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Just a quick update. I am still a non-smoking (not quite as smug today though becasue I have shin splints!)
Glad to hear everyone is doing so well. Kep it up!
Life smells better too.
I managed to give up over 6 years ago, after
30 years and before I took up running. I would
guess I am about £11K better off becuase of it.
I cannot imagine why I ever did it!!
I could not imagine being so fit if I still did!!
(£11K now where was that triathlon mag with
the sexy Bianchhi bikes ? ? ? . . . )
Keep on in there - if I can do it so can you :-))
Think I was always looking for a quick and painless fix. As soon as heavy cravings came I gave in.
Anyway, 10 days ago I stopped. Using patches and so far have not even sneaked a fly puff. Cannot say it has been easy but this time I have prepared myself for it being challenging. Feeling good, smug ect. Just desperate for day I can say I have not smoked for a year.
Least i didnt stink
Hope u are all still going strong.
Still plodding along here. At 4 months plus a few days it's really not a problem, I'm happy to say.
Good work on the first three weeks!
Make sure you've got plenty of things to distrct yourself. If it helps, post here.
Be prepared for your lungs to feel worse before they feel better.
JUST DO IT!
5 time now and still going stong :-)
just remember today you don't smoke, tomorrow maybe.... but when you wake up , today i don't smoke tomorrow maybe.... so on and so on.
well i know it sounds daft but it did actually work for me, and another thing that worked was the incentive of picking a race out of the race dairy and aiming to compleate it, i chose the blackpool 1/2 next month, and i have trained and trained, it did work, as when the will was ebbing, i would thing about the race and just how much a relapse would cost me not just in time but in how much the entry cost and if i smoked i would not do the run.
it worked, why not try it.....
Cycling and smoking at the same time isnt to bad but the fag just dont burn properly.
Running helps me see how terrible I get if I smoke. I had a six-month layoff after the last serious exercise (Pembs coast path). The resting heart rate goes up, my HR is maybe 15 beats up of where I know it should be just sitting on the sofa, just uselessly carrying all that CO around. This is when I know I did my first mara in July 1995 in 4:19, cyclied across Cuba in the following winter, and then gradually let the form go and the smoking come back. The final straw came at xmas when I ran along a beach in Tenerife, felt awful, and hardly managed 2 km.
Now I have given up again and started a new training program for the Stockholm (again). After just two to three weeks of training and not smoking I feel so much better, and I see it on the HR monitor and times and sense of effort.
The heart itself seems to be the slowest thing to get unfit, and already I can see I'm tackling the RW intermediate 4:00 better than the first time round, which was literally a daily challenge to see if I could tackle that day's run. It's not that I now just want to quit - there's just no way I'm giving away so much form just because of an addiction picked up in childhood (I'm now nearly 50.)
So give up and be a better runner nearly instantly! And think it will just get better and better!
Had to get that off my chest
Def do not want to have to go through this again.