Smoking right after working out

jsteinwandt
jsteinwandt Posts: 7
edited October 3 in Introduce Yourself
What are the effects of smoking right after a hard workout????? Is it awful for you??
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  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    I don't know, but I've done it. I quit a few weeks ago though. I just want to be healthy all around.
  • jgic2009
    jgic2009 Posts: 531 Member
    Smoking is awful for you anytime.

    ETA: I have been smoke-free for nearly 60 days now and have seen HUGE improvements in my workouts since quitting.
  • BigDaddyBRC
    BigDaddyBRC Posts: 2,395 Member
    Please look in the mirror and ask that again...but takout the "right after a hard workout"

    Not meant to be cruel...just a harsh truth from a former smoker
  • scapez
    scapez Posts: 2,018 Member
    I SO used to look forward to my post-workout smoke. It was like my little reward. :smokin:

    10 days into my quit, and counting. I don't miss it as much as I thought I would. Thank God for Nicorette patches. :smile:
  • d2footballJRC
    d2footballJRC Posts: 2,684 Member
    What are the effects of smoking right after a hard workout????? Is it awful for you??

    If you are smoking after working out you might want to invest in body glide or slow down..
  • I smoked for 23 years. Smoking after a workout offers no benifet at all other than replenishing the nictotine back into your body that you sweated out.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,989 Member
    I used to do this. I would smoke before I got there and right after. If anything I could go back and change, it would have been that I never smoked.
  • I do it, but yeah, it's not good for you (or me) at all.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    I SO used to look forward to my post-workout smoke. It was like my little reward. :smokin:

    10 days into my quit, and counting. I don't miss it as much as I thought I would. Thank God for Nicorette patches. :smile:

    Feel ya! I just took myself off the patch. I'm a teensy bit cranky but I'm leveling off.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    What are the effects of smoking right after a hard workout????? Is it awful for you??

    It's GREAT!
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    What are the effects of smoking right after a hard workout????? Is it awful for you??

    Inhaling carcinogens that will eventually kill you and make your life miserable. I would say that is right up there with "awful."
  • Cmccracken1
    Cmccracken1 Posts: 326 Member
    smoking at any time is really awful for you.. duh!!!!... seriously though smoking reduces the oxygen level in your blood and constricts your viens which as you can imagine is not a good thing before or after you work out and stress your muscles. quit now..
  • megz4987
    megz4987 Posts: 1,008 Member
    Of course it's awful for you... but sometimes my cigarettes are my "reward" after a workout, haha.
  • Espressocycle
    Espressocycle Posts: 2,245 Member
    Probably better than not working out at all, at least once you've stopped breathing heavy.
  • I don't usually, but then I smoke in reaction to stress so working out blast my stress away for a while so it's usually a while before I need one. Hoping to quit soon, but I have to figure out how to do it safely as murder is still illegal....just sayin.
  • What are the effects of smoking right after a hard workout????? Is it awful for you??

    The effects are you may get a nice buzz from the tobacco. You should do it while you're still out of breath, as to inhale more. Don't listen to these people in here telling you smoking is awful for you. They don't have a single clue what they're talking about.
  • Unwrapping_Candy
    Unwrapping_Candy Posts: 487 Member
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    Enough said, yeah?
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    Part of a well-rounded breakfast of champions.

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  • Gigi_licious
    Gigi_licious Posts: 1,185 Member
    Uhhhhhh......:huh:

    :noway:
  • joejccva71
    joejccva71 Posts: 2,985 Member
    Are we talking cigarettes or other products? =)
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    I believe one should exercise the lungs like they do any part of the body. Pre and post workout cigarettes are a sure fire way to keep your HR up to keep burning extra calories. I used to have a mid-set smoke break.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Seriously, it is up to you whether you smoke or not. Smoking after a workout is about as bad as smoking at any other time. Bad is relative, though.
  • Edithrenee
    Edithrenee Posts: 546 Member
    i used to do it last month but i kept thinking of the effects to.
    i do know some medical knowledge, lol that we have hair like follicles in our lungs and nose when we smoke over time the smoke burns alot of them.
    Now if I think after running and clearing all the mucus out of my lungs, that was good.... yet it let my hairlike foliicles are vulnerable, so if i smoke right after, it will burn more hairs then normal and we need the hair like things to more mucus up and out of our lungs.

    .. this is y smokers should not take a cough surpressent because our hair isnt moving well anyway, so see cough surpressent is supose to keep you from coughing if you take cough surpressent it makes you not cough by basicaly stopping the hair from moving mucus up and out.
    So id say it isnt good in any case but probly worse after a good cleaning out of the lungs
  • Edithrenee
    Edithrenee Posts: 546 Member
    I believe one should exercise the lungs like they do any part of the body. Pre and post workout cigarettes are a sure fire way to keep your HR up to keep burning extra calories. I used to have a mid-set smoke break.

    OMG...really??? lol
  • tiggerbounce411
    tiggerbounce411 Posts: 401 Member
    I smoke too after I do my workouts..BUT..I am finding it less desireable. To those that are former smokers, you all know as well as I do that quitting these things for most, is worse then quitting heroin for a drug addict. The chemicals they put in them make you physically dependant.
    If I were you girl..I wouldn't smoke right after. I make myself wait a little while to be sure that I get enough oxygen in my blood for a good amount of time. Somedays is easier than others, but I am not killing my lungs or heart by sparking one up as soon as I am done. We know it is NEVER good for us..lol. And I have to agree that the verbal scalding method doesn't work as everyone quits when they are ready.
  • jenscot25
    jenscot25 Posts: 124 Member
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  • I have been a non-smoker for 19 years now. I agree - smokers will not quit until they are good and ready!! My mother was very defensive about her smoking. Especially, when I and my husband had both quit and refused to let anyone smoke in our home or vehicles. She would say "I will smoke until I die". Well unfortunately she almost made it. The doctor ordered her to quit one year before she passed away at the age of 76. She had open heart surgery and emphysemia. She was on onxygen 24/7 the last 5 yrs of her life due to the emphysemia which is caused from smoking. That was an eye opener for the rest of my siblings -- they to are now smoke free.
  • jenscot25
    jenscot25 Posts: 124 Member
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    hahahahahahaha:laugh:
  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    Are we talking cigarettes or other products? =)

    Now that's an excellent question!!!

    And all of you smoker-haters? YES, we know it's bad. YES, we know it can kill. YES, YES, YES...........

    But until it's not LEGAL anymore, there's not much you can say. You've kicked us out of restaurants, public places, rentals, stores........even sidewalks. You've made us social pariahs who YOU THINK are trying to kill you.

    Ya'll just need to stop badgering, shaming, demeaning, threatening, and hating smokers. We have an addiction. It's HARD to stop. If you've never been there, you really DO need to shut it. If you have, you understand and should show empathy.

    Okay, my 2 cents have been spent.
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