lardy
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Post by lardy on Dec 29, 2021 10:57:29 GMT
"Smoking men had significantly higher levels of total and free testosterone compared with men who never smoked" "Smoking men had 15% higher total and 13% higher free testosterone levels compared with men who never smoked. Thus, smoking seems to be an important confounding factor when evaluating testosterone levels"" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17163954/Whilst I know smoking is really awful for your health and just a stupid habit, maybe smoking being associated with manliness in the past isn't just made up. |
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Post by mr potatohead on Dec 29, 2021 12:03:17 GMT
Smoking what, m8?
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Post by billfish on Dec 29, 2021 13:17:31 GMT
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pierinifitness
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I do burpees, then I drink slurpees
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Post by pierinifitness on Dec 29, 2021 14:03:47 GMT
Channeling Cheech and Chong.
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Post by billfish on Dec 29, 2021 16:10:49 GMT
I smoked Lucky Strikes for many years  |
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Dec 29, 2021 19:11:41 GMT
The act of smoking looks ridiculous. You are walking around with something that is on fire sticking out of your face.  |
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Post by machinehead on Dec 29, 2021 19:46:15 GMT
The act of smoking looks ridiculous. You are walking around with something that is on fire sticking out of your face. Shove a wad of dead leaves in your mouth and set it on fire... who was the first human to try that? |
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Post by mr potatohead on Dec 29, 2021 22:48:36 GMT
I remember Ben Greenfield experimenting with tobacco to raise testosterone, but I don't remember if he smoked it or not, I don't think he did.
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pierinifitness
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Post by pierinifitness on Dec 30, 2021 2:18:53 GMT
Like a lot of younger people, I had some time in the trenches smoking in junior high (middle school.). We’d smoke walking to and from school. I quit smoking cigarettes early in high school.
We also did cigars and pipes. Never could get into cigars.
I remember we’d go to a restaurant that had cigarette vending machines and buy them there. Seems like I recall them costing 45 cents a pack. Was standing in line the other day st a convenience store and the person in front of me bought six packs of cigarettes. They were $8.28 a pack!
These younger people vaping nowadays are nuts. They’re growing popcorn lungs. I work too dang hard with my cardiovascular-respiratory conditioning to do anything harmful besides breathing air pollution.
Sadly, my Dad was a lifelong smoker and there’s no doubt in my mind it shortened his life.
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Post by Magnus on Dec 30, 2021 2:45:08 GMT
These younger people vaping nowadays are nuts. They’re growing popcorn lungs.... Whenever anyone partakes of this idiotic activity anywhere within my general vicinity I never fail to take the opportunity to say.... "Oh, I see you suck on the douche flute"...  |
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Post by Magnus on Dec 30, 2021 2:51:35 GMT
..btw, 17 years as a heavy Marlboro smoker with lots of weed before the cigarettes. Gave all smoking up for good on Monday, June 28th 2004 at 7:15 am after waking up a little while earlier and smoking 3 in a row. Quitting was hard, but I'd done it at least a hundred times before, and this time it just stuck for some reason . |
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Dec 30, 2021 3:23:11 GMT
One of the guys I worked with years ago was a smoker. One day without trying to be funny he said "Giving up smoking is easy. I've done it three times". He really meant it. |
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Post by Magnus on Dec 30, 2021 3:53:47 GMT
One of the guys I worked with years ago was a smoker. One day without trying to be funny he said "Giving up smoking is easy. I've done it three times". He really meant it. Years ago I knew a chiropractor from my Martial Arts classes, and when he saw me go out for a smoke after a sparring session he told me about some electric ear stimulation thing he does that had a good record of helping people quit smoking.... So I went in that Friday night and had it done, figuring the weekend away from the stress of work would be the best chance of it working....and it did ! But unfortunately only for a few days. I was on 'standby' at work that Monday, and after already working about 14 hours during the day I was still getting emergency call after call and the stress level was going through the roof when I started realizing I'd be pulling another all-nighter driving around from emergency to emergency, but couldn't have my old familiar cigarette's to help me stay calm. I forget exactly what happened but I think someone might have honked a horn at me and I exploded ! ...  , at that point I headed towards the nearest convenience mart to buy a couple of packs, and called my wife to tell her it was either I get to smoke again, or she's probably going to have to come bail me out of jail, the choice is hers !..... LOLOLOLOL |
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Post by Magnus on Dec 30, 2021 12:07:54 GMT
I use to like hashish in tobacco. I tried it and didn't hate it, but didn't start smoking it on a regular basis either. Plain old 'weed' was good enough for me, and back in those days I used to always smoke a joint before my workouts. Like many of us knew back then it actually helps with concentration for a great workout... Same goes for opium, I was a good friend and training partner of a competitive bodybuilder who sidelined as a drug dealer, and I remember him getting the bulk opium shipments right 'off the boat', all wrapped up ready for sale in individual clear cellophane wrappers. For all intents and purposes it was a highly professionally manufactured product, and he considered himself and acted like a highly professional salesman "providing a rare and much sought after product to responsible adults"... , the good old days |
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, at that point I headed towards the nearest convenience mart to buy a couple of packs, and called my wife to tell her it was either I get to smoke again, or she's probably going to have to come bail me out of jail, the choice is hers !..... LOLOLOLOL
