I've recently started to work out but I find it hard to do some cardio efficiently because I've been a smoker for many years. I just get so out of breath and feel I'm a ways behind 'regular' people in a physical sense. Also because I've never been very active physically.
I want to start dancing again and modeling so my goal is to lose about 20lbs or so. (I'm about 5'7", 137lbs) In order to reach my goal quicker and more efficiently, not to mention save my health, I've decided to quit smoking cigarettes. The only problem is I'm terribly afraid of the dreaded weight gain!!
I already eat fairly healthy on a regular basis so I don't think I'll go nuts and pig out or anything, but I've always heard the weight gain rumors you know? I was hoping that someone might know a thing or two about it. Hopefully trading smoking for constant exercise will only put me a few steps forward instead of backwards. Thank you for the help ladies!!
xoxo
-H



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! Smoking is one of those things though, I smoked from 14 - 19 (I know that sounds bad, right!), but was never a heavy smoker, perhaps 4-5 cigarettes a day at most. Some days only 2. I actually quit inadvertently, I was prescribed wellbutrin (buproprion), which btw, I hated how it made me feel, but one of the side effects was it made cigarettes taste AWFUL. Like throw up a little in your mouth awful. Even though I haven't been on that medication in 3 years I still don't smoke (the exception being if I participate in something else....) and the smell of it, especially if it's just one cigarette, gives me that sick sensation all over again!
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