanging out at a McDonalds with my best friend, because that was the only place for teens to hang out in our suburb, when a bunch of Cool Girls showed up. They were friendly with my friend, so we started talking to them.
One offered us a cigarette. My friend declined. I wanted to look cool, so I accepted. Biggest mistake of my life.
Honestly, I loved smoking right away. I know a lot of people say their first one was gross, but I didn’t find it gross. I loved the action and the taste. I’ve always had issues with oral fixation (I was a chronic nail biter most of my life, until I started getting gel manicures — that fixed it) and anxiety issues that smoking seemed to help.
Smoking was the worst decision I ever made. I wish I could go back and undo it, because I’ve never been able to break the habit. Vaping was a game changer for me and my health (my cough disappeared as soon as I switched in 2013). I managed even to get down to 0% nicotine in my vape for a year, but STILL couldn’t manage to stop vaping — it really is that part that’s the most addictive.
I smoke cigarettes (menthols). I started in college, during a terrible breakup, when my friends used to drink all week. Now in my late 20s, I still smoke occasionally. It has become an outlet for the stress I endure. Inhaling brings a sense of satisfaction.
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MJ
Takes the edge off and is more habitual
Started smoking menthol cigarettes when I was 16-17. Quit in 2022 (ish) when they passed the menthol ban in California. Was also very addicted to smoking weed. I was smoking so much probably 3-4 grams a day to myself. Had to quit. It was not feasible financially and was tanking my mental health. I social smoke cigarettes still. My drinking bone is connected to my cigarette bone and anytime I cross state lines or have a friend visiting from MX I get my menthol fix and go thru the horrible withdrawals even after only having one pack.
I’m not going to lie. I love smoking. It’s cathartic and comforting. I like the way a woman smells after a cigarette or the way they look too. It was always chic. That’s how I got sucked in. Don’t start if u haven’t. I always said I wouldn’t get addicted and well, that was a lie.
I smoke cigarettes (Marlboro red shorts) and vape. I started smoking at 14, partly because my older friends did and I thought it was cool, but it also really helped with period cramps and anxiety. I quit cigarettes when I got clean from heroin 10 years ago and just vaped. But this last year has been absolutely terrible so I started smoking again. I’m not really interested in quitting but now that I’ve moved away from my cheating ex, I smoke a little less so that’s something I guess.
I smoke cannabis. I started at fifteen after watching Woodstock in the mid-80’s and impressionable me, decided that I needed to become a pot-smoking hippie.
Which I DID.
FUN FACT: NOBODY dug hippies in the 80’s. Surely in a flannel was the scene, not peace and love.
Thankfully, there was acid 😂
I smoke weed.
I started smoking in my thirties when my children were grown up, it’s just a way of unwinding instead of a glass of wine but way better for me.
Smoking is gross, leaving people seriously smelly.
I smoke a weed pen daily. I used to smoke cigarettes socially out with friends drinking – I could make a pack last like 4 months so I never really felt bad about it and I still don’t but don’t really do it anymore. I didn’t start smoking anything until I was an adult – neither of my parents smoke or like smoking esp cigarettes so that’s why it was mostly secretly just with friends and people I knew didn’t care. Started smoking weed slowly take hits of my sisters pen after I moved back home and it developed to a daily occurrence in the years since (I moved back home late 2018 so this didn’t happen overnight).
I started smoking cigarettes when I was 16 years old. I was in an unhealthy relationship with a 23 years old guy and didn’t feel good.
So I tried it and felt better with smoking. I stopped smoking with 20 years but started again 2 years later because of massive stress.
I continued smoking until my husband and I wanted to have a baby. I quit 3 years ago.
I smoked weed for years until all of a sudden I couldn’t smoke without panic attacks. I also started smoking cigarettes at 14 and switched to vapes at 16. Quit now that I’m pregnant but I’ll definitely end up going back to it
Started smoking both cigarettes and weed when I was 13. Weed just kinda came and went since I moved from somewhere where good quality weed was abundant and now I live somewhere with ass quality weed that’s hard to get. But it makes me paranoid anyways. Cigarettes are probably my one true love and after 20 years together I’ve switched over to vaping which I plan to taper off. But you see I quit drinking alcohol and now cigarettes taste kinda gross to me, which is odd because I smoked at least a pack a day for years. But I’ll always be someone who is up for the occasional cigarette I assume.
Cigars !!!
Ashtons are my favorite. Tatiana are my favorite sweet cigars 🥰
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I smoke marijuana daily. I started when I was 16 and just never stopped. I don’t drink a drop though.
