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Smoking acutally gives you a lower breathing rate other than in exertion situations due to the fact that you are acclimated to hypoxia, hypercapnia, etc, but then the lung stiffness is not a good idea in diving, and neither is the loss of gas transfer, not to mention the other horrifying problems of smoking. It is an addiction only. Let me susggest you just stop doing it. The breathing rate thing is a bullshit excuse by the no-name "von" to justify his idiocy - not good enough. Daniel Steeves wrote: > > > > kirvine@sa*.ne* wrote: > > > > > > > Von, .6 breathing rate - you do not need to be down there > > - > > > you need a respatory theapist > > > > > and bigvon wrote: > > > > > > I forgot that you are SUPERMAN, able to hold your breath for > > > 25 min.so the gas in your tanks is for your buddy. > > > fwiw, bwannavon, i just dunno - i smoke almost a pack a day > and > my SAC is only about 8litres/minute (you non-metric american > types can calc your imperials yourselves, but a quick guess > puts it in the .25-.3 range > > so if i (a decidedly non-superman and -shudder- smoking diver) > can get those rates - and my regular buddies with 10-15% lower > consumption rates - and without any of this so-called zen > breathing or skip breathing / breath holding - then i do not > think ol george at a .25 is special - nor did i notice him > claiming to be > > the point is, smoker or not, i am in good shape, i dive 20+ > times a month and if i can do it so can others - dive, dive, > dive, dive, dive, practice and train > > btw: stop drinking during your si > > > o o > o o ____ daniel steeves > o (_/\_) living and diving > o =()= in Qatar > > ===== > o o > o o ____ daniel steeves > o (_/\_) living and diving > o =()= in Qatar > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. > Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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