Need some support.

If you want to jogging go for it try jogging for 1 minute then walk for 30 sec then repeat
Next time increase to 1minute 30 then walk 30 sec repeat increases you feel you need to having a rest every few days, I did this a few years ago and managed to get to 40 minutes jogging eventually my son who is a smoker started with me slowly too.

As mentioned above, interval jogging/running! A few years back I had to start with 15 secs jog, 1 minute walk, but after a month I was 30 secs jog, 30 secs walk. Increase the jog and decrease the walk as your body adjusts to continually increase your body’s tolerance.

As for smoking, have you considered using the patch system?

Ironically, I was a much better runner when I smoked a pack a day. I haven't smoked in 3 years and it is much harder for me to run now than it use to be (mostly because I'm so out of shape).

With that being said, smoking and weight loss journeys are both one day at a time. If you can't make it a whole day, do one hour at a time, or whatever time interval works for you. Best of luck on your journey!

There are also online quit groups/forums for both cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. I know I would have never been able to quit in 2006 without one as well as a NRT - nicotine replacement therapy - gum that I followed the step down schedule exactly as written. This was before wellbutrin and chantix were widely prescribed to help cessation efforts and may help with the less than supportive environment/temptation issue. I couldn't do the patch because of the really vivid and disturbing dreams it caused.

Break a leg. Whether the first try or the 50th, it's like weight loss; keep trying until you do.

quitting is super hard. this is the way i quit and the way my friends have been able to quit. it's not guaranteed but it is super non sucky and made it a ton easier.

so wake up and don't have a cigarette at the first time you smoke in the morning. if you wake up and immediately smoke or smoke with coffee, skip that. then do everything else the same. you have just elongated your non smoking time from 8 hours sleeping to 8 hours and 5 minutes. go about your week and when you are ready, skip the next one so you aren't smoking before breakfast. (or whatever.) if you work you will work up to only smoking on a break or at lunch and then only after work. if you're not working ise whatever markers you have in your daily routine. as you skip those first cigarettes you learn to do those things with no cigarettes. you drink your am coffee with no cigarette, you learn to not smoke after breakfast or lunch and finally dinner. so you are making new habits that are smoke free. by the time you are skipping cigarettes until after dinner you are going most of a day without and let me tell you, they get a little less interesting. you start to notice how they taste or how how you feel after. it's weird to like them yet still be grossed out.

personally, i say doing two hard things at once (quitting cigarettes and starting to run) kind of increases the liklihood that one or both will not get done. i say pick one and start off. if you quit cigarettes then start to run it will be easier but if you do the reverse, you might be nauseous enough to quit smoking just by running.

good luck on both!!

jameesboi19 wrote: »

Ok so I really want to start losing weight going for jogs, walks etc. However, I'm a smoker and really want to quit but I have no support on quiting and my family smokes around me which makes it harder. I'm affraid to go jogging as I may only last probably 2-3 mins as I'm a smoker and it isn't great for your health. It's so hard right now.. can some people help me please

Start walking, you can jog later once you've become more comfortable doing so.
Quit smoking; don't care what others do, your doing it for yourself not them.
Track calories. CICO - you'll lose weight eating less calories then you use - use the suggested calories MFP gives you. Weigh your food, a scale will be an eye opener.

In 2016, I quit smoking, started walking, and started tracking calories. In 2017, I hadn't smoked for a year, was walking a lot farther and also jogging, and had lost over 100lbs.
You can do this, many of us have been there too.