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Mountain dew and currently flavor blasted goldfish.
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No cigarettes here for the past 20 years.
I still drink (like a fish on occassion), but I have a strange condition that either resists or prevents hangovers, so I can drink unitl 2:30 or 3:00 and then jump on the bike for a 20 mile ride @ 7:00. My friends all hate me on Saturday/Sunday mornings because while they are trying to hold down a cup of coffee long enough for the aspirin to dissolve, I'm already out on the bike! (I have an "over-achieving" liver!) +++ |
Originally Posted by rooftest
(Post 12164756)
Where I come from, we call that BAIT!
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Originally Posted by WestCoastDan
(Post 12164784)
No cigarettes here for the past 20 years.
I still drink (like a fish on occassion), but I have a strange condition that either resists or prevents hangovers, so I can drink unitl 2:30 or 3:00 and then jump on the bike for a 20 mile ride @ 7:00. My friends all hate me on Saturday/Sunday mornings because while they are trying to hold down a cup of coffee long enough for the aspirin to dissolve, I'm already out on the bike! (I have an "over-achieving" liver!) +++ |
Working on quiting smoking, down to a pack a week. I do love a good beer, bought a 12 pack of Blue Moon 10 days ago, I have 2 left. Biggest guilty pleasure is coffee.
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I do have some vices, though.
Starbucks pumpkin spice latte was one, but it's gone now. I don't drink soda (I'll have an occasional Pepsi) but love sweet tea. Any if you give me this I'll eat it all (but usually don't eat sweets). http://www.urbanjacksonville.info/up...orn-745961.jpg |
smoking is good for your cycling. it expands your lungs. i always light one up and pass it around before a big climb.
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Alcohol. Many cycling seasons suffered. Now that I don't drink I am much more productive.
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Originally Posted by crhilton
(Post 12164197)
It sounds like he was talking about some very heavy drinking. Which is worse than smoking.
Possible that your response is the answer. Oh, I enjoy beer and alcohol in general, but I have restricted myself to one night a week in order to lose weight. |
I have occasional junk food binges.
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Guilty pleasures include: Dance music, Krispy Kreme Donuts
I smoked for 25 years - quit when my daughter was born and took up cycling. I like bikes but it's hard to keep them lit. |
I also like eating chips, but have stuck to baked versions. The bag still only last 2 days in my house though.
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vegas buffets and buffets in general!
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Originally Posted by renegaderider
(Post 12163627)
Am I the only one?
Beer...? Guilty pleasures... |
Originally Posted by I_Like_Bike
(Post 12165019)
Also, how come you are always a recovering alcoholic, but when someone quits smoking you are just an x-smoker?
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Originally Posted by GP
(Post 12163879)
I'm too old to smoke or drink. All that's left is massive amounts of coffee.
And Mountain Dew, Snickers and Skittles when I'm riding. |
Originally Posted by joe_5700
(Post 12165162)
Too old to smoke? I actually intend on starting smoking again once my health really takes a turn. Probably some time in my 80's I hope...
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Good for you.
Originally Posted by TimWeis75
(Post 12164075)
I woke up one day, looked in my pack, saw three cigs in there and immediately thought "I'll need to stop at the store later".
Then a big booming voice chimed in from the back of my head with "WHY?" That's a valid question: I don't smoke in my car, don't smoke in my house or garage and I have to walk halfway across the building at work to watch semi-depressed people get their only happiness of the day through the inhalation of carcinogens. So I quit. /long time lurker, first time poster |
Pot, loud music, and indiscriminate sex.
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Originally Posted by MegaTom
(Post 12165199)
Pot, loud music, and indiscriminate sex.
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on my first race, i started behind a guy who had a pack of marlboros in his jersey pocket.
i finished before him. |
Originally Posted by Inertianinja
(Post 12165225)
on my first race, i started behind a guy who had a pack of marlboros in his jersey pocket.
i finished before him. |
Originally Posted by I_Like_Bike
(Post 12165019)
Also, how come you are always a recovering alcoholic, but when someone quits smoking you are just an x-smoker? Even when the chemically addicting affects of cigarettes are well documented, but the addicting affects of alcohol seem more phycological?
Possible that your response is the answer. Oh, I enjoy beer and alcohol in general, but I have restricted myself to one night a week in order to lose weight. |
Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
(Post 12163818)
Your risk balancing skills need some work. Smoking kills 5 times the number of people that alcohol abuse does.
Moreover, there's pretty solid evidence that moderate use of alcohol can improve your health and longevity. By contrast, there is no health benefit to any amount of smoking, and even "moderate" smoking increases your chance of an early death. Not to mention that smoking will make you slower on the bike. Food for thought. |
Cigarettes: filthy habit, glad I quit and I feel much better for it.
Alcohol: It's never been my thing. Drank when I partied but quickly realized the slippery slope and stopped drinking in excess. Now I have a beer or two at social gatherings and that's it. Illegal Drugs: I enjoyed pot, felt great and had fun with my friends. I don't smoke that anymore either but mostly because I'm a parent and don't socialize with many people who still do. However if I'm at a party and someone passes a spliff then it's on. :D |
Originally Posted by miwoodar
(Post 12165145)
BTW, I don't consider myself an ex-smoker. I consider myself a non-smoker. It's a subtle but important twist for me mentally.
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Originally Posted by halfspeed
(Post 12165300)
I suspect the answer has more to do with history than anything else. The language of "recovery" is very much tied to Alcoholics Anonymous and twelve step programs. The language around smoking is probably more influenced by the tobacco industry's need to characterize it as a "habit" that can be broken with will power.
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Originally Posted by wfrogge
(Post 12165355)
Smoking might be worse health wise but I have yet to meet a smoker that lost his job because of his habbit or seen a "smoking driver" kill sombody because they were impaired from the niccotine.
Food for thought. Tobacco use causes more deaths per year than those related to alcohol use, including accidents: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf Just sayin'... |
Originally Posted by I_Like_Bike
(Post 12165438)
That feeds even more into the confusion.
'Ex-smoker' acknowledges that cigarettes are/were a part of your life. 'Non-smoker' is another level of independence. I don't pine. I pity. And anyone calling cigarettes a 'habit' is lucky. It's not a habit for many people. It's a serious addiction. |
Originally Posted by miwoodar
(Post 12165482)
Perhaps for you but not for me.
'Ex-smoker' acknowledges that cigarettes are/were a part of your life. 'Non-smoker' is another level of independence. I don't pine. I pity. And anyone calling cigarettes a 'habit' is lucky. It's not a habit for many people. It's a serious addiction. Oh, and good work on quitting. |
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