Quitting smoking = Weight Gain!?!!
Sir! I feel I may be having a fat day, sir!
This neat little write-up comes to us from 1st Lt. Cheryl Chmielewski (no typo), Nutrition Care Division, General Leonard Wood Army Community Hopsital, Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.
Cheryl says-
It is very common to gain weight after you stop using tobacco. It may help if you understand why.
First, smoking cigarettes creates an oral fixation. When you remove the cigarettes, that oral fixation remains. Tobacco also suppresses the appetite and decreases both taste and smell. When you stop using tobacco, your appetite and sense of taste and smell come back with a vengeance. The result is that food usually becomes the focus, and that increases the amount of calories you eat.
Yikes, more info about that double-whammy after the jump.
Quiting Smoking and Weight Gain via Fitness Health and Diet Tips (pops)
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