It has been seen for centuries now that people who are into the euphoric promises and sensation of nicotine in cigarettes seem to lose weight. On the other hand, those who decided and have committed their lives in quitting the bad habit seem to gain more weight accompanied by being happy. The world of science have long been into tracking the root cause of depression in cigarette smoking but in turn they have stumbled recently in discovering as why people who smoke are thin as opposed to the healthy and voluptuous bodies of those who quit.

Lab rats have been used since time in memorial as a typical testing subject for drugs and to find answers and linkages between diseases and the human brain, as well as its physical body. It has been said that the rats DNA are quite similar to the human beings. Hence, the term lab rats came to being. Scientists were testing these subjects to find drugs that link to depression. But when one particular associate research scientist, Yann Miuer, was testing such drug, he noticed that the rats were not eating as much.

During that time, Miuer’s team was testing nicotine. Due to such unexpected bump of discovery, they continued to examine it and results were stunning.  According to Miuer, nicotine activate specific nicotine receptors which are located on particular neurons that are known to decrease a

person’s feeding and increase his or her energy expenditure once activated. This happens as nicotine enters to our brain. In a layman’s term, nicotine affects the brain pathways in such a way that your brain tells you to stop eating for you had enough. Then it starts sending signals to your body to use the energy that you have garnered.

This is the very reason as to why people who quit smoking start to get their healthy and fat body back while those under nicotine continue to decrease their food intake themselves without actually feeling or realizing it at all. With such discovery, people from the fitness world start to question if nicotine then can be used to actually get those fat filled people start to slim down?

Miuer laughs while saying that their latest discovery does not actually advocate smoking to people, especially those who are having weight maintaining issues at hand. Rather, drugs maybe developed in the near future with contents that would control your appetite while at the very same time

increase your energy expenditure.

There are smoking drug cessation used today, such as cystisine (only sold in Europe), that gives the same effect to a person. But Miuer does not want people to actually take risks in such drugs in order to lose their fat for the fact that these receptors which react to nicotine in such a way, also helps the body control its dealings with stress. You may get a benefit through weight loss but depress due to stressors can result as well.

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