Which is worse Smoking or Binge Eating Junk food.
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Smoking; black lungs, cancer, death, second hand smoking can lead to asthama, allergies etc. smoking while pregnant can lead to a birth defect in the baby, or premature birth and the child being dependent on smoking
binge eating: obesity, heart attacks, diabetes, strokes etc
when you really think about it they are both equally bad . people tend to want to minimize one thing not looking as bad as the other. but the reality is there are no catergories as to small, medium or large mistakes. a mistake is a mistake.0 -
I don't think it's even close, smoking hands down worse. At the very least, even McDonald's provides some macros and can fuel a workout. I wouldn't recommend it, but one binge at least has some merit but one cigarette, to an "ex-smoker", is a door begging to be waked through. If you were an "ex-binger", then a binge could be too, but IMO, smoking is far LESS healthy than binge-ing.0
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On a purely selfish level, I wish you'd just binged.
Yep - I don't want to smell it. Your eating affects only you - smoking affects everyone you come in contact with.0 -
Binge eating...0
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For me - Smoking 1 cigarette is worse - quitting smoking was the hardest thing I have ever done. When I quit it was cold turkey and never looked back.
FEAR keeps me from smoking just one - it would then become 2 or 5 or a pack.
I worked to hard to get the monkey off my back.0 -
Smoking, I quit once, all it took was 1 to get me started again.
Personally, just a good hard workout helps to relieve stress, but I do understand the urge to smoke or eat when stressed..I think most people do!
Quittin's easy. I've done it hundreds of times.0 -
Forget that.
I go all out.
After this I hit up Subway.
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now this is UTTERLY HILARIOUS!
there is NOTHING wrong with SMOKING, junk food
or BOOZE!
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Smoking is worse. You can exercise a binge off. You can't un-do the damage that cigarettes do to your body. Plus, its just nasty. I'm a ex-smoker too and it took 4 years for the cravings to go away. Hang in there, and put down the cig.0
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I've never tried smoking junk food. I guess there's always a first.0
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I would say smoking is worse, but it also sort of depends on the size of the binge IMO...
If you cram down 20,000 calories over the course of the day your body is going to freak out. If you are eating an extra 1,000 calories I call that a carb-up! :drinker:
Extra food within reason can do you a LOT of good, especially if you've been dieting for a long time, are training incredibly hard, etc.
I can't think of anything redeeming about even ONE cigarette, but if you are comparing that one smoke to a binge during which you consume tens of thousands of calories it might be less harmful.0 -
I don't know really... I quit smoking 2.5 years ago....I miss it everyday... however.. I work in a place where I work with the public day to day, and nothing stinks quite as bad to me as someone who smokes right before they come in and I can smell the residue coming out of their lungs.. YUK. I just have to remember that smell...b/c I smelled like that.
However... seeing how I am as big as a side of a house.. That's pretty gross too... but I don't impose my fatness on them unless I am on an airplane, like smoking does. I can't breathe fat.
So I guess. Smoking.
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I've never tried smoking junk food. I guess there's always a first.
Challenge accepted. I'm off to find a way to light up a Snickers.0 -
I've never tried smoking junk food. I guess there's always a first.
Swing by my place and we'll fire up some Doritos.0 -
I've never tried smoking junk food. I guess there's always a first.
Challenge accepted. I'm off to find a way to light up a Snickers.
wait, you can do that??0 -
i smoked 3 packs a day for 40 years and quit 10 years ago. To me smoking is far worse because i never want to go back, you can work off a binge but there is no way to work off smoking. (regardless of what the smokers on this site might say)0
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I've never tried smoking junk food. I guess there's always a first.
Challenge accepted. I'm off to find a way to light up a Snickers.
wait, you can do that??
Where there is a will...0 -
Smoking, absolutely.0
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I've never tried smoking junk food. I guess there's always a first.
Challenge accepted. I'm off to find a way to light up a Snickers.
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In terms of overall lifestyle changes, I think smoking is probably worse. Though binge eating can be addicting, everyone slips once in a while and eats too many slices of pizza or too many chips and guac. That's life - it happens. Binging can be unhealthy, but it can be countered with exercise and knowing your triggers.
Smoking has more negative effects, IMO. Smelly clothes, yellow teeth, blackened lungs, harder to breathe, plus the negative stigma it carries.
Both are unhealthy, but I think overeating would be a better "choice." But seriously, what do I know. I've never had an issue with either one.0
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