Post by judyb on Sept 12, 2011 18:25:23 GMT -5
From former smoker Sagitelle, who we just found out has passed away
Cigarettes are deceptive. The whole smoking aura is a farce. Yeah, they keep you slim. They
totally screw up your metabolism so that when you quit, your body is thrown for a loop. It
doesn't know how to handle the calories it's being fed without help from its old allies: cigarette
chemicals which would burn these calories at an abnormally fast rate. Must have burned my
brain cells too for me to think for even a fleeting moment that this was an "advantage". I have to
relearn how to balance caloric input and output all over again, because the old numbers don't
work anymore and I don't know my own body anymore. It doesn't respond like it used too. It
doesn't function like it used too. And all this "thanks" to cigarettes.
It's a woman thing indeed. The cigarette manufacturers know very well a lot of women are
terrified of being fat. The "weight control" aspect of smoking is perhaps the biggest appeal of
cigarettes. That's why today more girls than boys take up smoking.
If I had to decide again I would never light that first cigarette. Even the weight control "power" of
cigarettes is more a curse than a benefit in the end. Most of us have quit in our forties. At a time
when our metabolisms are already slowing down, we also have to contend with the quit effect.
No wonder most of us are struggling to control our weight. It just makes me angrier to know that
cigarette manufacturers have the audacity to use the weight control trump card in their ad (in a
devious manner of course). I guess you could say my anger is also a "woman thing" - and my
name ain't Virginia Slims baby.
Sagitelle
Cigarettes are deceptive. The whole smoking aura is a farce. Yeah, they keep you slim. They
totally screw up your metabolism so that when you quit, your body is thrown for a loop. It
doesn't know how to handle the calories it's being fed without help from its old allies: cigarette
chemicals which would burn these calories at an abnormally fast rate. Must have burned my
brain cells too for me to think for even a fleeting moment that this was an "advantage". I have to
relearn how to balance caloric input and output all over again, because the old numbers don't
work anymore and I don't know my own body anymore. It doesn't respond like it used too. It
doesn't function like it used too. And all this "thanks" to cigarettes.
It's a woman thing indeed. The cigarette manufacturers know very well a lot of women are
terrified of being fat. The "weight control" aspect of smoking is perhaps the biggest appeal of
cigarettes. That's why today more girls than boys take up smoking.
If I had to decide again I would never light that first cigarette. Even the weight control "power" of
cigarettes is more a curse than a benefit in the end. Most of us have quit in our forties. At a time
when our metabolisms are already slowing down, we also have to contend with the quit effect.
No wonder most of us are struggling to control our weight. It just makes me angrier to know that
cigarette manufacturers have the audacity to use the weight control trump card in their ad (in a
devious manner of course). I guess you could say my anger is also a "woman thing" - and my
name ain't Virginia Slims baby.
Sagitelle