Smoking and Weight Loss

Diet and weight loss tutorial

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Heavy smokers and people who have not smoked for a long time and usually take a few pounds after quitting smoking. Unfortunately, smokers often use this fact to justify continuing to smoke. But weight gain is not inevitable.

And weight gain can be avoided by eating less and / or exercise more. And if you make bad food choices now, just eat healthy foods can do the trick.

Some of the reasons to stop cause people to gain weight:

Smoking increases your metabolism, the rate at which you burn calories. Until he resigned cause your metabolism to decrease slightly to the normal rate.

People who quit smoking tend to eat more snacks because they reach a substitute for cigarettes.

People who quit smoking tend to eat more because food tastes better!

Quitting smoking is hard enough without fear of weight gain. The main reason why people gain weight to stop them from smoking is that they tend to eat more, and you can control it. If you can keep turning to food instead of cigarettes, and make some adjustments to your diet and exercise habits, you will not gain any weight at all.

You know that smoking is bad for you. Now read what the American Lung Association says will happen when you quit smoking:

After 20 minutes:

Low blood pressure.

And heart rate drops.

The temperature in the hands and feet increase.

After 8 hours:

The carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal.

Oxygen level in the blood increases to normal.

After 24 hours:

Your risk of having a heart attack decreases.

After 48 hours:

Your nerve endings begin to regenerate.

Will your sense of smell and taste improve.

After 2 weeks to 3 months:

And improves circulation.

And your lung function improves.

Aerobic activity (eg, walking) will become easier.

After 1-9 months:

Symptoms such as coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease.

After 1 year:

Is reduced excess risk of coronary heart disease that half of the smoker.

After 5 to 15 years:

Reduces the risk of stroke than people who never smoked.

After 10 years:

The risk of lung cancer falls to half-term smokers.

Decrease the risk of cancer of the mouth and throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas.

Will risk of ulcer decline.

15 years later:

Will reduce the risk of coronary heart disease that people who have never smoked.

Decreased risk of death by about the level of people who have never smoked.

You do not have to gain weight if you quit smoking. And you'll be healthier, have more friends and more money, and feel better.



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