Quit Smoking /Weight gain/ fitness

[bracken]

Ok this is not very scientific but read on................

Quit the cigs exactly 4 weeks ago after taking up vaping

Now bearing in mind I was a 20 a day man for 20 odd years, this was perhaps a real life miracle!!!

When smoking I always ran/jogged approx 2-3 days per week averaging 6 miles per run (mad I know). Best 10k time was 51mins. I always convinced myself that smoking had no bearing on my running ability (again mad I know) . 

Since quitting the "smokes" I have gained approx 7lbs in weight - same exercise and no increase in food intake. Google has explained that the likely weight gain is down to changes in bacterial make-up in the gut, more energy giving bacteria is generated www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130829093032.htm

On Sunday I ran a 10k in a new PB of 48mins, but weighed 7Ibs more!! -so there you have it - not ground breaking or earth shattering news, but quitting smoking does make you fitter and Vaping appears not to have any detrimental effects.

[gapy360]

Congrats bracken, that's great you are seeing some positive results for quitting. Unfortunately I'm not a highly active chap so haven't really got anything to compare, but we'll done

[jaysey]

Well done for quitting I also can complete my 10k row in 5min less than when smoked , feel fitter and in the past when quit with patches I gained 2 stone in 6 weeks !! Since vaping for 12 weeks I've only gained 6lb
Don't have a pack of biscuits with my coffee any more mind you I never have my iclear / spinner out of my mouth long enough to over eat !!!!

[toots]

Nov 12, 2013 13:31:40 GMT jaysey said:

Don't have a pack of biscuits with my coffee any more mind you I never have my iclear / spinner out of my mouth long enough to over eat !!!!

I can relate to that.

this just don't happen any more, it's due to this

[lobeydosser]

49 years of smoking, ending in getting through 40 super king a day, turned me into a;-



One year and a bit on Vaping has turned me into a fitness fanatic;-



Well actually that is not true, cause I am still a;-



But very content with it.

[tominmids]

Nov 12, 2013 13:25:49 GMT gapy360 said:

Congrats bracken, that's great you are seeing some positive results for quitting. Unfortunately I'm not a highly active chap so haven't really got anything to compare, but we'll done

Like bracken I'm not a very active sort. But I do have one thing I can compare .. the fifty yard dash to catch the bus 
three weeks ago if I'd managed to catch it, I would have flopped into a seat gasping like a beached whale. Now, just three weeks in I just flop into a seat. Hopefully in time I'll be able to take a seat with a little more decorum 

[dinamic22]

I have not put any weight on this time since quitting the fags & starting vaping, this is very unusual as normally the weight starts piling on from the first week & one of the reasons i have started smoking again previously so i am very happy.
Well done too bracken & jaysey

[ginge7289]

I was under the impression that smoking increased your motabilism? So quitting would mean your normal calorie intake to maintain maitenace would be to high?

But I could be wrong. Good job on the new PB

[keepitgoin]

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2796.1993.tb00680.x/abstract This study indicates that Smoking impairs Insulin action, and can lead to Insulin resistance. When we stop Smoking our bodies have to readjust to regulating Insulin, which could explain weight gain experienced by most, if not all, people who quit Smoking, I never heard of a healthy (well ish) Smoker quitting and losing weight.

[glentoran]

the trainer at the gym has noticed, while I still sweat buckets, I don't collapse anymore and attempt and complete burpees and everything they throw at me (skipping is a killer)

currently doing 4 x 1q hr classes - 2 kettlebells, box and spinning - hate spinning but love the feeling after

weight gain is nil but my exercise has increased - just need to drag myself out for a jog on the weekends now - well done you, I want to do 2k without stopping