Thailand - Bad For My Health!

[matthew80]

All my life (I'm 49 now) I've had one recurring vice: SMOKING! I've quit many times; sometimes for years. In Canada I keep myself quite fit: black belt in TaiKwonDo, biking, tennis, gym etc. Recently, before my last trip to Hua Hin, I had quit smoking for four months - no problem. BUT, when I land on Thai soil, something clicks in my brain, and all my efforts go out the window! This last trip to Hua Hin I lasted exactly two days before I was back on the smokes: a pack of Marboro Lights a day! Smooth as silk! As well, the beer consumption gets pretty obscene. I can drink all day, easily. And I do! And of course,, loving every minute of it! I find it too darn hot to even contemplate exercising, and worse still, I don't want to even contemplate exercising: such thoughts interfer with my drinking and smoking! In five years I plan to retire to Thailand, at least for six months at a time. I'm worried it will be a brief retirement...then up the nearest smoke-stack. How do you long timers avoid the obvious pit-falls and stay healthy? Any advice?

[ozuncle]

We all make our own decisions, good and/or bad, and have to live with the consequences.
I gave up smoking (4 years so far ) It is not easy but only you can make that commitment. One day at a time etc. etc.
I am sure you have heard it all before.

[niggle]

Lok on the bright side - at least you won't ne on your death bed dying of nothing.

[Randy Cornhole]

I personally go cycling a lot. This keeps me fit (ish) and you get to see a fair bit of the countryside. I find it helps to go with someone or perhaps set a goal, say cycling to cha-am for breakfast of khoa thao for a swim. Take your time there and then cycle back again...
The smoking thing is a whole diffrent ball game. I had given up for 14 years and started again when I came to Thailand 5 years ago.
Its almost impossible to light a fag whilst cycling along, that said I have managed it a few times...

[MrPlum]

Nothing personal but all that investment in fitness and you're going to p**s it up the wall. What was the point?

You have stopped many times which shows you can give up if you want to.

Maybe you just don't want to?

[sandman67]

there's lots o active stuff in HH to do.....

[sandman67]

two words to consider

Keith Richards

and now two more

Jim Fix



Id rather get old drinking in a bar, smoking fags and chatting to lasses than get old running round a track like a hamster. One day as Keith Moon is better than a life of days full of Mr Motivator.

Give up, get old disgracefully .....

[MrPlum]

Steinbeck would have been proud of you. He became a hero to the Russians when he was pulled out of the alky tank after getting hammered with the winos. Didn't want to spend his latter years trying to prolong his life.

It is said... 'You spend the first half of your life looking for excitement and the second half trying to avoid it.'

I'm in the 'avoid' camp and pretty content.

Each to his own.

[sandman67]

Id rather be Charles Bukowski any old day.....

Mate try this one on for size......imagine the tune of "Wear Sunscreen"......Dennis Leary said this.....

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 99
Drink beer
If I could offer you only one tip for the future
Beer would be it.
The long term benefits of beer have been proven by scientists
Whereas the rest
advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering expierince

I will despense this information now

You are as fat as you imagiane
You really do look like your drivers license picture
Do something about it
No one wants to date a fat pig
If insertiting a 7 inch iced tea spoon down your throat to induce vomiting is what it takes
Well then so be it
Do 1 thing everyday that makes your mother ashamed
Don't floss
Wayward pieces of parsly and beef in your teeth really don't look that bad
You've already had your turn of living in New York
So leave
Now
You're wasting space
And breathing up all of our oxygen
Go live in Northern California
But leave before you simultaniously die in an earthquake and a gang related shooting

Sometimes you'll be ahead
Sometimes you'll be behind
Sometimes you'll be on top
Sometimes you'll be on bottom
Smoke ciggarettes with reckless abandon
When your speaking through hole throat
You can always sue the tabbacco company
And say
I did not know it was bad for me
After all
Ill gotten game is what it's all about
Maybe you'll married
Maybe you won't
But most likely you'll end up divorced
With a litter of children
With 8 different mothers
Spending the rest of your life selling rip off Gucci bags outside court authority
To pay off alimony and child support.
Dont even try to dance
You're a guy for godsake
Not even the electric slide at a wedding

[sargeant]

In my case I had a heart attack now that was an incentive

[MrPlum]

In my case I had a heart attack now that was an incentive

Right.

"I'll Start With Your Toes, Then Work My Way Up" was the Surgeon's response, when my father, who was having trouble walking, said to him 'I can't give up.'

He said 'what the hell' and died within a year aged 54. Heart attack.

Waaaaay too young.

[migrant]

Id rather be Charles Bukowski any old day.....

Mate try this one on for size......imagine the tune of "Wear Sunscreen"......Dennis Leary said this.....

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 99
Drink beer
If I could offer you only one tip for the future
Beer would be it.
The long term benefits of beer have been proven by scientists
Whereas the rest
advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering expierince

I will despense this information now

You are as fat as you imagiane
You really do look like your drivers license picture
Do something about it
No one wants to date a fat pig
If insertiting a 7 inch iced tea spoon down your throat to induce vomiting is what it takes
Well then so be it
Do 1 thing everyday that makes your mother ashamed
Don't floss
Wayward pieces of parsly and beef in your teeth really don't look that bad
You've already had your turn of living in New York
So leave
Now
You're wasting space
And breathing up all of our oxygen
Go live in Northern California
But leave before you simultaniously die in an earthquake and a gang related shooting

Sometimes you'll be ahead
Sometimes you'll be behind
Sometimes you'll be on top
Sometimes you'll be on bottom
Smoke ciggarettes with reckless abandon
When your speaking through hole throat
You can always sue the tabbacco company
And say
I did not know it was bad for me
After all
Ill gotten game is what it's all about
Maybe you'll married
Maybe you won't
But most likely you'll end up divorced
With a litter of children
With 8 different mothers
Spending the rest of your life selling rip off Gucci bags outside court authority
To pay off alimony and child support.
Dont even try to dance
You're a guy for godsake
Not even the electric slide at a wedding

Bukowski

[smiles]

Getting exercise will sure help, no matter how the Happy Dudes here advise to avoid it.

My partner and I (well, sometimes just me ) go running in the morning 3 to 5 times a week ~ never less than 3, rarely 6. At 6AM (traffic no problem) head south out Petchkasem Rd for 3 miles or so ... turn around, cut down to the beach and run back same distance. Works perfectly and the run back is beautiful in the sunrise.

This small sacrifice keeps any weight off, keeps us healthier and lets us enjoy our evenings out without that god awful bloated feeling.
He hardly drinks anyway, but I do, and wouldn't give up my beer for love nor money.

Works beautifully for us.

Cheers ...