Is smoking bad or good for weight loss?

JustMissTracy

Is this a question you feel ok with asking? Is smoking "ok" for anything? Not being judgemental; I smoked for 23 years, and quit 10 years ago. You're an adult who "just started". No, smoking is just plain bad for everything, including every thing for every person who has to be near you.

CollieFit

My mother always said she didn't want to give up smoking because she didn't want to gain weight.
An extra 5lb would not have killed her.
COPD did.

Bry_Fitness70

I just Googled it, and an adult lung weighs about 2.5lbs, so until you eventually have one removed after several years of smoking, it isn't probably going to help you lose weight.

Nony_Mouse

So you started smoking to help you lose weight?? Yeah, no...

missblondi2u

Smoking is bad for everything!

Carlos_421

AamirKhan2016 wrote: »

snowflake930 wrote: »

AamirKhan2016 wrote: »

_Waffle_ wrote: »

AamirKhan2016 wrote: »

Current Weight: 244 lb

How many packs a day are you smoking? Have you tried increasing or decreasing the number to see what happens?

I just started

^Just quit.
Seriously! Trust me, you can lose the weight without smoking.
You do not need to smoke to lose weight. I watched my mother die from emphysema, my oldest sister die @ age 54 from lung cancer, both life long smokers. Do not do this to yourself..............please.

i will finish one pack then i will quit. 16 cigarettes are left

And why do the 16 remaining cigs need smoked? Seriously, just quit.

Alatariel75

I'm not sure what's more sad. That I'm not entirely sure that this is a troll post, or that there might be someone out there in this day and age who would think talking up smoking to lose weight is a good idea.

Sarahb29

Well, for some people the cigarette would take the place of a snack (hence why people gain weight after quitting) so you *could* lose weight but overall it's obviously a terrible choice. As someone who's asthmatic from second hand smoke trying to do workouts is not a good time.

Quit now and eat some frozen grapes or something.

auddii

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I'm not sure what's more sad. That I'm not entirely sure that this is a troll post, or that there might be someone out there in this day and age who would think talking up smoking to lose weight is a good idea.

This.

EddieHaskell97

auddii wrote: »

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I'm not sure what's more sad. That I'm not entirely sure that this is a troll post, or that there might be someone out there in this day and age who would think talking up smoking to lose weight is a good idea.

This.

+1

nilbogger

Does it really matter? Just don't.

emmycantbemeeko

The part where you smell awful and have nasty hands and hair and skin might reduce the number of social occasions to which you're invited, so... less temptation to eat cake and stuff?

But then, the lung cancer. And the smoker's voice/cough. And again, the reeking horror of how you smell everywhere you go.

You can't smell it yourself, because you've burned out your sense of smell temporarily. But seriously dude, you stink. Everybody who doesn't smoke within nose-shot of you is cringing inwardly all the time.

Packerjohn

Smoking is great for weight loss. Don't see heavy people in the final stages of death from lung cancer.

Don't smoke.

misskarne

This has to be a troll. This has to be a troll. This has to be a troll... *clinging on to some hope for the human race*

CassidyScaglione

I hear stomas don't weigh that much.

6502programmer

So, let's separate nicotine from smoking. Smoking is simply a means of delivering nicotine to your body, just like eating delivers nutrition. You can get nutrition without eating (Soylent, total parenteral nutrition, etc), and you can get nicotine without smoking.

Nicotine DOES affect weight, and you do experience a weight gain directly attributable to cessation of nicotine, primarily due to its effects as a mild appetite suppressant.

However, nicotine is a physiologically addictive substance (like for realz, not like sugar, carbs, or crappy 80's synthpop), mucks with neurotransmitters, contributes to hardening of the arteries, peripheral artery disease, and it elevates heart rate, blood pressure, and cholesterol.

There's a whole raft of reasons NOT to use nicotine. Don't use weight loss as a basis for continuing its use. Especially if you're going to use burning it and inhaling the smoke as a delivery mechanism.

Ninkyou

I'm disturbed that you want to smoke the remaining 16 cigarettes... among other things.

ValerieMartini2Olives

CassidyScaglione wrote: »

I hear stomas don't weigh that much.

For some reason the only thing I can think of is the old lady in Beetlejuice with the slit throat.

MommyL2015

I can attest, as a former smoker and current user of nicotine, that nicotine use does not affect my weight at all. After I stopped the actual smoking of cigarettes, even though I did not give up nicotine, I gained nearly 20 pounds the first year.

What happened to me was when I quit smoking, my taste buds came back to life like CRAZY. I actually stopped liking the taste of coffee and only drank one cup in the morning. When I stopped drinking coffee so much, I ate other food in its place. I have since started drinking coffee again. Caffeine is way more of an appetite suppressant than nicotine is, at least for me.

lorrpb

Ready2Rock206 wrote: »

Smoking is bad for living in general if you value your health at all.

+1