Thoughts on Smoking?

Actually, Jillian Michaels has a post about this where she explains the damage smoking actually does to your metabolism and body from a weight loss perspective. Seems like smoking making you thinner might be a myth after all.

Of course everyone knows the bad things about smoking but what are your thoughts on the nicotine being a suppressant?

I quit smoking in January of this year. I don't miss it at all. I have since began eating better and exercising and I've lost at least 13 pounds. Smoking is just a bad habit, not a suppressant.

What you heard is actually incorrect. I have been smoking since I was 13. It has never suppressed hunger. What has happened though is that anytime I tried to quit smoking, I tried to replace one addiction (of nicotine) with another (of food).

Both of my parents smoked and each quit in their own time. My father quit more recently and said he found that food tasted much better after he quit smoking. He did gain a bit of weight when he quit smoking but lost it again within the year.

I wonder if it is possible that smoking doesn't so much suppress the appetite chemically as it does by interfering with smell and taste which are linked to appetite? Just a thought...

Why are you trying to suppress your hunger? Also, as a smoker, don't start smoking for suppressing your hunger. For th love of God if you must go down an eating disorder road, take up coffee for suppressent vs. smoking.

Also, seek help.

(yes, I realize I might be jumping to conclusion, I am OK with it)

Honestly, my dad quit smoking and since then I have found myself "craving" it (second hand sucks) and was looking up things about smoking just to understand why and was shocked to see it has been used to suppress hunger

What you heard is actually incorrect. I have been smoking since I was 13. It has never suppressed hunger. What has happened though is that anytime I tried to quit smoking, I tried to replace one addiction (of nicotine) with another (of food).

This is a new concept for me of getting addicted to nicotine via second hand smoking.

For all that is holy, please do NOT start smoking. For any reason. I have been smoking for 16 years and regret the day I started very much so.

I've asked others if they have craved, too without ever having a cigarette and it's actually common once the main source of contact is gone. It's like I've been around it so long that him just stopping is throwing me off. I don't want to smoke. And it's nice to know that it doesn't suppress hunger. That was mind blowing to hear so I am glad to know it's not true.

I also smoked from the time i was 12.. and the gentleman above you is correct. You pick up one habit for another. Also, as he said.. it does not supress hunger. The reason people gain weight is because they have a habit of putting hand to mouth.. if you arent putting a cig hand to mouth, people put things like chips, cookies. other "snack" food items that can be done in a repetative motion while sitting, staring blindlessly into a TV or computer, thus gaining weight. Luckily, when i decided to quit, i decided to do it just before i decided to lose weight. Might as well grab the bull by the horns & do it all at once, right? Also decided it was time to get control of my alcoholism also. Figured if i was gonna kil someone, i would at least get off on insanity. lol

After seeing smoking take someone I loved dearly from this earth in a slow painfull way, there would be no way I would even consider it.

Smoking is HORRIBLE!

I smoked for three years and quit when I said I would, at 21. I enjoyed it but I know I smelled like *kitten*. When I quit my weight shot up from dealing with the withdrawals and also not moving. It was worth the sacrifice though... I'd rather be overweight then a smoker. If you are really wanting to try nicotine then do a e-cig. They are like a cigarette without all the chemicals and stench. I don't know how safe it is but it could be a way to go if you want to try it for something to do. It won't help your dieting though!

Cigarettes? Not for me...but a pleasurable smoke with a fine cigar...relaxing...

There's nothing wrong with it besides personal cancer development risk, increasing cancer development risk for those who must breathe around you, a stench emanating from your every pore that immediately marks you as a smoker to one who doesn't smoke, raspy deeper voice that makes you sound like one of those old smoking cartoon women, disgusting breath and teeth, disgusting fingers, chronic cough, frequent respiratory infections, decreased life expectancy, and of course the weight gain and withdrawal symptoms when you finally realise what a horrible decision you made when you started and decide to quit. So, like I said, nothing wrong with it. :flowerforyou:

Depends what you smoking :smokin:

Smoking is so gross. My husband smoked for 11 years of the 12 we have been together. He finally quit last year. It was so hard for him to quit, but he literally had to, and he did it, and I am so thankful that my house doesn't smell like smoke anymore, and that my kids are not exposed to 2nd hand smoke. DO NOT DO IT! Chew gum. Chewing gum can prohibit you from putting food in your mouth too!

Having been a smoker for nearly 10 years (and now being smoke free since October 1, 2005), I can tell you.. Smoking sucks.

I started smoking when I was fit and didn't really have any weight issues.. During my smoking years, my PCOS Symptoms started manifesting themselves, and by the time I quit, I had gained quite an alarming amount of weight (I don't think that smoking & PCOS are related.. but I think it might be a catalyst for symptom presentation - I'm no doctor.. so I don't know for sure) - still without realizing I had PCOS.

I quit, ironically, not because I didn't like smoking, but because I wanted a baby more than I wanted my next cigarette, and my husband and I had decided to start trying to conceive. I refused to be a pregnant smoker.

So I quit cold turkey... and gained even more weight, but that was to be expected.. Like a PP said.. you trade one addiction for another (Nicotine = Food).

I've never looked back, and today cannot stand the smell of cigarette smoke. I rarely miss it, but I've never missed it enough to want to pick one up and light it.



Good Luck to your Dad - Hope he gets the habit kicked!!!

Smoking's bad m'kay.

No good reason to smoke

Yeh, smokers know that.

I quit smoking 5 months ago and I knew I was going to change one habit for the other. I just made sure it wasn't food! I started running and going to the gym. 5 months on and I didn't gain anything from not smoking

Of course everyone knows the bad things about smoking but what are your thoughts on the nicotine being a suppressant?

It's a life suppressant.....