No smoking

Nish Nishant

d@nish wrote:

That's a huge problem with me. I am almost always surrounded with them. I really need a lot of will power to go through this.

What you need is an anti-smoking girlfriend or a wife :-D

Regards, Nish

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Nish Nishant

d@nish wrote:

after a bit of scotch

Just curious, but what scotches do you typically have?

Regards, Nish

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dan sh

If you still remember India, the ones which are sold as Scotch Whiskey (they aren't really a scotch). Something like the Jack Daniels, Chivas Regal, Ballantine's (had tonight,).

Rajesh R Subramanian

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

I quit when Smitha was pregnant

So, the key to quitting a bad habit is to make the wife pregnant? With having so many bad habits to give up, I guess I'll be forming a home grown football team then. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Seriously though, I don't have any bad habits. :)

Workout progress:
Current arm size: 14.4in
Desired arm size: 18in
Next Target: 15.4in by Dec 2010

Current training method: HIT

Abhinav S

You can do it - just think about the passive smokers around you - when you stop they stop too. And taking a line out of Bourne Ultimatum - "It gets easier".

My signature "sucks" today

Nish Nishant

d@nish wrote:

If you still remember India, the ones which are sold as Scotch Whiskey (they aren't really a scotch). Something like the Jack Daniels, Chivas Regal, Ballantine's (had tonight,).

Chivas and Ballentine's are both scotches. Jack Daniels is not scotch - in fact it's closer to bourbon than scotch. During my last Trivandrum visit, I was kinda stunned to see my younger cousins all well versed in single malts and stuff like that which during my college days was something you saw in movies and read in books :sigh:

Regards, Nish

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Vikram A Punathambekar

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

So, the key to quitting a bad habit is to make the wife pregnant? With having so many bad habits to give up, I guess I'll be forming a home grown football team then. Seriously though, I don't have any bad habits.

Nor any girlfriends. ;P

Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)

dan sh

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

Seriously though, I don't have any bad habits

What about those back aches you got while picking up mammoth weights? Any habit that harms your health (mental/physical etc) is bad.

Nish Nishant

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

Seriously though, I don't have any bad habits.

Yeah except for your vegetarianism, you are a nice guy really ;P

Regards, Nish

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dan sh

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

single malts

I am not technically good with it. All I care about is that if it costs good it should taste good. I had Black Velvet once and I just love it. Never really got a chance to taste that again.

Rajesh R Subramanian

I've been a health freak for some time now. Rewinding my life back to a few years, I and my gym partner started working out together. Back then, he had better power, agility and muscular build than me. We worked out together for about 14 months, and I became better than him. That's despite the fact that his diet was better than mine (he's a non vegetarian, so he gets excellent quality protein from meat and eggs, while I had to eat whey protein like a wimp). By around 18 months, I was far superior to him and he chose a different partner because he couldn't keep with me. :) The only difference between me and him was that he was a smoker. Just give it up, man. It's a VERY bad habit and it spoils your health more than you think it does.

Workout progress:
Current arm size: 14.4in
Desired arm size: 18in
Next Target: 15.4in by Dec 2010

Current training method: HIT

Rajesh R Subramanian

d@nish wrote:

What about those back aches you got while picking up mammoth weights?

The disc is normal now (see sig) and I've started working out. That happened not because of lifting mammoth weights, but because the equipment failed (and my posture was slightly wrong, adding up fuel to the fire) and the weights came against my spine.

d@nish wrote:

Any habit that harms your health (mental/physical etc) is bad.

Exercise improved my metabolism permanently. My health is above average, and I can run a fookin' marathon (I'll be one of the few who will fly to Mumbai in 2011 for running in Mumbai marathon on behalf of my company!). I think working out is a good habit.

Workout progress:
Current arm size: 14.4in
Desired arm size: 18in
Next Target: 15.4in by Dec 2010

Current training method: HIT

Dr Walt Fair PE

Yeah, I know what you mean. I really enjoyed smoking, too. But after the first couple of weeks, it was definitely worth quitting.

CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Abhinav S

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

The only difference between me and him was that he was a smoker.

That is a very good example. Real incentive for a smoker to give it up.

My signature "sucks" today

Henry Minute

Yes but a gym partner is just a gym partner, a cigarette is a smoke. :laugh: :laugh: Only joking. You are of course correct.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'

Abhinav S

Henry Minute wrote:

Yes but a gym partner is just a gym partner, a cigarette is a smoke

No. I don't think this comparison holds true - what if his gym partner was a lady? :)

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Henry Minute wrote:

Yes but a gym partner is just a gym partner, a cigarette is a smoke.

:laugh:

Workout progress:
Current arm size: 14.4in
Desired arm size: 18in
Next Target: 15.4in by Dec 2010

Current training method: HIT

dan sh

The problem with me is that I am a sports freak. I played football and volleyball regularly. Precisely, I played volleyball almost everyday for 10 years and football every Sunday for almost 10 years. This means I was in a pretty good shape. For the last three of those 10, I was smoking. I still don't "feel"* the harms of smoking, which is bad. * I know it is harming but comparatively, I am better than those book worms turned always in office kind of guys.

Henry Minute

Same applies. I was actually paraphrasing a famous quote list here[^]. Either read/scroll/search down till you come to the one from Rudyard Kipling.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'

Nish Nishant

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Nor any girlfriends

:-D Not even on facebook, what with his well-professed love for social networking sites? ;P

Regards, Nish

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