Hi everyone, newbie to the forum here. I’ve had a look through existing posts and although smoking and running has already been covered I haven’t quite found the situation I’m in...and I’m just looking for some advice from anyone who has been in the same boat. I gave up smoking and took up running back in 2016, since then I’ve ran a number of 10k’s and even a half marathon. However the last couple of months my training has took a nose dive due to a couple of injuries and over Xmas I’ve done the unthinkable and started smoking again. Not full time but sociably when I’ve had a drink etc. I know it’s completely my fault but I’m freaking out a little about getting back into training and being back to square 1. Has anyone else here started running and quit smoking to then fall off the wagon down the line. And if so did you manage to get back to how fit you were when you’d quit smoking and started training. Sorry for the long post. Thanks for reading
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If you can, Id really try to stop the smoking again as its only going to get harder & harder to stop. If you are anything like me, 2/3 on a saturday night turns into one after work, then one in the morning, and before you know it its 20 a day.
I'm sitting here now desperate for a fag but with my LSR tomorrow and Brighton Marathon booked for April it hardly any makes sense. Without wanting to be flippant that's why its an addiction.
Theres a radio 4 play by Marcus Brigstock about Alcohol which perfectly explains the addicts brain and the tricks it plays with you in reasoning that things will be okay. I agree with Jamie, one every fortnight is okay for now but it soon becomes everyweek and so on.
At least with all this exercise I can eat my way through it.
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3 years ago I went to the stop smoking service at my GP and asked to be prescribed champix, it is amazing, I cannot recommend it highly enough, it is a 3 month process but has completely made me not crave them.
My partner still smokes fairly heavily and I do not crave it at all, so I feel I'm now a non smoker and cannot see any logic into it.
Don't dwell on how fit you'd be without smoking, you are where you are, and just try and improve from where you are.
Good luck, If I was in charge I'd make cigarettes illegal, evil insidious things with absolutely no upsides to them
Richard
Can't believe that we still set fire to tobacco to get our nicotine - Sir Walter Raleigh would be proud..!
Good luck
i found this thread and I am one of the persons locked in to the vaping. I am very low in nicotine but I think it’s a habit. I bought the book of Allen’s and I will give a try also.
My other solution is the champix
Nikos
It is also unrealistic to expect yourself not to EVER inhale again, just accept it has happened once, and it MAY happen again, but its not the end of the world and you can move on now - and it may even feel a bit easier bow too, as you know that you can stop again, because you have already done so.
Its the same with any addiction or eating disirder, one day at a time and every day is good, dont beat yourself up over a small single-fag relapse, just crack on with not snoking again straight after- you know you can do it now, so just "keep calm and carry on!" Very best of luck to you!