Vaping and Running Vs Smoking and Running

[DomDoobie]

So I started running again. I can say from experience that vaping has to be better for your lungs than smoking ! I was up to running 5 or more miles a day and up to 10 miles while smoking a pack a day. (I'm a former Marine so I tend to do things to the extreme.) When I was smoking in the beginning of a run I would feel a tightness in my chest and I used to attribute to having to get into an aerobic heartbeat. Breathing would be hard for a while. But I would always push myself to do the run. I would finish a run and stop and hack a bit then light a ciggarette. (..... I am lol) I always wondered how it would feel to run if I wasn't smoking. So I haven't run in quite some time (Old Man Winter) and I have been quit smoking for a while. So I started out with a short 2 mile run today. Guess what ? No tightness in the chest, no hard breathing and no hacking ! Can't wait to get back up into the big mile range again ! So if vaping actually had an effect on your lungs would I have not felt it ? In contrary vaping has greatly improved my lungs. So I don't need any scientific studies I just completed my own study ! Hey if anyone else has noticed the same thing let me know I'm interested in your opinion.

 

[Robino1]

Congrats on getting back into the running!!

I have been doing the elliptical (15 lbs lost! I don't wanna find them.) I can do 4 miles without having to stop halfway through to catch my breath. My legs get tired before my lungs do!

Yay to working out and having the breath necessary to do so!

 

[Rickajho]

Vaping cannot or does not "improve" your lungs. What you improved was getting all the tar buildup hacked out of there - and no longer adding to it - from quitting smoking, What you are working with now is whatever condition your lungs are in after the years of smoking was stopped.

 

[Cloudmann]

Yep. Same deal here. While in the Navy I ran a 5k 3 times a week. Same tightness of chest, shortness of breath. Felt like my ribs were breaking sometimes. About a year before I got out of the Navy, I quit smoking (after 26 years) by vaping and I joined a local Police Department a year after. Two years of not smoking cleared me out enough that this old cop was outrunning twenty-somethings at the academy. BIG difference.

 

[SissySpike]

One of the reasons I quit smoking was because I was working in Port Author TX in August 104 with 98% humidity I was starting to get over come buy the heat that summer Ive never had that happen before so I fugured smoking surely couldn't be helping! It has seem to help

 

[SissySpike]

Yep. Same deal here. While in the Navy I ran a 5k 3 times a week. Same tightness of chest, shortness of breath. Felt like my ribs were breaking sometimes. About a year before I got out of the Navy, I quit smoking (after 26 years) by vaping and I joined a local Police Department a year after. Two years of not smoking cleared me out enough that this old cop was outrunning twenty-somethings at the academy. BIG difference.

Cool I would like to say thank you for showing up to work every day and doing what you do! Unless your giving me a ticket then you suck!!!!

 

[Fuzzy Bruce]

Oh how I wish I could run again but the abuses of my youth have caught up to me.

I do seem to have more endurance since starting to vape a year ago next month.

 

[DomDoobie]

Glad to hear all the positive comments ! As far as improving my lungs....maybe they are healing themselves to some extent. I would like to think they would heal as long as there was no irreversible damage done Like COPD or cancer. I was always in pretty good shape and maybe the running while I was smoking stayed off some of the effects of the smoking. Ever see those commercials that try to get you to quit smoking (but deep down they hope you don't or they lose a lot of tax money lol) Something like 24 hours after quitting smoking your blood pressure goes down and whatever else they say. If I'm going to try to get healthier from not smoking why not try to do a few more healthy things ? Although If I find out I'm going to die I want to do like in the movies before the guy goes before the frining sguad they give him his last ciggarette lol. Nah, maybe just my last vape the ciggarette would taste lousy !

 

[BlueCanary]

I'm of the opinion that if you see me running, you'd better run too because something is coming. However, I do like to walk and ride my bike, and day before yesterday I had to walk several blocks in my neighborhood up and downhill and for the first time in many years there was NO shortness of breath, wheezing or hacking.

Isn't it nice to feel a tangible difference and know that you are healthier this year than you were last year.

 

[Dzaw]

The most overlooked, and incidentally, also probably the biggest player in cardiovascular capacity with smoking - Carbon Monoxide.

When you burn flammable organic matter (such as a cigarette) among the byproducts is a fair amount of CO.

Carbon monoxide will (among other things) displace O2 in your blood. Even with the lungs themselves working in tip top fashion, this has a limiting effect on your overall ability to deliver oxygen to the muscles that are screaming for it. This feels like lungs not working at peak, because that's your body's only real way of telling you that the muscles that you're working really want that extra oxygen NOW.

