Smoking

[scotty1]

Anybody smoke? Anybody smoked, given up, then noticed a huge leap in their training?
C'mon, I need inspiration.

[Goldenmane]

I smoke.

It is a severely irritating habit to try to break.

Good luck.

-geoff

-A hundred enemies, a hundred cups of wine. Infinite enemies, infinite wine.-

[David]

20 Minutes Blood pressure & pulse return to normal.

1 Hour Your circulation improves. Your hands and feet feel warmer.

8 Hours Nicotene and carbon monoxide levels fall. Oxygen in your blood returns to normal.


1 Day Your lungs begin to work better. Carbon monoxide removed from your body.

2 Days Your taste and smell improves. Nicotene removed from your body.

3 Days Breathing becomes easier. Your energy levels increase.


2 Weeks Withdrawal symptoms begin to ease. Walking & daily tasks become easier to do.


1 Month Withdrawal symptoms have stopped. your breathing and energy levels continue to improve.


6 Months Risk of heart attack, cancer & other smoking related diseases begins to fall.

[qeySuS]

I dont smoke but i occationally use President Snuff (nose tobacco), but that's like once every 4 months or something (or whenever i happen to be drunk and someone has a small cylinder of it).

So yes it's just as dangerous in regards to cancer and such, but it doesnt effect my lungs as directly as the cigarette smoke. I do smoke cigars about once every 6 months or so, but i dont inhale it, (just like the taste of a good cigar).

Free thinkers are dangerous!

[SLC]

I quit about ten years ago. No, the difference wasn't like getting 200 more horsepower in my car, the next day. More subtle and spread out over time. I've read that it can take a year or so for the crap to filter out of you.

Benefits:
I don't stink anymore... at least from smoking. ;)
I can't see my bad breath in the morning anymore.
Don't cough anymore.
Have grown rich from money saved.
Bought Ferrari.

Ben Laden, your operation was good; real good in fact. But you fu*ked up one little thing... you didn't get all of us.

[Water Dragon]

I can't see my bad breath in the morning anymore.

LOL @ the truth
:D

You may take my life, but you will never take my Freedom

[Jeff Brown]

when i trained in Asia, everyone smoked, even my sifu smoked! everyone believes that martial arts skills will somehow protect you from the dangers of smoking but that is nonsense.

i went from 1.5 packs a day to zero and now wretch when i smell tobacco burning. i can't say that, because i don't smoke anymore my physical prowess has increased 10-fold. What i can say is, my body now knows what poison is.

glad i quit. i ecourage everyone who smokes to quit.

"Once I have harnessed the power of the Sun, I will be UNSTOPPABLE!" -- Mini-Me

[kungfu cowboy]

Yesterday marked my 6 month aniversary of quitting smoking. I absolutely loved smoking. I thought I would never be able to stop. But I did, and it is one of the best things I ever did for myself. It made training so much easier, no stink, extra cash, etc. Being able to breathe is wonderful.

"If do right, no can defense!"----Mr. Miyagi

[Ford Prefect]

Two weeks ago marked my 2 YEAR anniversary from quitting smoking cold turkey. I haven't had a drag of a cigarette in that time. My sense of taste and smell or greatly improved and I have a lot more energy. I still have dreams about smoking cigarettes though and will experience an occasional craving. The week of Sept 11th was like one long craving. It's like crack.

[SLC]

"It's like crack."

Izzat right? ;)

Ben Laden, your operation was good; real good in fact. But you fu*ked up one little thing... you didn't get all of us.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

i'm 21 and have been smoking for 14 years.

yes i started smoking when i was 7. no joke. i was inahling when i was 8 and smoking a half a pack a day by 10 or 11.

i really cant imagine what life would be like without cigerettes. i'd love to be able to breath better, but i get chills just thinking about not ever smoking again.

my goal is to cut down to a couple a day and see if i feel that i could stop at that point. i know that the only way to quit is cold turkey, you really haven't quit until you quit cold turkey anyway, but i don't think it's something im ready for.

wierd thing is i don't have a smoker's cough at all. i never wake up hacking. the only time i notice it at all is when doing deep breething. i dont know if it has something to do with the fact that i smoke non filters (and don't inhale as deeply) or if im just saving it all up for the day it kills me.

where's my beer?

[This message was edited by GunnedDownAtrocity on 10-02-01 at 09:58 AM.]

