Stop Smoking Tips

If you just recently quit smoking and are starting to gain weight, take heart. You have two challenges ahead of you: staying away from cigarettes and managing your weight.

Take it slowly and one step at a time to keep both problems in check. If you’ve just quit, it’s likely that you’re still fighting the urge to resume smoking, so this is going to remain your first priority for at least the time being.

Your first priority in regard to your weight should be simply to stop gaining weight. After that, of course, your focus needs to remain on staying away from cigarettes.

Once you’ve gotten over the worst hurdles in regard to remaining an ex-smoker, you can begin to focus on losing weight. Use the following steps to lose weight safely and effectively:

1. Get active. Before you even begin to change your diet, you can begin to focus on becoming more active. The more active you become, the easier it will be to manage weight and remain an ex-smoker at the same time.

2. Cut your dietary fat. Begin slowly by making low-fat substitutions for certain high fat foods, such as 1% milk for whole fat milk, reduced fat cheese for regular cheese, and so on. Keep track of how many grams of fat per day you get. You should opt for no more than 30% of your calories from fat.

For a person of average size and activity level, 2000 calories a day is a very adequate caloric intake. Therefore, you should opt to get no more than about 600-650 calories a day from fat, or about 65 g of fat.

Read labels carefully when you shop to determine foods’ fat content. This should help you begin to lose weight comfortably, without endangering your status as an ex-smoker.

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