Anybody smoke? Anybody smoked, given up, then noticed a huge leap in their training?
C’mon, I need inspiration.
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.-
The minute smoking stops the benefits begin
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.
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!
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.
I can’t see my bad breath in the morning anymore.
LOL @ the truth
You may take my life, but you will never take my Freedom
used to smoke
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
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
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.
“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.
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.]
. … 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?
just reading this and responding to this post made me go smoke a cigerette.
where’s my beer?
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. 
Smoking
In order to continue my training I must quit smoking because I know it’s bad for the health. Does anyone have some advice on this or experienced themselves? My goal is just quit at once and not in small steps.
just give up on the whole quitting idea now before you cause yourself weeks or even months of frustration.
lots of people smoke and train … be one of the good guys.
In a couple of days, it’ll be a year since i quit smoking. In my experience, you’ll only quit if you really want to quit. I was ready to quit, so i did. A few things that helped were that i stopped drinking for a while (if you’re a drinker), and i stopped hanging around my buddies who were all smokers. If you train hard enough and are really into it, then you’ll eventually quit because it will hinder your progress and make you feel worse. In the end, follow what the nike commercial says and just do it. Good luck!!
Sounds like pretty sound advice, just go for it.
On second thought let me add to that. I currently don’t smoke anything at all, , and its almost a year but not a full one yet since i stopped chain smoking, i got back into my bad habits last summer and was on this self destruct mode . I Was doing alot more partying and getting wasted, trying to dull my senses rather than focussing on training. after a few unnecessary incidents, and i saw it getting out of hand i decided to quit drinking and smoking and get back in shape , start training seriously again.
After i made the decision to TRAIN it was easy to stick with for the most part, if youre a haaaardcooore smoker it might be difficult to quit cold turkey, but the amount you do smoke should significantly decrease to a bare minimal once in every Blue moon or less. But as long as youre training hard and are dedicated to it , then you’re more than likely going to feel the urge to indulge in bad habits less and less and you’ll want to adopt a healthier outlook, if it’s Training that you truly want to do.
Forget cutting back, Nicotine gums, patches and so on.
Cold Turkey is the only way to go.
One thing that helps is getting into a hobby or similar that keeps your hands and mind busy. This will help overcome the mental habit of holding a cigarette.
Lung Hu Pai gave some good advice.
Quitting smoking should be done with a lifestyle change in mind.
I knew one guy at 48 he was heavily smoking drinking and into the women, one morning he looked into the mirror and decided to quit it all.
At 62 he was fitter and faster than any teen on the tennis court and he roller skated for 16km to play tennis.
Hope this helps.
If you purchase untreated tobacco then you will find you will feel fitter as nicotine increases heamoglobin in the blood which means more oxygen. It’s just the poisons that the smoking industry uses that cause illness and weaker lungs.