Starting smoking, cigarettes,

I'd really like it if I could get my boyfriend to start Smoking so he'd stop complaining about my smoking.

I know several girls who started smoking after they started dating a guy who smokes and most of them kept smoking after they broke up because they had gotten addicted to cigarettes

I'm just wondering if it's normal to want your girlfriend or boyfriend to start smoking with you?

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  • Boojum

    When I think of all the money I wasted on tobacco over the 20+ years I was addicted to it, that makes me feel really stupid.

    It's been almost that long since I managed to quit, and so far it seems like I dodged the really nasty bullets, but if I have, that was pure chance.

    Keep smoking if you hate yourself and you like burning money. If you hate your boyfriend also and you think he's too rich, do your best to get him hooked too.

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    • dirtybirdy

      Prefect answer.

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    • Becky95

      I don't smoke because I hate myself - I just am really addicted and can't quit !!

      Look I just want him to be able to share a cigarette with me when I'm on a cigarette break!

      I don't hate him obviously or I wouldn't be with him

      I just want him to share this with me!!

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      • Boojum

        Look into vaping. It's a lot cheaper and safer.

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  • dirtybirdy

    Nooo, please try to quit, and don't try to start someone else on this dreary path. I've smoked for two thirds of my life, quit briefly a few times but started again. The times I have quit, it was long enough to realize how much better I felt, but I'm a dodo, so I started again with excuses like stress,,, blah, just quit,,,please.

    Trust a birds words.

    <3

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  • Murun

    He should take up something like knitting. When you go for a fag he comes with you and does some knitting while you chat.

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  • rayb12

    If he is not ok with you smoking you should break up, not encourage him to begin this expensive and extremely unhealthy habit. I understand it is highly addictive, I would not wish it on my worst enemy. I have studied the tobacco industry extensively and it is worse than you think in ways you wouldn't even think of. Forget about this idea to get him to start.

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    • Becky95

      What does the tobacco industry have to do with anything?

      Why is it wrong for me to want him to share a cigarette with me when I need to take a smoke break?

      When we are at the movies or a restaurant that doesn't have a smoking patio and I have to take a smoke break I hate having to go outside all by myself and smoke a few cigarettes hurriedly all alone and I'd rather him join me and share a cigarette with me!

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      • rayb12

        Oh no its you Becky. We liked you. Come on you are smart enough to see this is wrong. Do I really need to spell it out. Cigarettes are highly addictive, expensive, and inevitably lead to health complications, shorten life expectancy, and kill. They also really only provide relief because you are already addicted. So as a non-smoker with information on what they do there is really no justification for beginning. Yes of course I understand you have these feelings, but acting on them is grossly inhumane.

        You are the one killing yourself, he luckily doesn't have this problem. OK if one of you should change it is you. How you could love a person and play with there life like you suggest means you don't really love him. Come on Becky.

        The tobacco industry tricked you into thinking there was any reason to smoke in the first place. The entire image of cigarettes being cool was paid for by tobacco companies. They would pay movie directors to make the characters smoke.

        I can't tell if you are ignorant as to how dangerous there are or you just don't give a shit about your boyfriends health, or hopefully you just haven't thought this through.

        Again this is the cruelest thing I can imagine. Actual evil

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        • rayb12

          You're out of your fucking mind dude. Your addiction to cigarettes is your problem. You're freaking deluded sharing a cigarette never meant anything. I think you need to wildly adjust your attitude or stay away from this man. How you can say you are hopelessly addicted, and wish that he starts as well. How you can say you hope you don't get cancer too are you serious? Do you realize the difference? Cigarettes increase your risk for lung cancer astronomically. The amount of disrespect you have for your boyfriends life is appalling. If you were suicidal would you want him to share that with you too? This is totally ridiculous. You seemed cool from your other posts and I'm sure you are in different ways. But there are no words to describe how cruel this selfish impulse of yours is. Seriously you want your boyfriend to make this choice that in all likelihood will give him a serious amount of health problems and cost lots of money, and all just so you feel less alone how completely pathetic. What on earth are you doing thinking you deserve to be in this man's life? You don't play with people like this. Don't tempt him to make the mistake you did. Fucking hell

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        • Becky95

          Look, I mean we all know cigarettes are dangerous - but so are Big Macs and extra large French fries and jumbo sodas!

