Are there any cigarette smoking getbiggers?

[gib]

If so, how the F do you justify doing this, both to yourself and to those who love you.

For those who do smoke, this thread is not intended to upset you just for the sake of it, but rather to seriously make you reconsider the idiocy of your actions. Have some self respect.

If you currently smoke, STOP. RIGHT NOW.

I have seen people suffer with throat and cheek cancer. It can be agonizing for the sufferer, and heartbreaking for those who need to witness and live through the pain and suffering of those whom they love.

Especially if you have kids, (but even if you don't), I really don't know how anyone in their right mind can do this to themselves.

If you need help in quitting, speak up. We are her to help and support each other.

[Royalty]

Good post. We only have one set of lungs. Why poison them?

[wes]

Had my last one on May 11th, 2020................NEVE R thought I`d be able to say I haven`t had a cigarette in 9 months.................. .quitting is a fucking MONSTER!!

It took stage 4 COPD and Lung Cancer to finally make me quit, not that I never tried to before that.

Worst fucking addiction in the world.....I rue the day I ever started smoking so to echo Gibs sentiments,if you smoke dont quit tomorrow or try to cut dowm ,grow some balls, tough it out, get a support sytsem, and jut never pick up again or you WILL regret it someday in the future.................. ..could be 30 years down the road or even longer, but you WILL pay the price eventually make no mistake about it.

For the assholes who will say it`s self inflicted, and I deerved it,I agree and never blamed anyone else..... so keep your pie holes shut.

[Darren Avey]

Smoking is another sign that you re well ard.  A true tough guy.
Like having tribal tattoos,  wearing tap out clothes,  driving a pick up truck which you rev at the lights.
Pretend to always be chewing gum.
Wear wrap round shades and have a goatee beard

[Matt]

I smoked 4.5 cigarettes in the past 12 days - four + one that I shared with a friend. Does that count?

I think I mentioned I've been smoking, on Getbig - but averaging 0.7 daily for the past 8+ months.

Is there any way to square this circle?

Is 1.5 every Sunday evening ok?

According to John Meadows, if you've smoked over 55 cigarettes in your lifetime, it can impact your ejection fraction ratio in your heart. WTF? So smoking one cigarette a week for a year already produces problems?

Yeah... maybe time to put this non-habit aside.

I could go for a cigarette now, from reading this thread.

[SOMEPARTS]

I smoked 4.5 cigarettes in the past 12 days - four + one that I shared with a friend. Does that count?

I think I mentioned I've been smoking, on Getbig - but averaging 0.7 daily for the past 8+ months.

Is there any way to square this circle?

Is 1.5 every Sunday evening ok?

According to John Meadows, if you've smoked over 55 cigarettes in your lifetime, it can impact your ejection fraction ratio in your heart. WTF? So smoking one cigarette a week for a year already produces problems?

Yeah... maybe time to put this non-habit aside.

I could go for a cigarette now, from reading this thread.

Gayer than sharing cigarettes with a friend.

[Matt]

Had my last one on May 11th, 2020................NEVE R thought I`d be able to say I haven`t had a cigarette in 9 months.................. .quitting is a fucking MONSTER!!

It took stage 4 COPD and Lung Cancer to finally make me quit, not that I never tried to before that.

Worst fucking addiction in the world.....I rue the day I ever started smoking so to echo Gibs sentiments,if you smoke dont quit tomorrow or try to cut dowm ,grow some balls, tough it out, get a support sytsem, and jut never pick up again or you WILL regret it someday in the future.................. ..could be 30 years down the road or even longer, but you WILL pay the price eventually make no mistake about it.

For the assholes who will say it`s self inflicted, and I deerved it,I agree and never blamed anyone else..... so keep your pie holes shut.

What I find annoying about smoking is that [for me], anything more than two cigarettes a day is toxic and unsatisfying. It's just smoking to satisfy cravings. What a rip-off.

While two daily, spaced out, gave all the head rush benefits of being a new smoker, without the feelings of toxicity [which I assume correlate to health risks].

Talk about the law of diminishing returns. Meanwhile, I had 1.5 cigarettes on Sunday, and they were the most satisfying cigarettes I've ever had. Again, what a rip-off. At least with alcohol, MOST drinkers aren't just drinking to satisfy addiction.

[njflex]

never one cig ever......

[LurkerNoMore]

What BBer was it that gave an interview and said that when he first went on tour in Europe, he was shocked that nearly every bodybuilder who was not American was a heavy smoker.

[sync pulse]

Why smoke cigarettes you ask?...Why did people use to drive cars with no seatbelts/shoulder harness?...Why did people drink water that intentionally had radium mixed in?...Why do they drink colloidal silver?

[joswift]

We used to buy the odd pack when we were about 12, we though it made us look tough.
Unfortunately a cigarette doesnt increase your ability to throw or dodge a right hook...

[joswift]

4 grams of test , 2 grams of tren, Clen, T3, GH, Painkillers... etc...etc


"But I dont smoke because its bad for me"

[Matt]

Gayer than sharing cigarettes with a friend!

