Did anyone here smoke prior/during their kung fu training? How did you stop (if you did)? And in what ways did you notice it messing up your training?
Re: Smoking & Kung Fu?
Originally posted by still_logicz
Did anyone here smoke prior/during their kung fu training? How did you stop (if you did)? And in what ways did you notice it messing up your training?
I smoked prior to beginning my training. I did successfully quit, though.
I had smoked for 8 years at about a pack a day. I went on Zyban and made a conscious decision to quit, and it worked.
The Zyban helped, but to be honest, a large part of it was simply willpower.
As for messing up my training… it really hurt my cardiovascular abilities in the beginning. I’m just now (Like 3 years later) beginning to see big improvements in that area.
When I smoked, and I mean when I became a hardcore smoker, it was largely stress. In a way, it was a very low level death wish. And one day, I just realized that I didn’t really want to die, I just didn’t want to live the way I was. So I quit smoking and worked on changing the things in my life that had me so down.
Also, if you are trying to quit smoking and you drink (especially at a bar), you must quit drinking for a while as well. That’s when I’ve seen people relapse the most.
the two go hand in hand sometimes – literally.
i’d say quitting is a great thing, especially if you do wing chun. no one wants to chi sau with someoone who has buttbreath.
In “Chinese boxing: Masters and methods” most of the teachers smoke except like one guy. I don’t smoke because I run, it’s too hard to do both
I used to smoke and it didnt really mess up my karate or judo but since my gf doesnt like the taste and smell wehen we kiss kiss i quit. I used a book by some guy named allen carr, i read the book once and never smoked again. If you smoke you NEED this book!!
Smoking sucks, it messes up your lings and makes your clothes smell.
Ip Ching smokes like a chimney and it never seems to bother him.
I gave up when I graduated. Just stopped, dead, no patches, gum or little pretend cigarettes. I think I found it easy because it came at the same time as a change in lifestyle. I moved to anew city, started a new thing, and made new friends. They do say changing your patterns helps.
I just started working with a guy who smokes like a chimney so when ever we have a cup of tea im passively smoking!!
plus i have just started seeing a new girlfriend who also smokes so i passively smoke a lot during the day and it is having a huge effect on my training to the point that i had to stop for a week as every time we did anything that got me breathing i had to lean on a wall ang hack my lungs out till i wanted to vomit (nearly did once or twice but i sucked it back down).
I think i am mildly astmatic to start with but the idea of training and smoking looks impossiable to me!!
I used to smoke a lot, and I quit for a while when I started training. It really got my cardio up to speed.
I have started smoking again since but only 1 or 2 a day, and that soesn’t really seem to interfere with my running and so forth.
Obviously I make slower progress, but that’s just the way things are.
At the moment I don’t train cardio as much as I should. The more I train the less I want to smoke so when my training picks up again my smoking will slow down and probably die off.