Can exercise help me quit smoking?

Can exercise help me quit smoking?

John Spencer Ellis (Author, TV Show Host, Trainer and CEO, National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association) gives expert video advice on: Can exercise improve my mental health?; Can exercise improve my sleep?; Can exercise lower my blood pressure? and more...

Exercise can help you quit smoking simply from the standpoint that if you're doing everything else good for your body, psychologically it is much less likely that you'd want to poison your body. So from that simple perspective, the more good things you do for it, the fewer bad things you will also want to do. I'll give you another analogy is that people say, "Well, if I just have one cheat day, if I eat really, really well, but if I have one cheat day, would that be alright?"I let them try it, and what happens is they feel so good on the days that they eat well and they eat organic foods and then they have a cheat day and their allergies come back and they feel bad, then they realize it really wasn't a good idea. And that's ultimately what happens with smoking as well. So if you envelope the fitness lifestyle and then you have one bad habit like smoking, it is unlikely that you'll want to continue that over time because you'll want to continue that process of being better and better to yourself.