| Thin has been in for a while now and most people | | | | weight management than a light increase in appetite. |
| who quit smoking worry about gaining weight. | | | | Personally I've met one too many people who blame |
| Unfortunately cigarette does help with weight | | | | quitting cigarette for weight gain instead of trying to eat |
| management to some degree and adding 5 to 10 | | | | healthier. Bottom line, you can eat more to satisfy your |
| pounds of weight is normal when you quit smoking. | | | | increased appetite. You just have to eat healthy and |
| The good news is that there are ways to prevent the | | | | it's as simple as that. Vegetable, fruit, low-fat chips, fat |
| weight gain associated with smoking cessation. You | | | | free snacks, and water just to name a few things you |
| can have the best of both worlds. Live a cigarette | | | | can satisfy your appetite with.o Stress Eating - Many |
| free healthy life. | | | | of us eat to release stress out of our system and |
| Let's look at the three major factors that contribute to | | | | food can also be emotionally comforting. Quitting |
| weight gain as result of smoking cessation:o | | | | smoking can be quite stressful for many and when |
| Metabolism - Smoking causes increase in metabolism | | | | you tie stress eating with it, substantial weight gain is |
| and it causes the body to burn calories at slightly | | | | possible. Even if stress involved is minimal, you'll |
| accelerated rate. Generally we are talking about extra | | | | inevitably feel the void left by your smoking habit. You |
| 100 to 200 calories burnt as a smoker and that much | | | | can minimize these effects by exercising. Exercise |
| more to burn through if you've quit. You can easily burn | | | | exerts its effects on the brain through several |
| 200 calories with 20 minute power walk or if you | | | | mechanisms, including mood enhancement, endorphin |
| prefer to walk at a lighter pace you may walk 30 | | | | release, neurogenesis, and it's even been touted from |
| minutes instead. Walking will not only keep your weight | | | | treat depression to improve memory. It may sound too |
| in check but it will also keep you healthy.o Appetite - | | | | good to be true, but you really can prevent or minimize |
| You will have a better appetite after you've quit | | | | the negative effects that come with quitting smoking |
| smoking. This is because nicotine suppresses appetite. | | | | by exercising. |
| When you quit smoking, you are actually going back to | | | | Staying thin by continuing to smoke is not the answer. |
| your natural appetite level instead of the artificially | | | | You can live a healthy life, cigarette free by improving |
| suppressed appetite state that nicotine induces. In an | | | | self control and exercising 20 to 30 minutes a day, 4 |
| age where we are surrounded by junk foods | | | | to 6 days a week. Give yourself a chance at a better |
| everywhere, self control has a lot more to do with | | | | life, today. |