Does Smoking Keep You Thin And Speed Up Your Metabolism.?
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No, it does slow down your Metabolism and you become weak and increases the likelihood of lung cancer then death. My grandpa died at age 73 on 2006 because of lung cancer. (smoking killed him) Smoking is doomed to failure. Bad I tell you. Not a good thing.
Lord, no. Scratch that. Yes, SOME people do lose weight after they start smoking, but to a sickly anorexic-looking level. However, you should know that the same amount of people who become freakishly thin become overweight instead. It absolutely does not speed up your metabolism, the people who become thin get that channel because their body is trying to tell them it's sick.
If you want to lose weight, exercise, go on a diet, try an acai supplement. But please, PLEASE, don't smoke. You may construe that the cancer is just news propoganda, but my entire family died of lung cancer. Don't smoke, dude, it's a fundamentally long and painful death that is of course not worth just to lose a few pounds. Source(s): First hand experience.
Nicotine and its metabolite cotinine are both stimulants. It is for this reason that this drug can increase your metabolic rate. However, after a patient has be smoking for a long enough period of time, this effect can become tolerated by the body, and the body then adjust and metabolism returns to what it was before. Of course there are other exceptions, as everyone responds to drug compounds in a unique way, but for the most slice it can speed up metabolic rate and as a result this does suppress the appetite in most.
The bigger factor is the mental aspect. This is an oral fixation for people. Therefore when they are bored, stressed, whatever, they turn to cigarettes to afford their hands something to do. It is the same as a compulsive eater turning to food, or an alcoholic turning to alcohol. Once the person stops using the substance, after they are left with a void. That null and void can be unbearable to most, and in an effort to maintain from falling off the wagon, they fill that cancelled with another vice. For many X smokers this new vice is food. It is for this idea that they tend to gain weight after quitting smoking. Source(s): Toxicologist
Smoking is TERRIBLE for you and is a HORRIBLE passageway to lose weight and the only reason it is perceived as a weight-loss method is because it make people no longer enjoy eating because it destroys piece buds, so food no longer tastes good.
Yes and no. Nicotine is an appetite suppressant. One of the problems some people enjoy after quitting is they start eating more and consequently gain weight. If looks are your primary concern, then you should also realize that smoking significantly increases how rapid you develop wrinkles. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor that decreases blood flow everywhere--including the skin on your face. The smoke itself is also a direct irritant to the skin. I can almost always report if someone is a smoker as soon as I see him/her. After about middle age, the smokers look 10-20 years older than the non-smokers.
No, but it does hold on to you unattractive and speeds up your death.
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