Cigarettes and Cardio?

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Seventy-two hours is a long damn time. More power to the ones that can do that, but they better sedate me in a hospital setting like they would a heroin addict.
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they dont sedate heroin addicts in the hospital

Oh, and yes, posting gross pictures cures addiction. :noway:

HAHA your still my hero

Seventy-two hours is a long damn time. More power to the ones that can do that, but they better sedate me in a hospital setting like they would a heroin addict.

they dont sedate heroin addicts in the hospital

That's true. They throw them in cages to be raped by larger, stronger people. Thanks for the correction.

When I smoked I found it annoying when people said to stop.

Then my mother got emphysema from smoking and spent her last four years in bed staring at the ceiling on oxygen.

Then I realized my finding it annoying was nothing more than rationalizing a stupid habit.

Then I quit.

Go to the emergency room and listen to the people panicking because they can't breath because smoking has destroyed their lungs. That is your future unless you are lucky enough to die from something else first.

When I smoked I found it annoying when people said to stop.

Then my mother got emphysema from smoking and spent her last four years in bed staring at the ceiling on oxygen.

Then I realized my finding it annoying was nothing more than rationalizing a stupid habit.

Then I quit.

Go to the emergency room and listen to the people panicking because they can't breath because smoking has destroyed their lungs. That is your future unless you are lucky enough to die from something else first.

Ive been to the emergency room and heard people not being able to breath. . . i then heard they were diagnosed with anxiety attacks. . . . my grand mother died from lung cancer. . . . but it ake my chances. . as long as i keep myself healthy (diet and exercise) ill see where it takes me, thats why as a smoker i get tests done every year and once i hear that a test comes up positive for something i will then take the steps i want to quit (if i ever do). . .

my grandpa smoked pipes until the day he died at 93. . . he started at 12. . . .who says MY future will be like the people in the ER. no one knows *plays twilight zone music*

Well I am not trying to be an *kitten* here. All I am saying is that yeah maybe you can run further, faster, blah blah but when your are no longer young and your boy is no longer resilient your body will start to show the effects.

Yeah it is a physical addition but its more of a mental addiction. If you cant go 72 hours without smoking you are weak, Period, Justify it all you want, say whatever you need to so you feel better about yourself. Tell yourself whatever you want to make your weakness a non issue. I am not stronger or mentally tougher than you, I have control over my body and refuse to let a stupid addiction ruin my body.

Read the links I gave you, that eBook will give you a plan to stop smoking. Like I said if you plan for success you will be successful. If you dont plan, you plan to fail.

I smoke a pack a day and I do cardio from time to time. However, I'm more interested in building muscle and losing weight, than building up my cardio levels. I do throw in swimming or elliptical in with my weight training and I can feel the affects the cigarettes have. However, I'm not ready to quit. I will eventually because I want a healthy lifestyle and smoking is quite inconvenient for me. You can do it though regardless of what people say...

My buddy didn't used to smoke when he was young, and rode his bike a LOT. Recently, he picked up smoking - about a cig a day - and he was absolutely SHOCKED at how much it limits how well you can breathe while working out. This was 1 cig/day. You may not really notice the difference because you've been doing it for so long, you may not realize what it would be like without the cigs at all.

"i tried the electronic cigs. could not stand them. ":

You tried the wrong one. There are many different ones and some are quite good.

Yep, and it's hasn't been an issue yet.I plan on quitting when I become pregnant, because that is the kick and reason I will need and I won't have a choice but to do so.

I too and one that needs to be ready. That goes for any kind of addiction. You can't force someone until they know it's time. People nagging you about it is going to just make you resent them.

Come one, us smokers realize the dangers, we've seen the images and that's not what keeps us smoking. IT'S AN ADDICTION! Do you tell a herion user that what they do is dangerous, do you think they don't know?

Constantly reminding smokers what can happen isn't helpful at all. It never ceases to amazing me when a non-smoker tells a smoker of the dangers... Like they didn't already know?

