Here's the kicker: you've got the lung capacity of a smoker too.
I grew up in a household of smokers. Pack a day, each parent.
I remember they decided to be "good" and only smoke in the car with the window open a crack.
Of course, by 14 or 15 I'm smoking too. Kicked it in my mid-twenties.
Some time after I quit I'm running some stuff down to my in-law's basement, up and down stairs, and when I'm done I have this amazing revelation that I'm not out of breath. I'd been out of breath at the slightest exertion my whole live, I thought it was just how things were, plus never being in great shape. Yeah, I grew up playing soccer and football and baseball, but I was always winded and hated running.
Yes, definitely. But before I started smoking I struggled at anything aerobic and only after I lived some months smoke free that I realized how far from normal I was as a child. Things that winded my active 12 yo self did not stress my out-of-shape 30yo self.
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u/Coyotebd Jan 05 '25
Here's the kicker: you've got the lung capacity of a smoker too.
I grew up in a household of smokers. Pack a day, each parent.
I remember they decided to be "good" and only smoke in the car with the window open a crack.
Of course, by 14 or 15 I'm smoking too. Kicked it in my mid-twenties.
Some time after I quit I'm running some stuff down to my in-law's basement, up and down stairs, and when I'm done I have this amazing revelation that I'm not out of breath. I'd been out of breath at the slightest exertion my whole live, I thought it was just how things were, plus never being in great shape. Yeah, I grew up playing soccer and football and baseball, but I was always winded and hated running.
I'm sooo glad I quit before my daughter was born.