Is it true that smoking can help you lose weight? Check frightening new trend of teenagers who smoke just to lose weight. Did wisely chose this way? How big are the side effects?

Nowadays, where losing weight has become a passion, mainly among women, we are ready to do almost anything to lose weight.

I’m sure that almost all women think smoking is a bad habit, but many say smoking helps them lose weight and relieve stress. Some of them said this: “When I used to smoke, I almost not ate. As soon as I stopped smoking, I ate all the time.” while another girl remarked that smoking “makes me not want to eat”.

Smoking does increase the metabolic rate by about 10 percent and decreases the desire for sweet foods. And studies suggest that nicotine acts as an appetite suppressant. Therefore, the more you smoke the less hungry you feel and the less you are likely to eat.

But if the teenagers are smoking with these reasons, it will be very difficult to stop (fear of gaining weight). What if later they were married and pregnant? Smoking will damage their health, and in pregnancy the innocent babies in their womb would be affected. Everyone knows the dangers of smoking for the baby who was conceived by the mother. Women who smoke have a greater chance of certain pregnancy problems or having a baby die from SIDS.

Smoking causes cancers in parts of the body, esophageal, laryngeal, lung, oral, and throat cancers, chronic lung diseases, coronary heart and cardiovascular diseases, etc.

Smoking may be able to fix weight problem, but in the long term, the detriments that it brings to our health is not really worth it. Moreover, if bad for the people we love.