Comments on: Does Smoking Make You Thin?

By: J

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:04:12 +0000

It’s funny…do a search for “smoking to lose weight”. The question is always asked, like it is here, “Does/can smoking help you lose weight?”. The answers however, are all like “OMG smoking is bad for u!!” “Don’t smoke it’s a bad habit” “Smoking kills”…etc etc. The question isn’t “Is smoking good for you?”.

I know smoking is bad for me. Duh. However, I want to know if smoking will help a person lose extra weight. Why is it so hard to get a straight answer to that without a lecture on the dangers of smoking?

By: Jarro

Jarro — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:43:53 +0000

Oh, and to Amanda:

Smoking is an ADDICTION, not a mere habit. Sure, you adopt habitual rituals that make it harder to quite, but the reason people keep smoking is that nicotine is an ADDICTIVE DRUG.

By: Jarro

Jarro — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:38:27 +0000

Talk about double standards! Americans are so god damned focused on smoking, how unhealthy it is etc. however, consuming the fried flesh of animals being brought up in the smallest spaces eating hormone treated, WRONG dry foods, THAT is OK. Tsk.. I’d smoke a cigarette any day before I’d eat a meat from the US!

By: kylie

kylie — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:08:05 +0000

smoking kills
dont do it.

By: xbabiyx

xbabiyx — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:33:48 +0000

well smoking does make me hungry but i would only eat a little then i’ll get bored of the food and just sleep(sleeping burns a little calories)i only consume a bag of chips and i would get full already and smoking makes my desire for drinking soda decrease.

By: CHRIS

CHRIS — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:36:18 +0000

We are all going to die one way or the other

By: Adrian Rama

Adrian Rama — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:29:20 +0000

yea.. NO! I assume that being in the fitness biz you are talking a bit tongue in cheek in asking the question. Besides all the obvious health issues with taking up smoking, the mere fact that you are going to kill yourself with cigs might be one way to consider at least the eventual weight loss advantage of smoking.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:41:00 +0000

The reason smoking helps people lose weight is because:

1.) Nicotine represses hunger

2.) Food tastes like crap when your taste buds are burned

3.) Nicotine keeps food in your stomach longer

4.) Keeps your hands and mouth busy

5.) Makes it harder to breath so your body has to use more energy to perform this simple function

By: Kenton

Kenton — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:09:05 +0000

Well I might be the exception to the rule, but I have to throw this in. I picked up smoking again 4 months ago(quit 6 years ago). I went from 223 pounds to 190 in 4 months. No increased exercise It did however make my urge for alcohol a lot less, so I went down to drinking 2-4 beers a week from about 20. So I’m not sure that smoking makes you loose weight, but if smoking curbs your appetite for alcohol, and causes you to eat less as well then the side effects of smoking would cause you to loose weight. As for the long term health risks are they greater for a smoker or an obese person? My guess is probably the latter

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:32:52 +0000

The reason people say that smoking helps people stay thin is because it acts as an appetite depressant. When you quit smoking you still have the oral addiction of putting something in your mouth and most of us will put food there instead of a cigarette. My suggestion would be to replace the habit with something less harmful. When you get the fixation, pop a piece of gum in your mouth instead of food.

It worked for me and everyone I have suggested this too