Thread: About Smoking

How about not dying of lung cancer?

Cigarettes stunt growth. Including muscle growth.

Do you have children?

Think of the family you'll leave behind.

Also:

FACT: EVERY CIG CUTS 11 MIN OFF YOUR LIFE.

On top of that, smoking is a financial drain. You smoke 1 - 2 packs a day, what is that, $10? Thats $300 a month and $3600 a year. In cigarrettes! You could take a friggin dream vacation every year for that cost!

On top of that, it causes your breath/clothes/everything to smell bad. It causes damage to your body with all the toxins, etc. On top of that, it leaves you addicted and at the beck and call of a little white piece of paper with leafs in it. Thats no way to go through life.

I used to smoke a bit when I was younger and had a hard time giving it up too. Once I started working out alot though my body just naturally told me the smoking had to go, even on party nights. So I quit cold turkey, and havent had one since.

You have it in you to do the same thing, you just have to realize it.

oh and.

Just think.....your blood cells aren't what they should be when you're smoking. If you have to have surgery, chances are you won't heal right, it will take you longer to heal and you can run the risk of ..................

Found this doing a search on internet:

Harmful chemicals in cigarettes:

Carbon Monoxide, Tar, and Nicotine are three of the 4,000 harmful chemicals produced by cigarette smoke.
Carbon monoxide is a odorless, colorless gas. In high enough concentrations it is deadly, it causes shortness of breath and increased heart rate.
Carbon monoxide attaches itself to hemoglobin instead of oxygen and for extended periods of time, rendering them useless.
Tar is a dark, sticky substance that takes nicotine to the lungs. It carries the long list of other chemicals we discussed above.
Benzene, and radon have been found in cigarettes as well. These are chemicals are known by the EPA to cause cancer in homes.
Nicotine is the drug making cigarettes addictive. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine. Within 7 seconds of inhaling nicotine reaches the brain. a half-hour after smoking your body will have cleaned nicotine out of the blood. This causes intense cravings.
Nicotine is also a vasoconstrictor, it decreases the diameter of blood vessels making it more difficult for the heart to pump blood through the body. High blood pressure, and heart disease are common.
Formaldehyde is in secondhand smoke causing people to start the symptoms of lung disease.

400 billion cigarettes are smoked in the United States alone.
Nicotine is so poisonous that a little less than half an ounce injected into the blood stream kills you. Cigarette companies distribute enough nicotine each year to kill 170,000,000,000 people!

This is just my opinion, but I don't think you can call temporarily stopping and starting back up quitting. Quitting is when you stop - period. You're quitting when you never smoke again.

I could go on and on about this subject. It's just plain stupid to smoke. Smoking doesn't just increase the risk of lung cancer, but every other form of cancer there is! In fact 20% of all cancer diseases in the Western world are caused by smoking!

Everytime you light up ONE cigarette your cilies (don't really know the english word for those) in your throat stop moving for 30 MINUTES. These cilies are supposed to take care of bacterias and micro organisms that the body does not want, but if they don't move these things will enter your system and you will increase the risk of getting infections and diseases.
If you smoke often the cilies will dissapear completely. The good news is that they will develop again after you quit smoking.

A normal person produce about 100ml of mucus each day, cause it's supposed to catch unwanted particles and microorganisms. A smoker produces 500-600 ml of mucus each day cause there are so many unwanted dirty particles coming in. That's why you get that nasty smoking cough!

I could go on an on..

U will add inches to you biceps i you quitt smoking. I promise. Since smoking will give you;

longer recoverytime after working out
compromised oxygen delivery to muscles
compromised blood flow to muscles
elevated estrogen levels in males


And you know the above isnt gonna be good for your musclegrowth.

Think of it in terms of what benefit smoking is giving to you as opposed to what it does not give you.

What does it give you? Nothing. There is absolutely no benefit to yourself or the people around you by smoking.

What does it take away? There are many many things, which have all been gone over above. Not the least of which is that it destroys your body on several different ways.

Remember that nicotine is a drug, just like heroin, cocaine and other highly addictive substances. The only way to stop IMO is cold turkey, but you have to simply make up your mind that you are never going to smoke again. I made that decision many years ago and would never touch a cigarette again.

Get away from your habit patterns and replace them with something good. With clients of mine that smoke and are trying to quit, I just get them to do something else every time they think about lighting up, like running around the block or doing 20 pushups. Anything that will break the habit pattern.

I agree on most of what you wrote Pony, but to quit cold turkey for someone who has smoked a lot might not be very healthy. It stresses the body a whole lot, so for physiological reasons I'd say cut down first then quit and use nicotine patches. For psycological reasons it might be easier to quit cold turkey though, I can't really debate that since I've never smoked myself

Once you quit smoking, you get a whole new world of smells, including being able to smell what other smokers smell like, makes it hard to be around them and not because they smell good (though for a few months after you quit that second hand smoke can smell pretty good, and you can smell it for miles).

