Thread: smoking

Smoking affects different people differently. I've seen smokers in their middle years look deteriorated to hell and others around the same age who I wouldn't have guessed that smoked and they looked healthy. There use to be this big guy at our gym who looked like he was in good shape who to my surprise would puff his face away before and after his workouts outside. No matter what your fitness goals though, smoking will hinder their progress to some degree, some more than others. Smoking may not directly affect your ability to shed weight but it will certainly make exercising, especially cardiovascular much more difficult in order for you to get to where you want to be. Smoking also significantly reduces oxygen levels in your body and blood which will negatively affect muscle development, workout quality and recovery from workouts. The effect smoking will have on you also largely depends, in my opinion, on how much you smoke. If you're a weekend/social smoker you may be just mildly affected but if you're a regular/daily/long-term smoker I think it's safe to say it will reduce your muscle building potential to probably 60%-70% of what you'd be able to achieve smoke free. Bottom line, answer is YES and to what extent, depends on genetics, years smoked, smoking frequency and just the overall reaction you have to these toxins.

This is coming from someone who was involved in athetics and muscle building programs as a regular smoker and someone smoke free.

i've smoked for 15 years and i've weighted trained for 4 years while smoking. as of now i havent smoked in 6 months. when i was smoking, my cardio was real bad. building muscle was not a problem. i was making gains consistently and u wouldnt think i was a smoker. since i've stopped , my workout intensity has gone up big time, my rest periods are shorter. and i'm seeing more progress.

smoking will just make it harder to reach your goals (as far as fitness and bodybuilding). EC stack helped me quit smoking while also keeping the weight off. its effects are similar to nicotine, thought that might be some useful info.

Second on the EC stack. I quit smoking over a year ago and the EC stack helped me.

Smoking wont stop you from getting jacked, it will just make it harder to hit your goals.

Originally Posted by UFC rocks

before anyone starts to give me a lecture on how smoking is so bad for your whole body and can give you cancer and all kinds of other problems, please dont, i am aware.

i just want to know can it effect me trying to either lose weight (by which i mean lower my body fat %), or build muscle.

thanks in advance, and sorry if i came across abit rude at the start, its just that i had heard it all before.

I'm only sixteen but I know people who smoke and they play football so they have to go to morning weights and they said when they didn't smoke they got stronger more quickly than now when they do smoke. Yet they also said that it can help lose weight. Now I don't know if they are losing muscle or fat, or both. They did say running and other cardio is a lot harder when they smoke.

I mean I'm not trying to get you to stop but overall smoking is just bad. I see no benefit in it but I'm not telling you to stop, different people have different feelings and opinions toward things. My mom's friend quit smoking awhile ago but is now addicted to sunflower seeds and says it costs about the same smoking does but it helps him not smoke. In case you try to stop I'd consider trying that. Now asking you to, just throwing out an idea.

smoking affects EVERYTHING in a bad way.

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Originally Posted by Merkaba

smoking affects EVERYTHING in a bad way.

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Does not. Part of the taxes on a pack of smokes goes to CHIP - healthcare for children.

So I say to you - save the children, smoke a cigarette.

Originally Posted by danzik17

Does not. Part of the taxes on a pack of smokes goes to CHIP - healthcare for children.

So I say to you - save the children, smoke a cigarette.

Ok you got me!

thanks for all the replys, its given me alot to think about.

I love the smell of a clean man...cigarette smoke just ruins that. nothing worse than cigarette breathe and smell on one's clothes. I prefer clean man smell. & deminished blood supply systemically is a bad thing..think about it. please don't smoke...

old thread, i know..but wouldn't the ec stack make your urges stonger? i know when i'm all jacked up on caffine and shit it makes me want to smoke more than normal.

Cigarettes are legal so they must be way healthier than those nasty things called steroids. So I say…. Keep smoking and educate yourself with those government funded, anti-steroid propaganda videos…… the gov’t is never wrong.

Originally Posted by jamontap

old thread, i know..but wouldn't the ec stack make your urges stonger? i know when i'm all jacked up on caffine and shit it makes me want to smoke more than normal.

Damn it....... you threw me off by posting in an old thread, which I figured was new. Sorry bro, I'm not sure what the EC stack is. Try google...

Originally Posted by DarkHorse

Damn it....... you threw me off by posting in an old thread, which I figured was new. Sorry bro, I'm not sure what the EC stack is. Try google...

Ephedra + Caffine as far as i can tell. I wasn't sure either but thats what i came up with from looking through a couple threads.

ephedrine caffeine stack and its more the ephedrine that helps with the urges from smoking

Originally Posted by UFC rocks

before anyone starts to give me a lecture on how smoking is so bad for your whole body and can give you cancer and all kinds of other problems, please dont, i am aware.

i just want to know can it effect me trying to either lose weight (by which i mean lower my body fat %), or build muscle.

thanks in advance, and sorry if i came across abit rude at the start, its just that i had heard it all before.

(+) nicotine suppresses appetite
(-) Lungs filled with tar=less oxygen absorption=not as effective cardio workouts to burn fat

Of course it's going to affect you in certain ways. I quit smoking about 2 1/2 years ago, and I just feel way better in general since I have. There is also all the money I've not literally sent up in smoke too.

Here some tips to stop smoking. I am also trying it.
1. Commit Thyself Fully. In the quits that failed, I was only half into it. I told myself I wanted to quit, but I always felt in the back of my mind that I’d fail. I didn’t write anything down, I didn’t tell everybody (maybe my wife, but just her). This time, I wrote it down. I wrote down a plan. I blogged about it. I made a vow to my daughter. I told family and friends I was quitting. I went online and joined a quit forum. I had rewards. Many of these will be in the following tips, but the point is that I fully committed, and there was no turning back. I didn’t make it easy for myself to fail.

2. Make a Plan. You can’t just up and say, “I’m gonna quit today.” You have to prepare yourself. Plan it out. Have a system of rewards, a support system, a person to call if you’re in trouble. Write down what you’ll do when you get an urge. Print it out. Post it up on your wall, at home and at work. If you wait until you get the urge to figure out what you’re going to do, you’ve already lost. You have to be ready when those urges come.

3. Know Your Motivation. When the urge comes, your mind will rationalize. “What’s the harm?” And you’ll forget why you’re doing this. Know why you’re doing this BEFORE that urge comes. Is it for your kids? For your wife? For you health? So you can run? Because the girl you like doesn’t like smokers? Have a very good reason or reasons for quitting. List them out. Print them out. Put it on a wall. And remind yourself of those reasons every day, every urge.