Many people do not mind giving up cigarettes once and for all, but there is one problem that makes them postpone the beginning of a healthy life. This problem is a set of additional kilograms after quitting smoking. For them, fear of recovering outweighs the danger of serious illness due to smoking. But not everything is hopeless, there are some rules, following which you can cope with the appetite and not take a cigarette in your hand.
It turns out that the body could fight the poisons produced with tobacco smoke, he needs to spend about 100 kilocalories per day. When smoke ceases to enter the lungs, then a short but very uncomfortable period occurs, when the body must get out of the toxins of tobacco. What should I do to survive this time?
Reduce the caloric content of the diet
First, cut your diet for these 100 kcal. If you, for example, stop eating fast foods, sweets or chips, nothing but good will bring it. When a person smokes, it is easier to bear the feeling of hunger, and many busy people with the inability to eat normally smoke instead of eating. Therefore, a cigarette on an empty stomach allows you to drink instead of breakfast only a cup of coffee, to refuse dinner, replacing it with a cigarette.
But now nicotine has ceased to enter the body, and then a natural appetite awakens and requires food. This is the reason for the constant absorption of all kinds of food by people who quit smoking. How to struggle with the appetite, so that it does not upset you to an incredible size?
Pay attention to low-calorie food, satisfy hunger, but only with light non-fat and non-calorie dishes. Of course, in the first place there are vegetables and fruits, which should take a worthy place in the diet stop smoking. Their fiber will fill your stomach, and you will realize that you are full.
Psychologists say that people often want not to smoke at all, but there are also people who are insecure often smoke, it is important that their hands and mouth are constantly busy, it is easier for them to adapt in society. There is a substitution of concepts and sensations, instead of eating, a person lights up, if he just needs to move and get warm, then he also grabs a cigarette. So watch your desires, if you are unbearably hungry for tobacco smoke, drink some water in small sips or pull yourself up on a horizontal bar, run along the stairs, poprisede. Do not hurry immediately to seize the desire to smoke, try to kill the apparent hunger with something else. Only when the hungry rumbling in the stomach began, then you can finally eat.
Find other pleasures
When cigarette smoke does not lubricate a picture of flavors and flavors, the language receptors are released from tobacco captivity, then the food suddenly acquires an insanely attractive look and smell, which causes an ardent desire to immediately try it.
Do not rush to the first food you eat, turn into an elegant connoisseur of dishes, become a little gourmet. Long choose products, take all the tastiest and freshest, eat it all slowly, savoring each piece and getting true pleasure from the restored opportunity to feel the real taste of food.
Nicotine is the same drug as alcohol, heroin, cocaine. He, like them, stimulates brain zones that control pleasure. Sweets stimulate these same areas of the brain, so many quitters replace the cigarette with sweets, candies, cookies, chocolates.
Do not be tempted to fill your refrigerator with sweets, buy a lot of green apples, celery, cucumbers, carrots. True, the latter has a high glycemic index, and there is not much to eat, but everything else is possible. Fruits and vegetables are an excellent alternative to chewing gum, from which there is a digestive disorder, sugar substitutes, the harm from which very often exceeds their benefits. Seeds, nuts, dried fruits are a great meal, but they have a lot of calories.
The most important thing in this period is not to mix up hunger and the desire to smoke. Your body is rebuilt, its hormonal system and receptors of taste and smell are simply stunned from freedom from nicotine. You can not go on about your desires, help the body with useful light non-calorie foods, you'll see how delicious you will eat them.
If you have insurmountable problems with tobacco weaning, then you can contact a psychologist or phone specialists of a telephone counseling center, created especially for those who struggle with nicotine addiction. They together with you will lead the refusal of the rituals of smoking, find a suitable replacement for a cigarette, good advice and help will be supported in a difficult battle for a life without cigarettes.