“Tricking” your brain is probably not a good idea over the long run. I wonder what other side effects that could trigger? The best way to lose weight is to portion your food and drink a lot of water.
Because you're looking at skinny smokers. Try looking in a city with fat people, and you'll see fat smokers.
“Smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths “
I had no idea that death was ‘preventable’
I can tell you why EX-smokers bloat up like a freaking beachball (smoked for 30 years and even if I gained a “few” pounds quitting was the 3rd smartest thing I ever did)!
1) You get HUNGRY! The cigs were suppressing your appetite (the point of the article I gather)
2) Food tastes GOOD! When the cilia stop laying down, they rise up and start telling your body “HEY This is freaking GOOD!” Everything for the first year or so after the taste buds reawaken tastes like ambrosia! You really see that food was God’s way of telling you He loves you and wants you to be happy.
All the smokers I know are over weight. They over eat and smoke and don’t do any exercise. Don’t know one skinny smoker.
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With the increasingly high cost of cigarettes, they can’t afford to eat.
I thought this was common knowledge about nicotine (from chew as well as smoke).
Come on, when it comes to food, eat classic French.
Best ways to eat vegetables, packed with taste, minimal nutrition and flavor lost in preparation. Decent meat portions, can use low cost cuts of meat and braise them - same thing, more flavor, more nutrition. Sauces are not nearly as bad a people think - they make the meal. Soups !
Portions are automatically smaller because they are flavorful and satisfying.
They literally wrote the book on food.
And... back in the day - people here in America used many of the basic techniques and approaches to food !!!
We’ve just lost it all cuz we’re eating at junky chain restaurants and buying stuff in a box instead of raw ingredients. Many times grandma was the last in her line to cook anything real. When she says “stock” she’s not talking about shares.
Anyone can do it - I’m an idiot and I can make a decent meal in 20 minutes.
Nothing better, it works. Cuz you’re completely satisfied with only a reasonable amount of calories.
Have a cigar/smoke now and then to top it off.
Virtually limitless variation, easy once you get the hang of it.
You’ll get to your “right” weight (not anorexic) and be overflowing with ENERGY, cuz yer eatin’ right !
Just do a little strenuous exercise that makes your muscles sore now and then and your fat burning machine will get turned back on. Give it a go, it’s a whole new world.
Jacques Pepin’s fast food series shows you things that are real easy just to ease into the idea and get started and get some success.
Then find the cookbook La Bonne Cuisine. It explains a bit about the “restaurant” way of preparing, but basically explains things from the point of view of a home cook. Written by a home cook. Gives you the virtually every technique, i.e., knife, what pans to use and why (please stainless or cast iron cooking surfaces IYKWGFY), different cooking processes. It’s like a cooking course that you can just work your way through and use as a reference. It’s detailed so just expect to take your time (years) and have fun.
God put all the delicious and nutritous food all around us - we just have to get up and get it.
IMHO.
If a girl starts smoking at age 16 and smokes 1 pack per day she until she is 40 she will have 400% more wrinkles than a non-smoker!
Back when I smoked, I was unable to lose weight. It was bizarre and kind of scary. Then I quit and dropped the 10lbs I had wanted to lose.
One of the biggest lies I told myself when I smoked was that, on some level, smoking was okay for me to do. That it wasn’t “that bad” for me, that I had a right to smoke, and, oh gosh, it would be impossible to quit, so just keep doing it. Once I did quit, I realized what I liar I was.
Back when I smoked, I was unable to lose weight. It was bizarre and kind of scary. Then I quit and dropped the 10lbs I had wanted to lose.
One of the biggest lies I told myself when I smoked was that, on some level, smoking was okay for me to do. That it wasn’t “that bad” for me, that I had a right to smoke, and, oh gosh, it would be impossible to quit, so just keep doing it. Once I did quit, I realized what I liar I was.
I believe it.
I actually know women who chew nicotine gum to stay skinny.
I guess it’s better than doing coke which some of my sorority sister used to stay skinny back in the day.
I guess the news is they have found the exact mechanism. But Nicotine as a weight loss aid has been known for decades. I have known people who used nicotine gum as an appetite suppressant.
Why are smoker’s skinny? Because while they’re smoking, they’re not eating a Snicker bar. At least I’ve never seen a smoker eating one while smoking.
Smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the Unites States...
I believe this is wrong. Pretty sure I heard that obesity and it’s complications have surpassed smoking by a significant amount.
There is also the fact that within a year of stopping cigarette smoking the thyroid slows its functioning.