Smoking and Metabolism

Hi,

Just wanted to weigh in on this Haha like my pun. :O Anyway I quit smoking and started eating healthy at the same time.. I found that the improvement in my taste buds made vegies and foods I did not like before seem more palatable..

Also I think when we smoke we often eat/drink to get rid of the taste and I was often craving something sweet/sour/spicy to have before my cigarette to improve the taste.

Might sound weird but in the past I have tried to eat healthy whilst smoking and it has never worked.. Now I am starting to exercise a small amount, walking around 20KM a week and have lost 20KG as of this morning (will update the log on monday if i keep it off) all since the start of July..

Try both.. you may be surprised how well it works.. I used that excuse and it really is just a crutch..

good luck

Really interesting fact. What about people who smoke the e-cigarette

I used to smoke a lot and diet and actually didn't loose any weight until i quit smoking so i think its irrelevant the more weight you have to loose generally the faster you loose weight in the beginning. But after i quit a month later i noticed my air while i was running felt CLEAN and COLD it was crazy was smoking was doing to me without me even noticing it.

See in my opinion I think this could be wrong. The difference is psychological perhaps.. People gain weight when they quit because they replace smoking with Food.. EG: Keeping the hands busy..

All to do with the cravings and not metabolism.. I think the drug companies are happy to perpetuate this rumour..

See in my opinion I think this could be wrong. The difference is psychological perhaps.. People gain weight when they quit because they replace smoking with Food.. EG: Keeping the hands busy..

All to do with the cravings and not metabolism.. I think the drug companies are happy to perpetuate this rumour..

I'm on my phone so can't link sites - but both the NHS & Mayo Clinic sites state that yes it can have an impact on metabolism. However the usual amount is 4-15lbs on average gained. Anything else over would be purely through caloric increase. I don't know whether it's correct or not, but it's interesting regardless.

At the end of the day even a slight weight increase is far easier to remedy than a smoking related disease though.

If you really want you can do both at the same time. I quit smoking I quit for the second time when i started dieting. I got over the I am going to scream at you raging i need a cig, think and fight with my self about if i should stop at the store and get just one more pack Phase, and hit the gym in place of smoking. It took me replacing my smoking addiction with something else, and will power.


It has been 5- 6 weeks now since i have smoked. I realized the other day after i had smelled a smoker behind me in the store, that i hadnt thought about wanting to smoke for over a week. then i thought, wow they need a bath.

http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/weightgain/a/metabolism.htm

I've been losing more than I'd like per week. Couldn't explain it because I was eating within range, and sometimes even a little over. But I'm still losing almost a pound a day. Then I read this article. Turns out that smoking a pack a day puts the same amount of stress (makes it pump harder) on your heart as being 90 pounds heavier than you actually are.

I'm not posting this as a "go start smoking!" thing. In fact quitting is most assuredly on my to do list. I hate it more than you can possibly know.

I'm both a smoker and morbidly obese and I knew I couldn't do both at the same time (I'd just fail at both) so I'm working on one, and then the other. but I'm posting this in case anyone else is going through this. I'm adjusting my calorie intake to reflect the extra "90 pounds" so that I'll lose the weight at a safer pace and then address the smoking.

First off, congrats on the decision to to change your life! Reading the above posts, I guess quitting smoking has different effects. Btw, I quit very easily by using prescription drugs written out by my doctor. The pills just made me NOT WANT a cigarette anymore.

But it turned out that quitting smoking was the easy part. After I quit, I got the usual cravings for more food etc. No need to repeat those stories. What it did after more than 4 years after I quit is that it totally ruined my metabolism. I've never had weight problems before. Last 3 years I started exercising. Since october 2013 I've been on a 1200-1500 kcal diet, going to the gym 3 times a week - WITH SLOWLY GAINING WEIGHT.

I'm not saying this to scare you, just to inform you that this can happen. I'm finally loosing weight by using the 5:2 method:)

Good luck:)

Edit: Want to add that there ofc are other factors too for not loosing weight, like age, not logging completely accurately. Those factors still doesn't explain why my metabolism stopped working in the first place.