Flabby Tummy

Cigarettes can be an appetite suppressant, and often smokers have a lower body weight than nonsmokers. However, a 2009 study in the Netherlands found that smokers had more visceral fat than nonsmokers.

This deep fat pads internal organs and can accumulate in your midsection, ultimately increasing the risk of other diseases, such as diabetes.

 

Smoking Can Alter Your Body Shape
Smoking can create an imbalance in women's hormone levels, which can lead to changes in body shape. You may have heard the saying that smokers tend to be thinner than non-smokers. However, smoking actually affects the endocrinal system - the glands that secrete hormones - and changes body shape, increasing the waist-to-hip ratio. Therefore, despite possibly weighing less, smokers tend to be pot-bellied with spindly legs, probably due to smoking upsetting the hormone levels, thus causing smokers to store the normal amount of fat in an abnormal way, which gives rise to the 'apple' shape. Quitting means your body can get back to normal and recover from the effects of smoking. Stop accelerating the aging process. Undo the damage wrought by smoking.

Many years of research by reputable medical bodies has shown that:

* nicotine is more addictive for women
* women who smoke have twice the additional risk of heart attacks, strokes and lung cancer
* lung cancer kills three times the number of American women than breast cancer
* smoking is linked to early menopause
* the aging effect of smoking on the skin is worse for women

Smoking cigarettes accelerates the aging process. And this is proven!

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