I wanted to make this post to help encourage anybody who may be in that boat where you have began smoking, live with your pmyents and don't know what to tell them. Hopefully this helps you guys out
Being 18, I still live with my parents and my life is pretty chaotic at the moment.
I began smoking as a way to deal with the stress of money, education, work and all other teenage problems :P The pipe seemed ideal as it takes a while to smoke and is relatively cheap!
Nobody else in my family smokes and I didn't want to have to hide it from them and feel a huge weight on my shoulders... So I told them and it went much better than expected :D
I brought my pipe and tobacco downstairs and said
"Dad, can I show you something? Look what I bought."
*Shows pipe & tobacco*
*Now before you say anything- I bought this to help me relax, calm down and deal with stress. I won't smoke it often, I'll only use it outside and if you like, I'll throw away my tobacco if you really like"
*No, no keep it- I'm just shocked is all. Sure go out the back there and light it up for yourself and tell me how it goes."
"Cheers dad, thanks for being so cool about it."
Then he told me about different types of tobaccos like flake, plug, ribbon cut and how he often admired farmers while he was out fishing who would be puffing away on their pipe and how relaxing he thought it looked.
Bottom line and the whole point of this was that all the thoughts of how bad it's gonna be, how disappointed they'll be and how sad, angry and annoyed thet might get is just in your head
Heck, I think my dad even respects me more now that I smoke a pipe. I think it reminds him of himself when he was my age.
Tell your parents! Don't be afraid as they'll probably look up to you for being honest
Being 18, I still live with my parents and my life is pretty chaotic at the moment.
I began smoking as a way to deal with the stress of money, education, work and all other teenage problems :P The pipe seemed ideal as it takes a while to smoke and is relatively cheap!
Nobody else in my family smokes and I didn't want to have to hide it from them and feel a huge weight on my shoulders... So I told them and it went much better than expected :D
I brought my pipe and tobacco downstairs and said
"Dad, can I show you something? Look what I bought."
*Shows pipe & tobacco*
*Now before you say anything- I bought this to help me relax, calm down and deal with stress. I won't smoke it often, I'll only use it outside and if you like, I'll throw away my tobacco if you really like"
*No, no keep it- I'm just shocked is all. Sure go out the back there and light it up for yourself and tell me how it goes."
"Cheers dad, thanks for being so cool about it."
Then he told me about different types of tobaccos like flake, plug, ribbon cut and how he often admired farmers while he was out fishing who would be puffing away on their pipe and how relaxing he thought it looked.
Bottom line and the whole point of this was that all the thoughts of how bad it's gonna be, how disappointed they'll be and how sad, angry and annoyed thet might get is just in your head
Heck, I think my dad even respects me more now that I smoke a pipe. I think it reminds him of himself when he was my age.
Tell your parents! Don't be afraid as they'll probably look up to you for being honest