I smoke a pack and a half a day and was wondering how much i would improve if i quit.I am 25 and have been running for 2 years.My pb's are 36/10k,1.20/half and 17.32/5k.Anyone have experience with this?
I smoke a pack and a half a day and was wondering how much i would improve if i quit.I am 25 and have been running for 2 years.My pb's are 36/10k,1.20/half and 17.32/5k.Anyone have experience with this?
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No,i am serious!
Wow. If so, wow. Here's an old gem:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3806583
I don't know how much you'd improve, but for your own sake, I hope you cut down.
Just. Do. Not, smoke, it is super unhealthy and will both a) will shorten your career B) lower your quality of life c) degrade your performance
Great thread, been smoking since i was 15 so finding it difficult to quit.looking for motivation.
smoke 3- 6 cigs/spliffs on week days
more sometimes on weekends
16.58 is my recent pr, don't really run to compete anymore.
id imagine its not good, but don't notice or worry about it.
just two things that I enjoy.
Michel Jazy was a smoker and he ran OK.
Supposed 30% increase in lung capacity after quitting.Not sure if that applies to an active person.
SMJO wrote:
Michel Jazy was a smoker and he ran OK.
As was Jesse Owens.
But sprinters are different...
Maybe smoking has an "oxygen debt" effect that helps with anaerobic performance. :)
Big difference between sprinters and distance runners.Oxygen is more important for long distance.
Wncmtnrnr wrote:
SMJO wrote:Michel Jazy was a smoker and he ran OK.
As was Jesse Owens.
Owen's started smoking in his 30s, so it was after the 1936 Olympics. He died of lung cancer.
vo2killer wrote:
I smoke a pack and a half a day and was wondering how much i would improve if i quit.I am 25 and have been running for 2 years.My pb's are 36/10k,1.20/half and 17.32/5k.Anyone have experience with this?
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Bradley Wiggins smokes in the off season at least.
You know, I was going to make a similar "joke" but found that there's evidence that chronic smoking results in tissue hypoxia (http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/41/6/845 --- "Values for carboxyhemoglobin (COHb), RCM, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and red cell count were significantly higher in the smokers."). It's almost like spending years at altitude (well, without the hypobaria).
kanny wrote:
You know, I was going to make a similar "joke" but found that there's evidence that chronic smoking results in tissue hypoxia (http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/41/6/845 --- "Values for carboxyhemoglobin (COHb), RCM, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and red cell count were significantly higher in the smokers."). It's almost like spending years at altitude (well, without the hypobaria).
does not matter how high these values are if carbon monoxide is suffocating them.And if a runner is smoking on race days,it's like racing at altitude.
debateable about lower quality of life - longetivity potentially, but quality i dunno
breathe wrote:
[quote]kanny wrote:
You know, I was going to make a similar "joke" but found that there's evidence that chronic smoking results in tissue hypoxia (http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/41/6/845 --- "Values for carboxyhemoglobin (COHb), RCM, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and red cell count were significantly higher in the smokers."). It's almost like spending years at altitude (well, without the hypobaria).
You are looking at this from one side.Blood values are not be all and end all of performance.Smokers have severe tissue damage and capacity issues that make oxygen uptake very difficult.Have you seen smokers lungs on the back of the packs.
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