hey guys dr frank here founder of
addiction mindset recovery coaching
programs and in today's brief video
i want to talk about a common myth that
we often hear
when it comes to quitting vaping and
that's that you're going to gain
weight and let me just put some truth
behind this right now that is 100
percent
not true although it often occurs it's
not something that has to happen to you
and in today's video we're going to talk
about why people gain weight when they
quit vaping
how weight gain actually occurs in the
body and some simple things that you can
do
to avoid gaining weight when you quit
vaping or when you quit smoking or when
you quit using nicotine
my name is dr frank founder of the
addiction mindset recovery coaching
programs
where we help people quit nicotine thc
energy drinks
and a whole host of other addictions if
you want more one-on-one help
feel free to call our offices below and
subscribe to our youtube channel
i put out a video day to help you quit
so in today's video i want to start by
discussing
why do people start to crave sugar or
why do people start to gain weight
when they quit smoking or when they quit
vaping well it's really simple
if we look at nicotine nicotine is a
substance it's a drug
and it releases a neurotransmitter in
our bodies called
dopamine dopamine is that
neurotransmitter that makes us feel
good it's also that neurotransmitter
molecule that reinforces
a behavior so if you're used to chiefing
on your vape all day long or smoking
cigarettes or chewing tobacco
you've trained your brain to become used
to this constant release of dopamine
this constant release of this
neurotransmitter
so when you quit your brain notices that
it's lacking dopamine
it's lacking that feel good
neurotransmitter
and that's a problem that's problematic
for a lot of reasons
you start to feel depressed sometimes
after you quit you might start to feel a
little decrease in energy
your speech patterns might get a little
funky your sleep patterns might get
messed up
i mean dopamine is involved in a lot of
stuff so your brain says
okay where can i go get a readily
available
hit that's going to give me that
dopamine source
and if you're not getting it from
nicotine your brain is probably going to
lean to something that it knows sugar
now sugar also happens to be highly
addicting
sugar also happens to release dopamine
and sugar
also happens to be the main culprit
behind
weight gain now when people think of
sugar we often just think of candy
we often just think of really really
sweet fruits things that are really
sweet
pop soda cereal and that's not the case
all food that we eat for the most part
is eventually converted into something
called glucose
in our bodies glucose is sugar
now our body converts food to sugar
because we use
sugar for energy we use glucose for
energy now you can use fat for energy
you can use protein for energy too
but our bodies our muscles and our
brains use glucose
for energy so it's something yes that we
that we need but you don't need to be
gain it from candy and that's where
we're going with this
so you quit vaping you quit smoking your
brain is craving that dopamine release
and instead of going to do something
like working out going for a jog
spending time with someone that you love
spending time speaking to someone that
you're in a relationship with
you go and you start to binge eat sugar
because your brain knows that that sugar
is going to give you dopamine the
problem is we now begin to enter the
cycle of sugar addiction
sugar has been shown to be equally as
addictive as cocaine
if we give sugar to 9 out of 10 rats
uh or i'm sorry if we give sugar to 10
rats
and we also give them cocaine nine out
of ten of them
are gonna go back for the sugar versus
the cocaine
now the problem with sugar and why it's
so addicting is because every time we
eat sugar
sugar turns into glucose when glucose is
released in our blood our bloodstream
our blood sugar our blood sugar levels
elevate
when this happens our body releases
something called insulin
insulin takes this sugar and it jams it
into our cells to get used as energy
or when we have too much of it present
like if we're binge eating candy cereal
pop soda just sugary foods
what's gonna happen is that excess sugar
is going to be stored
as fat right if you're not a marathon
runner you're not a bodybuilder you're
not michael phelps you're not an elite
athlete
you don't need that much glucose you
don't need that many carbohydrates
and a lot of athletes now are on the
keto diet and they're not
really consuming any starches a lot of
them out there
at least are going even more that
direction
so what happens this excess sugar
gets stored as fat so we quit nicotine
we quit
vaping your brain craves dopamine your
brain recognizes that sugar can be a
source of dopamine
release you then get these cravings for
sugar you start to binge on foods
the more sugar you eat the more your
blood sugar level rises
your body starts to release insulin
insulin then stores that excess sugar is
fat
so the question becomes wow that sounds
like a horrible cycle and now
maybe you wind up with a sugar addiction
which can lead to things like type 2
diabetes which i would argue
is one of the leading causes of death in
the united states type 2 diabetes
or complications from type 2 diabetes
such as heart disease and other things
like that
so it's like geez if we gave up smoking
that's great
if we gave up vaping that's great but it
wasn't at the cost
of our health remember the main reason
you're quitting smoking or the main
reason you're quitting vaping
is to become a healthier individual and
right now
is the perfect time to take advantage of
becoming a healthier person
now how do you go about doing that well
it's pretty simple when i first quit
vaping
i dove head first into nutrition i
wanted to learn everything about it keto
diets vegan diets pescetarian diets
