Introduction
E-cigarettes were outlined to be a more secure choice as compared to ordinary smoking. Yet those who started vaping experiment with it for weight loss or as an anti-craving tool.
Two notions may explain why people use e-cigarettes to quit smoking: the belief that vaping contributes to weight loss. First vapes are available in different flavors including those that resemble the taste of different chunks and desserts. This might make people be of the opinion that vaping could satisfy a craving for something sweet or for snacking.
Second vapers assume that vaping also makes them lose their appetite. To clarify this let's take a look at the nicotine which is present in cigarettes.
Nicotine and Weight Loss
It's hunger and instead of getting the dopamine benefits from eating one gets it from the nicotine making food less attractive. Despite the fact that nicotine does not supply nutrients to the body it may well reduce the rewarding value of food and increase satiety so that one eats less.
Nicotine Speeds Up Metabolism
Some of the effects of nicotine include raising the body's basal metabolic rate basically making the body burn more calories even when it is at rest. This coupled with results indicating that smoking suppresses the appetite might be the reason smokers are usually lighter than non-smokers.
Vaping Will Lead to Weight Loss?
Although they argue that nicotine vapes can be employed for weight loss this is not a healthy or viable long-term solution. However, a study done in early 2017 showed that 13 percent of doctors are willing to prescribe the same drug to their family members. A study revealed that 5% of adult users of e-cigarettes used the products with the aim of losing or even dieting. However, this is not advisable. Even so, it is not completely wrong to indicate that there is a likelihood that vaping could be beneficial in aiding weight loss.
Impacts of Nicotine
Do vapes suppress appetite? If the vape juice contains nicotine then it probably does. Earlier we have explained that in addition to exerting influence upon the craving regulation system, nicotine conditions the metabolic process and can cause weight loss. Consequently, there is no reason to believe that nicotine vapes wouldn't have these same effects.
Behavioral Alternative to Eating
The vaping process resembles the hand-to-mouth behaviour which is characteristic of smoking. Therefore it can be used to explain why at times vaping is more effective in smoking cessation than nicotine replacement products. This repetitive action could shift focus from hunger. Also, it could hinder what the subject might consider 'normal' to be eating and thus curb the amount of mindless eating which could trick the brain into thinking one is eating and therefore suppress appetite.
Flavor Options
Is there anything from fruit flavors to the intricate bakery candy and all-around breakfast cereal flavors as we now have thousands of e-liquid flavors? It is almost like vaping can serve well for those who wish to have these tastes but are avoiding the calories sugar or fats contained in some of these products.
Vaping and Weight Gain
Smoking with an e-cigarette does not seem to lead to weight gain: now there's proof. However certain factors that can be linked with vaping could cause a person to experience a change in how much weight they gain.
Reducing nicotine intake significantly may lead to weight gain/ increase your appetite if you're a smoker who's planning on cutting out nicotine. This occurs since the mind looks for other methods of gaining dopamine that was gotten from nicotine say by making food means. It is worth stressing that people tend to gain weight after cessation of smoking.
If vaping is done less frequently then it is recommended that instead of cutting it out people replace this activity with snacking.
Do Vapes Have Calories?
Yes, The substance inhaled through vapes which is called e-liquids has calories in it. The main components of liquid are PG and VG which constitute more than 95% of it and contain approximately 4 calories per milliliter. To be quite frank the decision to add the flavors and sweeteners only contributes to the product in the most tiny manner regarding calories.
However, as follows due to the fact that you tend to inhale the liquid rather than consume it traditionally these calories are not metabolized as such, calories in nourishment are taken through the stomach-related framework whereas the Vapor is for the most part taken through the respiratory framework. Occasionally some small droplets might fall on your mouth which will be swallowed and although these droplets contain calories the quantity is so small and will not in any way affect your weight.
Real-Life Experiences
Weight loss by vaping is something that depends on many factors such as metabolism rate basal life habits and others related to weight loss. I was lost in thought for several minutes but finally came up with the following conclusion. Indeed it is possible to learn a lot by relying solely on firsthand information but it is crucial to look at the material from the standpoint of scientific knowledge.
Conclusion
It can therefore be concluded that although vaping causes slight effects on metabolism and appetite because of nicotine it is not at all an efficient way of dealing with weight loss. Due to a lack of scientific evidence showing its effects in managing weight and as a result the potential health-associated risk and the fact that it varies from one individual to the other it is not a good option to go for. No solution for weight loss provides vital and healthy weight control such control diet and exercise.
