I hard that smoking helps you to lose weight. Is that true?Will I lose weight if I start smoking?

Question

I am eighteen and I would like to be thiner...

Answer 1

well, smoking does have that affect on some people... nicotine curves the appetite because your body, sometimes, wants that more than food. it is not wise to start to smoke to lose weight.

Diseases linked to smoking tobacco cigarettes include:

*lung cancer and other cancers
*Cardiovascular disease
*stroke
*respiratory ailments such as the common cold and bronchitis
*peripheral vascular disease
*birth defects of pregnant smokers' offspring
*Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
*impotence
*chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and *chronic bronchitis in particular
*More likely to develop cataracts that may cause blindness
*Reduced memory and cognitive abilities

not to mention it will turn your teeth yellow and no one will want to kiss, or be around your mouth, because of smokers breath. You will spend, believe it or not, a huge chunk of your money on cigs. Once you start to smoke, you will get addicted. and its stupid because you HAVE to make yourself get addicted. My grandfather smoked almost all of his life and he has so many health problems i cant even list them. Smoking also makes your skin all leathery. Believe me it's been tempting to start to smoke to lose weight (I'm 18 too), then i start to think about the lifelong problems it will cause me. Luckily I have someone in my life to stop me from starting to smoke. Try going on a diet or to get physically active... I love tennis.... O'yea smoking will put holes all in your lungs so when your like 30 you wont be able to climb a flight of stairs without becoming breathless. I can sit here and tell you all of this... but it is ultimatley your choice... remeber... it is stupid to start a habit that your lucky enough to not have.

Answer 2

OMG! Sure, it'll help you lose a LITTLE weight, but you'll screw up the rest of your life. I mean, would anyone like a girl who smells like crap, looks like crap, and is basically crap? Don't ruin your life. When a person starts smoking, it's impossible to quit. Just do the usual. A balanced diet and exercise. And never smoke. Remember that. Smoking leads to lung cancer, throat cancer, bad heart conditions, and a bunch of other things. Unless you want to look like 65 at age 30, don't smoke.

Also, think about the money you'll waste. I mean, a pack a day(which a smoker probably reaches eventually) for a year is at least a thousand dollars. I could do a lot of things with that money. (ahem, a X360, a Wii, and a lot of games).

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Not true- It will not help you lose weight.
I just quit smoking on Nov. 23 after smoking for the last 20 years. It is not worth it.
Smoking is an expensive habit that creates expensive helath problems. The best advice I can now give about smoking is DON'T START.

Answer 5

Starting to smoke CAN help you to lose weight, but NOT in the way you think it might.

Instead of starting to smoke, try keeping busier. Many smokers who lost weight did so because instead of snacking, they smoked instead - it is often a psychological thing. So keep your hands busy, try chewing gum or sucking on a peppermint.

If you want to lose weight, cut back on soda/heavy sugared drinks, make sure to eat lots of fruit and vegetables, make sure you eat enough protein, and drink LOTS of water with lemon or lime juice in it. The citrus water will help flush fat out of your body, while eating properly helps keep you healthy.

Walk when you can instead of driving. Make sure to excersize at least three times a week if not more. Eventually, you will start losing that weight.

Don't expect it to come off right at once. Doing that will make you sick. It will be slow and gradual, and that is perfectly fine.

Answer 6

I think you have your facts a litlle confused. I think what you are hearing from people is not that smoking helps you lose weight, but rather that quitting smoking makes you gain weight. A lot of times when people try to quit smoking, they overeat, as they try to replace the oral fixation and gratification from smoking with eating. That is one reason why a lot of people do not quit, because they usually gain weight when they do, and would rather kill themselves while looking good. Even if smoking did help you lose weight, there are a lot better, safer ways to lose weight, such as cutting off an arm or leg.

Answer 7

No it's not true. Some people smoke instead of eating so I guess from that point of view it would work. Terrible idea.. just exercise more. That way you'll still be able to climb stairs without having a hack attack. I'm sure you've heard it a million times but don't start smoking, it's so bad for you and very hard to quit.

Answer 8

Yes you will lose a little weight...

And then when the cancer sets in, you will lose even more weight as the inside of your body begins to rot out. Then after that you will die before your time and then you will turn into dust and be REAL light!

Try running, jogging, walking, lifting, any sport, sex, spear chucking, high jumping, freeze tag, any damn thing in the world is better for losing weight than smoking!

Answer 9

Many more of us, myself included, find that smoking helps to keep off those unwanted pounds, and there may be some truth to that notion. Nicotine speeds up the physiological functions, especially the rate at which the body metabolizes food. When smoking stops, metabolism slows down, food is burned more slowly, and the pounds start adding. That reason alone is strong incentive for many of us to continue smoking. My daughter quit smoking for two months when she was 20; I (reluctantly) allowed her to start when she was 15. During those two months, she gained 10 pounds. Once she went back to the cigarettes, those 10 pounds disappeared within a month.

Answer 10

No the only reason people say that is because, when you smoke I swear your killing your taste buds. Think about it the first place that receives anything from a cigarette is you mouth then your body filters it from there. EEEWWW !!! That's why all of US smokers out there gain weight when we quit cause our body is rewarding us by giving us our taste buds back and food seems really good then cause we can finally really TASTE it.. So don't go starting this bad habit like I did...