Will Quitting Smoking Makes You Fat?

There are factors that predispose to quit smoking gain weight. Quitting smoking affects hormones, nervous system, sense of taste and smell, the ability to digest and assimilate nutrients from food.
The psychological, influences the presence of anxiety and insomnia that somehow we must fight, and eat it feels to be overcome.
 
What happens in your body when you stop smoking?
 
Nicotine is the addictive component of snuff. The person who smokes, the substance works by decreasing your appetite, muscle movement throughout the entire digestive system (especially at the level of stomach and intestine), necessary for the digestion of food. It also acts by reducing the function of the gallbladder bile-store necessary for the assimilation of fat-, and other digestive secretions, making it difficult to use nutrients from food.
 
The nicotine and other toxic components of snuff, have a negative impact on our body.
So when you stop smoking the body shows a number of effects at different levels, such as:
Body weight. Heat production (thermogenesis) in the body of smokers increases about 6%, and basal metabolism is increased by about 200 kcal compared to nonsmokers. This is one reason for weight gain after quitting smoking.

Stress and anxiety. Nicotine results in increased levels of certain hormones such as adrenaline. When a smoker is hungry often responds to low blood glucose levels using the hyperglycemic action of nicotine. In the absence of snuff, increases stress and anxiety for an extra boost the nervous system, and also produces more adrenaline. In these cases, we usually try to calm nerves by eating more than they should, and especially worse or caloric foods and less nutritious.

Taste and smell. The snuff impairs the ability to smell and taste of the smoker. This effect is reversible so that when you stop smoking, improving taste and smell. He enjoys most of what you eat, you want food and food with strong flavors This can make you eat more food and the result is a calorie diet.

Digestion and metabolism of nutrients. The use of snuff is associated with increased acid secretion in the stomach. When smoking stops the levels of these acidic substances are normalized and improves the movement of the intestinal wall thereby digestion and metabolism of nutrients is more effective.
 
However, if carried out a balanced diet and regular exercise practice, smoking cessation does not mean that necessarily is going to get fat.