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[dimitris]

Thank you for the replies guys. Yes smoking kills and i think that either you should smoke or do sports, these two things dont mix. So i finally decided to quit it from the next week and start by going to gyms and in January of 2010 start going to kyokushin classes when my friend will already have his brown belt black stripe test.

I'm not much of a fighter myself but i have to start somewhere so i see that kyokushin would help me develop my confidence and strenght and ofcourse attitude.

So i'll be reading this forum everyday aswell because i see lots of valuable information here.

Thank you again.

~Hoku

Good choice my friend.Kyokushin is great you will love it.

[Hosoku]

Welcome aboard. Quitting a habit is easier said than done. Come to think of it, Karate excellence is easier said than done.

Thank you for the welcome and of course its like that like you say, so i decided to quit from tommorow. I'll smoke my last one today and then it will be like a new life starting for me.

[todome]

Do it.

It takes about three days to clear your body of nicotine. Once that's done you've seen the worst of it. It takes one smoke to retrigger half the (extra) receptors that drive the addiction so if you think turning down the next smoke is tough just remember turning down the one after that is even worse.

https://www.whyquit.com

[bushido_man96]

Welcome to KF.

I do think that if you get started in your style, it may help to facilitate your desire to quit smoking. When you see how much better you will be able to perform when you quit smoking, it may be the motivation that you need to keep away from it.

Good luck in both of your endeavors.

[KarateGeorge]

Welcome!

Another plus, the money you save from not smoking should cover the costs of taking martial arts classes! Just trade one addiction for the other!

Seriously though, best of luck both in quitting smoking and in starting martial arts.

[Hosoku]

Sincerely thank you for the heads up guys.

This is the second day im not smoking right now and feels pretty bad for my nerves and my body. i will need like a week or two to put myself together

from nicotine and then of i go to MA

[RichardZ]

Hang in there. It is a tough monkey to get off your bacl.

[Killer Miller]

Vitamin B12 is supposed to help the urges and replenish what the body is lacking due to the lack of nicotine. But at 19, it shouldn't be too difficult for you. I stopped smoking at 19 and it wasn't a big deal. However, I picked up a year later and been smoking ever since. It's hell to try and quit when you are older (I'm 53 now). So QUIT NOW while you can...

- Killer -

Sincerely thank you for the heads up guys.

This is the second day im not smoking right now and feels pretty bad for my nerves and my body. i will need like a week or two to put myself together

from nicotine and then of i go to MA

[RichardZ]

Vitamin B12 is supposed to help the urges and replenish what the body is lacking due to the lack of nicotine. But at 19, it shouldn't be too difficult for you. I stopped smoking at 19 and it wasn't a big deal. However, I picked up a year later and been smoking ever since. It's hell to try and quit when you are older (I'm 53 now). So QUIT NOW while you can...

- Killer -

Sincerely thank you for the heads up guys.

This is the second day im not smoking right now and feels pretty bad for my nerves and my body. i will need like a week or two to put myself together

from nicotine and then of i go to MA

This wasnt so encouraging and hard to tell someone to quit when one cannot.

However, that said, has smoking bothered your martial art training?

[Killer Miller]

I thought is was actually a very encouraging point to make. Point 1: Quitting at 19 is easy, so do it while you can - just don't ever restart. Point 2: You get older, it's a lot tougher to quit and it will eventually take its toll on me - like it did Nishiyama Sensei.

Did it affect my training? Not really. I wouldn't smoke for 2 hours before or after training. It kind of cleaned out my system of the nicotine. But that's not to say that it will affect me later on.

- Killer -

Vitamin B12 is supposed to help the urges and replenish what the body is lacking due to the lack of nicotine. But at 19, it shouldn't be too difficult for you. I stopped smoking at 19 and it wasn't a big deal. However, I picked up a year later and been smoking ever since. It's hell to try and quit when you are older (I'm 53 now). So QUIT NOW while you can...

- Killer -

Sincerely thank you for the heads up guys.

This is the second day im not smoking right now and feels pretty bad for my nerves and my body. i will need like a week or two to put myself together

from nicotine and then of i go to MA

This wasnt so encouraging and hard to tell someone to quit when one cannot.

However, that said, has smoking bothered your martial art training?