All other factors aside, even if your lungs haven't improved one iota, with the CO gone from your bloodstream, your cardiovascular capacity should improve noticeably after not smoking for a couple of weeks.

 

[Nermal]

I'm of the opinion that if you see me running, you'd better run too because something is coming.

Nicely put. I'm getting less tolerant of cold weather so didn't get out the bike till a couple of weeks ago. I remember going farther and faster, but like Robin mentioned, it's my legs that are holding me back - not the breathing.

 

[Jugband]

Never been a runner myself, but I do power walk. Night and day from smoking and vapeing! For whatever the reason, tar etc. Just great to breath again! Congrats

 

[DomDoobie]

Ok did the bike 5 miles today. The bikes never been a problem. So tommorow I'll push the run to 3 miles. What I used to like to do was run 5 miles then ride the bike 5 miles as kind of a cool down. Hopefully I'll get back to that within two weeks. Anyway Don't mean to turn this into the Fit and fitness thread but it is kind of testament to how vaping DOES help to improve your health !

 

[miro011]

So I started running again. I can say from experience that vaping has to be better for your lungs than smoking ! I was up to running 5 or more miles a day and up to 10 miles while smoking a pack a day. (I'm a former Marine so I tend to do things to the extreme.) When I was smoking in the beginning of a run I would feel a tightness in my chest and I used to attribute to having to get into an aerobic heartbeat. Breathing would be hard for a while. But I would always push myself to do the run. I would finish a run and stop and hack a bit then light a ciggarette. (..... I am lol) I always wondered how it would feel to run if I wasn't smoking. So I haven't run in quite some time (Old Man Winter) and I have been quit smoking for a while. So I started out with a short 2 mile run today. Guess what ? No tightness in the chest, no hard breathing and no hacking ! Can't wait to get back up into the big mile range again ! So if vaping actually had an effect on your lungs would I have not felt it ? In contrary vaping has greatly improved my lungs. So I don't need any scientific studies I just completed my own study ! Hey if anyone else has noticed the same thing let me know I'm interested in your opinion.

same here man , i never even ran back when i was smoking ciggies . I started running again 3 months ago . Funny thing is i see people on the street running non stop for hours , me on the other hand after 3 months of non consistent running ( skipping every other day most of the times ) , I can not run more than 5000 feet without stopping . LOL , well almost 1 mile

 

[Maseratilife89]

So I started running again. I can say from experience that vaping has to be better for your lungs than smoking ! I was up to running 5 or more miles a day and up to 10 miles while smoking a pack a day. (I'm a former Marine so I tend to do things to the extreme.) When I was smoking in the beginning of a run I would feel a tightness in my chest and I used to attribute to having to get into an aerobic heartbeat. Breathing would be hard for a while. But I would always push myself to do the run. I would finish a run and stop and hack a bit then light a ciggarette. (..... I am lol) I always wondered how it would feel to run if I wasn't smoking. So I haven't run in quite some time (Old Man Winter) and I have been quit smoking for a while. So I started out with a short 2 mile run today. Guess what ? No tightness in the chest, no hard breathing and no hacking ! Can't wait to get back up into the big mile range again ! So if vaping actually had an effect on your lungs would I have not felt it ? In contrary vaping has greatly improved my lungs. So I don't need any scientific studies I just completed my own study ! Hey if anyone else has noticed the same thing let me know I'm interested in your opinion.

Semper Fi brother

 

[alicewonderland]

im not a runner, but I have noticed im out of breath less going up stairs or hiking, than when I was when i was smoking 1-2packs a day. I dont know all the science behind it, but i really feel when I breathe in now I get oxygen into my body, rather than before when I felt like I took a deep breath, it always felt like this dense cloggy air.

 

[DomDoobie]

LMAO like the cat picture alicewonderland ! Semper Fi to you Maseratilife89! I don't have a Maserati but I did work on M-60's and Amtrack lol

 

[ArdDarvis]

I love this thread. I've run recreationally for a long time, 3+ miles a couple times a week, mostly trail running. Cigarettes never really got in my way, but I can definitely tell the difference now being smoke free for a year.

The biggest thing for me is there is no "break in" time- The first lap (or 1/4 mile. whatever) would always be the hardest with my breathing. Past that first part, I would be fine, but now with vaping (0mg nic btw ) I don't have to push as hard in the beginning.

I love it.

 

[BlueCanary]

Nicely put. I'm getting less tolerant of cold weather so didn't get out the bike till a couple of weeks ago. I remember going farther and faster, but like Robin mentioned, it's my legs that are holding me back - not the breathing.

Yeah, I could for sure tell that my legs and in general my muscles were out of shape from not doing much all winter. But it was nice to be able to breathe without hacking.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I keep jabbing my drip tip up my nose if vaping and running.