          Alcohol is dangerous and mills people too - not just from drunk driving

          The world is full of toxins and pollutants and mercury and arsenic and other things they allow for "allowable limit"

          Like, I remember finding out that the place my high school was built on was an old junk yard dump and the EPA wanted to close it down because it had toxic levels of lead and mercury!!

          And I lived in that same neighborhood! Right there surrounded by all those posions !!!

          The school board fought closing the school down because they didn't have the money to build a new one and then the EPA or whoever just gave up and said oh well - I guess it was ok for those kids to live there

          Most of the kids in my neighborhood school were black or Mexican with a small percentage of poor white trash like my family -

          we all came from families where everyone smoked - both my mom and step dad smoked, and after they broke up all her next boyfriends and ex boyfriends all smoked

          My dad and step mom smoked too, as did my step sister and my half sister from my dads previous relationship.

          My dad died from lung cancer when he was just 49

          So yeah I know smoking is bad for you

          But where I grew up everyone smoked

          When I started smoking every day by age 12 my mother didn't even try to tell me no

          I had been sneaking cigarettes from her pack since I was 8 years old

          By the time I was 12 I was smoking cigarettes before school and right after school, and would smoke in my room at home or in the living room and watch tv until My mom got home

          She didn't like me smoking in front of her at first but that didn't last long - like maybe a few months tops

          But I grew up in a house of poison

          My step dad and my moms main long term ex boyfriend both worked in the oil field and always had clothes laying around covered in god knows what chemicals

          The whole trailer smelled like a mix of diesel fuel and house hold cleaners

          Oh and I grew up most of my life right down from a chemical plant of some kind

          The trailer park near the plant was much much cheaper

          You could always smell it

          If you played outside in it you would smell like it too

          Like pesticide

          I used to cough all the time

          I would cough up blood sometimes even as a little kid

          I was diagnosed with severe asthma

          My mom wanted me to stay indoors more because I was always so sickly as a child

          So yeah I smoked because that's the world I grew up in

          By the time I was legally able to buy cigarettes I was so hopelessly addicted there was no way I was ever going to quit

          I'm sure the cigarettes contributed to my fathers lung cancer - and he smoked cigarettes till the day he died

          But you know what else killed him?

          Fucking asbestos

          He was a contractor - did all kinds of work in old buildings, stripping insulation and stuff

          He did alot of work on old power plants and refineries - the companies always wanted contractors to do the work for cheaper than their employees

          He said he used to strip the insulation out and just be covered in that white dust of asbestos all over him - caked in his mustache

          It makes me so fucking mad when I think about it

          We tried to get him in one of those asbestos lawsuits you see advertised on tv

          What a croc

          They ended up having him settle with a bunch of bankrupt companies who used to manufacture asbestos or whatever

          After his lawyers too their cut he only got $35,000

          That may sound like a bunch of money and it's more money I ever had in my entire life

          But it goes nowhere towards paying for lung cancer treatment

          It's like they shouldn't have even bothered with the damn lawsuit to begin with

          Anyways

          Asbestos and cigarettes killed my father

          But if he hadn't worked around all the asbestos maybe he'd still be here

          My mother and former step father and her boyfriends are still here and they all smoke

          My former step mom is still here and she smokes

          My older half sister is in her late thirties and she smokes all the time

          So I'm not ignorant

          I know smoking is bad for you

          It's just that everything is bad for you

          We live in a toxic world

          Surrounded by posions

          So why deny myself the pleasure of cigarettes to try to avoid a little poison ... when I live surrounded in it my whole life

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          • rayb12

            You are out of your fucking mind this made me so fucking angry I can't talk to you any more.

