This has been very hard for me too. I have been smoking for 10 years and it�s hard as hell. Let me share something with you.
A few weeks ago I was smoking cigarettes and marijuana every day. I was coughing a lot. A couple times, I inhaled so much smoke from the marijuana that i passed out and woke up not realizing what was going on.
Lack of oxygen to the brain will do this. The stuff in cigarettes makes it hard for you to breath.
Imagine getting hit by a car or getting in a wreck or something else that you don't expect to happen to you, but things happen.
How do people survive? If your lungs are in good enough shape for every day breathing, but not in good enough shape to exercise, are you going to be able to breath after that or will you die?
Secondly, the walls of your arteries get clogged; your heart rate goes up. I know nicotine does this, so I said screw the patch. I am working out now and I want a lower heart rate. Lance Armstrong has a resting heart beat of 32. His heart and body are in such great shape that his circulation keeps him alive with only one beat every two seconds or so. When he is racing, his heart rate is over 200.
I quit for a year from 10/04 to 10/05, I thought, it�s my birthday on 10/17, I can smoke for one day. Nope. My problems with my marriage and everything made me keep smoking. I was ok until my body got the nicotine and suddenly said, if I don�t keep getting the nicotine, then I am going to freak out.
Every time I cut my nicotine patch treatment short I give up, I say life is hard enough with my wife leaving me 2 months ago and blah blah blah. But when it comes down to it, eventually my arteries will unclog, my heart rate will drop and I will feel better. I am already seeing the benefits of losing five pounds in two weeks. I only smoked for 4 or 5 of those days. But I have been smoke free for two weeks.
I went to a gym and got a personal trainer. He has me running at a 15% incline on the treadmill, when I am done my heart rate is 170 and I am coughing, its hard to breathe. However, an hour later or so I feel so good it amazes me.
When you exercise hard it releases endorphins in your body, and that makes you feel really good about yourself.
I am going to continue with the patch tr
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