Quit smoking without gaining weight

Smoking is harmful to health as everyone knows it increases the risk of cancer, heart and lung. If you do not smoke, never smoke, if you are a smoker, quit immediately. Quitting smoking is a difficult job for most drug addicts. However, if you are highly committed to a specific action plan, we believe you will succeed.

Find the cause

Before quitting, look for the reason why you smoke and are addicted to drugs.

May be social pressure: Your friends are smokers and encourage you to smoke; You live or work in a collective of people who smoke.

Maybe in your body you have developed nicotine dependence in cigarette smoke, when you stop smoking you feel uncomfortable and tired.

Maybe you smoke often because of your habit. Sometimes you don't have the urge to smoke but still get sucked because you see the person nearby smoking, or feel 'emptiness' on the tips of the fingers that are often used to grip the medicine when smoking.

Action program

To successfully quit smoking, when planning for quitting, it is necessary to take into account all the causes of your addiction. Here are some tips:

Choose a day that is a special day for you like your birthday, your wife or your child or your wedding day . to start your quit-smoking program, you should not plan for success.

Can convince his friends to quit smoking together.

Please inform your friends, colleagues, family members about your intention to quit smoking to receive their sympathy and support.

Try replacing smoking with other jobs such as exercising sports, creating a new passion, chewing gum, not eating high-calorie foods such as fat, butter . to avoid increasing. scales.

The best method is to quit completely without smoking ' cold turkey ' to be more effective than quitting slowly. The first few weeks are extremely difficult for you. In order for the program to quit smoking effectively, in addition to self-determination, there must be encouragement and encouragement of people around. You should avoid going to places where there are many smokers, like pubs, gathering cards, karaoke bars, dance floors .

Those who are too addicted can proceed to slowly abandon the program according to the plan (gradually reducing the number of cigarettes smoked in a given time).

Do not rush to burn the medicine when you feel a craving for medicine, try to endure it for 5-10 minutes by doing something.

Making smoking unfavorable as every time you only buy a few cigarettes, do not carry medicine with you.

When you are about to smoke, try asking yourself if you are really craving to smoke or simply reflex. Some smokers sometimes smoke because of reflexes - they feel on two common fingers to grip a feeling of emptiness and they hold a cigarette again.

Throw away all ashtrays at home, in cars, at work.

You can use some drugs to help quit smoking sold in pharmacies.

Why is it possible to lose weight when quitting?

When you quit, there are 3 things that happen to you:

- Normalizing the metabolism of substances in the body that were previously inhibited by nicotine, the food is better absorbed.

- The taste buds on the tongue begin to feel the taste of the food better so eat the appetite.

- For many years you have become accustomed to having a cigarette in your mouth, now you replace that habit with snacks (ice cream, sweet candies .) between meals.

Advice

- Eat 3 meals a day, eat enough, do not try to eat more.

- Do not eat or limit eating high calorie foods such as fatty meats, butter, cheese, ice cream, sweet candies.

- No snacks, if you feel hungry try to endure for a while, that feeling will pass.

- Participate in regular sports exercise to help the body burn excess calories, reduce stress and gradually forget the need for smoking.

Dr. DANG QUOC NAM