Smoking., Habit forming, or not? Options

[Kontroll]

I've been debating this question in my head for a while. Do ciggarette cause an addiction or is it merely just a habit?

If it were addicting, wouldn't you be addicted to it the first time you smoked? It doesn't have to be drastic, but a slight addiction.

I feel that it is just a habit because you have to keep doing it. It's like biting your nails. You keep doing it out of habit.

Does anyone agree? Or not. Haha.

[mverzyl]

No, it is addicting. cigarettes are a drug, they're tobacco. the Nicotine in the cigarette is what's addicting. It's an addicting chemical. Although, I do not believe that it is as addicting as people say it is. Once u do it, you want to do it all the time? I don't think so. I recently smoked a whole carton over a period of time and then just stopped cause I ran out and had no desire for a cigarette. I did start smoking when I was 14 though and after a couple of months I would like die for a cigarette. I couldn't get one, one time and like starting crying. lol. it's a drug. Different people also react differently to things. But other than that one time when I was 14, I never had an "addicting desire" for one when I had been smoking.