Many smokers keep smoking because they believe that they will put on a few pounds if they quit. But what if smoking was more a factor in weight gain - but one that took place over time? “How can this be?” you ask. Let me share why..

Your liver is your prime fat burning and your prime detoxification organ. Your liver actually has over one thousand different jobs, and two of its important jobs are daily detoxification and fat burning. 

It’s widely known that smoking pollutes the body with hundreds of different and dangerous chemicals - per cigarette. But, you may not know that with habits that pollute the body to such an extreme, your liver easily becomes overloaded from the constant need to detoxify all of these incoming chemicals.

In addition to being generally overworked, your liver will also eventually become congested with toxins. This happens 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 favor your liver does for you, but if it’s allowed to happen continually, it will cause problems over time.

With the habit of smoking, toxins will build up in your liver - and throughout your body. With time, your liver will become impaired and unable to do its regular work - including burning fat and daily detoxification. Actually, smoking is an excellent way to build toxicity in your liver and thus  hamper your liver’s ability to burn fat. But that’s a far cry from what most people want. It’s the exact opposite of what they want.

Quitting smoking is an excellent move to dramatically decrease your incoming toxic load. In addition, doing a whole 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 starts showing symptoms of problems. Weight gain is actually a symptom of an unhealthy liver! So are health problems.

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 highly toxic chemicals is certainly a considerable 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 trapped inside your body that cause the cravings. You didn’t have cigarette cravings before you began smoking, did you? So by removing those chemicals from your body, you can fairly easily eliminate your cravings. Trust me, both dropping the butt and cleaning out your body can be the best things you’ve ever done for yourself. And you might just lose some weight in the process.

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