Confessions of a nicotine addict

Celina Tan is a 28-year-old IT analyst working in a reputable company in Kuala Lumpur. She writes this in the hope that someone who reads this will learn from the mistakes she has made . . .  

I HAVE been smoking since I was in high school. In hindsight, at that time, I had fallen naively into the trap of peer pressure and had started to smoke only because I wanted to be a “somebody”. Like most youngsters, I thought it was cool to smoke to be part of the “in” crowd. I smoked myself into oblivion ? and soon into total nicotine addiction.