Does Smoking prevent weight gain?
At times, we are advised by our friends that if you quit smoking, you’ll gain weight. There is misconception about the fact that obese persons may smoke to lose some weight. This is utterly baseless and the persons spreading this idea must be cursed. There is no relation between smoking and the prevention of weight gain.
A person becomes a smoker as there are some chemicals that induce habit formation in cigarette smoke. Most of the chemicals are harmful to our lungs, heart, blood and blood vessels, kidneys, pancreas and liver. All in all, cigarette smoke destabilizes the homeostasis of all the vital organs. Smoking does have some effect on our metabolic processes, but it does not affect the production of growth hormone, which is the main factor for our growth. Neither does smoking induce the production of fat and its storage.
Some persons who are addicted to smoking take food with the intention to help them to get over the psychological addiction to the habit, it is this that makes you fat.
Still you can lose weight if you develop lung cancer after several years of smoking. I hope this is not the best way to lose some weight. There are several healthy ways to shed some pounds. Why not try those?