I gave up about 2 years ago and I in my racing I have noticed that my breathing is much better and also my HR isat a higher rate at max than 2 years ago. I was only ready to quite after I had got to the point where it was just too expensive to smoke.

It makes it easier that no where in Canada is legal to smoke, except in your own home. Unless you have kids, then thats illegal too. Go Canada.

Go Canada indeed! I wish that were the case here in the States! I hate being forced to inhale someone else's toxins especially after I've worked so hard to cut it cigs out of my life.

Id have to disagree. . smoking is a choice and should not have bans on a personal choice. . . its like saying Hey you can do this. . . but not anywhere so i dont know why we make it available to everyone. . . .

Example. . . you can drive a car ( give u a license which is a privaledge, not a right). . but you cant drive a car anywhere. . . makes no sense. . .

Granted im canadian and know this but i live in the states.

Its a personal choice that affects other people. I specifcally said my problem was being forced to breathe other peoples smoke. If someone chooses to smoke thats on them but there is no real way to smoke in the presence of other people and contain ciggarette smoke to just the person making the "personal choice" to smoke even outside. That's my problem.

Smoke in your house (if it doesn't get into your neighbors place or violate the terms of your lease/co-op agreement), smoke in your car, smoke in secluded places where there aren't other people (just don't litter).

I think, most smokers would agree they wouldn't smoke on the street standing next to a pregnant lady. So clearly there is some level of recognition of the fact that there is some potential harm in second hand smoke. The harm of second hand smoke has also been widely proven in research. I just think everyone's lungs should get the same consideration.

Any smoker (who is still currently or quitters too). . . do u find it annoying how everyone tells u to stop smoking rather then understand that you will do it when your ready?. . if u push someone to do something (granted it may be beneficial) it just deters them or prolongs them from doing so?. . .

Continuing to do something really harmful to yourself to spite me any anyone else who tells you you should quit would be really dumb.

Be honest. People telling you not to smoke does not deter you. Your addiction and reliance on ciggarettes deters you from quitting. You are hooked. Don't try to blame your recluctance to quit on other people who are telling you the medically supported scientifically proven truth.

As someone who smoked for over 14 years of her life - I can say that for me, it was helpful (though sometimes annoying and not always fun) to be reminded of the dangers of smoking and to be confronted with the consequences. Scared straight worked for me! Of course I knew how bad it was for me - but left to my own devices I probably could have lived in denial and continued to smoke for several more years.

People that grew in the 80s or after are pretty immune to those tactics. ("Just Say No" :laugh: ) They don't work. Yes, it's rationalization. I've had enough psychology classes and dealt with addicts to understand it intellectually. But having an intellectual understanding doesn't alter the other aspects. It simply doesn't work that way. I wish it did. :ohwell:

I'm at about 1/3 a pack a day. I'm trying to get it down, and gradually switching back to my e-cig. I usually quit about twice a year for a month or two, and then fall back into the habit.

I'm not sure if smoking affected my cardio. I took it back up while staying out of state with my in-laws for a couple of weeks, during which I only ran twice. About a week after I came back, my running shoes crapped out on me, I can't do more than a mile without my plantar fascitis kicking back up. So I'm not actually sure if I could still run three or four miles like I could in the spring, while I wasn't smoking.

Its a personal choice that affects other people. I specifcally said my problem was being forced to breathe other peoples smoke. If someone chooses to smoke thats on them but there is no real way to smoke in the presence of other people and contain ciggarette smoke to just the person making the "personal choice" to smoke even outside. That's my problem.

If people would some research of their own rather than listening to social stigmas, they would realize the chances of you getting cancer from a smoker walking down the street or the occasional smoker from a bar are so minimal that many reputable medical studies won't even recognize them. The biggest danger of you crossing a smokers path in public is the stench, and that is not enough reason for one to take away someone's personal choice...

Second hand smoke that causes cancer is usually from a person who lives with an in-home smoker or spends a great portion of their time being subject to it.