No Smoking Day - Wednesday 11th March
With ‘No Smoking Day’ just around the corner, taking the step to kicking the habit and quitting smoking has never been more beneficial for your health new health reports explain. Not only can you increase your quality of life and health, but you can now also beat smoking’s associated weight gain myth too.
According to recent studies when you quit smoking you can put on between 5-15 lbs, and this is due to nicotine actually leaving your body.
As a stimulant reputed to have a strong influence upon your body’s food cravings, nicotine directly interferes with your blood glucose levels by making the brain believe you have got too much glucose in your system when in fact you have not. As a consequence, your brain begins sending out signals telling your body to eat less and reduce your hunger levels, resulting is a steady weight loss.