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          • rayb12

            To anyone in the comments who actually does have a brain, cigarettes greatly increase your risk for many diseases. Smokers justify their addiction understandably but ultimately at a certain point they all wish they had the power to control their habit. For these reasons to not have a tobacco addiction is a great gift. Becky you seem very confused about how logic, empathy, and valuing human life works. You see if something negative happens to me. I don't see that as justification or in any way related to wishing that ill upon a loved one. The only relevant information to this conversation are the toll cigarettes take on a persons life, who the fuck cares about your dad dying of asbestos? Do u really think your beta attempt at gaslighting is impressive? This is so weak Becky. I hope very badly your boyfriend can find someone else with a more appropriate grasp on reality, and that you learn what love, or fuck it even what being a decent logical human being is.

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          • Kevinevan

            You are fucking awesome. Marry me 😂

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      • Murun

        He should come out to the smoking area with you! Smoking there isn't compulsory.

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  • KiwiWisdom

    Misery loves company. Normal to want things in common, kinda weird you want to convince someone you like to start burning money and life just so you don't hear them "complain".

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    • Becky95

      Is it really so wrong to want to be able to share something like a cigarette with someone you love??

      Who said anything about misery?

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  • Happyyoungling

    You should be jailed for trying to get your boyfriend for doing dumb shit with you lmao.

    ... Well not jailed, but ermm...

    Hung upside down while the rest of us throw apples at you!

    All set aside, leave him alone. If it's his choice, then it's his choice, but don't force it.

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    • Becky95

      Why should I be jailed or pelted with apples just because I want my boyfriend to share a cigarette with me when I have to go outside for a cigarette break!?!

      Sharing a cigarette with someone used to mean something!

      I hate always having to smoke alone - and I take a lot of smoke breaks throughout the day - so I end up having to spend a lot of time alone smoking all by myself - it's terrible!

      I just want him to share a cigarette with me!

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      • Pumpurrnickel

        He doesn't want to. It's extremely unhealthy and you can develop bad habits. Leave him out of your poor choices.

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      • Kevinevan

        I feel ya Becky. Dump him and find a smoker.

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      • LionsMane

        This is the same person who said she liked to make her guy friends cheat with her when they are in relationships I believe

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  • LionsMane

    This is like an extremely obese person wanting their in-shape partner to be equally deathly obese.

    There's a reason there's a surgeon general's warning on each box. Smoking literally kills you.

    There's no positive about smoking. There is nothing romantic about sharing cigarette breath kisses.

    You want to kill yourself, that's one thing. You don't have the right to sucker him into your nasty habit.

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  • I smoke because I'm hoping for an early death, and I need to cling to something.

    Now reason with me, would you start shooting up if your guy wanted to share that habit with you, sweetie?

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  • CapriSun

    I think it's pretty normal to want that. I used to smoke and don't anymore because my boyfriend doesn't like it, and I've always wanted to smoke with a boyfriend. But you shouldn't make (or want) anybody do something they don't want to do.

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  • earthrickc137

    I think a lot of people are misunderstanding this question and getting overemotional.
    she isn't a bad person for secretly wishing her boyfriend would pick up smoking, that's just a feeling and you can't really do anything about it. however, if I'm wrong and you are actively trying to get your boyfriend to pick up the habit with you, well then yeah that's kinda fucked up.
    tl;dr it's normal to feel that way but it's wrong to act on that feeling by trying to convince someone to pick up your unhealthy habit.

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  • SniperMoose

    That is inconsiderate of you. Don't you have any consideration for his health and happiness? I can understand you wanting company, but that doesn't mean he has to be smoking as well.

    EDIT: Yes there are other toxins in the world, but cigarette smoke is one of the most lethal. It kills thousands of people every year. Try to think of his health. Do you want him to get lung cancer? I doubt it. So don't push him to a smoking addiction.

    If his complaints bother you so much, you should date someone who's already a smoker rather than trying to mess up someone without such an unhealthy habit.

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  • bob7

    Break up and find a a stupid addict

    Dont harm the innocent guy

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  • Murun

    Tobacco is the most ridiculous drug really. All it does is satisfy the craving for itself, and that craving is in anyone who's ever smoked it.
    It's the only drug I regret trying.

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    • Becky95

      Your right that is really is ridiculous!

      I been smoking non stop for well over a decade and I know there's no hope of me ever being able to quit!

