But do women really smoke to relieve stress? According to a sample survey of 3,500 women who smoke, 40% women said that one of the reasons for smoking is that they can control their weight. In recent years, the smoking rate of women is on the rise, which has aroused widespread concern from all walks of life.
Let's scientifically and rationally analyze whether smoking is really beneficial to lose weight.
1. Nicotine is indeed an anorexia.
Nicotine can reduce people's appetite and affect their eating habits. Studies have shown that nicotine can raise blood pressure, interfere with heart rate, affect stomach movement and continuously reduce food intake.
Nicotine will also have an adverse effect on human blood, which will directly lead to the decline of insulin level, which will lead to a certain degree of anorexia in smokers.
In addition, nicotine can also trigger the mirror image effect of adrenaline on stomach muscles, and its unique paralyzing effect can temporarily relieve hunger. That is to say, we often say "smoke a cigarette first when you are hungry", which is based on certain facts.
2. In the west, some non-smokers also use nicotine gum to control their weight or lose weight. They think that nicotine gum can reduce appetite, and they intend to solve the weight problem by controlling the calories they eat. Chinese medicine believes that tobacco is pungent and warm, which can promote Yang Qi, activate meridians, cure mountain haze and miasma, and is beneficial to metabolism.
3. Because of the relationship between nicotine and appetite suppression, that is, the physiological reaction caused by consuming nicotine, the idea of weight control was established. Whether these chemical reactions or physical reactions can be understood as whether smokers are thinner than non-smokers has always been controversial. But from the observation of daily life, smokers are indeed thinner.
In fact, do smokers really lose weight because of nicotine?
Obviously, this is not the case.
People who smoke for a long time, the immune system function will decline, blood will become more viscous, blood pressure will rise, and blood circulation will be too slow, which will lead to myocardial infarction, heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other diseases; Among them, the most obvious injury is the injury of smoking to respiratory tract and lungs, and the probability of smokers suffering from lung diseases is dozens of times that of non-smokers; There are more complications caused by smoking. The reason why smokers look thin is not healthy and thin, but "thin"! However, the health level of the body drops rapidly, which leads to the body losing weight because it can't eat.
This is similar to a drug addict. Once they leave drugs, they will become skinny and their bodies will have been eaten by these poisons.
Therefore, smoking is not a good way to lose weight. It will not only harm your health, but also make you lose more than you gain, and even make the second-hand smoke you produce affect people around you.
Especially for female smokers, smoking can also make your breath stink, damage your hair, make your skin rough, and make your teeth and fingers yellow, which are not a good state to attract the opposite sex.
(In the movie "Li Mi's Guess", Li Mi, played by Zhou Xun, is outspoken. His skin is very bad and his hair is greasy and boring. )
Smoking is harmful to health. Quitting smoking as soon as possible is good for health and can reduce the harm to health. Here are some good ways for women to quit smoking:
As long as you make up your mind to quit smoking, there will be no cigarettes that you can't quit. Do more physical and mental exercise. When you are addicted to smoking, you can eat more fruits and learn to release stress, and you will always come out. The following three points are more effective concrete methods summarized by successful female smokers, which can not only effectively quit smoking, but also control weight for your reference.
1, do yoga
Many female friends are keen on practicing yoga, which can speed up metabolism, remove waste from the body, repair the body and recuperate beauty from the inside out. At the same time, when you practice yoga, you can appreciate that your wonderful body is becoming more beautiful step by step, and your elegant temperament is slowly emerging. How can you have the heart to smoke again and ruin your beauty?
You can also meet more like-minded people by doing yoga. When you have a partner, you naturally don't have to resort to smoking as an extreme way to quit smoking.
2, quit smoking app
Modern people have realized the harm of smoking to the body, others and the environment, so some apps to help quit smoking came into being. These apps have friendly auxiliary functions to help you keep a diary to record your efforts to quit smoking.