smoking

Once You Start, It's Hard to Stop

Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like 

heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes 

that a person needs to have it just to feel normal.

People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because 

their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start 

before they're 18 years old. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become 

addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all.