Using alcohol and other drugs can hurt your health. Addiction to any drug, including nicotine, can make you lose control over when and where you use drugs and how often you use them. Most adults who smoke cigarettes wish they didn't. If you started smoking when you were young, you may have thought you could quit when you get older. But as the addiction progresses, it becomes harder to stop-much harder than you ever thought it would be.
More people die from results of smoking than from any other addiction.
You may have even stopped before but then started again. You may think you can't bear these feelings, so you may start smoking again. Returning to your old pattern is called a relapse. If you don't think cigarettes are addicting, talk to ex-smokers and ask them how they quit and what was the hardest part. Then get some help so you can stop smoking too.