Smoking Health Risks - Does Quitting Raise Your Chances of Type 2 Diabetes?

Suspect Headlinesprevent that turning into a permanent habit - replacing
It's important to pay attention to smoking health risksthe old smoking habit which you just rejected - is to be
but although the headlines read "Smoking cessationaware of your tendencies. You see, many people just
may actually Increase Risk of Developing Type 2go about their habits with no thought that they can be
Diabetes", this really was a little misleading. The onlychanged. They just keep nibbling without engaging in
risk from quitting smoking in relation to Type 2any assessment of their new behaviours. If you don't
Diabetes is from any weight you might gain; not fromnotice you're doing it how can you stop it?
the loss of any of the poisons and tars in a cigarette. InMany former smokers assume, as I said above, that
fact there is a far greater risk to your health if youweight gain is inevitable. It isn't. You are in charge of
continue to smoke.your own body. You have made an awesome
decision to quit smoking; you've achieved one of the
Risk factors of quittingmost important goals for your future health; you've
Smokers are constantly bombarded with the risksucceeded - maybe after months or years of
factors attached to their habit but rarely consider thatprevious failures. Don't ruin it all by making the
there may be some risk attached to quitting. Of courseassumption that you will put on weight because that
continuing to smoke is dangerous at every level butvery assumption will become your reality!
we quit smoking to support our health - as mostHow to think
smokers do - then we need to take care of ourselvesInstead; keep looking at those bullet points above.
in other ways also.These are proof positive that permanent weight gain is
When you quit smoking, the only real risk to your healthnot inevitable. Make a choice. Make a decision. If you
is to then swap one unhealthy habit for another! Whynotice you are eating more than you used to, just go
would you do that? Massive weight gain is NOTback to eating the amount you did before and eat
inevitable.your meals slowly:
Weight gain facts- chewing your food thoroughly sends messages to
- On average former smokers gain around 8lbs inthe brain that you are, in fact, eating. When we gulp
weightfood down fast and use little or no chewing motions,
- Therefore, logically, some gain a great deal more,our brain thinks we haven't eaten.
some less, some none at all and some may even lose- Chewing food helps digestion. The food reaches the
weight - this makes up the averagestomach sooner, is processed more quickly and
- Food tastes and smells better when we have quit sotherefore you feel fuller before you cram down the
is more temptingpudding.
- Some smokers swap their "mouth habit" to food- Chewing food at a meal takes a lot longer than just
instead of cigarettes - it's just an alternative pacifiershoveling it down. It takes about 20 minutes for your
(child's dummy - UK).stomach to feel full so it makes sense to take a long
Many of my clients are really worried about weighttime over a meal.
gain when I help them quit but when I tell them the- Chewing food thoroughly helps weight loss
average and how it's made up they are amazed.immeasurably. The food becomes mixed with saliva
They seem to have gained a false impression thatwhich helps it break down correctly in the digestion
smokers balloon out of all proportion automatically, pilingprocess and reduces the amount of fat stored.
on weight and unable to quit like an express trainSo cut those smoking health risks today and cut the
whose brakes have failed. NOT TRUE.only quit-smoking health risk along with it and you'll
Preventionhave a healthy future to look forward too with no
Well, in the first couple of weeks you may well findmore cigarette toxins in your body and no weight gain
yourself nibbling a bit more but the only way you caneither.