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