Im only 5'7 right now. About a year ago, i made a terrible decision to start smoking and i am really addicted to cigarettes now. I dont know if ill be able to quit anytime soon. Although it hasnt been affecting my gains in the gym, I havent seen any linear growth in the past 8-9 months. Is it possible that smoking stunted my growth, despite the fact that everything else about me is pretty much healthy?
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Thread: Does smoking stunt your growth?
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07-19-2002, 12:47 PM #1
Does smoking stunt your growth?
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07-19-2002, 12:53 PM #2
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07-19-2002, 02:38 PM #3
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07-19-2002, 03:06 PM #4Originally posted by Big V
I don't think they have stunted your growth but they are definatly messing up your potential gains from lifting. Stop ASAP!
That's not true I made my best gains when I was puffin about 3/4 pack a day, I'm not saying it helped my gains but it certaintly didn't hinder them.
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07-19-2002, 03:10 PM #5
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07-19-2002, 03:12 PM #6
gains? ohhhh you mean those 10 pound tumors attached to your lungs...yeah those are gains, if you wanna call them that
It’s right now. It’s hard, fast, and crisp. I’m not dinking around in there. I’m not a ****ing cream puff. I’m a hammer. I’m a lightning bolt.” (Tom Brands - World & Olympic Champion and Assistant Coach U. of Iowa)
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07-19-2002, 03:17 PM #7
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07-19-2002, 03:18 PM #8
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07-19-2002, 03:29 PM #9
hey, i smoked for about 3 years (15-18) and quit last dec. for about 5 months and then started again on and off and started full blown again in may. i recently quit again and havent had a cig in almost a month now. buy some nicorette gum. it works. the main thing is you HAVE to have the will to quit. you really have to want it. if you stop and then still have one every once and a while it could fuk everything up really fast. thats what happened to me. and as far as its effects on lifting, when i started again after having quit once i noticed a definite decrease in strength and gains immediately. within the first week of stopping again my strength went back up and continued to. good luck.
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07-19-2002, 04:08 PM #10
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07-19-2002, 04:40 PM #11
If your gonna smoke you might as well juice instead. It would be less harmful and youd get something out of it.
weight training is the easiest thing to understand and the hardest to actually implement. - Dr. Ken Leistner
Miracles are attested, but what if they're instead some mix of charlantary, unfamiliar states of consciousness, misapprehensions of natural phenomena, and mental illness? No contemporary religion and no New Age belief seems to me to take sufficient account of the grandeur, magnificence, subtlety and intrcacy of the Universe revealed by science. The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on its divine inspiration. - Carl Sagan
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07-19-2002, 05:05 PM #12
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07-19-2002, 05:41 PM #13
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07-19-2002, 05:53 PM #14
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07-19-2002, 09:10 PM #15
i smoke and have still seen good gains.
i started when when i was 12.....im 15 now.
but i also used to drink and smoke pot...but i quit all that. so all im left with is cigs. and i dont really want extra stress right now so im not quitting for another year or 2. but definetly want to quit soon.
i have still made good gains though. over my 3 years i have gained about 6 inches n my height. so dont worry about it.
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07-20-2002, 12:18 AM #16Originally posted by SLTS
i have still made good gains though. over my 3 years i have gained about 6 inches n my height. so dont worry about it.
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07-20-2002, 10:06 AM #17
yeah quit smoking man, you might think its not doing anything bad for u now, like all those young pretty chicks that do it, i can't stand chicks that smoke..... but wait about 10 years and your health will decrease before your eyes, and you will start getting wrinckled up like an old man at age 33. good luck
the more famous you get, its very important to keep your ego as low as possible.
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07-20-2002, 10:11 AM #18Originally posted by WHAT?
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That's not true I made my best gains when I was puffin about 3/4 pack a day, I'm not saying it helped my gains but it certaintly didn't hinder them.
Slap yourself and then think about what you just said. It's not what you can see but what you can't see that's killing you.I should very much like to throw my glass at you sir but I shant for I fear that I will spill an ounce of more of my beer and that would sadly defeat the purpose of revenge because I will have suffed the loss of but one ounce of my precious firewater.
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07-20-2002, 10:33 AM #19Originally posted by IronBalls
Thanks guys, I know i need to stop smoking soon before it takes over my life. its hard going cold turkey, I know your smokers out there understand me.
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05-27-2010, 04:00 PM #20
Well according to the most recent science, the answer to that is yes. How you may ask? Answer: It mutated a gene in your body that had that impact. Every 3 Cigarettes can mutate 1 gene. Heavy smokers mutate around 50,000 genes in their genome. They were so shocked by what they found they had the results redone a few times to make sure everything was correct. So if you want to be a mutant, then keep on smoking...
Ref:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37361582/ns/health-cancer/
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05-27-2010, 04:06 PM #21
You're only 5"7' btw, that's shorter than average so you're not in a position to talk about it not stunting growth here.
You completely misunderstood the article. It's impossible for any amount of cigarettes to mutate his genes to stop him growing. Things don't work like that. I won't explain here, it's obvious to anyone who took anatomy or genetics. This post is just wrong and you really need to brush up on your understanding of those two subjects.
And to OP, smoking is harmful but if you like me choose to enjoy a cig every now and then it's alright. Roll your own. It's $12.50 for a pack of organic American Spirit and I'm still barely halfway through after about 40 cigarettes. It's a lot healthier as well without the radioactive fertilizer and toxins found in pre-rolled cigarettes.
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05-27-2010, 04:24 PM #22
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05-27-2010, 04:30 PM #23
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05-27-2010, 04:39 PM #24
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07-06-2010, 05:47 AM #25
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07-06-2010, 06:44 AM #26
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07-06-2010, 06:50 AM #27
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05-07-2011, 02:00 AM #28
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05-07-2011, 02:11 AM #29
sorry,been lift'n 23years cant keep your body fooled if u write **** down and have projected anything.know what muscle group is to b worked and make a decision about weight when u get in there.i never do the same workout twice in a row.need 2 complete workouts for each muscle group.except abs.they say dont train them every day,i do and i do the whole core.a different workout for everyday of the week.keeping reps between 8-12.i know someone is gonna say im wrong.but alas now u know the secret.much more to it.my workouts last 1 hour.maybe a little longer sometimes.i've compensated for everything.i'm 42 years old lots of trial and err.
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05-07-2011, 02:16 AM #30
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