Does Smoking Helps In Weight Loss??!!

Smoking to lose weight? It is health that goes up in smoke!

Many young women take up smoking in the hope of losing some pounds. Warning: the disadvantages are far more numerous than the "benefits" supposed. Smoking should not be used as a dieting. A balanced diet combined with physical activity is much more efficient.

The "Kate Moss syndrome" has struck again! Inspired by former supermodel skinny, many young women seem desperate to eliminate kilos overflowing their jeans. Including taking up smoking. 

"This is a speech that comes up quite often in consultation sighs Zaleski-Zamenhof Maryse, tobacco specialist physician in the Hauts-de-Seine. When I ask my young patients that has pushed the cigarette, some admit me fixing their shoes they hoped to lose weight! "

Their reasoning is simple, if not simplistic: puisqu'arrêter smoking sometimes grow, taking up smoking should help lose weight. QED. What is the relationship between weight gain and smoking? Dr. Zaleski-Zamenhof decrypts: "Nicotine speeds up the metabolism and burns about 200 calories per day It also increases blood sugar levels in the blood, which has an anorectic effect.. There is less hunger" 

It is true that smoking "help" eat less and "burns" calories. But this effect is marginal: "It is much more efficient, for example, to fetch his wand every day without taking the car!" She advises. And most importantly, the potential benefit is negligible compared to the disadvantages. 

"Tobacco virile silhouette!" 

"Whatever the reason why we start smoking, dangers of smoking are the same, says Catherine Minot, coordinator of the French Office for Smoking Prevention (OFT). It becomes dependent and health is degraded. "

In consultation Zaleski-Zamenhof Maryse does not hesitate to shake his young patients too naive: "If they are concerned about their beauty, I remind them that smoking damages the skin, change voice and virile silhouette by changing the positioning of body fat! "

Problem: after starting to smoke, even if the results are not meeting these young women do not dare stop ... for fear of gaining weight. And smoking is here to stay. 

Weight gain is inevitable when it quits? Catherine Minot wants to be reassuring: "The statistical truth is that a third of people who revert non-smokers do not take a gram Others take two to three pounds on average and it is not inevitable..! "

The message is clear: smoking should not be used as a dieting. "There are many ways to lose unsightly pounds, said Dr Robert Benchétrit GP in Antibes. Eat a balanced diet and exercising, this is the magic formula to refine without damaging his body!" 

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Quit smoking without gaining weight: possible 

When a smoker stops smoking, several phenomena combine. "Some seek to compensate a lost pleasure - the cigarette - a new pleasure: food, says Zaleski-Zamenhof Maryse, tobacco specialist physician Others are looking for an activity likely to replace the time of the cigarette and choose. snacking. "

In addition, "smokers often eat more fat and richer than the average for one simple reason. Tobacco affects the quality of taste buds They like strong tastes. Game rather than green beans in sauce," said Catherine Minot, coordinator of the French Office for smoking Prevention (OFT). 

But it is relatively easy to prevent these abuses. "By using a nicotine replacement, the physical sensation of hunger is removed ensures Catherine Minot Then just set the rules of common sense. Balanced diet, refrain from any snacking and move more." 

This passage is facilitated by the development of taste that allows us to appreciate the more subtle flavors and lower-calorie foods. Using a nutritionist can be helpful. 

"It's also easier to engage in physical activity when the blast found that you had deprived tobacco, says Dr. Zaleski-Zamenhof. And we quickly discovered that the sport generates endorphins, the famous pleasure hormones justifying all this effort! "