As for not quitting cold turkey, there is really no other way, cutting down is just a phrase smokers use for admitting they feel stupid or guilty for smoking, but don't have the willpower to actually quit yet, even if you smoke a few less cigs for a while it's not unlike yoyo dieting, you cut back, your body gets pissed cause it's not getting it's drug and you binge. It takes 4 days of to quit, each day getting harder to resist that urge to pick up a cig and smoke it, and if you do, it'll taste so good you'll smoke another, maybe you still think you are quitting, but that's over, you'll have another carton of smokes in no time. The good news is that after the fourth day, you are pretty much home free, the physical side of the addiction is over with, and hopefully you'll never forget how bad those 4 days were. In my case I got lucky, I caught the flu and hit a pretty rigorous workout before I even knew I had it and was actually too sick to smoke for 4 days (I tried once a day and got maybe 2 drags out of a cig... by the 4th day I probably could have but at that point I was already losing that addiction and might have even just chose not to smoke a cig).

Still waiting for the scary part, one of the scariest things about nicotine (a poison blah blah blah) is that your brain developes receptors to receive it, millions of them, and they never go away, always there and ready to kick your addiction into full gear when you hit that bar and get a good buzz going and start to think, smoking and drinking go great together and just one won't hook me again...

you're right about the increased heart rate thing. I just got a checkup from my doctor not too long ago and said my heart beats way too fast. My problem is when I try to not smoke I just can't function right when doing everyday tasks. So I just end up having a cigarette. Then that calms me down so I have another one after another. I've yet to try patches or the nicorette gum. Anyone know if these things help?

Originally posted by BabsieGirl
FACT: EVERY CIG CUTS 11 MIN OFF YOUR LIFE.

I always wondered how this could be calculated accurately.

C'mon Prince...statistics are always 93.4% accurate, everyone knows that!

To phreakypat it is obvious that you are highly physically addicted. If you are going through elevated heart rate, probably high blood pressure and withdrawl symptoms start to kick in that quickly then you're not going to be able to wean yourself off of them.

Remember patches or Nicorette still give your body nicotine. It's like a heroin junkie only doing 1 hit a day instead of 5.

Having worked with addicts in the past, I maintain my stance that the only way to quit is to go cold turkey. Here is a list of withdrawl effects you will likely experience for about a week:

Nausea
Shaking
Possible vomiting
Mood swings from hell
Cramping

However after that week is over your body will start functioning better without the drug in your system. Even after 24 hours of not smoking your body begins to regenerate cells that are now toxic and polluted. Throw all your cigarettes and stuff that supports your habit out of the window and lock yourself in a closet for a week.

I wondered how they came up with that also.

Also for the pot smokers out there. Every joint your smoke is like smoking a PACK of cigs. Think about that one.

Also, another reason to quit. Think about all the people you're infecting with your bad habbit.

This also gets to me. Restaurants have a NON smoking section but the smoke almost always seems to work its way over from the smoking section.........This makes as much sense as having a "baby pool" sectioned off the "big pool." It's still going to spread regardless.

Check out this site... www.thetruth.com

Originally posted by Leslie
Cigarettes stunt growth. Including muscle growth.

Didn't stunt my growth...he whines.

On a serious note, and by no means in defense of smoking, but how many giving advice here have smoked for a SUBSTANTIAL period of time before 'quitting'? 'T ain't an easy task for some.

Secondly, how would the panel evaluate the use of nicotine by bodybuilders as compared to those who get there nicotine fix via smoking?

At the very least it cuts down your cardiovascular abilities which means your squats and other heavy work will suffer. On top of that your body is going to spend energy trying to do the damage it wreaks on your lungs, instead of spending that energy growing and doing other things.

Also, there are what, 72 chemicals in cigarettes? You also intake heavy metals from the air because the tip of the cigarette is hot enough to vaporize them.

Why does it seem the more people know about this stuff, the more they want to smoke?

FACT

Think :light," "ultra-light," or "low tar" cigarettes are safer than regular ones? It's not necessarily the case. "Light" cigarettes often have tiny holes in the paper around the filter tip. When they test those cigarettes with machines, air comes through the holes, mixes with the smoke and dilutes it. The result: lower readings of tar and nicotine.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049790.htm

Originally posted by Mudge

Why does it seem the more people know about this stuff, the more they want to smoke?

i-g-n-o-r-a-n-c-e.

FACT

Secondhand cigarette smoke kills about 53,000 Americans a year.

FACT

Cigarette smoke contains the radioactive isotope Polonium-210. In a person smoking 1 1/2 packs of cigarettes per day, the radiation dose to the bronchial epithelium in areas of bifurcation is 8000 mrem per year -- the equivalent of the dose to the skin from 300 x-ray films of the chest per year.

http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/T...ancer.rad.html

FACT

Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and automobile accidents combined.

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_...ces/andths.htm

Originally posted by DaMayor
i-g-n-o-r-a-n-c-e.

No, let me re-phrase that. 'Ignorance' would connote negative or inappropriate behavior due to lack of education, or simply not knowing any better. Now S-T-U-P-I-D-I-T-Y, that's the ticket.

FACT

In 1989, millions of cases of imported fruit were banned after a small amount of cyanide was found in just two grapes. There's thirty-three times more cyanide in a single cigarette than was found in those two grapes.

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/CONSUMER/CON0089f.html

FACT

In 1990, 72 million bottles of a popular mineral water were voluntarily recalled because of small traces of benzene. The smoke from one pack of unfiltered cigarettes has as much benzene as 169 bottles of the contaminated water.

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