Lol! She was a female friend. Not sure if I'd share a cigarette with a man, unless the issue was no cigarettes being available or something. But I wouldn't be passing it back and forth in that case - just smoking the second half of the cigarette.

I'm reminded of that piece of shit woman who severely took advantage of me in 2018 - keeping in mind, we were never intimate, she was passed me a cigarette drenched in her saliva. That was the year I started this non-habit. For her to purposely spend so much of my money, NOT kiss me or anything else [while I could have been with other women in my life], and pass me that drenched cigarette, just makes her such a massive piece of shit in my mind. She knew she had nothing to offer, and that even the sex with her wasn't great, so she withheld everything. Bad strategy, because it may work well in the short-run, then people hate you.

Sharing a cigarette is a form of "indirect kissing", if it's drenched in saliva, like that bitch purposely did to me.

It's funny - while I AGREE COMPLETELY with the message in this thread, I can honestly say I would sooner have a 20 cigarette a month habit than to deal with relationship bullshit.

Is there ANY amount a person can smoke? How about ONE a week? Is even that putting you at risk?

FYI, I am not addicted to cigarettes or nicotine. I haven't had a coffee this month, but I'm thinking I will today, after this thread, lol.

[Matt]

4 grams of test , 2 grams of tren, Clen, T3, GH, Painkillers... etc...etc


"But I dont smoke because its bad for me"

LOL!!!!

That's how one Getbigger explained pros and Rec drugs to me. The notion that high level bodybuilding is "healthy" is a bit sick. Very disingenuous.

Research on 15+ cigarettes a day ["heavy smoking"] is clear. I'm not sure if there are studies on 1-2 every Sunday evening.

Though I was shocked when John Meadows said 55+ cigarettes in your lifetime can mess up your ejection fraction ratio. So one cigarette a week for a year, or one cigarette a month for five years can mess up your heart? 

Really?

Yeah, time to stop completely.

LMAO...threads like this are always like animal cruelty videos to me - they always impact me, but make me want a cigarette or piece of meat in the moment. Conventional advertising doesn't work for me, but a thread like this which makes me think about quitting smoking invariably makes me interested in a cigarette in the short-term.

The long-run effect is that I quit though.

But I'm already not addicted to nicotine. I'm not seeking to rationalize here either.

Is 1-2 cigarettes, total for the week, on a Sunday evening only bad for you? I've already proven I can sustain that.

I know in the end I will ultimately quit completely. I'll put this another way:

I intend to smoke a cigarette again in my lifetime. Is any sort of frequency under once a year ok?

I don't know if there are good studies on extreme low dose smoking.

[wes]

I smoked 4.5 cigarettes in the past 12 days - four + one that I shared with a friend. Does that count?

I think I mentioned I've been smoking, on Getbig - but averaging 0.7 daily for the past 8+ months.

Is there any way to square this circle?

Is 1.5 every Sunday evening ok?

According to John Meadows, if you've smoked over 55 cigarettes in your lifetime, it can impact your ejection fraction ratio in your heart. WTF? So smoking one cigarette a week for a year already produces problems?

Yeah... maybe time to put this non-habit aside.

I could go for a cigarette now, from reading this thread.

Jesus Christ Matt, nothing like living on the edge huh ?  LOL 

[IroNat]

Didn't smoke but worked in a bar in college early 80s.

After work used to cough up black phlem like a coal miner from all the smoke.

Probably wrote my deathwish.

[oldtimer1]

My brother in law smoked a couple of packs a day since he was a teenager. When He got to around 65 he quit.  Two years later he had terminal lung cancer. Horrible way to go. Between the chemo and cancer he was a weak walking skeleton. Died in his home unable to breathe. 

[TheShape.]

I’ve never smoked cigarettes, weed, never done any recreational drugs or steroids. I’m probably the only one here

[SOMEPARTS]

Jesus Christ Matt, nothing like living on the edge huh ?  LOL 

Haha, yeah. Genetics plays a part as well. My old man has been smoking since he was 12 years old.

Every 6 months he goes to the doctor for a check up and they ask if he's quit smoking yet. He just laughs about it.

Don't get me wrong, one of these times the bad news will come...or maybe it won't....either way he's near the average life expectancy already and isn't going to quit.

[wes]

Haha, yeah. Genetics plays a part as well. My old man has been smoking since he was 12 years old.

Every 6 months he goes to the doctor for a check up and they ask if he's quit smoking yet. He just laughs about it.

Don't get me wrong, one of these times the bad news will come...or maybe it won't....either way he's near the average life expectancy already and isn't going to quit.

Who knows he may get lucky.....i hope he comes through unscathed.

You often read about these old fuckers who are 90 and still drink and smoke daily and are still OK.

Luck of the draw I guess.

