It can be very difficult for some people to give up smoking. But you shouldn’t relax when you finally managed to quit. Resent researches show that when you give up smoking you can gain extra weight. However there are special products that help you maintain your weight when you have quitted smoking. This product is called a nicotine patch.
 Smoking controls your weight
We often understand weight loss by the smoking. A lot of women started smoking in order to lose extra kilograms. The investigations held in a University of Toronto showed that girls who are considered as being overweight were smokers and comprised 50 % from the girls with normal weight or too tiny.
Why do we gain weight when we quit smoking?
It is known that nicotine increases the metabolism and when we give up smoking it lowers and you start to gain extra weight even if we limit yourself with your meals. When we have quitted this habit we will feel hungry more often and the food will be more pleasurable for us. In this case the cigarettes are replaced by the big amount of foods intake. As a result we will receive more calories instead of burning them.
How to lose weight correctly
When we gave up smoking you should choose appropriate workout and a balanced diet. If we do exercises regularly we will be able to quit smoking faster. Pick a diet which is good for health. Unfortunately, it was proved that smokers can do the exercises but they can’t stick themselves to dieting.
Acomplia is a great product for smokers
In 2006, the French company Sanofi-Synthelabo designed a nicotine patch and product that help in our weight loss called Acomplia. It contains the drug named Rimonabant and it includes the features of a nicotine patch and serves as weight loss product at the same time. This invention is useful for lowering the food and cigarette cravings and we will be able to give up smoking and lose our weight at once. Acomplia helped obese people lose nearly 20 lbs. and also doubled the possibilities that they should get rid of this habit.
The principals of the work of nicotine patch
The nicotine patch and weight loss drug include the efficient active ingredient called Rimonabant. It bars the CB1 receptor, which is located in the Endocannabinoid System (EC System). This receptor performs the regulation of the consumed food and energy.
Due to this process we can control your desire which is helpful in losing weight and prevents us from obesity. It also lowers the addiction to tobacco and maintains our weight afterwards.
Smoking interruption programs
It is profitable to use both nicotine patch and weight loss drug. But other studies show that such nicotine products as nasal spray and inhaler give you greater results then the nicotine patch.
Regular diet patches
If the person doesn’t smoke he or she mustn’t take a nicotine patch and weight loss product in order to get rid of extra kilograms. It can be harmful for our health. For such people special regular diet patches were invented. They have the same characteristics as the nicotine patch. The diet patch will help us lower the food consuming.
Look through the ingredients of a diet patch
1. Fucus Vesiculosus – helps speed up the metabolism, burn more calories and improves the process of digestion.
2. Guarana – it also extends our metabolism and increases the energy.
3. 5-HTP – helps avoid consumption of sweets and carbohydrates due to the regulation of serotonin levels in our brain.
4. Zinc Pyruvate – prevents the breakdown of fat cells and forms thin muscle mass.
5. DHEA – controls the calorie intake.
6. Yerba Mate – it lowers our appetite (located in South America).
7. Lecithin – helps get rid of fats and cholesterol and maintain body weight.
8. Flaxseed Oil – contains healthy fatty acids.
9. L-Carnitine – makes our body burn calories faster.
10. Zinc Citrate – it is also useful for weight loss.
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