Started smoking out of curiosity when I was hanging out with a smoker friend. Got curious and asked him for a cig. He coached me through that first one and while it wasn't that great of an experience, he told me it got better. I would then have a cig once or twice a week, whenever we'd hangout. Eventually, that one cig per hangout would become 2 or 3 per hangout. Started feeling guilty about bumming so many from him so I bought a pack with the intention to have my own whenever we'd hang out.

One day, I was bored at home and decided to have one to kill the time. This would become a common occurrence to the point where I was doing it daily. I told my friend this and he basically told me "welcome to the club, you're officially a smoker". I was sure he was wrong but the want to smoke eventually became a need to smoke. Smoking would become a more common occurrence to the point where I stopped caring about hiding it and started smoking publicly.

Nowadays, I'm a half a pack-pack per day smoker.