Do you currently smoke cigarettes, or have in the past and now run?

"Do you currently smoke cigarettes, or have in the past[,] and now run?"

No, no, and no. If it could somehow make me able to run, I'd start smoking tomorrow, though.

I smoke a good bowl everyone now and then, it never hurt me.

"nicotine"

I used to smoke, but then I quit and started running. The last time I had a cigarette it made me feel like absolute crap for a few days after. Nasty. Also, the reason cigarettes probably make you feel better is that there are chemicals in them that allow your lungs to absorb nicotine (and oxygen to some extent) more efficiently.

I was a smoker before I started running. I continued to smoke a few cigarettes a day for a few years after I started running. It didn't help my running. I just wanted the nicotene to control my appetite, which really spiked after I started running.

parmesan cheese wrote:

I used to smoke, but then I quit and started running. The last time I had a cigarette it made me feel like absolute crap for a few days after. Nasty. Also, the reason cigarettes probably make you feel better is that there are chemicals in them that allow your lungs to absorb nicotine (and oxygen to some extent) more efficiently.

Its funny you say this, because I have experimented with, and wothout a cigarette, and I have found that I feel stronger in my runs with the one cigarette a day. I know it sounds strange, but its true. I would never encourage anyone to smoke, but it just seems to make me stronger in my runs. i feel less stressful as well.

i just cannot explain it.

Nicotene lover wrote:

parmesan cheese wrote:

I used to smoke, but then I quit and started running. The last time I had a cigarette it made me feel like absolute crap for a few days after. Nasty. Also, the reason cigarettes probably make you feel better is that there are chemicals in them that allow your lungs to absorb nicotine (and oxygen to some extent) more efficiently.

Its funny you say this, because I have experimented with, and wothout a cigarette, and I have found that I feel stronger in my runs with the one cigarette a day. I know it sounds strange, but its true. I would never encourage anyone to smoke, but it just seems to make me stronger in my runs. i feel less stressful as well.

i just cannot explain it.

its called being addicted. any performance boost is placebo, its takes awhile for lots of the negatives to appear.. the damage slowly accumulates. sure you could smoke a whole carton today and go out and PR its possible.. but then again you could smoke some crack and PR too.. not sure why u would want to though. like idk about u but every week i hope to be just a tiny bit stronger/fitter than before instead of staying the same or worse going backwards... cigarettes will just slow ya down in the long run.

True story. I smoked for two whole weeks my junior year in high school. I think it was around late January or early February. Man was I cool! Cruising around in this old 1968 Pontiac Catalina that my Dad had. Turned the heater on full blast and the windows down while smoking. One arm hanging out the window and a cigarette hanging on my lips. Man was I cool! James Dean cool. So here I am, the epitome of cool, driving along this windy road and the ashes of the cigarette flew off due to the wind from the windows being down. Ashes landed on my ever so cool nylon multi-colored shirt I had on and started to burn/melt. Here I am trying to put out the fire on my shirt at about mid chest level by slapping it with my hand. Too busy doing that and almost missed a curve. Luckily I kept the car on the road. Skidded to a stop and put out the remaining melting/burning shirt. If I had wrecked that car it would have been over for me. No more driving privileges. Thus ended my two weeks of smoking and I did it cold turkey!

I used to be a heavy smoker for 4 years, but now I finally quitted. I managed to replace cigarettes with vaping and disposable vape pod Sea Stix https://gypsyvapes.com/sea-stix-vape-pod , so that I reduced the nicotine dosage and generally find vaping safer (as it doesn't suppose burning).

I'm trying to quit right now and I run 50 miles per week. I think it was getting married to a non-smoker that helped me take the step.

My last cigarette was 35 years, 5 months ago. One day at a time! I can do this!

Beautiful, congratulations on your quit!

33 days here... one day at a time, never take another puff!