smoking and cardio?

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CliffMacGillivray said:

Is there any measure in which smoking effects cardio endurance and
strength? I mean, I know guys in the marines that smoke a pack a day and
can run a decent 7.5 minute mile. Is that because if you do enough
cardio than you can undo some of the damage done that effects you
ability to get "winded"?

No, they are just young and healthy enough to get away with it. ;-)

It'll catch up with them later.......
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Is there any measure in which smoking effects cardio endurance and

strength? I mean, I know guys in the marines that smoke a pack a day
and
can run a decent 7.5 minute mile. Is that because if you do enough
cardio than you can undo some of the damage done that effects you
ability to get "winded"?>

In the young, it mostly effects endurance, which few youngsters have.
But in latter years smoking makes you pay the price, so it doesn't
effect them much now (although they'd probably do 6 or 7 mpm if they
didn't smoke) but in the coming years (if they live that long) they'll
regret it.

CliffMacGillivray said:

Is there any measure in which smoking effects cardio endurance and
strength? I mean, I know guys in the marines that smoke a pack a day and
can run a decent 7.5 minute mile.

7.5 minutes for a mile is not very good.

Anyway, here are some links: (when in doubt, ask Dr Google!)

runners world discusses some of the effects:

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=1550

The affect on oxygen transport (CO) would be similar to reversing the effects of
altitude training or EPO, so in that sense, it's a performance depressing drug
that has the opposite effect of known performance enhancers.

Here's an article

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9819539&dopt=Abstract

http://tinyurl.com/8ywyz

so basically, the smokers were about 20 seconds per mile slower.

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Is that because if you do enough cardio than you can undo some of the damage
done that effects you ability to get "winded"?

It doesn't undo it. It produces adaptions which improve performance, which
counteracts the performance-depressing effects of smoking. It doesn't undo
the negative health effects of smoking.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

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CliffMacGillivray said:

Is there any measure in which smoking effects cardio endurance and
strength? I mean, I know guys in the marines that smoke a pack a day and
can run a decent 7.5 minute mile.

7.5 minutes for a mile is not very good.

Anyway, here are some links: (when in doubt, ask Dr Google!)

runners world discusses some of the effects:

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=1550

The affect on oxygen transport (CO) would be similar to reversing the

effects of

Quoted message said:

altitude training or EPO, so in that sense, it's a performance depressing

drug

Quoted message said:

that has the opposite effect of known performance enhancers.

Here's an article

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9819539&dopt=Abstract

Quoted message said:

http://tinyurl.com/8ywyz

so basically, the smokers were about 20 seconds per mile slower.

Quoted message said:

Is that because if you do enough cardio than you can undo some of the

damage

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Quoted message said:

done that effects you ability to get "winded"?

It doesn't undo it. It produces adaptions which improve performance, which
counteracts the performance-depressing effects of smoking. It doesn't undo
the negative health effects of smoking.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

You almost make it sound like smoking is bad for you!?!?

Off to light up.....

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You almost make it sound like smoking is bad for you!?!?>

Depends WHAT you are smoking... <puff puff>

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Off to light up.....>

Me too, "it's time to get ill..."

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You almost make it sound like smoking is bad for you!?!?

Off to light up.....

Smoking may be bad for some but it is great for my family.
Members of my family have businesses in oxygen and medical devices,
ambulance service, and a funeral home.
We are very pro smoking!

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You almost make it sound like smoking is bad for you!?!?>

Depends WHAT you are smoking... <puff puff>

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Off to light up.....>

Me too, "it's time to get ill..."

Oh I especially love that one. Pot smoking is harmless? Hah! It is
totally beneficial. To my family busisnesses: oxygen and medical devices,
ambulance services, and funeral home. Smoke a fatty for breakfast, lunch,
and dinner; that's my motto.

I think smoking *while* running would be so Bogart-cool! I think I'll try
it! Gotta be able to get a cool gerl like that!

And, you are correct. Smoking does not even make lung disease
*probable*--quite improbable, aamof. Just more probable than non-smoking.
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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll
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Quoted message said:

Is there any measure in which smoking effects cardio endurance and
strength? I mean, I know guys in the marines that smoke a pack a day and
can run a decent 7.5 minute mile. Is that because if you do enough
cardio than you can undo some of the damage done that effects you ability
to get "winded"?