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What Smoking Does To Your Body During Exercise

What Smoking Does To Your Body During Exercise

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We've talked before about how smoking is bad for your health and the best ways of getting fit, but this time we wanted to focus more on why smoking prevents you from getting fit.

 

Aerobic exercise is the term for what is commonly called ‘cardio’ or ‘cardiovascular’ exercise. This can be a little misleading, but both names for this type of exercise indicate what our body is doing when we get our hearts racing.

 

The ‘Cardiovascular’ part tells us our heart and circulatory systems are in use, and ‘Aerobic’ means ‘with oxygen’. Therefore, to exercise safely, our lifestyle needs to look after our lungs - for getting oxygen - and our circulatory system - for delivering oxygen to the muscles.

  

Smoking tobacco though reduces our ability to use these systems to their maximum potential in several ways. In this article we focus on how smoking affects your body during exercise and makes all the effort you put in less meaningful.

  

Carbon Monoxide in Cigarettes

  

When you smoke, we inhale carbon monoxide into the lungs, and from there the 4000+ chemicals in cigarettes and the carbon monoxide gets into our bloodstream, compared with vaping e-liquid that contains propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, flavourings and nicotine. The carbon monoxide then sticks to the blood cells, taking up space that was meant for oxygen - very bad news for the cardiovascular system!

  

If you aim to perform your best, the reduced oxygen delivery to the muscles will prevent you from achieving your body’s full potential.

  

After all every cell in our body needs oxygen for energy and to re-grow and heal. If cells don’t get enough oxygen they won’t be able to work as hard as they could.

  

Tar from Cigarette Smoke in the Lungs

  

We all know that tar is also one of the substances that we inhale with cigarette smoke, and this sticks to our lungs, reducing the surface area for oxygen in the air to enter our blood. This has a similar effect to the carbon monoxide - it reduces the amount of oxygen our blood can carry.

  

However unlike carbon monoxide which blocks oxygen for a little while tar is more long lasting. Tar will stick to your lungs for months and block oxygen getting into your lungs the whole time.

  

In addition to the tar, there are over 4000+ chemicals and more than 50 carcinogens in cigarette smoke, illustrating how smoking often leads to lung cancer. With unhealthy lungs, exercise is not only more challenging, but more dangerous too.

  

A Cardiovascular System under strain

  

Smoking causes our heart and circulatory systems to work harder because the oxygen carrying capacity is reduced. The other chemicals in cigarettes also contribute to this by damaging your blood vessels, so putting further strain on the heart.

  

All this leads to higher blood pressure (or hypertension) and a faster heart rate when you are resting. The narrowed blood vessels and thicker blood struggle to deliver enough oxygen to the body, as well as increasing the risk of a stroke or brain aneurysm.

  

When you exercise, you make matters worse by demanding your body to work harder - the higher blood pressure and increased heart rate heighten to potentially dangerous levels, increasing the risk of heart attack.

  

We all know the exercise adage ‘no pain, no gain’ and this is really about pushing yourself to get the most out of your exercise. It can be a much slower process to reach your goals if it is unsafe to push yourself to your limit.

  

The Solution is to Quit Smoking

  

So does that mean that there is no hope for smokers? If you smoke, should you exercise? While it would be sensible for any smoker to be careful if they are just starting on their road to a healthier body, there are several things to consider.

Exercise is a great way to help you to quit smoking - it helps your body deal with the stress and the cravings, so make sure to include light exercise in your daily routine. Just don’t push yourself too hard, give your heart and lungs a chance to build up to strenuous exercise.

  

How E-cigarettes can Help

  

Making the switch to E-cigs can also help - E-cigarettes are 95% less harmful than cigarettes according to Public Health England - the UK’s government health agency.

  

The 4 ingredients found in SMOKO’s UK made E-Cigarette liquids are propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, flavouring and the nicotine itself. That means there are no carcinogens, no tar, no smoke! Making the switch from cigarettes to e-cigs eliminates the most harmful effects of smoking tobacco.

  

In addition, E-cigarettes are almost twice as effective as ‘stop smoking’ tools like patches or gum, so making the switch could see you through to stopping altogether! Your exercising body will thank you for it!

