Smoking instead of SI?

[Katherinelynn]

i smoke,,, but according to the doctors i dont count as a real smoker i dont smoke enough
i can make a pack last 2 weeks
and i havent had any in a few days due to being broke and im fine with that

i am addicted to cutting
smoking not so much
i used smoking for a while as an alternative to stop
it has helped me decrease cutting a lot

smoking is very unhealthy
but in my opinion my SI would kill me a lot faster then a cigg and id much rather rot my lungs on occation
not a good idea,,, but ive never learned any healthy coping mechagnisms

[Zurg]

I don't even know if anyone will care but please don't start smoking even if it's just to deal with stress. Yes, it's socially acceptable compared to self harm but it does just as much damage as that.

I started smoking when i was 16. My body has crumbled under the addiction to cigarettes. Last year, when i was 27, i got diagnosed with smoker's lungs which is an incurable disease that will eventually kill you.

Don't smoke just because it seems easier and safer. It really isn't. Poeple die from this every day. I thought i could handle it, thought i'd never feel the consequences, but now i know it's gonna kill me.

It's not worth it. Trust me!!!!

[Leo Pard]

I do smoke and drink and SI (obviously) and I find that I don't tend to smoke instead of SI I guess I do it because I'm rather a destructive person anyway and this tends to be more acceptable and whatnot and yeh... Same reason I drink alot. I guess it's kind of bad because it is a destructive habit and all the things that stem from that but every once in a while it's good to not actually have to like SI and to actually have something that can help instead (in my point of veiw).