paleo diets all med diets one meal a day
nutrition protocols fasting
i wanted to learn everything i could to
become a better version
of what i already was i wanted to take
advantage and become a healthy person
so when people are quitting nicotine
often in our programs what we'll
encourage them to do
is start to eat healthier now we don't
just say eat more fruits and vegetables
we all know that
how do you actually eat healthier how do
you actually control your weight
well we encourage people to stay away
from foods
like grains starches and sugars
for the most part for the most part so
what types of foods do we encourage
people to eat
animal proteins plant proteins
eggs chicken beef fish omega fatty acids
found in nuts seeds legumes
we like nut butters peanut butter almond
butter macadamia nut butter
we like sunflower butter a lot here at
my offices
we encourage people to stay away from
all the breads
all the really really heavy starchy
foods when we have people eating
starches in our programs
usually we're focused on like sweet
potato or oats
a slower digesting starch which by the
way will still spike your blood sugar
levels
but for many of you guys watching this
you're younger and type 2 diabetes
probably isn't a concern for you right
now
so we encourage a healthy regimen of
eating and we encourage people to eat
three meals a day with no snacking in
between
snacking is like that is
weight gain city snacking is big trouble
when it comes to gaining weight
especially when you're quitting a
nicotine product a lot of people
will start to suck on hard candy or eat
sugar when they give up an addiction
and every time they get a craving they
reach for sugar which then just takes
them down the rabbit hole of sugar
addiction and sugar cravings
and often this results in weight gain so
some of our
big don'ts when it comes to quitting
nicotine and not gaining weight we tell
people
don't snack don't snack don't snack
stick to well-rounded meals each day
breakfast lunch and dinner now some of
you guys might also be quitting weed
some of you guys watching this might be
suffering from cannabinoid hyperemesis
syndrome
and you might be thinking to yourself dr
frank i don't eat in the morning
i can't eat three meals a day that's not
something that i like to do
not a problem then you might be a
candidate for fasting
maybe just doing lunch and dinner maybe
you do what i did in the beginning and
you only do
one meal a day i had cannabinoid
hyperemesis syndrome so i like couldn't
eat without throwing up i was quitting
nicotine weed energy drinks all that
stuff at once
and i couldn't eat in the mornings so i
educated myself on something called the
omed or the one meal a day diet
and i will say a little caveat here and
this doesn't apply to people who are
anorexic or eating disorders this is
just
your your general individual trying to
quit nicotine without gaining weight
for me the fasting and the one to two
small
meals a day was incredible i believe
that played a huge role
in detoxing all that junk from my body
and helping me heal
faster i also loved when i was fasting
not having the stress of having to worry
about food
i also feel that fasting led
me to another level of discipline so i
was able to control my nicotine cravings
then i was able to control my food
cravings quitting for me
was very much about getting back control
regaining discipline becoming in charge
of my life again
and i'll tell you that was i think
fasting played a huge huge role
in the success of my recovery so if
you're watching this
i would encourage you guys go get a book
on intermittent fasting go get a book on
the one meal a day diet
see what you think now often when i'm
working with people we'll sit down with
that individual
and we'll design a one-on-one nutrition
protocol for that person
because the reality is everyone's going
to be different some people are going to
do real good with three large meals
three times a day
some people are going to do good with
one large meal one time a day and two
smaller meals
some people might fast some people might
be pescetarian not eat red meat some
might eat red meat
it doesn't matter the fact is i want you
to start to pay attention to your
nutrition
be conscious about the foods that you're
eating and and think back to the
beginning of this video where i talked
about how
weight gain works really focus
on avoiding foods that are high in
sugar cereal soda pop
candy and also focus on avoiding foods
that seem suspiciously high in
carbohydrates
there's a lot of yogurts on the market a
lot of cereals on the market
a lot of diet foods on the market that
are put out there
saying low fat low calorie but they're
super high in sugar
and that stuff is going to make you gain
more weight
than eating healthy fats or healthy
proteins would even though healthy fats
might be higher in calories for you
so start to pay attention to nutrition
and start to focus on the foods that
you're consuming
and i promise you you won't gain weight
now if you let that binge eating if you
let that sugar addiction set in
you're gonna have a really hard time not
gaining weight when you're quitting
smoking
but the reality is when you quit using
nicotine when you quit smoking when you
quit vaping
you don't have to gain weight you just
have to understand
how weight gain works how weight loss
works
and be prepared to navigate that and
that's exactly what this video was meant
to do
i'm going to make a series of videos on
this talking about different nutritional
programs
and different protocols that are
specific and how we teach people how to
eat
so stay tuned for those and if you have
cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and
you're throwing up in the morning and
you can't eat
be sure to follow me on my next video
recovering from chs
where i talk about the nutrition i'll
see you there
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