Stop Smoking Tips

When a smoker stops smoking there may be a slight weight gain of five to ten pounds or even more, depending on the individual. However, this is not predictable, but common.

There are numerous causes of weight gain while on a stop smoking program.

This is a normal response to the cravings of nicotine withdrawal for many people. Food is often a substitution for smoking a cigarette. Eventually you will gain weight, if you increase the amount of calories you consume, since these snack do add up.

Individuals coming off a long-term habit of cigarette smoking, most often do not immediately begin a daily exercise program, since the effects of smoking linger on for some time. These signs of shortness of breath, fatigue and other conditions, common to smoking do not just disappear within a short time.

It is tough for anyone to begin a serious healthy exercise program; however, for those who smoke it is more considerable.

Keep in mind that there are physiological effects involved, since smoking at low doses will elevate the heart rate. This is a stimulating effect, which plays its role by keeping off weight.

Eventually however, long-term use of cigarettes influence the building up of fatty deposits within the arteries as well as other factors that will outweigh them all.

What does put on the pounds is a combination of little to no exercise while increasing the calories of food consumption.

To solve this problem, as you begin a stop smoking program, you should begin other changes in your lifestyle, such as outlining an age-appropriate exercise program and planning a healthy diet.

In the next post I’ll share some more ways to keep from gaining weight when you quit smoking.

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