Topic: Smoking and Working Out

[Maverick]

As I've mentioned before, I'm about a pack a day kind of guy.  Recently I've been on a steady workout regimen of going outside and running until I can't run anymore for 5 days a week, and doing weights for 3 days.

Obviously, my lungs aren't in the best shape and I don't have epic lung capacity.  Does anyone know how much smoking ACTUALLY affects this sort of thing?  I've read before that a smoker who works out regularly is about as healthy as a non-smoker who doesn't work out at all, but I don't know if there's an effective way to grade this sort of thing.  Just wondering if anyone who has maybe quit and works out noticed a significant improvement in stamina/breathing ability?

And if someone wants to bust out a charred black pig lung like they did in D.A.R.E. that's always great too.

[ShyGuy]

I know a crazy old Vietnam vet who has emphysema. I think it will kill him eventually. I also knew a lady who hacked up a lung chamber. It was spongy.

[D_Average]

One thing I do know.....smoking and running at the same time.....real hard to do:

[Maverick]

I don't know how whatever you were originally trying to post could be funnier than that Alligator.

[D_Average]

I don't know how whatever you were originally trying to post could be funnier than that Alligator.

Huh, that is strange!  Let me see if I can find the link to the original pic....

http://www.kayakcam.com/image/common-cold-cure-whisky-running-cigar.jpg

[Maverick]

Nope. 

[bustin98]

[Maverick]

They look like tree trunks.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

beef jerky

[Maverick]

**** now I'm hungry.