sgt.barney

"Sarge cam quit any time he wants - he just doesn't want... right now ..." LOL Easy Peasy

Miserable is a state of mind, not a condition. Change your mind to not be miserable and you ... won't be miserable. Embrace and live The Suck and it no longer sucks. Easy Peasy

Good place to be, right? Easy Peasy

You get better by stressing the systems and adaptation to overcome said stressors. Want to be better at biking? Log more training miles at higher intensity. As far as Sarge can tell, the rate of improvement is independent of smoking status. In 2008, as a 30-smoke-a-day addict, Sarge improved his matathon time from 5:48 to under 4 hours. While being a full time smoker. On the flip side, there are scads of never-smokers getting winded by a couple of easy miles on a bike. It's all about the consistency, effort, and effectiveness of your training. What quitting does is raise the *potential* to do better. Without the work that potential is never fully realized. You likely will see some minor level of improvement just from quitting, but the real benefit is that quitting allows better, more consistent, more intense training ... and it's that training where it'll really kick in the overdrive. Go ride. Your VO2max will improve by going out and sucking wind every day. The more frequently and more thoroughly you get winded, the more your cardio vascular system adapts to become more effecient at processing O2. It's kinda why we train, right? Easy Peasy

It's gotta start somewhere, right? 1 day becomes 2. 2 days become a week ... weeks become months and before you know it you wonder what all the fuss was about. That is a glorious day ... but it starts with Day One. Welcome aboard The Train. Enjoy the ride ... Easy Peasy

That's *Juan Ball. http://m.imgur.com/sT0OhRe.jpg Easy Peasy

It's not "quitting" a damned thing. They're still feeding the addiction, and as is my experience (Father) the user sucks down considerably more nicotine just like you noted. Easy Peasu

Waste. Of. Time. Eat what you always eat (you will anyway, eventually - no matter what you think right now) Your liver and kidneys do a fine job of "filtering toxins" already. No need for a bogus Juice Fast. Easy Peasy

If you are not losing the desired weight, then you are not maintaining an appropriate caloric deficit. All else is Woo Woo and distraction The laws of physics, in particular the Law of Conservation Of Energy are immutable. Easy Peasy

Sarge doesn't think he's any of them. He's just repeating what he was labeled at The Other Place before defecting here. Easy Peasy

It does. Easy Peasy

Sarge has been "totally indifferent to smoking" for well over 5 years now, Bro. Easy Peasy

LOL nope. Easy Peasy

What's keeping The Sarge on The Train? Sarge doesn't want to die until he has to. Not. One. Minute. Earlier. Easy Peasy

Nobody "falls off", mmm-kay? We step right up to the door and willingly jump out. Of our own free will. Voluntarily. With full knowledge of what we are doing. But ... Yeah. Get your ass back on board, right? Easy Peasy

MyFitnessPal.com It's a life-saver in the "losing mass" department. Easy Peasy

Why quit? Because you can. Easy Peasy

It's just quittin. Why complicate it with unrelated baggage? Innumerable quits fail for such shenanigans. Easy Peasy

Sarge is NOT a prick. He is an arrogant, narcissistic jackass, right? Easy Peasy

If they'd "worked" ... we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we ? They are unnecessary. Easy Peasy

There is no amount of "explaining" that is anything other than "excusing". When will you learn? Easy Peasy

What you're smelling is tobacco a minimum of 18 months old. "Fresh Tobacco" is cut from the field. This morning. Maybe yesterday. Sarge grew tobacco for the better part of a decade. Sarge says again: Piss and amonia, Bro. Rotting hay and tomato leaves.

You know, right, that "fresh tobacco" smells like piss and amonia ... with a hint of rotting hay and something not quite entirely unlike tomato leaves, right? What you're missing is the smell of dried, well-aged, processed, blended, and cured tobacco. Sarge has always liked that smell. Long before he was a smoker. Even now, over 5 years quit. Easy Peasy

There are only two steps. Ever. No matter how one quits. 1) Put them down. 2) Never pick them up again. All the rest is useless noise and distraction. You can fill in all the other bullshit you want, but those are the only things that count. You can't quit without 'em AND no successful quit is missing either of those two. They are both necessary... and sufficient. You need nothing else. Start with step 1) Put 'em down. Easy Peasy

You're not quitting, Ev. Not now. Not ever. Easy Peasy