I've been arguing with my friend, can someone help me?

okay,
can smoking once make you addicted? once. ever.
can it?

Yes. If you are talking about cigarettes, a nicotine addiction can be as strong as a heroin addiction.

The answer is yes if you are talking about any other drug as well. Smoking Marijuana is addicting as well. Marijuana can ruin your endorphins and neurotransmitters in your brain (Both are things that make you happy), which can make you crave other drugs.

Oh yes girl, DO NOT even ONCE try smoking.

Even for a tiny bit of taste, NEVER EVER

BECAUSE I WILL TELL YOU NOW THAT ONCE YOUR HOOKED YOUR SCREWED

Just to reiterate, one cigarette can definitely cause addiction. This does not mean it will but its a very high chance. Incidentally, one cigarette can cause cancer. Thats all it takes. Some people have two ciggys and get cancer - others smoke til they are 70 and have none. Its a game of russian roulette - to play the game is stupidity.

If your friend smokes then she must be stopped because financially and health-wise she will go into a spiral of decline. If you are the one who smokes seriously consider this: is it worth risking your life, destroying your body just to look good? Once you start you can never ever get rid of the craving.

Regards.

Smoking once can cause addiction, with drugs and with plain cigarettes. If your friend tried smoking once, don't automatically give them the full shebang, though. It's if they're going to do it again when you should.



~Mel

oh crap.
my bestfriend's addicted and in DENIAL.
crap.

Tell her/him that, if she wasn't addicted, it wouldn't mean that much to her and you could just take them away and she'd be fine.

I don't advise actually taking it away, though, she might get uber p*ssed at you.



~Mel

I don't know the whole story or whatever, but maybe you should tell them that until they quit smoking, they can't be around you, or that you aren't going to talk to them. If they still live with their parents, maybe you should tell her parents.

Getting someone to quit smoking is never an easy thing. Quitting can often take upwards of 5 attempts.

Some important things to remind your friend. Smoking a cigarette shortens your life by 15 minutes. The average smoker smokes a pack a day. There are 20 cigarettes to a pack. This is equal to five hours a day. In a year, this is over 76 days. If your friend continues to smoke for ten years, over two years is gone.

As if that weren't enough, the average price/pack is about $4. This means that in one year, $1460 are wasted. If your friend smokes for ten years, she will waste $14,600. I don't know if your friend likes cars, but this could buy a brand new car. Or if your friend wants to live in a house, this is enough for a down payment.

Not to mention the other health effects that improve.

20 minutes after quitting: Your heart rate and blood pressure drops.

12 hours after quitting: The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.

2 weeks to 3 months after quitting: Your circulation improves and your lung function increases.

1 to 9 months after quitting: Coughing and shortness of breath decrease; cilia (tiny hair-like structures that move mucus out of the lungs) regain normal function in the lungs, increasing the ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce the risk of infection.

1 year after quitting: The excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker's.

5 years after quitting: Your stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker 5 to 15 years after quitting.

10 years after quitting: The lung cancer death rate is about half that of a continuing smoker's. The risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, cervix, and pancreas decrease.

15 years after quitting: The risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker's.


Also, if your friend wants to have a baby at some point in time, if she is smoking, the baby could be born prematurely.

If your friend is serious about quitting, she should call 1-800-227-2345, (a quitline for smokers) and she can get ideas for how to quit.

Hate to disagree with everyone but no. Smoking ONE time will NOT cause you to deffinately be addicted. It CAN but it is not deffinate. I have smoked on ONE occasion and disliked it. I never smoked again. A lot of my friends have dont it ONE time. It will not deffinately make u addicted.

You cannot become addicted after smoking one time.
If you so choose to continue smoking, yes, you will become addicted.
It's actually common sense.
You gain 50 lbs from one cupcake,
or loose 50 lbs from one workout.
You cannot become addicted from one cigarette or one puff.

That's a bad assumption. Nicotene is as addicting as cocaine or heroin. Just because you didn't get addicted doesn't mean that other people won't. Like Adam said, it's like playing with a loaded gun. You might get shot, you might not. Addiction isn't about choice. By definition, addiction isn't about choice.

Don't say it can't happen because that is exactly what happened here.

I agree with Finn (for once, lol). Some people can become addicted after one. If you don't like it, you probably won't, but if you liked it (not sure how that would happen, but it does) you can. It all depends on how that nicotene affects the individual person.



~Mel

I had a friend who tried smoking a cigarette once just to see if they liked it. They were coughing and stuff the whole time and said it was nasty and they would never do it again. I talked to him a couple days later and he said he didn't want to smoke, but he felt like he should. (I would define that as addiction) My friends and I managed to keep him from doing it (as far as I know, I haven't seen him in a while). Few people probably actually like it at first (they may like the way it makes them look) but they get addicted to it, maybe not always after just one, but I do think that's possible.

