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BBC News - Nicotine treatment 'could control obesity'
BBC News - Nicotine treatment 'could control obesity'
Nicotine treatment 'could control obesity'
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I thought many people (particularly women) smoked in the 50's to maintain their girlish (agian, mostly the women) figures.
Smoking used to be healthy.
Smoking used to be healthy.
Absolutely. This article claims the average weight gain on smoking cessation is only 2.5 Kilos. This is only my personal opinion, but I believe that the data may have been cherry picked to avoid alarming smokers about trading one health risk (smoking) for another (obesity). And indeed many of the health risk calculators show a longer life for a smoking thinner person than for an obese former smoker.
More recent research has admitted that for many smokers--especially women, the average is closer to 13 Kilos.
There is also no mention that the weight gain tends to be cumulative. The weight gained with smoking cessation tends to be resistant to all attempts to lose it. So if you quit numerous times and gain 10 pounds each time, by the time you have tried and failed 3 or 4 times, you've gone from normal to overweight to obese.
Not scientific by any means...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/polls/159489-losing-weight-vaping.html
But I seriously doubt you're going to see similar results with any other quit method.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/polls/159489-losing-weight-vaping.html
But I seriously doubt you're going to see similar results with any other quit method.
Wow. If you were smoking 3 1/2 packs a day, it's possible that even with chain vaping you're not getting the same amount of nicotine that you used to. For example, when I got my blood tested by VCU, I vaped very consistently for an hour straight (16mg liquid as I recall). As I recall, when the researcher presented the results (not of mine necessarily, but of others who probably vaped similarly), the height of the blood nicotine levels was only the point that a smoker would reach if he smoked 2 cigarettes in a 15, 20 minute period.
Related, there is also this new study on Weight gain in smokers after quitting cigarettes: meta-analysis, Aubin et al., BMJ 2012 [open access]:
Back before there were e-cigs ...
I stopped smoking cold turkey for about a month
and discovered tons of different kinds of food to enjoy
Bought one of those bread makers ... house smelled wonderful 24/7
Was told that all the weight I put on wasn't from the bread
but all the butter and jam.
I stopped smoking cold turkey for about a month
and discovered tons of different kinds of food to enjoy
Bought one of those bread makers ... house smelled wonderful 24/7
Was told that all the weight I put on wasn't from the bread
but all the butter and jam.
Yet more positive news for tobacco users.
It may end up where people who use low risk tobacco products are overall healthier then non-users. Wouldn't that be a hoot......
It may end up where people who use low risk tobacco products are overall healthier then non-users. Wouldn't that be a hoot......
Back before there were e-cigs ...
I stopped smoking cold turkey for about a month
and discovered tons of different kinds of food to enjoy
Bought one of those bread makers ... house smelled wonderful 24/7
Was told that all the weight I put on wasn't from the bread
but all the butter and jam.
Nah, I used to walk past a bakery on my way home from junior high school. I swear I gained weight from the smell of the bread baking. I couldn't smell any butter or jam...
It wouldn't surprise me after all the heat is off and the FDA is cool with e-cigs
that we might just see a study proving those with a moderate consumption
of nicotine via low risk tobacco products ... Live longer.
There is a reason I continue to use 12mg even though I am not addicted to nicotine.It wouldn't surprise me after all the heat is off and the FDA is cool with e-cigs
that we might just see a study proving those with a moderate consumption
of nicotine via low risk tobacco products ... Live longer.
I made a conscious decision when I quit smoking to vape sweet stuff. Every time I had tried to quit before I gained a ton of weight because I kept putting food in my mouth in place of that cigarette. I also have a sweet tooth.
I've been off cigarettes since 24 Feb 2011, I vape mostly dessert flavors or espresso juices and I have not gained a pound so far. I don't seem to want sweets at all as I get the taste and smell of them via vaping. I don't know if it's delusional on my part or factual, but vaping those flavors seems to kill the 'need' to put the real thing in my mouth.
YMMV
I've been off cigarettes since 24 Feb 2011, I vape mostly dessert flavors or espresso juices and I have not gained a pound so far. I don't seem to want sweets at all as I get the taste and smell of them via vaping. I don't know if it's delusional on my part or factual, but vaping those flavors seems to kill the 'need' to put the real thing in my mouth.
YMMV
It wouldn't surprise me after all the heat is off and the FDA is cool with e-cigs
that we might just see a study proving those with a moderate consumption
of nicotine via low risk tobacco products ... Live longer.
Consider Prohibition (Capital B) and how far we've done. Now, there is actually a RECOMMENDED daily alcohol intake amount.
"But honey, the government RECOMMENDS I have this beer!"
It wouldn't surprise me after all the heat is off and the FDA is cool with e-cigs
that we might just see a study proving those with a moderate consumption
of nicotine via low risk tobacco products ... Live longer.
If my foggy memory serves me right, the early studies done on pipe smokers showed they lived slightly longer then the general population. It was thought that perhaps the relaxation and contemplation of smoking a pipe, which is a much different experience then smoking cigarettes, and is also not inhaled, contributed to a longer life. In 1964 the surgeon general released a report on tobacco use and condemned cigarettes as being harmful, but did not condemn pipe smoking. That wasn't changed until 1979.
Could it be that the nicotine warded off things like dementia and weight gain that is common in later life. Probably better to smoke a pipe bowl then eat a bag of chips.
Now all we get is dangerous misinformation from the powers that be
Health Fraud
Reality is often different from propaganda.
I'm well over 60 and can't tell ya how much
pure BS I've heard in my life.
Actually, we all are hearing a lot of pure BS right now
due to this being an election year.
Nicotine is guilty, in the general public's opinion,
simply due to the association with tobacco.
Actually, nicotine is one of the few ingredients
in cigarettes that many have heard of ... and can pronounce.
I'm well over 60 and can't tell ya how much
pure BS I've heard in my life.
Actually, we all are hearing a lot of pure BS right now
due to this being an election year.
Nicotine is guilty, in the general public's opinion,
simply due to the association with tobacco.
Actually, nicotine is one of the few ingredients
in cigarettes that many have heard of ... and can pronounce.
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Interesting article and discussion.
The first year I quit smoking and started vaping, I actually lost weight.
I have gained some of it back as my vaping has settled down some to less chain vaping but I'm still not up where I was when I quit smoking. I'm sure that if I could not vape (and I did not go back to smoking), I would, like Petrodus mentioned, find excitement in different foods and satisfy my oral cravings with food and end up gaining weight.
The first year I quit smoking and started vaping, I actually lost weight.
I have gained some of it back as my vaping has settled down some to less chain vaping but I'm still not up where I was when I quit smoking. I'm sure that if I could not vape (and I did not go back to smoking), I would, like Petrodus mentioned, find excitement in different foods and satisfy my oral cravings with food and end up gaining weight.
Woo! Always love some good news. This isn't just good but great in my opinion.
I have to add on a personal note my weight stayed about stable when I switched to vaping. The bonus I didn't gain as so many do when they go it cold-turkey.
I have to add on a personal note my weight stayed about stable when I switched to vaping. The bonus I didn't gain as so many do when they go it cold-turkey.
I call shenanigans, I was big when I smoked, I'm the same now vaping...
Nicotine has done nothing for my girlish figure
Nicotine has done nothing for my girlish figure
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