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10 but i'll Get Fat Smoking is known to suppress appetite. Some people actually start smoking to lose weight and nearly all smokers worry that quitting will cause weight gain. This is a very real challenge that needs to be taken seriously. Here are tHe factS: • Smoking does suppress appetite • Smoking does reduce small and taste, so making food less appetising • Smoking is a habit that some people replace with nibbling & eating • Smoking helps some people on an emotional level (they feel more relaxed and confident) and in some cases, eating is used to achieve similar results. • Smoking does not cause weight loss in any DIRECT way. • Unless you gain a LOT of weight it is very unlikely that weight issues could be less healthy than your smoking is. So the bottom line is that weight control is possible when quitting. It may take a little discipline and it may not be easy. It's mainly about being sensible and not using food as a habit or an emotional crutch. In fact, as your sense of taste and smell improves you will find yourself enjoying milder healthier foods like salads much more than you did before. We suggest that you "allow" a few kilogrammes (up to 5 perhaps) over the first 2-3 months and then set about taking charge of your weight at that stage. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY Cigarettes are expensive. You might argue that the tax-man has rather "taken advantage" of smoking's unhealthy image to create a huge government income but whatever the rights and wrongs of that may be, the fact is that your smoking costs you a lot of cash. We are not going to do this calculation for you though, so please fill in: i smoke _____________ cigarettes a day, which is about _____________ packets a week and _____________ packets a month. at __________________ per packet my smoking is costing me __________________ per month. what will you do with the money you are going to save?

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