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

. .... my sifu hates smoking.

he always asks me if i still smoke and when i say yes he punches me in the chest and walks away.

he also points at me and laughs hysterically when i start hacking during breathing exercises. ok ... well that would be funny, but he actually just smirks or makes a comment to the class about it.

where's my beer?

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

just reading this and responding to this post made me go smoke a cigerette.

where's my beer?

[Daredevil]

David, nice list, where's it from / where's the evidence?

Not dissing the list, I think it's great, I'd like to know so I can quote it further. :)

[anton]

Occasionally when I'm drunk

[SanSoo Student]

I used to smoke during my high school days, I quit because I found out all the cr@p Menthols did to your lungs. I wasn't a heavy smoker, did like 3-4 cigs a day.

Benefits:
Stopped shredding my lungs with stuff in those cigs (they have bits of fiberglass is what I've been told)

That money is now used to pay my cell phone bill.

Stopped coughing up all that flem and spit, I hated that when I smoked.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

i have already had cancer once and might be working on round two yet i still smoke.

[Water Dragon]

I quit smoking June 25, 2003. Smoked about a pack a day for 17 years. I was in good shape for a smoker, so I thought :rolleyes:

I can run 3 times as far now, fight 3 times as long, I generaly feel better, smell better, have more energy, sleep less, etc.

It's worth it, but only when you get to the point where YOU don't want to smoke any more. Notice I didn't say, "when you want to quit" I said, "When you don't want to smoke anymore."

I started waking up and coughing black $hit outta my lungs, that made me not want to smoke cigarettes anymore.

[old jong]

I quit six years ago. I feel six years younger than the day I decided to quit!...:cool: It really makes a difference.

[blooming lotus]

I'm sure the national cancer council or the national anti-smoking council can provide you with back up evidence of that list. I've heard it several times......

( side note : was totally blown away in China by the amount of smokers, the quantity the av joe smokes ( up to 3 pks /day ) and the cost of cigarettes ( as cheap as 3-4 quai (RMB). Crazy)

[Kristoffer]

4 quai! That's rediculously low priced.
But I'm glad I don't smoke.

[Chang Style Novice]

I smoke two packs of filterless Lucky Strikes through the hole cut in my throat for the tracheotomy.*

* This may be an exagerration.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

when i had my wisdom teeth removed they said i couldnt smoke or i'd get dry socket from the vacuum you create when taking a drag off a cigerrette.

i do smoke non filters and i smoked through my nose for nearly 2 days.

[fa_jing]

'dro

[Indestructible]

Originally posted by GunnedDownAtrocity
i do smoke non filters and i smoked through my nose for nearly 2 days.

You get my nod for being one tough son of a beach.

[BlueTravesty]

I am very glad that I never started smoking. But most of that was because I was never in any circumstances that would be conducive to me starting. Excepting, of course, the fact that both of my parents were smokers from age 15. My sister started just before she turned 18. I'm 21 myself.

I know it must be extremely tough to quit though. I can only imagine what it would be like to give up a substance that your body was convinced it needed. Kudos to all who have given up, or are trying to. I can only aspire to have those kinds of guts.

[joedoe]

I have been asthmatic all my life and can't smoke, but I cough like a smoker. :(

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

bt ... it's refreshing to see a non-smoker be so understanding of a cigerettes grip on you.

i read somewhere that about 3% of the people who try to quit make it 5 years and out of that 3% a good portion start smoking again.

[anton]

Originally posted by GunnedDownAtrocity
i do smoke non filters and i smoked through my nose for nearly 2 days.

Holy crap! now that's what I call hardcore!


PS - Welcome to the forum BlueTravesty

[Chang Style Novice]

Smoking? Try replacing the oil filter.

[BlueTravesty]

Thanks anton!

As far as being understanding, the heck of it is, a lot of people face non-chemical addictions with much the same grip. Some of us are addicted to comfort, and we gotta push ourselves past that lethargy in order to work out so we can be stronger (I consider myself to be in this category.) For many people, other bad habits fill the same function (lots of heavy heavy drinking might help you A BIT with your 8 Drunken Immortals form or "Monkey Drinks his Master's Wine" technique, but not much else.) I guess I can relate to the smoker's plight, because much like smoking, being lazy can be very damaging physically to anyone especially persons like ourselves who pursue athletic disciplines. (case in point, my messed up hip and knees.)