did you gain weight when you quit cigarettes?

bluebells10red
bluebells10red Posts: 14 Member
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if so? how did you manage/lose the weight?

I really need to quit cigarettes!!!!

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  • bluebells10red
    bluebells10red Posts: 14 Member
    i know this is kind of random lol sorry! but i’m scared to quit ciggs because i’ve heard people gain lots of weight but i also don’t want lung cancer
  • Ernest_Nigma
    Ernest_Nigma Posts: 69 Member
    I quit cigarettes just over 30 years ago and gained about 5 or 10 pounds. I'm a big guy so that was almost nothing, relatively. Since then lifestyle and eating habits have gained, and lost, and regained, far greater amounts of weight. Seriously, kick the cigarettes, now.

    I always say quiting was easy, I did it hundreds of times. Staying quit is hard!
    But, like anything, you get better with practice. Develop coping strategies that work for you.

    And I'm only sort of joking when I tell people the first ten years were the hardest. It gets easier over time. I was tempted less and less as time went on but for me it did last years before the occasional cravings were gone. One thing that helped when I was tempted: I reminded myself how hard it was to get as far as I'd come and I didn't want to have to start quiting all over again. You can't have just one!
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,754 Member
    Quit the cigarettes. I quit and did not gain weight. Trade out the cigarettes for something to drink like tea or coffee (it keeps your mouth and hands busy). It helps keep you from turning to food to replace the cigarettes.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,974 Member
    edited July 2023
    Nope. Because my exercise and eating habits DIDN'T change. What many do when they quit is pick up a different habit and that's usually since they had something in their mouth (cigarette) they substitute it with something food stuff. Telly Savalas sucked on lollipops. So if a lollipop was 10 calories and he ate 20 a day, that's an extra 200 calories. If you keep eating 200 calories a day over your maintenance weight, you'll slowly gain weight.

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