General Cycling Discussion - Hi, cyclist friends, do you smoke?

heart and lung are the power source for our cycling sport. smoke is harmful to the heart and lung, to protect my health i don't smoke.

I do smoke, I can't wait to get to the end of a race to light up. I know it's not the best thing but what the hell...

I don't smoke.

Sometimes I steam a little. (Mostly after a hard ride on a cold morning.)

No cigs or joints.

I quit 90 days ago

I dont smoke , though I used to smoke like a train .I gave it up nearly 17yrs ago after my daughter was born, as she developed asphma when only a week old !
I do enjoy the odd alcoholic beverage though :D :D :beer: :D :D

Originally posted by MKRG
I quit 90 days ago
Good on yer, hope it works out OK , drink plenty of fluids ,you should be over the worst bit now :D

Originally posted by MKRG
I quit 90 days ago

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

:D

I've never smoked but I grew up with my dad smoking and it certainly put me off. He had the most disgusting smokers cough.

I am 33 years old & never took up the smoking habit. I am thankful that peer pressure never got to me as a youngster!

Using a water bong is the healthy choice.

Originally posted by Bigwheel
Using a water bong is the healthy choice.

Or at least some people can convince themselves it is.

Bit like saying that a Big Mac is healthy because it's got salad in it.

Definatly DO NOT SMOKE, Iccckkk!!!

I was reading this book I got from the library called the Illustrated Tour de France (or something like that). I think it was just released for the 100 year anniversary of the Tour. Great read!

Some of these guys would smoke while they rode fixed gear bikes over mountains.

Times have really changed!

Does an occasional cigar count?

Originally posted by captsven
I was reading this book I got from the library called the Illustrated Tour de France (or something like that). I think it was just released for the 100 year anniversary of the Tour. Great read!

Some of these guys would smoke while they rode fixed gear bikes over mountains.

Times have really changed!
They used to think that smoking was actualy benificual to your health not too many decades ago
:mad: Something to do with govt. properganda & interests tyed up with tobbaco company`s + tobbaco taxes no dought :rolleyes:

Yep, a pack a day for over twenty years now. I can't wait to get cancer and have the taxpayers pay for my health care (I figured I would put this out before the flames started).

I quit smoking 9 months ago and my lungs feel better, but not perfect. Interesting enough I have a friend that has a chronic mental illness and a while back, he quit smoking. He was amazed to find out that smoking affected his mental health negatively and that by quitting, he reduced the level of psychosis that he experienced on a daily basis. Tobacco is bad stuff and I am so glad I quit.

Only when I'm on fire!

Originally posted by MediaCreations
Bit like saying that a Big Mac is healthy because it's got salad in it.
That's a funny analogy :) , I'll mention that to my smoker friend...

I'm not a smoker, never have been, never will be.

Never smoked a cig in my life...

I quit the ganja about 4 months ago :)

It was affecting my riding to much with weak lung affect :)

Haven't smoked in 3 years and NEVER will put another to my lips. It is hard to quit and I salute anyone who is quitting or has quit!:beer:

I quit over 2 years ago. 2 packs a day started giving me breathing problems(go figure!). Smoking is a HUGE ripoff, basically you are paying to ruin your health.

Originally posted by Bigwheel
Using a water bong is the healthy choice.

Considering what most people smoke in it, it seems like a good idea afterwards!

My only smoking is passive, second-hand, when I travel outside the protection of the U.S. west coast's strict (and very welcome) regulations. I generally try to take a Libertarian viewpoint, but smoking is a classic case of rights in conflict, and one's right to breathe clean air has to take precedence over another's right to indulge in smoking.


... smoking should be confined to consenting adults in private ...

Originally posted by legstrong
heart and lung are the power source for our cycling sport.

I smoked for 12+ years and quit over 5 months ago. It has improved my riding but not to the extent that your comment suggests.

