Liu Bowen, executive director of the Obesity Prevention Society and an expert on weight loss, pointed out that many addicts think smoking can reduce weight. When they smoke by mistake, their nicotine concentration increases, their heart beats faster, they are in a relatively excited state, their basal metabolic rate rises slightly, their satisfaction with food increases, and they are more likely to feel full.
Smoking is easy to cause cancer and it is unhealthy to lose weight.
In addition, harmful substances in cigarettes, including nicotine, greatly affect the taste and smell, make the taste of food worse, and then reduce appetite, resulting in the idea of "refusing to eat." But this method of losing weight is unhealthy, mainly because there are many carcinogenic factors in cigarettes, which are far more harmful to the body than losing weight.
At the same time, there is another fact that is easily misunderstood. E-cigarettes are not smoking cessation products, but can only be regarded as smoking cessation AIDS, just a substitute for cigarettes. His principle is to solve physical addiction with nicotine, and solve psychological addiction with simulated smoke and simulated smoke taste, so as to achieve the effect of replacing tobacco.
Neither cigarettes nor e-cigarettes can help you lose weight, and both are harmful to your health.
Smoking e-cigarettes can't help you lose weight.
Dr Liu Bowen emphasized that e-cigarettes are not helpful to lose weight, and may even be harmful to health. The main reason is that formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in e-cigarette oil will affect human health. If you ingest e-cigarette oil containing butanedione, it is more likely to lead to obstructive bronchiolitis commonly known as "popcorn lung".
In fact, e-cigarettes also contain nicotine, which is no less harmful to health than cigarettes, more likely to lead to strokes and vascular diseases, and less helpful to quit smoking; At the same time, smoking e-cigarettes often, although it sometimes increases the feeling of fullness in the stomach, does not help to lose weight at all. Only quitting smoking is king.
Nicotine is the key to smoking morbid weight loss.
In addition, regular smokers think that their weight will soar after quitting smoking, and they are afraid that obesity will affect their health and are unwilling to quit smoking. In fact, it's not that you get fat after quitting smoking, but that smoking makes your body morbidly thin, and quitting smoking just returns to normal. Generally speaking, after quitting smoking, the weight will return to 2 or 3 kilograms. Compared with smoke injury, this weight gain has little effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
As for smoking, it will affect taste buds. In fact, smokers usually have no taste when eating. Nicotine accelerates people's metabolism and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, so they will be morbidly thin. After quitting smoking, taste buds return to normal, food becomes delicious, nutrition absorption is normal, and weight will naturally increase.
5 tips for quitting smoking, obesity and losing weight
1. Drink less: Alcohol will increase calorie intake, stimulate gastric juice secretion, increase appetite, not only make people fat, but also make people smoke more and more.
2. Drink plenty of water: the metabolic rate of quitting smoking will be significantly reduced. Drinking more water can improve the metabolic rate, and water has no calories, which helps metabolism.
3. Low calorie: Long-term low calorie diet will reduce the desire to eat. The more greasy you eat, the easier it is not to eat. It is suggested to eat more whole grains and foods rich in vitamin B group.
4. Fry less: fried, sweet, fast food, spicy and other foods with heavy taste will increase appetite. Caffeine drinks should also be avoided. It is suggested that roasting, marinating, cold salad, degreasing or boiling should be considered when cooking.
5. Brush your teeth frequently: brush your teeth immediately after meals. Brush your teeth immediately after eating a fixed amount to avoid continuing to eat and reduce the risk of obesity.
Weight loss tips:
It is very important to pay attention to the regular diet. Irregular diet will make blood sugar fluctuate and affect the normal operation of the brain. Sometimes eating too much will concentrate blood on the digestive organs, which will indirectly reduce the willpower to quit smoking; On the contrary, a regular diet makes the circadian rhythm regular and the metabolism smooth, which helps to control the weight and the persistence of quitting smoking.