Can e-cigarettes help you lose weight? Quitting smoking is the best way to lose weight

The Internet is going viral: "Smoking e-cigarettes can help you lose weight!", which has sparked a lot of discussion. Doctors point out that smoking is harmful to the body and the same goes for e-cigarettes. Although e-cigarettes are different from cigarettes, they are not very helpful for weight loss. As for the fact that they are prone to obesity after quitting smoking, it is a normal phenomenon and addicts do not need to worry too much.

Liu Bowen, executive director of the Taiwan Obesity Education and Prevention Association and a weight loss specialist, pointed out that many drug addicts believe that smoking can help them lose weight. They mistakenly believe that when they smoke, the nicotine concentration in the body increases, the heart rate speeds up, and they are in a relatively excited state. The basal metabolic rate increases slightly, the satisfaction with food increases, and they are more likely to feel full.

Smoking can cause cancer and losing weight is unhealthy

In addition, harmful substances in cigarettes, including nicotine, greatly affect the sense of taste and smell, making food taste worse, which in turn reduces appetite and creates the idea of ​​"refusing to eat". However, this method of losing weight is not healthy, mainly because cigarettes contain many carcinogens, which cause much more harm to the body than weight loss.

At the same time, there is another fact that is easily misunderstood by everyone: e-cigarettes are not smoking cessation products. At most, they can only be regarded as smoking cessation aids and are merely substitutes for cigarettes. Its principle is to use nicotine to solve the physical addiction, and to use simulated smoke and the taste of simulated smoke to solve the psychological addiction, so as to achieve the effect of replacing cigarettes.

Vaping doesn't help you lose weight

Dr. Liu Bowen emphasized that e-cigarettes cannot help with weight loss and may even be harmful to your health. This is mainly because the formaldehyde and acetaldehyde components in e-cigarette oil can affect human health. If e-cigarette oil containing diacetyl is ingested, it is more likely to cause obstructive bronchiolitis, commonly known as "popcorn lung."

In fact, e-cigarettes also contain nicotine, which is no less harmful to health than cigarettes. They are also more likely to cause stroke and vascular disease, and are of no help in quitting smoking. At the same time, although regular e-cigarette smoking sometimes increases the feeling of fullness in the stomach, it is of no help in weight loss. The only way is to quit smoking.

Nicotine is the key to smoking-induced weight loss

In addition, many smokers believe that their weight will skyrocket after they quit smoking, and they worry that obesity will affect their health, so they are unwilling to quit smoking. In fact, it is not that you gain weight after quitting smoking, but that smoking makes your body unhealthily thin, and quitting smoking only makes your body return to normal. Generally speaking, your weight will return to 2 or 3 kilograms after quitting smoking. Compared with the harm of smoking, this weight gain has a negligible impact on the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems.

As for whether smoking affects the taste buds, in fact, smokers' food usually has less taste. In addition, nicotine causes people to metabolize faster and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, which can cause them to become morbidly thin. After quitting smoking, your taste buds will return to normal, food will become more delicious, nutrients will be absorbed normally, and your weight will naturally increase.

5 tips for quitting smoking to prevent obesity and lose weight

1. Drink less alcohol: Alcohol will increase calorie intake, stimulate gastric juice secretion, and increase appetite. It will not only make people fat, but also make alcohol and tobacco inseparable, which will easily increase smoking.

2. Drink more water: Quitting smoking will significantly reduce your metabolic rate. Drinking more water can increase your metabolic rate. Water has no calories and helps metabolism.

3. Low calories: A long-term low-calorie diet can reduce the desire to eat. People who eat more greasy food are more likely to not avoid certain foods. It is recommended to eat more whole grains and foods rich in B vitamins.

4. Eat less fried food: Fried food, sweets, fast food, spicy food and other foods with strong taste will increase appetite. Caffeinated beverages should also be avoided. It is recommended that when cooking, you can consider using more methods such as roasting, braising, cold dressing, degreasing or boiling.

5. Brush your teeth often: Brush your teeth immediately after meals. Brush your teeth immediately after eating a fixed portion to avoid continuing to eat and reduce the risk of obesity.

【Tips for weight loss】:

When losing weight, it is very important to eat regularly, at regular times and in regular amounts. Irregular eating can cause blood sugar to fluctuate, affecting the normal functioning of the brain. Overeating can sometimes cause blood to concentrate in the digestive organs, leading to lack of energy and indirectly reducing the willpower to quit smoking. In contrast, regular eating can make the physiological rhythm regular and the metabolism smooth, which is helpful for weight control and the continuation of smoking cessation.

Reminder: Smoking is harmful to health, quitting smoking is good for health