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      • Murun

        It's a love of cannabis that got me into it in the first place.. After a couple of years of only smoking it pure, I accepted a joint while drunk and enjoyed that 'rush down the limbs' feeling tobacco gives you the first one-and-a-half times you try it.
        I've occasionally managed to give up the baccy and continue smoking cannabis in pipes, but eventually some combination of drunk and emotional brings me back and it hooks me again. My lungs always enjoy the breaks! Whenever I lapse after a long break I do get the tobacco rush again for a day or so, then it's just back to feeding itself.
        Utter madness. We should meet up for a smoke!

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  • Nickvey

    i smoked to see if the girls that smoked would please fuck me. it didnt work and i probably turned off girls that didnt smoke. then my smoker wife got new plastic titts and had to stop so we both did. soon she started smoking again. i didnt . then i chewed tobacco for 10 years and my wife didnt mind because i like wintergreen flavor , thats like a rootbeer. if you love this guy why do you want to kill him , smoking kills. he love you enough to complain about smoking.

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    • Becky95

      I don't want to kill him I just want him to be with me when I'm smoking!

      Is it so wrong to want a guy to share a cigarette with you!

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      • Nickvey

        set up a bench outdoors he gets some sun you get to smoke sun avoidance is a risk factor for death greater than smoking. My work is done. Please try to stop smoking .

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  • dilater

    if you love him why would you want to curse him with a terible addiction i smoked and gave it up wish i had the money i wasted back

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  • TNXK

    Girl its not wrong to want your boyfriend to smoke with you i understand you want him to join you on your smoke breaks and have those smoke talks, where your just out there one on one. I also don't think he should be complain to you so much about your smoking, especially if he knew from the start that you're a smoker. If he doesnt like it so much he needs to sit you down and tell seriously, not nag until your so irritated you need to go to the internet.

    it's wrong that your not realising how bad it is for him and yourself because you are so blinded by your need to smoke. He doesn't want you to smoke and instead of trying to change for him you are thinking about changing him (and dont compare your relationship to what other girls have done in theirs). this will never work. i understand that you just want him to spend time with you but your not looking at it through his eyes, you are only thinking about what you want him to do.

    when he complains to you its because he wants to see you staying by his side when your cuddling or out in a bar/cafe instead of rushing out for a smoke; and you want to see him by your side smoking with you, asking you if you want to go outside and get away from everyone for a smoke (you can do that without smoking btw you can always go out for fresh air and i'm sure he would join you if he knew you weren't smoking).

    The point is he wants you to be healthy and that is good because that means he cares about your well being, and smoking is bad i think you should try to quit for him. you will sound like an awful human being if you start saying to his face that you wished he'd smoke. It will make you sound like you don't care about his health which i'm sure you do. if your smoking and his complaining is going to be such an issue then you may have to find another relationship where you have more things in common.

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  • INSANE710

    Just take the butts out of the ashtray and smoke that, it's kind of sharing a cigarette

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  • Murun

    Maybe you should take up smoking crack together? A fresh start, both on equal footing.

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  • rayb12

    You know what Becky I think were all wrong and you're right. You just want some company nothing wrong here. Something's gonna kill everyone anyways. Lmfao why shouldn't he develop a chemical dependency like you? Why wish the best for him, he's only your boyfriend. Fucking hell. What rotten sick shit. Arguably one of the most revolting posts I've seen on this site, and I read everything. Get fucked dude

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  • Nickvey

    i have two brother that drag about oxygen to breath in what's left of their lungs , they still smoke. Everyone can chose their death. only the smart chose life.

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  • Smithers

    Oh you would really like your boyfriend to increase his chances to catch cancer? Then I wish that he drops your psycho bitch ass you sick cunt. What the hell is wrong in your head?

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    • SniperMoose

      She probably just wasn't thinking man. I doubt it was malicious intent.

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    • Becky95

      I just want some company when I'm smoking!

      Of course I don't want him to get lung cancer !

      I don't want cancer either! I just want to have my boyfriend share cigarettes with me!

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      • Smithers

        Sure, and if you would have AIDS then you would want to share it your the one you love also ? Go take your pills you crazy bitch.

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