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If you mean how many do you need to smoke before you are addicted. There is no way to know. Every individual is different and to my knowledge, no study has ever been done to aswer that question. Nor should, due to the fact that the nature of the study would involve getting people addicted to cigarrettes. If you are curious whether you are addicted I use a sumple rule of thumb. It's a subjective one and not based on science at all, but it works. If you have ever tried ot quit and didn't make it a year without lighting up, you are addicted. Once you are addicted you are always addicted. If you are addicted and dedide to quit, you will make that same decision every day (if not every hour for a while) for the rest of your life. If you neglect that decision even one time, you will become a smoker again. That's just my rule of thumb.
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I heard one time that if you do something 20 in a row then smoking becomes addictive Not they chemicals in the cigarett but the act of smoking. I tried to find something on the net but couldn't so i thought i would share with you want my health teacher told us once.
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I also can't remember exactly but for teenage girls it takes an incredibly small number, two a day for less than two weeks.
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Like everyone else has stated, each person is individual. i started at age 16. i am now 62. my first cigarette was a parliament. that one pack got me hooked. One pack for some, one cigarette for some, a carton for others. all different.
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It really does vary from person to person. It took me years of smoking before I actually felt physical cravings, and when I eventually gave up, I didn't find it particularly difficult. Othere people I know were hooked (or said they were) after a few months and find it virtually impossible to quit. In general I think you would have to be smoking regularly for at least a few weeks - just smoking the odd one "socially" doesn't seem to produce cravings in most people, you have to be forming some semblance of a habit before your body begins to depend on it.
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It's like ADD where everything is grey. Are you addicted to it physically or mentally? Chemically or sociologically? People who smoke in groups tend to be 'addicted' much faster then others. It also has to do with your will power and body's natural biological system. You would also need to consider how frequent you smoke. Every second or third day I usually have a poser-cigar (which is basically a large cigarette), but I'll often stop smoking for months when travelling. So, perhaps less then one cigarette a day will prevent addiction.
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On impulse when I was sixteen, I bought a ten pack of Malboro Lights. I smoked them within a few hours. A coupe of days later I bought another pack and smoked them all within a few hours again. I kept doing this and I started spreading them out during the day. In the end, I was probably smoking 8-10 a day, every day. I found it very difficult even from that very first pack to stop smoking them. Psychologically, it became less of a habit and more of an addiction. I HAD to have some. There was no justification, I just HAD to have a smoke. I gave up a year later when I got a girlfriend who hated smoking and slipped the odd one in occasionally for old time's sake, but haven't had one since my 18th birthday. I'm now 19 and still get cravings. As with everyone else's answer, I believe it differs from person to person. It has nothing to do with body size or health. Perhaps sex, but the older you get, the differences between sex close in and there are little/no differences.
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