Cigarettes for me. I smoked occasionally. My ex hated it and he smoked spliffs, funny enough. The day my father passed I bought a pack of cigarettes for the first time and swore out loud I’d make myself addicted. It didn’t work, cause it was occasional, but years and years later I got addicted. Now I need at least one a day at this current point in my life. Well, some days none. Yeah I can go without, but the moment I’m stressed or have drank I do want one. Need, that’s addiction. So I do, the one thing I begged my parents to stop. It just feels so good and I hate that. I feel regret each time I light. Nobody will get that unless you felt growing up watching a movie and someone running outside to smoke while you screamed at them to come inside cause they were missing something. But, I’m the same way now. Mid convo and we drank? Be right back I need a minute, follow me or don’t. I won’t notice either way. I hate that.
i’ve been smoking weed daily since i was probably 16 or 17, almost 30 now. at first i had a hate/love relationship bc tolerance was low and i am a naturally PARANOID person. would convince myself that the group i was smoking with was actually trying to kill me. but now it’s therapeutic (i do get too high still sometimes) it’s a stress reliever and something to look forward to. much rather be reliant on it over alcohol. although i do think i need to transition more towards edibles bc my lungs are a bit fucked.
Started on cigarettes with my partner on a whim about 7 years ago. Started smoking pot around the same time. Switched from ciggs to vapes about 2 years ago.
Pot help with the mental health, and smoking… I just ended up addicted to the nicotine. Stopped smoking everything through both pregnancies and while boob feeding. I’m still stupid enough to go back to smoking after being without for over a year both times.
I’m a light cigarette smoker. I know how bad it is, I really do. I didn’t even take it up until I was 33 (I’m 40). Two reasons. One, just another outlet for anxiety I suppose. I’ve struggled with my mental health basically forever. Two, I was in a really unhealthy relationship and (again, I know this is dumb), it was one of those off-on relationships where sometimes I felt like the centre of her world and other times it was like I was a stranger not worth her time and energy. I’ve long had a bad habit of trying to imitate people I like due to the misguided belief that they’ll like me more if I’m as much like them as possible. Win their approval. (Thankfully, I’m starting to grow out of that and develop less shitty boundaries.) Anyway, my ex-girlfriend was a smoker. That wasn’t the only bad habit of hers I picked up by any means, unsurprisingly. That relationship has long been over, but between the anxiety outlet factor and simply being very attached to the habit (wayyyy more psychologically than I am physiologically, too; I don’t even really get nicotine withdrawals if I don’t smoke for a bit, maybe because I’m not a very heavy smoker), I haven’t quit. I try not to be around smokers too much because it’s really hard for me to entertain the idea of stopping if other people in my life are doing it. Luckily I suppose, I don’t have much of a social life anyway lol. My husband was a light smoker when we met but he quit a few years ago. Now it’s just trying to convince myself I should stop… 🙃
I also used to smoke weed intermittently in my 20s, but I quit in my early 30s. At first it helped with depression (I liked the strains that made me feel energetic, not sleepy couch lock ones), but eventually it was just a panic attack trigger and I’ve struggled with panic attacks since some trauma stuff in my early 20, so not something I need to make worse. It also really started bothering my allergies, my throat and face would get itchy when I smoked. Also very much not worth it.
Smoke cigarettes, Virginia Slims mostly, or on some days when it’s overly stressful might get a Marlboro red. Been smoking since I was 16, initially as a teenager thingy hanging out with others but somehow got to a point where it became a habit. Tried hard, super hard to leave so I guess I’ll stay with it until I can quit it for good.
Nic vapes. I started smoking cigs at 18 because I tried them once and loved the taste. I stopped at 23, picked them up again at 25, switched to vapes at 26. Vape daily now at 30. I stopped weed and alcohol at 28, eat clean, exercise regularly and according to my doctor I am “the textbook definition of a physically healthy person”as of a full blood panel done earlier this year. If I live to 80, I promised myself I’d pick up smoking again.
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I had my first cigarette at 15, became a smoker at 18. I was addicted to self harm and had a close call, figured I had to stop beating around the bush and make a decision. I settled on kms long term and took up smoking to replace cutting. Marlboro 27s are my 🤎 so good with a coffee.
At 23 I got a vape because I don’t like my car to smell like smoke but was spending 4 hrs/day commuting and had major road rage. Now at 30 the damn thing’s glued to my hand.
zaza
for anxiety and stress management.
Parents both smoked, plus I grew up watching a lot of arthouse cinema and then went to a uni where all cool kids smoked. Thank god I’ve been able to stop now! Being in a country where cigarettes are hella expensive definitely helped.
I smoke marijuana. I started smoking for curiosity, and now more so for my anxiety, endometriosis, and insomnia.
