Hey guys, I was just wondering how you guys (Marines) smoke, yet handle all the PT and stuff? I was at the recruiting office and everyone smoked. I smoke a cigarette like every two weeks or so, not much. I know you cant smoke during RT and stuff. Anyways I was just wondering how you guys can do all the stuff you do while smoking.

Take Care, Merry Christmas, Stay Safe.

It is a widely known fact that Marines are the most physically fit and unhealthiest group in the world.
Pete

Hell, we would drink also...it was like running ing a brewery on P.T. mornings,and eat pizza's chinese and any thing and everything that could be order to the barracks...We were Marines we didnt sweat the small stuff.

Pretty easy.... I pull out a pack from my right pocket.... open the top of the lid... grab 1 smoke.... pull out my lighter from my left pocket..... light my smoke... suck it all down... put it out in the butt can... get in formation and run.... i don't know how you smoke, but that's how i git-r-done.

We smoke like we do everything else.
Correctly.
And with style

I smoked the whole time I was in and I am sure that it made the PT harder but I did not care too much about it at the time because 1st class PFT scores were for suckers!

I quit smoking about a year ago after a heart attack, this was after smoking 30 years. I quit cold turkey more or less, no gum or patchs. Much eashier than one would think. I just wonder what life would have been like in top shape as a non smoker. I'm not a anti smoker now, but think about it....your still young...

Quit while it's easy...you'll save your health down the road and a hell of a lot of money...

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Originally posted by GT6238:
Quit while it's easy...you'll save your health down the road and a hell of a lot of money...

This is very true. I smoked regularly for about four years. While on deployment is the worst.

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Originally posted by thecat0311:
While on deployment is the worst.

Ding Ding Ding. I'm in Ramadi right now....Cigarettes are the 6th Food Group because you don't get to eat much of the other 5 and you just get so bored/stressed out that you make the Malboro man look like a puzzy

A lot of the Malboro men where on the don;t ask don;t tell policy....

I always thought cigarettes were a vegetable you didn't have to eat, kinda like drinking V-8 with your beer.

if you're gonna smoke, do it while you're young and then kick it. The older people I see on the job still smoking, with COPD...its no joke.

Hey, when I turn up the pressure on my oxygen tanks it helps blow more smoke into my lungs
Sincerely, if you don't burn 'em, don't start.
If you do, either quit or cut way back. When you get to the age where everything has an acronym, COPD, CHF, etc. You'll be a lot better off.

Smartest thing to do is after boot camp, never smoke again.
We may pull it off, but the smokes do hurt the time on runs along with a string of other nasty problems dwon the road.

The stupidest thing I ever did was start smoking, or it's at least a tie with messing around with that girl and not wearing a condom.

I also wondered about smoking during deployment. Im in MCJROTC and my Gunney said that when he was in Panama, Desert Storm, Somalia, ect, everyone in his unit smoked. He said the only way he prevented himself from smoking was chewing the hell outta sun flower seeds. He said the guys always started smoking immediately after a firefight, which is understandable. It must be hard with everyone around you smoking and you trying not to. I have already started to quit but my dad smokes so it's tough.

PS: AHill take care and be safe, thanks for what you are doing.

Take Care

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Originally posted by RedRT:
It is a widely known fact that Marines are the most physically fit and unhealthiest group in the world.
Pete

I'm going to have remember this qoute.

its a good one, i wish i knew who said it first. ive heard it a couple times throughout the years
pete