How to Avoid Gaining Weight When I Stop Smoking

If you follow a program like Nicotine Solutions that allows you to change your habits slowly, then you can change your behaviors and you won't stress out your body when you stop smoking. Cold turkey is very stressfull to the body.

If you have ever tried to quit smoking cold turkey...you know what I mean.

I know it sounds crazy, but it takes 21 days to change a habit and you need to give your body time to adjust.

Sometimes people that have quit smoking cold turkey are still recovering from it after 20 years, and they have gained all kinds of weight.

Temporary Weight Gain is only one of the temporary symptoms that your body goes through when you stop smoking. For a complete list of What happens to your body when you quit smoking click here.

Nicotine Solutions teaches smokers how to quit calmly & comfortably over a period of 6 weeks!

1. Do NOT substitute anything for the habit.

Don't substitute:

• gum
• candy
• toothpicks
• lemon drops
• pies
• food
• taffy
• sunflower seeds for the habit

If you substitute anything for the habit...(even if it is non-caloric), you will keep the habit alive. If the habit is kept alive long enough, you will eventually either gain a lot of weight and then go back to smoking (because you were thinner as a smoker...well that is what you will tell yourself!), or you will just keep the habit alive enough so that one day.....you may go back to smoking.

2. Drink 1/2 of glass water before each meal. This will fill you up faster so you won't over eat.

3. Drink as much water as you possibly can. Drinking water will help to keep your metabolism up.

4. Cut down on foods with high sodium levels.

5. My neighbor told me about a shoe store that is not everywhere, but what a difference they will make if you can get to one of their stores.

Road Runner Sports has a free service where they will take a heat measurement of where the weight goes when you run and they will also do computerized pictures of your gate as you walk on a treadmill and from that they analyze what type of shoe that you need.

I had never even heard of the shoes that they recommended for me. They said I needed them for stability. I put them on and they were like "butter".

I am so much happier walking with my new, well fitted walking shoes from RoadRunnerSports.

6. Start to exercise at your target heart rate. An easy way to know if you are exercising at your target heart rate is to wear a Sportline Watch. You can find out your heart rate in just a few seconds by just pressing on a silver button on the watch!! It is very cool!