smoking

[s7ephanie]

Its amazing the difference that smoking makes to cycling. I gave up ages ago but for some stupid reason bought a couple of packs last week. Today cycling was hard work ! i huffed and puffed my way round, needless to say i shall not be buying any more !

 

[Levo-Lon]

You may be a bit grumpy for a week or two as well..

 

[s7ephanie]

You may be a bit grumpy for a week or two as well..

I'm always grumpy !!

 

[Vantage]

They say an ex smoker will have little cravings for the rest of his/her life.
My dad quit probably 30 odd years ago and warned me of it when I quit 5 years ago.
He never gave in to it but I fancied a cigar at my fiancees friends birthday party last year.
Much coughing a some horking followed. Lesson learned.

 

[cosmicbike]

February 2013 I stopped, and I could quite happily start again today if it weren't for the health implications. Well, that and the fact that I'm rather rubbish going uphill anyway so I don't need that making any worse.
I'll always be an ex-smoker, and if I had the chance to go back 29 years to that first puff behind the local church I'd say no...

 

[Drago]

I finally quit for good early in 2011. I'm past the point now where I have even the slightest temptation to have a puff. Well and truly, completely, utterly of no interest to me now.

 

[Threevok]

stick at it people - it's the best decision you will ever make - giving up

11 years for me - come March

 

[Sharky]

My Dad was a smoker and a cyclist. Amazingly he did a "6" before the war. Smoked throughout the 4 years he was stationed in India and was still smoking when he resumed his cycling after the war, achieving a "5" - all on fixed! I wonder what he could have done if he hadn't smoked. He was smoke free for the last 30 years of his life and continued cycling right up to the end.

 

[FishFright]

Soon to be 8 years a non smoker and almost all the time I feel no urge to smoke ... But occasionally I walk passedsomeone smoking and it smells as nice as other peoples chips. It is the money that's kept me a non smoker

 

[tyred]

About 3 1/2 years now. I must admit there are times I do fancy a fag but it's increasingly unlikely I'd ever have one. I sometimes cycle to visit an uncle who smokes like a train and I walk into his house feeling fit and healthy and then on leaving and cycling up the road again I am a gasping wheezing wreck after sitting passive smoking for a few hours and shudder to think what I'd be like if I still did it for real.

It also smells Once you stop you can smell a smoker from 300 yards away Can't believe that was once me

 

[Alan Frame]

Went from fifty a day to zero overnight.

That was 27 years ago and never cracked in all that time, but still occasionally do a Bisto kid type sniff of the air when crossing paths with a smoker.

 

[Lonestar]

Quit on 31/12/1999 and I don't get cravings anymore.

Actually if I go past cigarette smoke now I find it quite disgusting/repulsive.Not because I don't like people smoking,that's their decision and freedom of choice.It also affects me and makes me cough.

The secret is never touch one again or have one on the sly or take up cigars/cigarillos.They were all mistakes I made.When you quit don't faff about thinking you can do this as it WILL end in tears.

 

[Fnaar]

Been smoking on and off since I was about 15 ...
have given up on a few occasions ... but obvs started again. Personal life has been difficult for various reasons over the last few years, and I now find myself on 20 a day again ...

 

[pplpilot]

I've smoked on and off (not for at least ten years) and I could go months and months without, then on a whim buy a pack, them nothing for months again, and I've always been really sniffy why people get addicted to them. I just used to really enjoy a smoke. Perhaps I don't have an addictive nature. Must be so hard packing in something that has become so habitual

 

[mark st1]

February 2013 I stopped, and I could quite happily start again today if it weren't for the health implications. Well, that and the fact that I'm rather rubbish going uphill anyway so I don't need that making any worse.
I'll always be an ex-smoker, and if I had the chance to go back 29 years to that first puff behind the local church I'd say no...

Same as mate.