Is smoking bad or good for weight loss?

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.

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*

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.

Ready2Rock206 wrote: »

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

+1

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

Aren't you the guy who walks 12 miles a day to burn 1800 calories? And weren't you trying to run? Seems like you'd want to keep your lungs in good health so you can keep walking. And maybe some day run if that's still something you wanted to do. Going to be hard to walk/run with what cigarettes will do to your lungs.

I gained 20 pounds when I quit smoking 8 years ago. It sucks but I'd rather live.

Well. Before I smoked I weighed 170lbs, before I quit last year (after 10 years of smoking) I weighed 218lb. A year after quitting I've lost 20lbs. So no.
And FYI it took me 5 years of saying "I'll quit" before I actually did. Do yourself a favor and throw the 16 cigarettes away before you do serious damage to yourself and get trapped in a smoking cycle. Please please please

I lost three family members due to their smoking habits. They all died before 60 and they were all overweight regardless of their smoking habits. I know you said you quit, but for this post there are at least ten people out there who have this same idea about smoking and weight loss.

Stop the diet pills, the wraps, the detoxes and cleanses. What kind of a world do we live in where people are willing to take up an expensive habit that can give them cancer just to lose weight? Why is trying to eat less and/or move more that hard? I don't understand the obsession to be thin, especially when it crosses over to self-harm to achieve it. People, please take care of yourselves.

seeing as i got fat while smoking i would say it doesnt do you any favors.

quit 3 years ago and have NEVER felt better!

Smoking is just bad, for you to even consider, well just SMH. Must be a troll.

After my husband quit smoking, his doctor said he could gain 30 lbs and it would still be healthier than smoking.

After the chemo and radiation, my dad went from 145 lb to 90 lb before he succumbed to lung cancer when he was 43. So technically, in the end, it will help you. Until you die. Then it wouldn't much matter.