How do people smoke and stay fit? I don’t understand how the two are compatible.

Cheech wrote:

All PRSs from smoking era wrote:

Individual variation. Some people just aren't affected. Including me.

Smoking has performance enhancing benefits as well.

I've played pickup b-ball at an inner city Y, and a few of the African-Americans would take smoke breaks (likely weed) and not be affected at all.

Some of it is just luck and genetics.

My father is heavyset but has great cholesterol, whereas my mother is slender but her cholesterol sucks even though she eats healthier. Same with the smokers--I knew kids in HS who were stud runners and they were sub-16, but they weren't the majority.

It's ALL genetics.

I'm a recreational marijuana smoker and I've been able to run 4:15 in the 1500m, 4:36 in the mile, 16:33 5k, and many more PRs are yet to come.... I've been smoking for several years and I used to smoke more back in college but not so much now. I like to smoke one or two bowls before running and have performed well smoking 2-3 hours before racers.

I'm training for cross country and road races at the moment and yesterday I did my first workout of the season.

1 mile at 5:02 then 18:02 for 5k tempo. I smoked 2 hours before the mile effort and had full recovery between both of these efforts. They weren't challenging but they definitely weren't easy.