Does Smoking Make You Slimmer?

No, actually studies show that smokers are more likely to gain weight. A 50-month study of 7,565 people showed that smokers, and even ex-smokers, gain more weight than those who have never smoked. The study also showed that in people who quit smoking during the study, the more cigarettes they smoked before they stopped equaled more weight gain. Those who continued to smoke during the study gained more weight that the non-smokers as well. More Smoking Facts: 21 percent of Americans over the age of 18 smoke, and another 21 percent are former smokers. Smoking not only won't make you skinnier, it also will give you wrinkles — and not only from puckering your lips to take a puff. Nicotine causes a reaction in the body that narrows blood vessels, resulting in less oxygen and fewer nutrients getting to the skin. Burning cigarettes contain more than 4,000 chemicals, including arsenic, formaldehyde and lead.