You Wont Get Fat When Stop Smoking, If You Dont Overeat.
Another frequently-repeated rationalization for the cigarette habit is: “I’d like to stop smoking, but every time I do I gain weight. And it’s worse to be overweight than it is to smoke.”
The good news is, not all smokers who stop smoking gain weight. Even if weight gain was inevitable, the average gain is only between 6 and 8 pounds. Not too much of a big deal now, isn’t it?
It isn’t the fact that a person has stopped smoking that may cause him to gain weight. It’s the fact that he substitutes the habit of overeating for the habit of smoking.
In the belief that he needs something tangible to relax tension (which he previously achieved by the mechanical movements of lighting a cigarette) a “reformed addict” may take to eating candy bars or nibbling on sweets . . . something to do, anything to do, in other words, to take his mind away from the pressing problems, and to get back some of those old, familiar gestures that are part of the habitual pattern of smoking.
The gesture of reaching for something, and picking it up, and then...
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