I vape nicotine all day. I was a pack-a-day smoker for about 16 years. Now I don’t smoke cigarettes at home, but when I live abroad in more smoking-friendly cultures, I smoke a cigarette maybe once a day, sometimes two if I’m out socially.
How did I start? Absolutely classic, stupid story. I was 17 and certifiably Not Cool in high school. One day I was hanging out at a McDonalds with my best friend, because that was the only place for teens to hang out in our suburb, when a bunch of Cool Girls showed up. They were friendly with my friend, so we started talking to them.
One offered us a cigarette. My friend declined. I wanted to look cool, so I accepted. Biggest mistake of my life.
Honestly, I loved smoking right away. I know a lot of people say their first one was gross, but I didn’t find it gross. I loved the action and the taste. I’ve always had issues with oral fixation (I was a chronic nail biter most of my life, until I started getting gel manicures — that fixed it) and anxiety issues that smoking seemed to help.
Smoking was the worst decision I ever made. I wish I could go back and undo it, because I’ve never been able to break the habit. Vaping was a game changer for me and my health (my cough disappeared as soon as I switched in 2013). I managed even to get down to 0% nicotine in my vape for a year, but STILL couldn’t manage to stop vaping — it really is that part that’s the most addictive.
I smoke cigarettes (menthols). I started in college, during a terrible breakup, when my friends used to drink all week. Now in my late 20s, I still smoke occasionally. It has become an outlet for the stress I endure. Inhaling brings a sense of satisfaction.
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MJ
Takes the edge off and is more habitual
Started smoking menthol cigarettes when I was 16-17. Quit in 2022 (ish) when they passed the menthol ban in California. Was also very addicted to smoking weed. I was smoking so much probably 3-4 grams a day to myself. Had to quit. It was not feasible financially and was tanking my mental health. I social smoke cigarettes still. My drinking bone is connected to my cigarette bone and anytime I cross state lines or have a friend visiting from MX I get my menthol fix and go thru the horrible withdrawals even after only having one pack.
I’m not going to lie. I love smoking. It’s cathartic and comforting. I like the way a woman smells after a cigarette or the way they look too. It was always chic. That’s how I got sucked in. Don’t start if u haven’t. I always said I wouldn’t get addicted and well, that was a lie.
I smoke cigarettes (Marlboro red shorts) and vape. I started smoking at 14, partly because my older friends did and I thought it was cool, but it also really helped with period cramps and anxiety. I quit cigarettes when I got clean from heroin 10 years ago and just vaped. But this last year has been absolutely terrible so I started smoking again. I’m not really interested in quitting but now that I’ve moved away from my cheating ex, I smoke a little less so that’s something I guess.
I smoke cannabis. I started at fifteen after watching Woodstock in the mid-80’s and impressionable me, decided that I needed to become a pot-smoking hippie.
Which I DID.
FUN FACT: NOBODY dug hippies in the 80’s. Surely in a flannel was the scene, not peace and love.
Thankfully, there was acid 😂
I smoke weed.
I started smoking in my thirties when my children were grown up, it’s just a way of unwinding instead of a glass of wine but way better for me.
Smoking is gross, leaving people seriously smelly.
I smoke a weed pen daily. I used to smoke cigarettes socially out with friends drinking – I could make a pack last like 4 months so I never really felt bad about it and I still don’t but don’t really do it anymore. I didn’t start smoking anything until I was an adult – neither of my parents smoke or like smoking esp cigarettes so that’s why it was mostly secretly just with friends and people I knew didn’t care. Started smoking weed slowly take hits of my sisters pen after I moved back home and it developed to a daily occurrence in the years since (I moved back home late 2018 so this didn’t happen overnight).
I started smoking cigarettes when I was 16 years old. I was in an unhealthy relationship with a 23 years old guy and didn’t feel good.
So I tried it and felt better with smoking. I stopped smoking with 20 years but started again 2 years later because of massive stress.
I continued smoking until my husband and I wanted to have a baby. I quit 3 years ago.
I smoked weed for years until all of a sudden I couldn’t smoke without panic attacks. I also started smoking cigarettes at 14 and switched to vapes at 16. Quit now that I’m pregnant but I’ll definitely end up going back to it
Started smoking both cigarettes and weed when I was 13. Weed just kinda came and went since I moved from somewhere where good quality weed was abundant and now I live somewhere with ass quality weed that’s hard to get. But it makes me paranoid anyways. Cigarettes are probably my one true love and after 20 years together I’ve switched over to vaping which I plan to taper off. But you see I quit drinking alcohol and now cigarettes taste kinda gross to me, which is odd because I smoked at least a pack a day for years. But I’ll always be someone who is up for the occasional cigarette I assume.
Cigars !!!
Ashtons are my favorite. Tatiana are my favorite sweet cigars 🥰