# Smoking & Kung Fu?
**URL:** https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943
**Category:** Kung Fu Training and Health
**Created:** [September 11, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943 "2002-09-11T15:21:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@still\_logicz](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/still_logicz)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/1 "2002-09-11T15:21:40Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Hau\_Tien](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Hau_Tien)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/2 "2002-09-11T16:30:16Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@KC\_Elbows](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/KC_Elbows)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/3 "2002-09-13T19:25:08Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ewallace](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/ewallace)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/4 "2002-09-13T19:30:18Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@rubthebuddha](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/rubthebuddha)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/5 "2002-09-13T20:11:58Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@jun\_erh](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/jun_erh)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/6 "2002-09-13T22:00:01Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Killerbee](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Killerbee)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2002, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/7 "2002-09-15T10:03:54Z")
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!!
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### Author:  [@SanSoo\_Student](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/SanSoo_Student)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/8 "2002-09-17T04:59:49Z")
Smoking sucks, it messes up your lings and makes your clothes smell.
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### Author:  [@TigerJaw](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/TigerJaw)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2002, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/9 "2002-09-17T08:59:50Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Liokault](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Liokault)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2002, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/10 "2002-09-17T10:47:07Z")
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!!
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### Author:  [@scotty1](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/scotty1)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/smoking-kung-fu/14943/11 "2002-09-18T13:06:54Z")
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.