March 21, 2009
Many smokers keep smoking because they believe that they will put on a few pounds if they quit. But what if smoking was more a factor in weight gain – but one that took place over time? “How can this be?” you ask. Let me explain…
Your liver is your body’s prime fat burning and detoxification organ. Actually, your liver has over a thousand jobs in the body, but two of its critical ones are daily detoxification and burning fat.
Now, it’s no secret that smoking is a habit that pollutes the body with literally hundreds of different chemicals per cigarette. But, what you may not know, is that with habits that pollute the body to such an extreme, your liver (which filters chemicals and toxins from your blood) easily becomes overworked and overloaded from the constant need to detoxify all of these incoming chemicals.
In addition to just being overworked and overwhelmed, your liver will also eventually become pretty thoroughly congested with toxins. This is because if your liver can’t render a toxin harmless for you – it’ll store it. Your liver does this to keep the incoming chemicals and toxins out of your blood – to keep them from causing immediate harm. It’s a favor your liver does for you, but if it’s allowed to happen continually, it will cause problems over time.
With the habit of smoking, toxins will build up in your liver – and throughout your body. Eventually, your liver will struggle to do its daily work – which includes fat burning and detoxification. Actually, smoking is an excellent way to build toxicity in your liver and thus hamper your liver’s ability to burn fat. But that’s a far cry from what most people want. It’s the opposite of what they want.
Quitting smoking is an excellent move in the right direction to dramatically decrease your incoming toxic load. In addition, doing a body cleanse, including a liver cleanse, can work wonders and remove much of the stored toxicity that smokers and ex-smokers have in their bodies. Because, unfortunately, most accumulated toxicity will stay put until some deep cleansing, especially liver cleansing, is done. And there’s only so much of a toxic burden that a body can bear before it starts showing symptoms of problems. Weight gain is actually a common symptom of an unhealthy liver! So are health problems.
It’s widely accepted that health problems are both more common and more serious in people who smoke. Do you know why? The pollution of the body with so many highly toxic chemicals is certainly a considerable part of the reason.
The other part is that by overburdening the liver, those chemicals actually hamper the liver’s ability to detoxify the body – in general. And when the liver can’t detoxify all of the incoming chemicals from smoking, and other common sources like processed foods, non-organic foods, lotions, cosmetics, and shampoos, you will undoubtedly begin to see health problems.
In addition, if you haven’t quit yet, cleansing your body can help you quit. This is because it’s the chemicals from the cigarettes in your body that are causing your cravings. You didn’t have cravings before you began smoking did you? So by removing those chemicals from your body, you can fairly easily eliminate your cravings. Trust me, both dropping the butt and cleansing your body can be two of the best things you’ve ever done. And you might just lose some weight in the process.
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