Smoking and obesity

Cigarettes contain nicotine, tar and benzene in some kind of toxic substances. Smoke into the lungs can cause coughing and specificity of the human body will cause lung cancer; smoke into the stomach, stimulate the gastrointestinal motility, so that enhance the digestive function, the smoke for a long time to stimulate the appetite suppressants, it is thin.

This is a good thing to quit smoking, but many of the old "smokers", also means new challenges. U.S. Centers for Disease Research Center (CDC) study results show that the American people to stop smoking in the future will increase the weight, an average increase of male 2.8 kg, women on average 3.8 kg increase. In particular, is at least 55 years old, smoking every day in more than 15 people in it easier to quit smoking after the fat. Why? Researchers found that: There was some emotional and behavioral reasons, including the kind of thing like to put his mouth habits. Nicotine in tobacco as a whole to speed up the physiological functions, in particular, the frequency of food metabolism in the human body, even though smoking is mostly idle in the period. Smoking is often excessive speed up the heart rate, average heart rate for smokers 84 times per minute, rather than smokers, the average heart rate for 72 times per minute. Once the cessation of smoking, slow metabolism, slow food consumption, body weight increases.

Those who quit smoking often brought back to the "hidden smoke" and a variety of circumstances forced to quit when his mind seems to be a sense of emptiness and want to eat sweet food. This is because nicotine reduced blood levels of insulin, thus reducing the people's desire for sweets, in addition to the role of nicotine in the blood levels of insulin increase the regular session, people tend to eat more sweets.

In that case, you can not use smoking to lose weight this way? Is not the case, to the smoking harms the body of excess body weight than the harm caused by the much larger, a considerable number of patients who die from smoking Related diseases. Are we Chinese people would like the Americans do the same? Though we do not have been large-scale epidemiological investigation, but found in a number of clinical patients to quit smoking thin, shiny face has been marked improvement, but the weight and Did not significantly increase, the increase in individuals with changes in diet are closely related.