Originally Posted by
Jinkster
Is a darn good question from a slightly differing perspective...very slight....yet still a dang valid question so let me do my best to answer...and I guess my best honest answer to those questions would be...
I'm doing my best to save my legs from circulatory problems due to smoking 2+ packs a day for the past few decades and type II diabetes probably isn't helping matters much...This is day 19 for me of "no cigarettes"...my legs are doing night and day better as far as the skin tone and feeling coming back into them...and even so?...quitting smoking is still a bear...so I'm immersing myself in cycling, walking and archery just to keep busy and active and I feel that monitoring improvements in physical fitness seems to instill a greater level of motivation for me to remain on the right track here eliminating the bad things from my life by replacing them with good things...I mean...a man needs to obsess over something right? LOL!
Best answer I can come up with at the moment...but keep the feedback coming here folks and let the good stuff flow!
It's a good answer.
Stay off the cigs. My experience of stopping, 14 or so years ago, was that the need to smoke faded pretty fast so that after a few weeks I could go longish periods without thinking about it. But now and again something wouod happen - I'd see someone lighting up, or go to the pub with friends or whatever (one could smoke in pubs in those days) and get an urgent, almost piercing desire for a cigarette. But that was easier to deal with, because experience quickly taught me that the feeling would pass within a few minutes. After a year or so that too disappeared. It's now quite hard for me to believe that I was a smoker for over 25 years.
Using the fitness thing for motivation is a good idea. Any simple speedo such as those suggested above will give you the data you need for motivational purposes. And if you really want to get obsessive you can always upgrade over time. I know more than any sane man would want to about heart rate training, for example, but I haven't been persuaded (yet?) to get into a powermeter. So don't despair, there is several years-worth of increasingly sophisticated monitoring you can do ...
