For most ex-smokers the greatest side-effect most typically associated with giving up using cigarettes will be an increase in weight. Beliefs differ whether or not this is a result of a general change in your body’s metabolism or the fact that the individual eats more to fill the amount of time that they used to spend cigarette smoking. My own individual belief is that it’s a combination of the two. In the first months of quitting smoking cigarettes I did not have a significant weight gain and also I didn’t think that I was particularly consuming more either.
Even so as time passed, the weight crept on and a couple years afterwards I got ten kgs overweight. That, for me personally is really a moderate discouragement in comparison with how delighted I am that i do not have any kind of wish (five-years on) to light up a cigarette. Owning a restaurant along with a bar in a country that still permits cigarette smoking ina restaurant without there even being a partition between the actual cigarette smoking section and the smoking parts, means that cigarette smoke will be part of every day living till we sell!
However, I am able to genuinely say that, despite the fact that I’d personally like not to spend all day being a passive smoker, I can sympathise with individuals who still smoke cigarettes.
I almost never get on the soap box concerning this unless I’m speaking to younger (18 – thirty five) yr olds.
Not that I regard myself ancient (43) by any means, but I do feel a sense of regret that I fell for the habit, openly smoking away and therefore encouraging the habit of smoking in others.
I suppose at least I’m able to gain some sense of payback with regard to that, now that I am motivating other people to stop!
The next time you’re passing
Walvis Bay
please feel free to drop by here
Namibia Restaurant
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