Smoking cessation: how to prevent weight gain?

Smoking lose weight and the weight plug which followed the judgment of tobacco is generally as a catch-up, which incidentally is not inevitable...

How prevent weight gain to stop smoking?

The smoker is under-weight and generally wants to keep it when he decides to quit.

The smoking cessation weight gain is averaged 2.8 kg in males and 3.8 kg for women. However, number of ex-smokers take more, and conversely, number of smokers do not take, or even lose.

The power of the smoker is different from a non-smoker. And the food choices of the smoking increase the deleterious effect of the components of smoke on risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer...

Overall, smokers consume more calories than non-smokers, fat saturated fat, cholesterol and alcohol. On the other hand, they eat less polyunsaturated fat, omega-3 type, which are beneficial to health, fiber, vitamin C, vitamin E and beta carotene.

More muscle in smokers
Nicotine has hormonal effects favouring the key. Otherwise said, the muscle mass of smokers is more important and they manifest an increased protein requirement. The smoker has a specific appetite for protein.

But if the meat is the main source of protein, it also brings amount of saturated fat. In addition, suffering from a loss of taste and smell, smoker eat them in sauce and adding salt to promote the release of aromas. So a smoker consumes two times more salt than a non-smoker!

The other consequences of the loss of taste in the smoker
Also to put on the account of the decrease in its olfacto-gustatory sensitivity, the smoker eat few vegetables and fruits, it finds tasteless, tasteless. His spontaneous regime is therefore rich in saturated fat and salt, and low in fiber and micronutrients. It contributes to the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and certain cancers.

The smoker is also a sur-consommateur of alcohol, partly for an increase in energy harvest. And finally, the smoker uses more coffee and tea which he sugar more than others. In fact, it eliminates two times faster caffeine.