Many smokers hang on the the habit because of the belief that they will put on a few pounds if they drop the habit. But what if smoking was really a factor in weight gain - but over time? “How can this be?” you ask. Let me share why..

Your liver is your body’s prime fat burning and detoxification organ. Actually, your liver does over a thousand jobs in the body, but two of its most important ones are daily detoxification and the burning of fat. 

It’s widely known that smoking pollutes the body with hundreds of different and dangerous chemicals - per cigarette. And when you have lifestyle habits that pollute the body in this manner, your liver (which is like the air filter on your car, but it filters toxins from your blood) becomes overworked from having to detoxify so many incoming chemicals.

In addition to being generally overworked, your liver will also eventually become 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 bloodstream - and keep them from causing you immediate harm. It’s a short term favor your liver will do for you, but if it’s allowed to happen continually, it’ll absolutely 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 a great way to build toxicity in your liver and therefore hinder 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, while it’s unfortunate, most accumulated toxicity will stay in your body 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 begins having problems. Weight gain is actually a common sign of an unhealthy liver! Health problems are too.

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 toxic chemicals is certainly a large part of the reason.

But the other part is that by overburdening and overworking the liver, the chemicals actually hamper the liver’s ability to detoxify itself - in general. And when the liver can’t detoxify all of the incoming chemicals from other common chemical sources like processed foods, non-organic foods, lotions, cosmetics, and shampoos, you will begin to see health problems - without a doubt.

In addition, if you haven’t quit yet, body cleansing 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 cigarette cravings before you began smoking, did you? So by removing these chemicals from your body, you can 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.