What I mean is that the strength of your legs is the power source of cycling. I know that an improved cardiovascular system supplies more oxygen to muscles allowing for a higher aerobic threshold, but even when I smoked and cycled my legs would fail before my lungs.

To everyone who has quit or is thinking of quitting, good luck and keep at it, Portent.

A guy and a blonde where relaxing after having a 2 hour sex-a-thon when the guy turns to the blonde and asks "Do you smoke after sex?"

The blonde, with a perplexed look on her face looks down at her body and said "Gee, I never noticed before"

Digger

Originally posted by John E



... smoking should be confined to consenting adults in private ...

I couldn't have said it better.

This thread reminds me of the Steve Martin line: Whenever somebody asks me "Hey, mind if I smoke?" I always say "Why no! Mind if I fart?"

Just as rude, IMO.

Geeez, Let me tell you....I get no respect...no respect at all.

My wife and I have an agreement to only smoke after sex. I have not smoked in three years but my wife is up to a pack a day.

:D

Well,

I quit smoking this long ago:

Nine months, three weeks, six days, 59 minutes and 59 seconds. 9001 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,350.18. Life saved: 4 weeks, 3 days, 6 hours, 5 minutes.

I keep those stats with Silk Quit (http://www.silkquit.org/) (yes the name is a play on Silk Cut, the UK ciggy.)

its a neat program that helps motivate me to stay quit. So far i've only spent a couple hundred of that savings, figure when I finally do make my mind up on a bike i'll blow most if not all of it ;)

I highly recommend to all to quit smoking, it makes a heck of a difference in so many aspects of life you never would have expected. I'd also recommend to quit caffeine, but not everybody has the inability to drink less than 2 pots a day I did. :eek:

take care,

Steve

Originally posted by jester69
Well,

I quit smoking this long ago:

Nine months, three weeks, six days, 59 minutes and 59 seconds. 9001 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,350.18. Life saved: 4 weeks, 3 days, 6 hours, 5 minutes.


Wow, you can buy one new bike a year just by quiting!!!

Noooooooooo smoking here! Grew up with people who continuously talked themselves into thinking that second hand smoke was just something to whine about. Sure it doesn't end up hurting EVERYONE, but I was the lucky one to end up being sick all my life and needing all kinds of fun medical attention because of it and other things. YAY lol I have some very very strong and angry feelings towards it actually. Good luck to all you "quitters" in keeping it up :thumbup: For yourself (A new bike every YEAR MAN!! Heck yeah!!)and for people around you, especially kids.

Originally posted by firebolt
Wow, you can buy one new bike a year just by quiting!!!

And that is at $3 a pack, 1.5 pack a day. People in areas with more expensive cigarettes, or worse habits would save even more!

take care,

Jester

Wow, you can buy one new bike a year just by quiting!!!

Exactly what I plan on buying in another 275 days.

Cannondale R2000 (http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/03/cusa/model-3RR2D.html)

Originally posted by firebolt
Wow, you can buy one new bike a year just by quiting!!!
Just about... That was my justification when I bought my first new bike last year -- figured since I wasn't spending the money on smokes (quit last July 7th after smoking for 23 years) I would spend the money on something good for me. Little did I know how deep the obsession would go... :D I'd say it's paid off, though -- went from being a prime candidate for heart failure before 40 (overweight, smoked, BP of 166/110 & resting pulse of 90+, high cholesterol to boot) to a cardio system of somone half my age (BP of 129/79 & resting pulse of 47, cholesterol still a little high but trending down, and about 15 punds lighter and falling). Quitting smoking and getting on these bikes probably saved me from an early planting. :)

"Smart people don't smoke".
Known phrase. :D

I smoke a couple a day, never any more, often less. I don't find it impacts me at all.

ah nooo! I find it incredable that someone would do something as healthy as riding a bike for fitness than smoke; sorry, but that just doesn't make any sense to me.

