Want to quit smoking for good without gaining weight

I stopped smoking 12 weeks ago after reading Allen Carr's "Easy Way To Stop Smoking" and I have not gained a single lb.

Granted I haven't actually lost anything either BUT I am pretty much at goal weight anyway (3lbs to go!)

I didn't actually mean to stop smoking LOL, I had been given the book many years ago and as I felt a little poorly one day I read it cover to cover and stopped! Have not had any cravings and more importantly I have not replaced nicotine with anything else (IE food!)

I cannot reccomend this book enough!

Edited to add that I smoked 10-15 cigs a day for fifteen years!

I back up CARNAT22. I read the Alan Carr book, worked for me and quite a few people I know. You don't end up substituting. real shame his easyway to lose weight book doesn't have the same effect! (although heard good things about people changing what they eat).

so no smoking since May??

Yep - last cig was on 8th May!!

I've been a smoker (a paranoid, overly "hide it" kind unless near other smokers) for a long time. If they dont smoke or have a SUPER nose, they dont know. I have always considered quitting of course, but this weight loss is a priority and I wont take one chance of hijacking the loss by adding another drastic lifestyle change.

If you have any kind of significant weight to lose...it's likely more healthy for you to lose the weight than to stop smoking. So possibly take one thing at a time. Or try and if it's driving you mad or you feel overwhelmed. If you choose to rid one vice at a time it'd likely show you that "yes, I can do the other/s as well."

Not saying dont quit, just realize that if we have many bad habits breaking them all at once might prove quite a daunting task!!

My view on the E-cigarrete is: What? Am i going to keep smoking an e-cigarette indefinitely? It does nothing to help curb the oral addiction which is for most...the issue. If it were a nicotine addiction....gum or a patch would work. Also It might be marketed as healthier but who knows what kind of adverse things things might have being as new as they are. Afterall, how many hundreds of years did it take for them to find that smoking was bad for you?

I've been a smoker (a paranoid, overly "hide it" kind unless near other smokers) for a long time. If they dont smoke or have a SUPER nose, they dont know. I have always considered quitting of course, but this weight loss is a priority and I wont take one chance of hijacking the loss by adding another drastic lifestyle change.

If you have any kind of significant weight to lose...it's likely more healthy for you to lose the weight than to stop smoking. So possibly take one thing at a time. Or try and if it's driving you mad or you feel overwhelmed. If you choose to rid one vice at a time it'd likely show you that "yes, I can do the other/s as well."

Not saying dont quit, just realize that if we have many bad habits breaking them all at once might prove quite a daunting task!!

I am a closet smoker also, most of my friends and family dont know i have been smoking a half a pack a day for most of the last 25 years. today is 14 days for me without a cigarette. i havent tried many times to quit since i really love smoking and so wish i could find out if i am genetically disposed towards developing cancer or not (since it seems that might explain why some people smoke for 50 years and are fine and others arent). anyway, just wanted to agree with another poster that quiting smoking doesnt make you gain weight, this is a myth. when you want a cigarette the feeling is very similar to hunger so you wont give the body what it wants and you substitute food. the key of course is to sub the right food. Oranges work really well for some reason and of course things like carrot sticks and gum. i actually tihnk all in is the best way to go since to quit smoking you will need to change your habits and if you are already trying to change eating habits then it might be best to do it all at the same time.

Unless you dont really want to quit in which case it makes for a good excuse to not have to deal with it for a while which i hope doesnt sound too snarky/mean since i dont intend it to be but the truth is we will make up reasons and rationalize things to make it ok to do what we want when we know it is not what is best

whatever you do, if you arent already in the habit of smoking right after a workout, try to wait as long as possible after a workout to smoke, since a cigarette after a workout comes in second only to sex as the best possible moment of my day and is so hard to give up that one so dont try it if you ever want to quit .

Good luck

I am a closet smoker also, most of my friends and family dont know i have been smoking a half a pack a day for most of the last 25 years. today is 14 days for me without a cigarette. i havent tried many times to quit since i really love smoking and so wish i could find out if i am genetically disposed towards developing cancer or not (since it seems that might explain why some people smoke for 50 years and are fine and others arent). ....

I think another major concern possibly beyond cancer is emphysema. I am kind of fortunate in that I've heard from many experts that people who play wind instruments (like i do) will not develop emphysema because I do a multitude of breathing exercises and I'm working out my lungs many hours a day. This, however, is a major concern for other long time smokers.

I am trying to quit smoking right now as well and I am also worried about weight gain, but I just read a great quote- "Weight can be lost, lungs cannot." It definintely put things into perspective for me. Whats a few pounds now compared to a long healthy life free of cigarettes? Good luck to you!!