Cigarettes, coffee and weight control

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I’m a coffee drinker (generally, a couple cups a day). I tried smoking cigarettes at age 13, and quit a couple months later. (Years later, did smoke a little cannabis for a while.)

The Seniors’ site has this well-use forum for discussing weight loss or control. In my life, I’ve encountered quite a few people who are on the opposite end of the challenge-spectrum, the skinny ones, who are both chain smokers & “chain coffee drinkers”. I’ve also noticed that many people gain weight if they quit smoking.

Out of some aimless if science-respecting curiosity, I wonder what the physiological explanation might be. Do nicotine and caffeine affect human biochemistry in a way that burns fat or reduces the body’s production of fat cells?

Incidentally, I'm not wanting to lose weight. When my cancer radiation therapy was completed, I pursued a goal of gaining back 15lbs.





Anybody know about this?
 

I think that people who are really addicted to cigarettes will limit their food intake so as to get to the after meal cigarette faster.
Cigarettes and coffee seems to squelch appetite.
It does work for weight control but at what cost?
I think coffee is relatively harmless, possibly even healthy but cigarettes? No.
 
Nicotine speeds up the body's food processing system, the metabolism. When people stop smoking, their metabolism slows down which is why many people gain weight when they quit, even though they aren't eating more food. This can be avoided if you make some healthy eating choices while quitting.
 

MrPants said:
Nicotine speeds up the body's food processing system, the metabolism. When people stop smoking, their metabolism slows down which is why many people gain weight when they quit, even though they aren't eating more food. This can be avoided if you make some healthy eating choices while quitting.
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I agree and so does caffeine. They both also suppress appetitive.
 
Yes, what Peppermint Patty said. So when a smoker quits the habit he will be hit with a double whammy of gaining weight even though eating the same meals he ate before and yet feeling much hungrier than ever before.

Yes, he can avoid this weight gain by eating fewer calories per day than he ever did before, and just try to ignore the fact that he's extremely miserable because he's not only craving cigarettes but starving all the time.
 
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Della stated ;
"Yes, he can avoid this weight gain by eating fewer calories per day than he ever did before, and just try to ignore the fact that he's extremely miserable because he's not only craving cigarettes but starving all the time."

OMG - -It sounds like the nightmare is just beginning for this poor soul.
 
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JBR said:
I’m a coffee drinker (generally, a couple cups a day). I tried smoking cigarettes at age 13, and quit a couple months later. (Years later, did smoke a little cannabis for a while.)

The Seniors’ site has this well-use forum for discussing weight loss or control. In my life, I’ve encountered quite a few people who are on the opposite end of the challenge-spectrum, the skinny ones, who are both chain smokers & “chain coffee drinkers”. I’ve also noticed that many people gain weight if they quit smoking.

Out of some aimless if science-respecting curiosity, I wonder what the physiological explanation might be. Do nicotine and caffeine affect human biochemistry in a way that burns fat or reduces the body’s production of fat cells?

Incidentally, I'm not wanting to lose weight. When my cancer radiation therapy was completed, I pursued a goal of gaining back 15lbs.





Anybody know about this?
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I guess I am a “chain” coffee drinker. I drink about a pot or a pot and a half a day. I drink Maxwell House half and half. I tried smoking, but I gave it up after only a few years. I was dating a beautiful young lady who told me she didn’t approve of smoking, so I quit, just like that.

I went to her house to pick her up for our date and while I was waiting, I saw her dad light up, so I took out my cigarettes and asked him if he minded if I lit up. He told me to go ahead. When my date came down the steps, she looked at me and said to put it out before we left the house.

Once outside, I asked her if she didn’t like people smoking. She said it repulses her. I told her I saw her dad smokes and she quickly reminded me that doesn’t mean she’s ok with it. It was then I took my pack and threw them in the trash can when we got to the mall. She told me I didn’t have to do that, but I told her it was ok, I really didn’t enjoy it anyway. I haven’t smoked since.
 
Nathan said:
Caffeine and nicotine are both stimulants, which of course contribute to weight loss.
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While we are on the subject, I have a question that I can’t seem to get a straight answer to. If coffee is a diuretic, but it contains a lot of water, does it or doesn’t it count towards your water intake for the day?
 
Coffee, tea, and caffeinated soft drinks absolutely do count. Caffeine intake increases your natural water loss, but you'd have to consume a LOT of it to totally offset the fluid increase from those beverages.

Caffeine content varies depending on the source. Brewed coffee usually has substantially more than instant. Some soft drinks are loaded with added caffeine. There are also foods that contain natural diuretics.
 
My wife and I have lost three siblings between us to tobacco, all three died around the 60 mark. To consider smoking as a weight control policy is folly in the extreme.
 
JBR said:
I’m a coffee drinker (generally, a couple cups a day). I tried smoking cigarettes at age 13, and quit a couple months later. (Years later, did smoke a little cannabis for a while.)

The Seniors’ site has this well-use forum for discussing weight loss or control. In my life, I’ve encountered quite a few people who are on the opposite end of the challenge-spectrum, the skinny ones, who are both chain smokers & “chain coffee drinkers”. I’ve also noticed that many people gain weight if they quit smoking.

Out of some aimless if science-respecting curiosity, I wonder what the physiological explanation might be. Do nicotine and caffeine affect human biochemistry in a way that burns fat or reduces the body’s production of fat cells?

Incidentally, I'm not wanting to lose weight. When my cancer radiation therapy was completed, I pursued a goal of gaining back 15lbs.





Anybody know about this?
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Maybe this link will help.

Types of psychoactive drugs and their effects
 
I tried smoking and thought I was going to choke to death, so it was 1 cigarette and done. When I worked on the farm, a couple of the other men talked me into chewing tobacco and didn’t like that, so I chewed two times and quit. Probably in my last 15 years of working, I don’t think any Troopers were smoking.
 
Yes, nicotine speeds up your metabolism, so increases the amount of calories your body uses. It also narrows your arteries, so speeds up your heart-rate a bit as well, increasing blood flow, which feels kind of good ...until you have an aneurysm or something.
 

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