A man who had smoked for 20 years suddenly quit smoking. What was the reason?

Many people lament that they started to gain weight after quitting smoking and they couldn’t control it. But you can’t blame quitting smoking for your gaining weight. So why do you gain weight after quitting smoking?

This is like saying that if a person originally lived in a place with serious environmental pollution, when he moves to a place with a better environment, it will be detrimental to his health. What a joke!

The fact is that no matter how long a person smokes, the carcinogens in cigarettes that damage blood vessels will not become beneficial to the body just because the body gets used to it temporarily.

No matter how long you have been smoking, quitting smoking is definitely beneficial; no matter what happens after quitting smoking, it is a kind of salvation for the body.

During smoking, the intake of nicotine will reduce people's appetite. Nicotine, nicotine and the drug morphine themselves have the ability to inhibit the hunger center of the human brain, making people less likely to be hungry after taking these dependent substances. It feels that if you eat less, you will take in fewer calories, and your body will be less likely to gain weight. When you quit smoking, the reduced appetite may be suddenly released, causing smokers to gain weight.

This phenomenon does exist. The "weight loss" caused by smoking is actually at the expense of the blood vessels and gastric mucosa damaged by the smoke. The "fat gain" is just a manifestation of the recovery of digestion and absorption function.

In addition, the way you quit smoking also has an impact. For example, if you become addicted to smoking, you will inevitably "eat, eat, eat" to relieve it. If you eat too much, you will also gain weight.

Although people who smoke are generally thinner, the reason is that nicotine doubles the human body's basal metabolic rate. Quitting smoking will lower the metabolic rate back to its original state. Without increasing exercise and diet, the human body As the energy consumed decreases, the weight will naturally increase slightly; nicotine stimulates the release of reward substances (dopamine) in the brain center of the human body, and food has a small stimulating effect on reward substances to a certain extent, so smokers sometimes think about it. The feeling of smoking is mistaken for hunger; after quitting smoking, blood transport in the gastrointestinal tract returns to normal, so nutrient absorption is good, and people look radiant after quitting smoking. Therefore, smokers may gain 2-4 kg in the initial stage, but don't worry , as long as you pay attention to this problem at the beginning of quitting smoking, take medicine to help control the desire for cigarettes, plus eat a proper healthy diet and increase exercise, you can achieve health without obesity. In addition, slimming is good-looking, but it should be noted that smoking will hinder the transport of nutrients by peripheral blood vessels, causing rapid aging of human skin and increasing wrinkles.

Now that you have decided to quit smoking, don’t look back. To some extent, gaining weight after quitting smoking is a sign that your body is getting better.