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7:19pm Thursday 3rd April 2008
EXPERTS are urging smokers to replace cigarettes with exercise in a bid to help them stub out the habit.
Research has revealed physical exertion can help reduce nicotine cravings - a theory backed by local experts.
Adrian Butterworth, manager of Bolton's Stop Smoking Service, said: "Exercise has long been known to reduce cravings in a person quitting smoking because moderate exercise causes the release of the same chemicals in the brain that nicotine does.
"It can help alleviate withdrawal symptoms.
"A small increase in the amount of extra exercise will also help in keeping any weight gain after quitting to a minimum.
"We at Bolton Stop Smoking Service have been advocating this for a number of years and have joined up with a number of local gyms to offer taster sessions free of charge to all quitters attending the service."
The study was carried out by researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada and was revealed at the British Psychology Society's annual meeting in Dublin.
Experts studied a group of 20 smokers who were assessed after taking part in exercise and then asked to fill in questionnaires which rated their level of cravings.
All smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day and the study found that 10 to 15 minutes of physical activity reduced cravings for at least 20 minutes.
Filippe Scerbo, one of the study leaders, said: "This could be enough to get you over the hump. All smokers could help calm cravings for a cigarette by simply taking regular brisk walks whenever they feel the urge to smoke."
In Bolton the number of smokers has fallen.
Almost 30 per cent of people in the borough smoked in 2001 but a health study carried out last year revealed that number had fallen to 23 per cent.
chas, suffolk says...
7:53pm Thu 3 Apr 08
All smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day and the study found that 10 to 15 minutes of physical activity reduced cravings for at least 20 minutesThat's only one cigarette every 30 to 35 minutes. Allowing for 8 hours sleep, that a maximum of only 32 per day.
Sun Tzu, says...
8:07pm Thu 3 Apr 08
spice, bolton says...
8:37pm Thu 3 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
8:39pm Thu 3 Apr 08
Sun Tzu, says...
8:49pm Thu 3 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
8:56pm Thu 3 Apr 08
Sun Tzu, says...
9:02pm Thu 3 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
9:10pm Thu 3 Apr 08
spice, bolton says...
10:01pm Thu 3 Apr 08
chip pan head, Bolton says...
10:20pm Thu 3 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
10:21pm Thu 3 Apr 08
Lord Lucan, Somewhere says...
10:48pm Thu 3 Apr 08
OldBoltonian, says...
7:16am Fri 4 Apr 08
Lollipop, Muddy Duct says...
8:39am Fri 4 Apr 08
OldBoltonian, says...
8:53am Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
9:04am Fri 4 Apr 08
OldBoltonian wrote:Have you ever thought some people might enjoy it, and don't want to give up. Once they start on booze, you can be branded weak, unless you give it up.
Well done Lolli. If only the rest of the smoking population had your will power. Always easier for them to blame someone else though eh?
spice, bolton says...
9:09am Fri 4 Apr 08
spice, bolton says...
9:14am Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
9:17am Fri 4 Apr 08
spice wrote:Spice I respect people who have given up for their own reasons. I don't respect those who thought, right the govt is telling me, so I'd better stop. These people I find pathetic.
Well done Lolly,not being a smoker I dont know how hard it is to give up ,but I have plenty of friends who have found it hard even impossible.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
9:29am Fri 4 Apr 08
spice, bolton says...
9:29am Fri 4 Apr 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
9:30am Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
9:34am Fri 4 Apr 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:I might go early Gazz. The strange thing is, all the obese people will go first, some of them ironically ex smokers.
Boris, it's bad for you, you'd better stop. How will this forum operate when you pass away 9 years prematurely???
chas, suffolk says...
9:44am Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
10:21am Fri 4 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
10:26am Fri 4 Apr 08
OldBoltonian, says...
12:27pm Fri 4 Apr 08
OldBoltonian, says...
12:29pm Fri 4 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
12:58pm Fri 4 Apr 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
1:16pm Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
1:23pm Fri 4 Apr 08
Eve, Bolton says...
1:37pm Fri 4 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
1:38pm Fri 4 Apr 08
spice, bolton says...
2:00pm Fri 4 Apr 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:09pm Fri 4 Apr 08
chas wrote:Alcohol does not make everybody aggressive though does it?
Gazz You have worked on the doors. You must have seen what happens to those around drinkers. Smoking makes one passive, whereas alcohol makes one agressive.
chas, suffolk says...
2:17pm Fri 4 Apr 08
OldBoltonian, says...
2:33pm Fri 4 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
2:50pm Fri 4 Apr 08
foul smelling
effect on health
stench, the taste, the nauseating choking effects of having to breathe
I just find it offensive
it's no different from sitting next to someone and farting in their face (
affected by their filthy foul poisonous noxious fumesThese could be the comments from somebody who hates alcohol.
OldBoltonian, says...
2:55pm Fri 4 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
3:26pm Fri 4 Apr 08
OldBoltonian, says...
3:59pm Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
4:04pm Fri 4 Apr 08
Now what is your view on why I should have to put up with you standing next to me blowing that shiiit in my face? That's the debate I want to have please. Sheesh.
spice, bolton says...
4:07pm Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
4:11pm Fri 4 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
4:18pm Fri 4 Apr 08
OldBoltonian, says...
4:23pm Fri 4 Apr 08
chas, suffolk says...
4:31pm Fri 4 Apr 08
spice, bolton says...
4:37pm Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
5:14pm Fri 4 Apr 08
Whereas ANYONE having JUST ONE fag causes an offensive stink in an enclosed space. Smoke all you want to, please; but not where it affects me. Now that Boris is not exaggeration is it? I'm not "stirring"
chas, suffolk says...
5:31pm Fri 4 Apr 08
OldBoltonian, says...
6:43pm Fri 4 Apr 08
You are twisting the arguments as not to sound PC.
chas, suffolk says...
7:17pm Fri 4 Apr 08
spice, bolton says...
7:26pm Fri 4 Apr 08
BORISIMO, aka/dop/yelt/vonn/nm
e says...
8:02pm Fri 4 Apr 08
Why do you do it?
Why don't you stop?
Why do you do it?
Why don't you stop?
chas, suffolk says...
9:32pm Fri 4 Apr 08
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chas, suffolk says...
7:27pm Thu 3 Apr 08