| There is substantial evidence | | | | to stop smoking without weight gain. |
| underlining weight gain as the main | | | | What you think is that you 'want a |
| concern smokers cite as a reason for not | | | | cigarette' when in actual fact, you want |
| stopping smoking. This is amongst the | | | | some nicotine. It is simply that over |
| many other excuses smokers give for | | | | the years, you have wanted nicotine, had |
| putting off stopping smoking. Other | | | | a cigarette to get it and then been |
| examples include the inability to cope | | | | rewarded with the discomfort of the |
| with stress or a fear that they will not | | | | craving subsiding. What has happened is |
| be able to enjoy an upcoming party or | | | | that you have subconsciously replaced |
| their life in general without their | | | | the connection of getting nicotine and |
| trusty cigarettes. | | | | the craving dying and having a cigarette |
| Smoking is an addiction to nicotine but | | | | and the craving dying. |
| most smokers, and non-smokers for that | | | | In your mind, you see the cigarette as |
| matter, wrongly think of it as a habit. | | | | the thing you desire when in actual fact |
| This is not the case. The urge to smoke | | | | it is the nicotine. The cigarette is |
| is so overwhelming; it simply cannot | | | | simply the delivery system. This is why |
| just be a habit. | | | | pharmaceutical companies (wrongly) think |
| The suffering that smokers must go | | | | nicotine patches and gum can help |
| through in order to be able to smoke, is | | | | smokers quit. |
| evidence as to why smoking is not a | | | | So how does knowing this help you learn |
| habit, but is an addiction. Smokers | | | | how to stop smoking without weight gain? |
| cannot inhale any other form of smoke, | | | | Well, the point is that when you stop |
| other than tobacco smoke, without | | | | smoking, you will find that the craving |
| coughing and spluttering or even being | | | | for a cigarette (well nicotine) is very |
| sick. | | | | similar to the craving for food. It is a |
| Once smokers come to realise the | | | | hollow empty feeling. Whilst you |
| addiction to nicotine is the reason they | | | | struggle with your willpower to overcome |
| smoke, it becomes easier to learn how to | | | | the urge to smoke, you will try and |
| stop smoking without weight gain. | | | | subdue the craving for nicotine with |
| Smokers think they enjoy smoking as | | | | something that 'might work' - eating. |
| much, if not more, than eating. However, | | | | Smokers often turn to food to settle the |
| there is a very subtle difference | | | | craving for nicotine. This is where you |
| between smoking and eating and | | | | end up gaining weight because you are |
| understanding this is the key to | | | | wrongly trying to settle your hunger for |
| learning how to stop smoking without | | | | nicotine by doing what seems right when |
| weight gain. Read this two statements: | | | | you hunger for food. Your calorie intake |
| "When you are hungry, your body tells | | | | goes through the roof and you pile on |
| you so by giving you hunger pangs. You | | | | the pounds! |
| eat and you are rewarded with the | | | | When you recognise that your apparent |
| discomfort subsiding." | | | | increased appetite is just you mixing up |
| "When you want a cigarette, your body | | | | cravings for food with cravings for |
| tells you by giving you a craving. You | | | | nicotine, it becomes easier for you to |
| smoke and you are rewarded with the | | | | control your response - i.e. whether you |
| discomfort subsiding." | | | | chose to eat or not. Once you have |
| When you read these two statements as a | | | | mastered this understanding, you are on |
| smoker, you are probably in full | | | | the right track of how to stop smoking |
| agreement with them. But, the second one | | | | without weight gain. |
| is wrong and that is the secret of how | | | | |