I suppose yes, that'd be a mental addiction.
But so is doing it to look cool. Nicotine means a physical addiction, because that's what nicotine does to you.You don't get enough nicotine from one cigarette to cause a physical addiction.

So does that mean that you don't get addicted to heroin after one hit? Or that you don't get addicted to any other drug after one time? That's ridiculous to assume that. Addiction has both a physical and mental side. The physical side can be something called withdrawal. I don't know if you've ever been around a smoker when they haven't gotten to smoke for a while, but it's hellish... The mental side is "needing" it to cope with stress, work etc.

A study here proves my point. Yes, you can get addicted from one cigarette.

Kian and Brielle have just spoken which I like to call "complete and utter bullsh*t." It is an incredibly pathetic and defensive answer to say "one cigarette won't hurt." - as Finn said, a ridiculous assumption.

Smoking, for a great number of people can become an extreme addiction after one, single cigarette. Incidentally, it only takes one to cause Cancer. Yes - your first cigarette can cause cancer. Dont believe me? Google it?

It is more common to be addicted from smoking more than once, but not impossible.

you were also very quick to disagree no one has said that smoking once WILL cause addiction. We have said it CAN.

Edit: There is no evidence that Cannibis is addictive. However, I do not recommend anyone to take it as it can cause: schizophrenia, psychosis, anxiety and depression.

This is a little off topic buuut....

It isn'[t addictive. I'm not saying smoking weed should be your newest hobby....but it isn't addictive.


I think nicotine can be addictive after one cigarette. But there are people that smoke one or twice and quit. But then there are people that are hooked from the start. I think it depends on the person. we're not all the same, so we wouldn't all react the same to the same drug.

Actually, there have been studies on both humans, and animals that marijuana is addictive. Some subjects display withdrawal systems. You can read about Marijuana addiction here

I don't know if you have ever tried/smelled/etc marijuana, but it's awful. It smells bad, and I've seen it make people sick. Why? Because they are addicted.

I don't tihnk it smells bad....I've been around people smoking it before. It's sweet smelling. I think that's just a matter of personal opinion, if it smells good or bad.

It makes people sick because their body is trying to reject it.

it smells like burning hair and burning grass... It doesn't smell good... Maybe you were smelling cigars...

I think I would know.
Burning hair reaks. It reall didn't smell like that at all.

I've never smelled a cigar, but cigarette smoke smells disgusting, so if it smells anythingl ike that then I don't tihnk I'd care for it.

thanks guys.

I went to a concert in December, and the people in front of us were smoking weed and it smelled awful, thank goodness the people next to use traded seats with us.
I just looked it up, and technically marijuana is addictive but not like tobacco or anything. it's more of a you're addicted to the high, not the drug itself.

DUDE WHEN I WENT TO JAMAICA, I WALKED INTO A SHOP AND A GUY HAD BEEN SMOKING WEED!

It was creepy. lol. I didn't like the smell. It wasn't particularly awful, but it wasn't pleasant either. All I know is that I'm never gonna smoke/use it.



~Mel

In canada, (where my brother and sister go to school) There are grocery stores where you can buy it... Marijuana is a part of the Rastafarian religion. (A religion that believes that an Ethiopian Emperor was the second coming of Christ) There are many Rastas in Jamaica.

No, cigars don't smell like cigarettes. They smell sweeter... That is one of my earliest memories of my estranged father...

Is it legal in Canada?

Yes, I am aware of that since I was there. I was saying that it was sort of odd to come into a shop while the person running it is higher than the sky and find out what Marijuana smells like.



~Mel

I got a headache from the smell, I walking to the b-ball court in my neighborhood one day and it smelled like a field of the stuff was burning, I had to go back home.

can i give a little advice.
first of smoking pot is like smoking 5 cigarettes. it'll be quicker to get cancer by doing that. believe me i tried the stuff and i didn't like what it does to me. honestly it made me paranoid and i felt really dizzy but then i felt likei was going to vomit my lungs up. aand yes ive tried it on more than one occasion and to tell the turth i never wanna do it again.

cigarettes i have also tried. i actually smoked for a solid year and at first it was to be cool and then after i started i couldn't stop. another reason why i couldn't stop was because my parents smoked like trains. but i had alot of will power and stopped because that saying is true it's like kissing an ashtray, you're clothes start smelling and the tips of your fingers get like an orange yellowish color like you've been eating cheesey popcorn. but it doesn't come off. i finally quit after my grandfather died from cancer. he smoked cigars.



like finn it was the earliest memory of my grand dad.....the smell if fresh caught fish and cigars. no very cool.