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Weight Gain from Quitting Smoking

Temporary Weight Gain Happens after Quitting Smoking and Can be Controlled

There is common misconception among the smokers that quitting smoking causes weight gain. This is also one of the many reasons why many smokers fear to quit this deadly habit. In this blog today, I’ll try to clear the misunderstanding and talk about what actually happens when you quit smoking.

It is not known to many individuals that tobacco consumption either in smoke or smokeless form, curbs the hunger without the person even realizing it. Researchers from Yale University have found that nicotine in tobacco excites certain brain cells that causes them to either fight back or give away a flight response. They do not produce pleasurable feeling and fight by curbing hunger in the person. This is why a person who consumes tobacco feels less hungry as compared to a non tobacco consumer and is thinner as compared to the non tobacco users.

As soon as one quits smoking or chewing, the nicotine from the body is flushed out and these cells do not get activated to fight back for anything. This results in restoring of hunger and the appetite starts getting back to normal shape. Since one had been eating lesser because of tobacco, they tend to feel comparatively hungrier and more number of times, than before quitting.

This results in people eating more frequently and munching on their favorite cuisines and dishes. This frequent intake of food is the root cause of sudden weight gain. If not controlled and managed properly, results in substantial weight gain and becomes a habit leading to the person getting back to smoking to again control their weight or eating uncontrollably causing obesity.

If proper diet and exercise is introduced and followed during the quit cycle, then there will not be any substantial weight gain and the person will also be able to maintain their fitness. There might be a temporary gain. But with exercise and ayurvedic foods, weight can be managed and maintained properly.

Weight Can be Managed with Diet and Exercise Plan During the Quit Cycle

We at ICanCaRe follow a very systematic approach in helping the people manage their weight while they are quitting smoking with us. Appropriate diet and exercise plan is introduced to help the patients. Care is taken to introduce tasty food items so that the person does not feel bored out and follows the plan properly without any considerable weight gain.

I hope this blog was helpful. Do comment and let me know your experiences and thoughts. Share ahead to also help others bust the misconception about weight gain from quitting smoking.

Call 011-430-77695 for assistance in quitting tobacco or visit Quit Tobacco page to know more details about our online tobacco cessation and wellness program and register for the same.

How to Clean Your Lungs after Quitting Smoking?

Cleanse Your Lungs in a Healthy and Natural Way!

There’s often this common question from most of the quitters of smoking and even the smokers themselves that how can they clean their lungs after smoking. How to remove the tar, how to detoxify the body, how much time will it take to clean the body, will the damage from smoking be undone, can the lungs become fully healthy, etc. are also some of the questions asked commonly by many smokers.

In this blog today, I shall elaborate on the natural ways to clean and detoxify your lungs to ensure that the lungs get back to healthy shape as fast as possible. Lungs are capable of healing themselves. However, adding activities that can aid the cleaning process speeds up the process and prevents further damage. The following practices can be adopted:

  1. Steam Inhalation: Perform steam inhalation for 15-20 mins twice a week (for severe smokers) and once a week for all others. This helps to break the tar in the lungs and remove them from the air bags.
  2. Use Acapella: This is a device to improve oxygenation in the lungs. It expands the constricted air bags in the lungs and helps to absorb more oxygen thereby also improving the lung conditions. It is available on www.icancare.org
  3. Pranayam: Performing 15-20 minutes of pranayam daily also improves the breathing process and helps to improve the lungs’ functioning and strength.
  4. Herbal Tea and Green Tea: Introducing a cup of herbal tea and green tea on alternate days helps in detoxification of the body.
  5. Introduce Anti-inflammatory Diet and Anti-oxidants: Food products like turmeric, green leafy vegetables, cherries, blueberries, pineapple, citrus fruits, sprouts, lentils and beans have anti-inflammatory properties. It will help in preventing inflammation of the lungs and also prevent congestion that causes difficulties in breathing and heaviness in the chest.
  6. Use Respiratory Mask in polluted places and to protect self from passive smoking and other forms of smoke. The polluted air also causes huge damage to the lungs and other vital organs.
  7. Put Some Indoor Plants that helps to improve the quality of air at home and workplace. Some of them includes Aloevera, Areca Palm, Lad Palm and Bamboo.
  8. Avoid too much of caffeine intake in coffee and tea and other products. 2 Cups of tea/coffee should be drank in the entire day as it has medicinal properties.
  9. Introduce a regular sport or favorite form of exercise in your daily routine and make it a habit to do 1 hour of vigorous exercise once every week.
  10. Drink a glass of vegetable juice every morning that should at least have bottle gourd, pudina, ginger, carrot and lemon in it.

These measure when adopted and practiced regularly will help in cleaning your lungs as a faster rate and will also make you healthy at the same time. When the oxygenation in the lungs improves, one feels much more active, fresh and livelier than before. Going out for vacations 3-4 times a year into the wild where there’s serenity and peace all around is also advised. You will notice that you feel very fresh with nature and are rejuvenated to a great extent.

Jeera Water – A Cure to Constipation

Often many people experience constipation and the reasons can be many. It can happen from improper and incorrect diet, dehydration, lack of exercise, travel or other changes in routine and quitting smoking.

Many solutions are available which includes medication, ayurvedic treatment, yoga aasanas, homeopathic treatment, Indian churan and more. In this blog I’m going to enumerate a very easy, simple and quick way to help you with your bowel movements in the morning – having half glass of hot Jeera water daily before sleeping. It has proven effective for many people especially the smokers who are trying to quit smoking and chewing.

Many people have a glass or more of hot water in the morning, some have honey water, some have lemon water etc. to help them in passing motions. This is another way that can be added to routine to help with bowel movements. It has other benefits like it reduced acidity and gas, helps in weight loss and also mitigates the knee pain in many cases. 

Jeera Water – A Quick Way to End Constipation and Acidity!

How to make jeera (cumin) water?

In 1.5 glasses of water add

  • 1 tea spoon of whole jeera (cumin seeds),
  • 1 tea spoon sauf (fennel) and
  • 1/4 tea spoon of ajwain

Steps:

  • Put the entire mixture to boil on high flames
  • Once it starts boiling, lower the flames and let it be on the low flames for 20-25 minutes till it becomes half a glass of water
  • Allow it to cool to an extent you can drink (it should be hot when you drink)
  • Drink before going to bed
  • Ensure that you do not add any sugar, salt or honey to it.

The mixture will taste bland but you need to drink it as is.

This practice will bring you in healthy shape within a week’s time. Those having severe acidity and problems of gas should intake this without fail to mitigate their acidity. It will reduce your acidity medicine intake and bring it to zero. You will not need any medicine to cure your acidity, gas and constipation ever!

It is always better to choose natural methods of healing over medicine for it will make you healthier and boost your immunity at the same time.