Do Cigarettes Cause Weight Gain?
Many smokers keep it up because they think they will gain weight if they quit. But what if smoking was more a factor in weight gain – but one that took place over time? “How can this be?” you ask. Let me explain…
Your liver is your prime detoxification and your prime fat burning organ. Actually, your liver does over a thousand jobs in the body, but two of its most important ones are daily detoxification and the burning of fat.
Now, it’s no secret that smoking is a habit that pollutes the body with literally hundreds of different chemicals per cigarette. And when you have lifestyle habits that pollute the body in this manner, your liver (which is like the air filter on your car, but it filters toxins from your blood) becomes overworked from having to detoxify so many incoming chemicals.
In addition to just being overworked and overwhelmed, your liver will also eventually become pretty thoroughly congested with toxins. This happens because if your liver can’t render a toxin harmless for you, it’ll store it. Your liver does this to keep the incoming chemicals and toxins out of your bloodstream – and keep them from causing you immediate harm. It’s a favor your liver does for you, but if it’s allowed to happen continually, it will cause problems over time.
By smoking, toxins will build in your liver and your entire body. With time, your liver will become impaired and unable to do its regular work – including burning fat and daily detoxification. Actually, smoking is an excellent way to build toxicity in your liver and thus hamper your liver’s ability to burn fat. But that’s not what most people want. It’s the opposite of what they want.
Quitting smoking is an excellent move in the right direction to dramatically decrease your incoming toxic load. In addition, doing a body cleanse, including a liver cleanse, can work wonders in removing much of the toxicity that smokers and even ex-smokers carry in their bodies. Because, unfortunately, most accumulated toxicity will stay put until some deep cleansing, especially liver cleansing, is done. And there’s only so much of a toxic burden that a body can bear before it begins having problems. Weight gain is actually a common symptom of an unhealthy liver! Health problems are too.
It’s widely accepted that health problems are both more common and more serious in people who smoke. Do you know why? The pollution of the body with so many toxic chemicals is certainly a large part of the reason.
But the other part is that by overburdening and overworking the liver, the chemicals actually hamper the liver’s ability to detoxify itself – in general. And when the liver can’t detoxify all of the incoming chemicals from other common chemical sources like processed foods, non-organic foods, lotions, cosmetics, and shampoos, you will begin to see health problems – without a doubt.
In addition, if you haven’t quit yet, cleansing your body can help you quit. This is because it’s the chemicals from the cigarettes in your body that are causing your cravings. You didn’t have cravings before you began smoking did you? So by removing those chemicals from your body, you can fairly easily eliminate your cravings. Trust me, both dropping the butt and cleansing your body can be two of the best things you’ve ever done. And you might just lose some weight in the process.
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