[terry26rims]

I'm thinking of giving up smoking, but not 100% commited to it. Has anyone given up and did it really improve your fitness?

[psycholist]

It'll improve your bike if nothing else - think about how much cash you spend on cigarettes and what you could buy in bike terms if you didn't spend it... From those I know who smoke and stay active I reckon they're a lot better off than if they didn't smoke and weren't active. You'll probably see a bigger effect stopping smoking as you hit your 30's or 40's though there's an improvement regardless (Based on one friend of mine who stopped smoking a few years back).

This post has been edited by psycholist: 04 December 2009 - 01:25 PM

[Jan Tore]

I'm thinking of giving up smoking, but not 100% commited to it. Has anyone given up and did it really improve your fitness?

Not only will it save your lungs, but later, you won't have to suffer any nasty diseases caused by smoking.

Also, as previouly posted, it will give you more economical space.

Any benefits smoking? Naah.

[Rusevelt]

It will improve your riding endurance for sure, but that shouldn't be your main motivation for giving up.

[Dave Anscombe]

mehhhh unless you doing comps its not that much of a big deal

ive not smoked for about 2 hours .

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

mehhhh unless you doing comps its not that much of a big deal

ive not smoked for about 2 hours .

Smoking's for chumps. Oh, sorry Dave .

[Ash-Kennard]

smokings for cool kids dave. get with the programme

[Rafal]

There is one benefit
if you use tar on your rims you will be able to take some from your chest someday

[terry26rims]

is anyone a former smoker? I enjoy a roll up now and again and again and again, i'm really not bothered about the illness side of things, except maybe losing time with nipper when i do go. But I WILL GO that is a fact. So unless there are going to be major advantages to my fitness in the short term i find it hard to want to give up even if know i NEED to. Cheers dave for the words of wisdom on the other side of the argument.

[Ross Gardner]

I enjoy a roll up now and again and again and again, i'm really not bothered about the illness side of things, except maybe losing time with nipper when i do go. But I WILL GO that is a fact.

Bit of a Jeremy Kyle moment but surely faced with the possibility that your son may be without a father if you carry on, is that not a good enough reason to quit?

[psycholist]

[terry26rims]

I understand that. And not being with my son scares the life out of me, but getting lung or lip damage years from now doesn't, so call it ignorance, but i don't belive i'm going to die early from smoking, so as said, i want give up but i need to be 100% for it for it to work. Don't hate me, always lived for today never care about tomo. Things change as you get older though. Don't start!

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

Rightly or wrongly I see smoking as being kinda chavvy... It makes me cringe whenever I see a bunch oof people standing outside their workplace or whatever puffing away and even more so when I see a granny smoking. It does seem to be becoming more and more socially unacceptable, which is good, but I just don't get smoking I guess.

call it ignorance, but i don't belive i'm going to die early from smoking, so as said, i want give up but i need to be 100% for it for it to work.

That is a pretty ignorant view . Although of course you could be hit by a bus/train/stampeding donkey tomorrow, if you don't (and the odds are stacked in your favour) then surely not being out of breath from walking up a flight of stairs in the future is a good thing? In some ways I also see smoking as being fairly selfsh, both in the polluting everyone elses air but also when it comes to the amount smokers must cost the NHS from knowingly f**king up their bodies. It's a bit like alcoholics getting hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of care getting treatment and liver transplants for something they've done to themselves.

Oh yeah, and while I'm on the hate campaign it pisses me off sooooo much when I see people with little kids lighting up, even outside that just winds me up something chronic and just adds to the chaviness image. Get it sorted Mr Anscombe before the wee man comes!

[Muel]

Youtube Video -> Original Video

[Ash-Kennard]

watch and learn, the difference between a smokers opinion and a non smokers

[higgzGU!]

My granddad has been smoking since he was 13 and he is now 75 and he is going strong still even gets a kick around now and again, so to be honest i think that smoking shortens your life is just an old wife's tale! If you gonna smoke, smoke some of the green stuff so you get a kick out of it.

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

Smoking was cool.


Smoking is now retarded and chavvy.

[Ash-Kennard]

1950 smokers



todays smoker

[Muel]

Jason Statham smokes, therefore it is STILL cool, and always will be.

[Otacon]

Smoking is now retarded and chavvy.

lol, pathetically stereotypical, so my mums a chav lol ?

Get a grip.