Smoking

maybe this is a stupid question...but does smoking affect your weight loss? i know it absolutely affects your health. but are you saying it would inhibit weight loss?

i am currently a smoker, but once ive lost the weight i want to lose( 2stone/ 48 lbs) i will re-assess my smoking habit

i wish i could quit

:c

I am currently a smoker. I agree that weight gain is often a side affect of quitting... although that is not really the reason i have not quit yet. It is more for my sanity. I find weight loss a bit stressful... especially since I am an emotional eater.... AND i also smoke when i am stressed.... so to maintain my sanity I can only kick one stress reliever at a time... I chose to go with food first. I will look at quitting once I reach my weight loss goals. I know I risk gaining back some weight... but I hope by then I have built a routine of healthy eating and exercise that I can maintain and lose any weight I gain from quitting.

Nonsmoker here, but I have a friend who is a longtime smoker and has had to (not wanted to) reduce her smoking in order to be able to do her exercise regimen. Maybe it will lead to complete cessation if it is a slow reduction...who knows...

I quit smoking 4 years ago. I had smoked for 37 years and never had to diet. I have gained weight since and now have over 20 lbs to lose. I would not go back to smoking to lose weight. It ages you and harms your body. Believe me, I loved smoking. Good luck to any of you who chooses to quit.

I used to smoke and quit for a multitude of reasons, the biggest one being that I wanted to develop a healthier lifestyle. I was diagnosed with asthma when I was eleven and it progressed from exercised induced to full blown by the time I was fifteen. It never was really a problem until adulthood. I'm saying this because I never really thought of this before this year, especially when I was smoking and not to preach to anyone, but I think it's important to remember: BREATHING IS A PRIVILEGE. A lot of times we take this for granted, but take it from someone who has been battling bronchitis after bronchitis after bronchitis as well as the flu for months. Walking around and seeing people smoke makes me honestly envious of their lung capacity.

i was a smoker for a long time. I quit when I met my husband b/c he told me that I could not have the wedding of my dreams if I did not quit smoking.. So, I quit and now its been 11yrs and I never went back to it and I did not gain weight.
I stayed focused on being fit for the wedding and knowing I was going to be healthier in the long run.

I do know some who have gained weight but I think its all in your mind and your choice. You can make bad choices to replace your smoking with food or you can make a smart choice and replace your smoking with WORKING OUT...
We are here to give support, and live healthier lives..

I dont think smoking is part of that change!
Just sayin..

I started smoking over the summer and can honestly say it was the second dumbest thing I've ever done. I started dropping a lot of weight at first mainly because I'd rather smoke then eat, and it made me not hungry even when I should have been eating. (Honestly to this day, when my tummy grumbles, I usually think about smokes and diet pop before food, SO stupid)

I haven't quit yet, but I definitely want to. I tried and failed a few times because I really wasn't sure I wanted to, it was only a half *kitten* attempt.

Quitting can lower your metabolism because it causes your heart rate to drop. And it does cause a lot of people to eat more instead of smoke. HOWEVER, it can also help you lose. Two of your liver's key functions are disposing of bodily toxins, AND metabolizing fats. If it's bogged down with the toxins, it's obviously not going to be metabolizing fats the way it should be. I keep telling myself this and I still haven't found the motivation to quit, but I feel like once I get more settled into this style of eating, and not so afraid I'll replace the cigs with cookies, I'll kick it once and for all.

One of my bosses is currently doing P90X and smokes. I don't know how he does it without wanting to die halfway through!!

I use to SMOKE constantlyyyyyyy...... I would work out then leave the gym then get in my car and light up.. I fealt awful.... but I just couldnt quit.

Thankfully I got pregnant with my twins.... I havent looked back since

I am currently a smoker. I agree that weight gain is often a side affect of quitting... although that is not really the reason i have not quit yet. It is more for my sanity. I find weight loss a bit stressful... especially since I am an emotional eater.... AND i also smoke when i am stressed.... so to maintain my sanity I can only kick one stress reliever at a time... I chose to go with food first. I will look at quitting once I reach my weight loss goals. I know I risk gaining back some weight... but I hope by then I have built a routine of healthy eating and exercise that I can maintain and lose any weight I gain from quitting.

I hear ya!!! Yup, im a smoker too and although i know i need to quit, its my form of stress relief. I have tried to quit before and it makes me turn into a horrible stressed out mess!! I will get there in my own time, when its right for me.

I am a smoker. I will be attempting to quit on Wednesday due to pretty bad bronchial problems. Smoking definately makes it easier when you are cutting back your food intake as it gives you something to do with your mouth but in the state I am in I have no hopes of exersizing if I continue to smoke. I did quit once for 5 years...was a total numbskull to pick it up again. But at least I know I can do it!

I quit smoking on April 4, 2010 and am nearing the 1 anniversary of my quit date. I quit for many reasons. The cost had become extremely prohibitive (popular name brand cigs here in canada now cost almost $13 for a pack of 25.), I wanted to feel healthier and be able to do cardio activities, and I did not want my daughter's young memories to be filled with Mommy & Daddy STINKING like an ash-tray.. which is how I remember my parents smelling as a child.

So I was building myself up to quitting when I went to a Korn concert with girlfriends, and after a horrible and quite unforgettably disgusting experience going to the 'outside' smokers patio between opening acts only to be squeezed through the doors like human toothpaste by the pushing crowd clamoring for their nicotine fix into a dank cigarette-smog-cloud that you could not even SEE through, stumbling over small concrete boulevards because we couldn't make out the ground through it. Seriously this was OUTSIDE!! We lit our smokes, took a drag and just couldn't do it, the air was too gross. So we went back inside.

I was so grossed out, I said to my friends that once this pack of smokes was done (there was 4 left) that I was done for good. And I have not bought a pack since then. My fiance followed suit a week or two later. Sure there has been the odd time when after a few vodkas we 'cheated' and shared a flavored cigarello, split a bummed cig, or stole a drag off a friend. But these things are not deal breakers, merely minor setbacks. As long as you in your head are still a non-smoker then small cheats are no big deal.

Now at almost a year, we no longer 'cheat', no longer feel the desire to. And on the rare occasions I've had too many vodkas out with the girls and asked for a drag I regret it hugely because it makes my mouth taste awful for at least half an hour and affirms my mind that I am done with cigarettes. I am done with smoking - for good.

And it feels great. Sure I gained a few pounds, but only a few and it was minimized with running and whitewater rafting (I started guiding last summer)