Originally posted by mnppunky
I am 33 years old & never took up the smoking habit. I am thankful that peer pressure never got to me as a youngster! Ditto :)

living a healthy life(enjoying the splendor of living), never smoked since. tried but i puked. have'nt smoked, will not smoke, will never smoke. ;)

As of this post, I quit 8 ears, 11 months, 14 days, 3 hours and fifty minutes ago, do I miss it? sure, only once or twice a day now. But it does get easier, and I know I feel better.
Best thing to do when you quit is to replace it with excercise, I wish I had, now Im playing catch up.
Smoking rasises your heart rate, which speeds your metabolisim, it takes between 2 to 6 months for this to take effect, then BAM!! do you ever gain weight!
Good luck to those of you just quitting!! It only gets easier.

edit...
Oh and cig's are nearly back to $7.50, Canadian, a pack again here, so my habit would have cost me close to $4000 a year. And I dont know where the money goes that I dont spend on smokes any more, but who cares. Hey I do, I could have a spanky new bike a year... and then some!! An Mme complains that I paid $30 for a new helmet!

No, never. And I can't understand why anyone would want to suck tar and carcinogens into their lungs. Damage begins early in the lungs, then extends to the heart, liver, kidneys, brain, muscles, bone, and every major organ that depends on O2 to function and thrive.

Suffocation from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a long, agonizing way to die. Your body wastes away long before you begin needing supplemental O2. Then, dragging around an oxygen cannister and gasping for breath every 10 feet you walk is no picnic. Smokers who persist in the behavior think it will never happen to them.

Originally posted by lincoln
I smoke a couple a day, never any more, often less. I don't find it impacts me at all.

And if you believe this, I have a fine package of swampland I can sell you.

You may not notice the impact but it is doing you damage. I'm sure you would notice improvements in health if you gave up.

Count me as another adult who suffered lots of childhood illnesses because of second hand smoke. Worse yet, it now causes me to have asthma attacks so I can't enter any place that has smoking unless I use my inhaler. I'm so sensitive that I start coughing if I inhale smoke as I'm walking down the street!

Kathi

Worse yet, it now causes me to have asthma attacks so I can't enter any place that has smoking unless I use my inhaler.

Like many urban centres in Canada, my city is going smokeless July 1st, so I plan to visit more pubs and bars. I can’t stand smoky bars and didn’t go because I would get a sore throat, my eyes would burn and my cloths would smell. I have noticed that fewer and fewer people are smoking and at $10.00, a pack I can see why.

Originally posted by Gordon P
I have noticed that fewer and fewer people are smoking and at $10.00, a pack I can see why.

That's the part that gets me. Why do people continue to spend huge amounts of money to smell awful, reduce their health and their families' health and then die prematurely?

Why do people continue to spend huge amounts of money to smell awful, reduce their health and their families' health and then die prematurely?

Is it not obvious? Smoking is sexy and cool! :D

Originally posted by Gordon P
Is it not obvious? Smoking is sexy and cool! :D

Thank you. That's the bit I was missing. I forgot how good yellow fingers can look.:D

Quit smoking about 2 months ago after 7 years. I started biking/cleansing my body shortly thereafter, and I can honestly say I've never felt better in my life. It's funny, because now I'm "one of those people" who is a staunch supporter of not smoking in public places (or at all)...exactly the kind of person I used to loathe. :D

I'm an off and on cig smoker. Usually steady riding keeps me off 'em, but when the stress winds up I'll buy a pack. I think it is the self-destructive aspect that is part of the allure. I suppose now is a good opportunity to stop, I'm ahead of my mileage goals for the year (2000+), but that hasn't seemed to keep me off the nicotine. Plus I'm getting laid off next week and I'm not real excited about paying for cigarettes while on a fixed income.

Originally posted by MediaCreations
Thank you. That's the bit I was missing. I forgot how good yellow fingers can look.:D
Not to mention tobacco stained teeth. . . :D
Women love that, maybe we should suggest this to
Crazy Cyclist?

Marty