Affects of smoking.

[JAdams]

I recently quit smoking, does anyone know how much it really affects your stamina and breathing? Does anyone know any smokers, or retired smokers that just seem to have endless stamina? I have a lot of stamina and endurance but I wonder how much better I would be had I never smoked. Im glad I quit!

[seppuku]

so much. makes an enormous difference. more than i can put into words.

why did you give up? smoking is really, really nice. i dont let myself do it often because it kills my fitness, but its lovely nevertheless.

got to the stage of coughing up nasty s**t yet?

[Eyegouge]

I've been at the coughing up lung butter stage since I was about 7. I've always had crappy lungs, but it really dosen't affect my stamina. I smoke about 2 or 3 packs a week. Buying lights helps...cept you smoke more of them lol. The closest I ever got to quitting was when I was 17 and I had someone buy me a pack of cigarettes and I didn't tell them what I wanted, they gave me newport menthol kings....ughhh....oh man....but the horrible thing was I still smoked that whole pack, LOL.

Smoking has never changed my overall stamina. Maybe when I'm 30 it will.

[darkrelevance]

dont forget about lung cancer and other lung related diseases you will have to put up with later.
best to quit asap.

[shaolin-warrior]

I used to smoke two packs a day and I told my doctor that It had no effect on my Breathing. He said that just because I had conditioned my lungs to operate twice as hard because of their diminished capacity, didn't mean that I wasn't harming them. It made alot of sense.
I've had and quit alot of bad habbits, but smoking is definately the hardest.

[EmptyneSs]

smoke bud. tobacco is wacko.

[JAdams]

Well thanks for the advice, that was my theory, I will just train my lungs 10 times as hard if i have too. I never smoked more than half a pack a day and that was rare, I usually smoked less than 5. I'm not too bad off, I do have a lot of endurance and stamina but I am about to get into school for BBJ and Muay Thai I don't want a bunch of younger students out lasting me and kicking the crap out of me, but I'm only 21 so I have a while to train.

[eXcessiveForce]

They will if you smoke, I have had 30 students quit smoking after their first week of class and never go back to it.

Nothing like handicapping yourself from the beginning.

[darkrelevance]

Originally Posted by JAdams

Well thanks for the advice, that was my theory, I will just train my lungs 10 times as hard if i have too. I never smoked more than half a pack a day and that was rare, I usually smoked less than 5. I'm not too bad off, I do have a lot of endurance and stamina but I am about to get into school for BBJ and Muay Thai I don't want a bunch of younger students out lasting me and kicking the crap out of me, but I'm only 21 so I have a while to train.

just imagine how much better you would be if you trained your lungs 10 times as hard and you didnt have all that crap in your lungs to begin with...

and if you smoke less than 5 a day now, that will gradually increase. you think everyone that smokes a couple packs a day started smoking that much from the beginning? they all started like you smoking little by little and gradually that craving increased. better to quit while you still can.

[JAdams]

Originally Posted by darkrelevance

just imagine how much better you would be if you trained your lungs 10 times as hard and you didnt have all that crap in your lungs to begin with...

and if you smoke less than 5 a day now, that will gradually increase. you think everyone that smokes a couple packs a day started smoking that much from the beginning? they all started like you smoking little by little and gradually that craving increased. better to quit while you still can.

I did completely quit already, I "usually smoked less than 5 a day" =) I quit about 2 or 3 months ago, I know your lungs heal over time so I am glad I quit. And yes I do agree with you, I wish I never did smoke and trained my lungs 10x harder

[Eyegouge]

But cigarettes make such great weapons in combat lol. Nothing like poking someone in the face with a lit cigarette to get em freaking out.

[shadowkiller]

I smoked for about 10 years at the worst it was probably a pack a day. I never really noticed the effects until I was swimming after having quit for a while, I could hold my breath for nearly double the time. Thats the only thing I really noticed from it. During the time I smoked I skateboarded all day every day so I never really had problems with cardio. But I did notice after quitting I put on about 15 lbs.

It seems to happen to a lot of people though. Not sure why this is, I myself never had a problem quitting but a good mental aid for a lot of people was chewing gum whenever they got the urge to smoke. It helped some friends of mine.