How to Stop Smoking and Not Gain Weight
You Can Quit Smoking Without Gaining Weight!
When you quit smoking, if you give your body and mind time to adjust, there is no need to gain weight. It takes the body at least 21 to 42 days to adjust to new behaviors and a new metabolic rate.
If you smoke while you are changing your behaviors, your mind and body will gradually adjust to the removal of nicotine.
Don't Feed The Habit In Any Way
There Are Two Reasons Why Smokers Gain Weight When Quitting Smoking
1. They Substitute Something For The Habit Like:
- Candy
- Gum
- Sunflowers Seeds
- Taffy
- Toothpicks
- Pie
- Chewing on pencils
2. The Metabolism Slows Down
A smokers heart rate beats 10,000 more beats a day because they smoke. Nicotine is a stimulant. It takes the body and mind at least 21 to 42 days to adjust to the absense of nicotine in the body.
Why Your Mouth Needs Attention When You Stop Smoking?
The reason most people tend to substitute food or toothpicks for smoking is because your mouth wants attention! Your mouth becomes like it's own zip code. Your mouth starts saying things like "give me candy, give me food, give me gum, pie anything!"
One thing that you can do is to give your mouth some attention in a more positive way. I tell my students to brush, floss and rinse their mouth to change the environment in their mouth and also give their mouth some loving attention.
Attentions To A Smokers' Mouth Over a 20 Year Period
30 Cigarettes a day
| X 10 attentions to your mouth a day
| = 300 attentions to your mouth in 1 day
|
|---|---|---|
300 attentions a day x 365 days in a year
| = 109, 500 attentions to your mouth
| |
109, 500 attentions to your mouth in a year
| x 20 years = 2 million attentions to your mouth!
| |
Do You Go To The Refrigerator To See If There Is Any Entertainment In There For Your Mouth!
STOP Giving Your Mouth Attention By Substituting Food For The Habit!
There is nothing more sad to me that seeing someone who has quit smoking ten years ago and they still have a toothpick hanging out of their mouth or they are sucking on lemon drops! It is like someone has quit drinking but they still exhibit all of the old behaviors of drinking called a "dry drunk".
Let the habit die of neglect. Don't feed the habit in any way!
Most Smokers Smoke Right After A Meal
The reason that smokers smoke right after a meal has to do with your blood sugar. Having a cigarette or food raises your blood sugar, causing you to want to smoke. If you get the food particles out of your mouth, then you won't want to smoke and you will be giving your mouth more loving attention that it so desperately needs. This goes double for chewers because they have much higher amounts of nicotine and there is much more of an oral aspect to the habit for the chewers.
Brushing your teeth or Oral Gratification, as I call it in my Nicotine Solutions program, is also good for people that want to lose weight because they can get the food particles out of their mouth and are not triggered to eat more with a clean mouth.
There is one more part of this assignment that we do in class but I will save that for when you attend a free informational meeting to hear about how the Nicotine Solutions program works and you will be given a sample assignment that you can start working on right away.
There Is A Metabolism Change When You Stop Smoking
As I stated before nicotine causes your heat to pump 10,000 more beats a day because you smoke. Nicotine stresses out your heart and makes your heart beat harder just to pump the blood through.
10,000 beats a day of your heart is not a lot of calories, but over time it can add up to a three to seven pound weight gain if you don't know how to deal with it. You need to address this metabolic change. Changes in your metabolism don't happen all at once and that is why cold turkey doesn't work very well to stop smoking because cold turkey is abrupt and it is hard for the body and mind to adjust.
It takes at least twenty one days to make or break a habit and we have students smoke for the first six weeks of the program to give smokers time to adjust to their slower metabolism so they will not gain weight and will be able to stop smoking calmly, comfortably and permanently.
...........Don't Go Cold Turkey
To Sum Up
1. Don't Substitute Anything For The Habit- You Want To Let It Die Of Neglect
2. Give Your Body Time to Adjust To New Habits- It takes At Least 21 Days To Make A New Habit - Don't Quit Cold Turkey.
3. For More details on What Happens to Your body when You stop smoking with cold turkey, Zyban or Welbutrin Check out my Hubpage
