Hello John,
You bring up a good point. However, when I started my quit I went with the " quit smoking and loose weight" also. But soon found it very hard to take on both tasks. It seemed senseless to try and curve 2 bad habits at once. It got to the point that I didnt know witch one I wanted more. So I choose to quit first, it was a much more harder thing to do and I needed to concintrate all my energy on quitting smoking. I didnt put on much weight when I started my quit. Mainly because if I wanted to quit smoking, I needed to quit drinking beer. And when I quit drinking beer, the food cravings slowed down. I didnt do much excersing though, just walked when I wanted a smoke, especially after a meal. It wasent until after my 4th mounth that I started a weight loss program. So, it worked for me and my quit. However, as a health care provider, I have seen way more people die from cancer or illnesses directly related to smoking than I do from obesity. Not to say that obesity shoud be taken lightly, but I do believe that the results from smoking will kill you faster than obesity. Obesity will cause diabetes and yes, even heart failure. It will also cause strokes and a number of other illness including back problems. But some of these conditions are treatable and have a slower repercussion. Smoking on the other hand will be more aggressive in its nature even though some cancers are treatable. But the fact that smoking caused lung cancer and is a matastatic to many other organs is what makes this cancer so deadly and aggressive. Both will end up killing you, but ill take the obesity over lung cancer any day.
Jaset
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]11/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 298
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,960
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,639.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 45 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 2 [B]Seconds:[/B] 18