 

Check out the SMOKO E-Cigarette Starter Kit range today! 

 

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SMOKING IS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE THINGS FOR OUR HEALTH

For the last 5 decades, doctors and medical professionals have been saying that smoking cigarettes is one of the worst things for your health.

Over 80,000 people a year die prematurely in the UK due to smoking-related diseases.

Cigarettes have been found to cause over 14 types of cancer, can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, and lead to debilitating respiratory issues like COPD and asthma.

WHAT SMOKING DOES TO YOU BODY
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UK DOCTORS NOW RECOMMEND SWITCHING TO VAPING

LEADING MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS AGREE VAPING IS 95% LESS HARMFUL THAN SMOKING

Leading medical groups and researchers all agree that "e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful than smoking" because they don't have the same harmful chemicals in cigarettes.

From Public Health England, Cancer Research UK or the Royal College of Midwives, they all agree that quitting smoking or finding a healthier alternative like vaping is something all adult smokers should do immediately.

Some medical studies also show that nicotine can help to control your appetite - so vaping may help you to lose weight as well!

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MILLIONS OF EX-SMOKERS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE QUIT SMOKING WITH VAPING

We started SMOKO E-Cigarettes over 10 years ago to give adult smokers a realistic and less harmful alternative to smoking cigarettes.

Over the time, we have helped 10's of 1,000's of smokers in over 25 countries around the world to finally stop smoking for good! And many of our customers were very heavy smokers who have been able to quit!

SMOKO has prevented over 600,000,000 cigarettes from being smoked and stop 230,000 more each and every day!

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THE UK'S BEST VAPES ARE MADE IN THE UK

Many of the disposable vapes sold in convenience stores use Chinese made e-liquids and ingredients,

Here are SMOKO we do things very differently! All of the vape juice we use in our vaping products are created using the highest quality ingredients and flavours that are Made in the UK. This means you are getting the best vape kits in the UK.

We use freebase nicotine - instead of nic salts - in all of our e-liquids to create a more realistic smoking sensation and a stronger throat hit. We also have a great range of nicotine-free vapes!

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IS VAPING SAFER THAN SMOKING

All the recent research does suggest that vaping is much safer than smoking traditional cigarettes. There are very few side effect of vaping you should be aware of the symptoms of vaping too much and how to control the amount of nicotine you consume.

But without the 4,000 chemicals, tar and 2nd hand smoke found with traditional tobacco, vaping is by far a better choice for a healthier lifesytle.

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VAPING IS UP TO 80% CHEAPER THAN SMOKING

In this financial crisis, smoking cigarettes is becoming unaffordable for most families. However, there is a misconception that vaping is expensive.

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WHAT ARE THE HARMFUL CHEMICALS THAT ARE FOUND IN CIGARETTES?

It is common knowledge that tobacco cigarettes are really bad for us. There are over 4,000 harmful chemicals in cigarettes and 50 known carcinogens!

Some of the chemicals include Tar, Carbon Monoxide, Arsenic, Formaldehyde, Acetone, Ammonia, Acetic Acid, Hydrogen Cyanide, Lead, DDT and Butane to name a few. No one in their right mind would put any of these chemicals into bodies!

Due to these chemicals, each time you light up a cigarette, you take 11 minutes off the end of your life! And when you smoke, everything has a stale smoke smell!

WHAT ARE THE INGREDIENTS IN E-CIGARETTES AND VAPES?

The reason why medical professionals around the world suggest switching to electronic cigarettes and vapes is the lack of those chemicals found in cigarettes.

In fact, e-cigarettes only have 4 main ingredients. Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerin, Flavourings and nicotine. Nicotine is the only physical reason why you smoke and there are many health advantages of nicotine.

So if you compare the amount of ingredients in a cigalike vs. tobacco cigarettes, there is a 99% difference.

WHICH IS THE BEST CIGALIKE OR VAPE TO USE?

Many adult smokers looking to quit and switch to a cigalike or vape starter kit will have a lot of choice. There are many types of e-cigarettes on the market and they do essentially the same thing. But how do you find the right vape for you?

A SMOKO Vape starter kit uses magnetic techology to hold the vape refills in place. With the SMOKO Cigalike starter kit, you simply screw the e-cig refills into the battery.

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