[AbrahamG]

I've been repulsed by smoking my entire life.  Grew up in a large family of smokers and was subjected to unwanted 2nd hand smoke for the first 19-20 years of my life.  Never fucked a smoker and never will.  If I saw Salma Hayek smoking right now and she knocked on my door later tonight to do some fucking, I'd politely decline.  It's that gross to me.  Also, lung cancer took my mother from me and the age of 56 and heart disease took my father at 65.  I was orphaned at 36.    All jokes aside my kids never got to meet my mom who would have made for one hell of a getbigger.  Her trash talk game was fierce and on point.  They(my kids) were 4 and 6 when my dad passed.  So to those who smoke, STOP.  Ride your loved ones who do smoke like a Schwynn until they stop. 

[BEEFYHEAVYWEIGHT]

GUNNAR ROSBO

[Matt]

Jesus Christ Matt, nothing like living on the edge huh ?  LOL 

LOL!!!

Tim - honestly, thank you for getting and beating lung cancer.

You were in shape all your life. That may have been the difference.

Your story kept me I fear, and kept me not smoking much.

I had one just now with a McDonald's meal and a coffee.

What I learned from your successful battle with lung cancer is that I don't want to have to go through that. I don't want to say "Damn, what did I do to myself?" Especially when I should have known better.

But IS two cigarettes a week, assuming I can sustain this [which as a disciplined person, I feel I can] going to hurt me?

Recently I decided that I'm not going to wait for gyms to reopen in Ontario to get back to hard workouts. What I WANT is to follow a proper heavy [for me] lifting schedule.

But I can't - so long walks and calisthenics will be the thing instead.

And for me to be worried about even ONE cigarette is normal for me. But my rational half keeps those worries in check.

So...is there ANY way to do this? I mean...John Meadows said 55 cigarettes in your lifetime can negatively impact your ejection fraction ratio! Like WTF! So I'm at risk for a heart attack smoking one cigarette a month?

I figure...as long as I am in control, it's fine.

That cigarette was surprisingly satisfying. I don't feel like having another one immediately...but THAT'S the issue for me.

So is there any "acceptable" number of cigarettes we can smoke?

Ultimately I'm conning myself. I just don't see a world where I have that perfect amount, without wanting another. I actually do still want to at least have ONE more.

I guess you got over that, because you quitting like you did is amazing.

But see...we had the same issue, sort of: both of us are disciplined people, long-time gym goers who followed a good diet. And clearly both of us enjoy cigarettes, plural.

Was there anything specifically that made you forget cigarettes, or would you say it was mostly a matter of time?

Your story was impressive - going from a tumor the size of a quarter to one UNDETECTABLE...that's insane.

And I am extremely confident you will not have a relapse of lung cancer, barring you going back to smoking. We will all get sick eventually...do I think you will be contending with another lung tumor...well...without seeing your entire medical protocol, and reading every study, my belief is NO. You did what you had to, and now it's just a matter of you not giving up.

Incidentally, one thing about autism is this: picture living in hyper-sensitivity. Like when you were scared because you had a tumor.

Even just reading your journey to recovery had me scared! In fact, maybe I need to bookmark your thread, and open it every time I'm thinking of having a cigarette.

My fear is that if I'm smoking at all, I will become a pack-a-day smoker - and THAT quantity of smoking scares me.

Obviously even smoking one a WEEK will dominate my thoughts, no matter how much I enjoy it. Really, I just need to bookmark your thread, read it any time I'm thinking of smoking, and just forget it.

[Matt]

Oh for fuck's sake.

Ok, so I'm probably typing at the same speed on this piece of shit cellphone due to auto-complete.

I think I'm going to get a cast for my right hand for Getbig posts, and I will write normal sized posts.

[Matt]

I've been repulsed by smoking my entire life.  Grew up in a large family of smokers and was subjected to unwanted 2nd hand smoke for the first 19-20 years of my life.  Never fucked a smoker and never will.  If I saw Salma Hayek smoking right now and she knocked on my door later tonight to do some fucking, I'd politely decline.  It's that gross to me.  Also, lung cancer took my mother from me and the age of 56 and heart disease took my father at 65.  I was orphaned at 36.    All jokes aside my kids never got to meet my mom who would have made for one hell of a getbigger.  Her trash talk game was fierce and on point.  They(my kids) were 4 and 6 when my dad passed.  So to those who smoke, STOP.  Ride your loved ones who do smoke like a Schwynn until they stop.

That's really sad about your parents. I'm sorry to hear that.

What the fuck am I even doing. Walking the line with lung cancer! I would sooner do heroin once a month. Big statement, but EVERYONE has cigarettes...they are so UBIQUITOUS.

So EASY. So LOW COMMITMENT.

The issue isn't a couple a week...the issue is that habit going up.

Maybe if a sauna was open, I would stop completely.

Not to make excuses, but I am 99.9% certain alcoholism, drug addiction, and obesity have ALL gone up due to COVID.

Not to make excuses for being a lazy girl just sitting at home all day, but like WTF. I just want a gym open, to get me in that atmosphere. Weight room / track / sauna.

I'm extremely curious what the data is on addiction and COVID. It can't be good.

That's really sad about your parents. So as much of a hypochondriac as I am, I'm not wrong to have that fear. And I feel I just can't moderate it. Only fear is keeping me I line.