Will you gain weight by quitting smoking during pregnancy?
The general rule is that smokers can expect to gain around 2 - 3 kilos (around five pounds) after giving up the habit, mainly because they use food as a substitute for cigarettes and partly because nicotine helps speed up metabolism. Still, there aren’t any good studies showing how giving up smoking will affect weight gain during pregnancy.
Most women who give up smoking during pregnancy end up with a “normal” weight gain of 11-16 kg (25 to 35 pounds). For any woman, it’s really impossible to say how many of these extra pounds come from the pregnancy and how many come from stopping smoking.
If worries about weight have kept you from stopping smoking in the past, pregnancy is the perfect time to give up. You’ll have that urge to munch at a time when your baby needs the extra nutrition. If you’re concerned that you’re getting too heavy during your pregnancy, talk to your doctor or midwife. The solution might just be some exercise.
Quitting really takes all your energy and effort, so the best way to use exercise to help control weight after quitting might be to begin a regular exercise program. Exercise will help you keep your weight down, and it can also make it easier for you to quit and will provide you with an alternative activity that will help you make it through the most difficult parts of cigarette withdrawal. Adding just 10 minutes of walking to your daily routine should be enough to shave several pounds from your total weight gain.
You may also need to pay closer attention to your diet. High-calorie snacks aren’t the only way to fill the void left by cigarettes. A piece of fruit, or a healthy snack such as an oatcake or cereal bar, will work just as well as a doughnut.
Even if giving up smoking does add a few extra pounds, you have to look at the big picture. Those pounds won’t pose any threat to your baby. The same can’t be said for cigarettes.
Being overweight and pregnant raises your risk of some pregnancy complications. If you’re concerned about your weight, talk to your midwife or doctor and get tips on healthy eating during pregnancy.
4 Tips to Help You Quit Smoking For Life
If you are wanting to quit smoking the most difficult step can be saying to yourself yes that is what I want to do. Once you have overcome that first hurdle it takes a tremendous amount of willpower to succeed. Today’s society is slowly changing and making it an anti-social behavior however there is a long way to go. Society is still setup in such a way that it encourages smoking.
Did you know it is not so much the nicotine that causes a cigarette addiction, there are thousands of chemicals that are added to the manufacturing of cigarettes. This makes it hard for you to get away from having that puff on a cigarette whenever the urge hits you. The nature of cigarettes makes it so you are dependent on them, not just physically but also psychologically. This article is all about offering you some tips that hopefully you can take away as you attempt to quit smoking for life. If you do follow them the chances are greatly increased that you will quit smoking.
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hat if you fail to quit smoking? Of those who have failed (and the percentage is small) one complaint has been that they didn’t know what to do with the time or the physical action previously used in lighting and smoking a cigarette. They failed to understand the importance of the concentration break.
Others have said that in a crowd, and particularly after only a few days’ trial, they missed smoking. They failed in understanding the pseudo-prestige of smoking. Some have said that the smell of cigarette smoke tempted them back to smoking. They hadn’t sufficiently established the stimulus of clean, sweet air as a response to the habit of not smoking.
Posted in Quit Smoking Mindset | No comments Light or low-tar cigarettes safer during pregnancy?
These “light” branded cigarettes are quickly gaining popularity in the cities, several are specially targeted to women.
Many pregnant smokers might be tricked into beleiving that by choosing a light or low tar cigarette brand, the harm to themselves or their baby will be significantly smaller.
The labels on light cigarettes may say “low nicotine” or “low tar,” but the claims are meaningless. Low-tar cigarettes might be slightly ‘less dangerous’ rather than ’safe’. They are supposed to have less than 15 milligrams of tar. Cigarette companies have simply changed the design of some cigarettes so they produce fewer toxins when tested by machines in government laboratories. For instance, manufacturers put tiny vents in the filters so that the machines suck in fresh air as well as cigarette smoke. But when so-called low-nicotine or low-tar cigarettes are smoked by people instead of machines, any differences pretty much disappear.
Posted in Quit Smoking Problems | No comments Smoking during pregnancy
Smoking during pregnancy can put the mother and the baby’s life in danger, and is also a risk factor for very preterm birth. It causes a number of problems, including preterm delivery, low birth weight and sudden infant death syndrome.
The pregnant mother’s smoking may also increase the risk of stillbirth, miscarriage, and severe vaginal bleeding. Smoking during pregnancy is causally associated with an annual estimated 32,000-61,000 low-birthweight infants and 14,000-26,000 admissions to neonatal intensive-care units (3), and should always be strongly discouraged.
According to researchers women who smoke seem more likely to have their babies prematurely. And prematurity, despite recent medical progress, is a hazard to health and even life: 50% of all babies who die in the first month after delivery are among the 7% born prematurely.
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Take a look at this picture from a pack of cigarette bought in southest Asia.
Would you take a cigarette from this package and smoke with a good conscience?
Watch Your Weight gain while Quitting Smoking
Quitting smoking? It’s definitely a step in the right direction towards improving your health. But make sure to watch your weight in the process or your lungs won’t see all the benefits that come from butting out.
“The overall effect of quitting smoking on lung function seems beneficial, but this effect could change over time if mean BMI continues to increase in the population,” writes author Dr. Susan Chinn in the journal The Lancet.
Posted in Quit Smoking Effects | No comments Smoking and High Blood Pressure - A Deadly Combination
Health is not just a goal, it is an ongoing process. Health and ill health depend on the power of digestion. Healthy, low fat foods are a great way to change your diet for the better. Healthy food provides quality fuel, and will improve your health while raising your energy levels. Healthy people who have blood pressure that is low but still in the normal range (when measured at rest) tend to live longer than people who have higher normal blood pressure.
Blood pressure is an important diagnostic index, especially of circulatory function. It is continually changing depending on activity, temperature, diet, emotional state, posture, physical state, and medication use. Blood pressure is elevated for two main reasons: too high blood volume too narrow blood vessels due to a substance our kidneys make called angiotensin. However, the biggest problem with treatment of high blood pressure is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of the application of our current knowledge.
Posted in Quit Smoking Effects | No comments Be positive, eat healthy, drink much and Quit smoking asap!
Hope you all are doing great with the quit smoking progress in this new year of 2008. Many who’ve been down the road of quit smoking can tell you that the road to end the bad smoking habit for good is like the worst test of willpower and motivation. But just because it isn’t always easy to quit smoking, doesn’t mean that it’s impossible. On the contrary – if you are truly ready to quit smoking, there are a great many things that you can do to increase your chances of success.
From finding natural remedies that will help you stick to your guns about your decision to quit smoking, or just finding a few people to act as your support group while you quit smoking; the process may be difficult – but never impossible.
Posted in Quit Smoking Methods, Quit Smoking Mindset | No comments Let 2008 be the Year You Quit Smoking
The Holidays of Christmas and New Year are over. I really hope you all enjoyed them as much as I did. My time over the holidays was spent in Poland at my parents in law. It was really nice to relax in a small village in southern Poland without any access to internet.
Both my mother and father in law are notorious smokers and I ofcourse have tried to influence them into a healther life, but sadly they don’t listen to my lecture. It takes time for most people to realize what cigarettes are doing to them self and their relatives and some people just don’t want to quit no matter what you tell them.
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